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Werner Vogels

InformationWeek’s Chief of the Year for 2008: Werner Vogels (Amazon CTO)

December 23, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Amazon‘s 50-year-old CTO Werner Vogels has emerged as the right person at the right time and place to guide cloud computing – until now, an emerging technology for early adopters – into the mainstream. He not only understands how to architect a global computing cloud consisting of tens of thousands of servers, but also how to engage CTOs, CIOs, and other professionals at customer companies in a discussion of how that architecture could potentially change the way they approach IT.

We would like to congratulate Vogels on being selected by InformationWeek as Chief Of The Year 2008.

The article / interview is well worth a read.

Also, check out our video interview with man, recorded over the Summer.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon CTO, Chief Of The Year, InformationWeek, InformationWeek Chief Of The Year, interview, virtualisation, virtualization, Werner Vogels

Virtualization.com Contest: Guess What’s on Werner Vogels’ Mind and Win A Book

July 31, 2008 by Toon Vanagt 2 Comments

Aside from interviewing Werner Vogels at the GigaOM Structure 08 conference, we asked him to dedicate an O’Reilly book on the Amazon Web Services, which we will give away in the contest we’re introducing today. First, watch the video below.


Win O’Reilly’s Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS and SimpleDB

Second, follow these simple rules for our summer contest: up until the 15th of August, you can guess what Vogels has written in this book and provide your answer in the comments below. You don’t necessarily have to get it right, but the funniest, most original, most in-depth or closest comment on this post will be picked out by our editors on the 15th of August 2008. The lucky winner will get a free copy of O’Reilly’s Programming Amazon Web Services: S3, EC2, SQS, FPS, and SimpleDB (Programming), with the hand-signed note from Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels inside!

If you are really creative, we throw in a second freeby, for the funniest fake job title. Get inspired by “Werner Vogels, System Admin at a Small Bookshop (aka CTO Amazon)”

Make your educated guess or just be funny and don’t forget to include your e-mail address (not shown) so we can contact you afterwards and get your book delivered.

Filed Under: Featured, Interviews, People Tagged With: Amazon, book, contest, ec2, FPS and SimpleDB, O'Reilly, Programming Amazon Web Services, Programming Amazon Web Services S3, SQS, virtualisation, virtualization, Werner Vogels

Amazon Loves CloudStatus, And We’ve Got The Proof on Video

July 29, 2008 by Toon Vanagt 2 Comments

At the O’Reilly Velocity conference we attended last month, Hyperic was there to hype the launch of Cloudstatus, which aspires to become the monitoring tool for cloud providers similar to what Netcraft is for’classic’ hosting providers. Get the lowdown on Hyperic and CloudStatus in this video (two parts) from Jon Travis (Principal Engineer) and Xavier Soltero (co-founder and CEO).

See part 1 of the movie here on Vimeo, but scroll down for the best part!

As we are living in the ice age of cloud computing, glitches (like the recent outage of Amazon S3) are to be expected and it must be said that Amazon managed to fix its ecosystem relatively fast and openly reported on the underlying problem .

An interesting question is posted by Reuven Cohen on his blog about the use of federated network protocols within cloud services and the gossip protocol that caused Amazon’s WS downtime on June 24.

“…We have been big fans of use of XMPP for federated communications within our Enomalism cloud platform for multi cloud communications (Wide Area Cloud). XMPP is interesting because it natively solves a number of federation problems within a tried and tested framework. One of the biggest benefits to the use of a gossip protocol lies in the the robust spread of information and the exponential nature of it’s sharing of information within a large number of machines…”

At Virtualization.com, we intend to report on cloud initiatives too, since all these Platform-as-a-Service providers (Google App Engine being the exception to this rule) are enabled by virtualization technology. We expect to see several more competitive statistical analysis tools for various cloud service providers to emerge in the near future. With Amazon Web Services (AWS) blazing the cloud trail, Hyperic picked them to start reporting on via CloudStatus. But Google App Engine and (Sales)force.com seem target platforms to follow. So Amazon’s trouble with being first, is they are first in line to be publicely reported on too. This also means the PR and sales people at Cloudstatus have a busy time issuing press releases and contacting impacted prospects whenever Amazon experiences a glitch or failure.

Stacey Higginbotham at GigaOm ventilated the common fear that:

“… Amazon or another cloud provider could shut the service down, either by offering their own status service or by stopping the Hyperic agent. Given the rush to provide dashboards, application-testing products and other services on top of established computing services, I’m eager to see how startups keep their footing in the clouds.”

Being curious and knowing Amazon only speaks through CEO Jeff Bezos or CTO Werner Vogels, we walked up to the latter and were happy to learn Amazon actually loves CloudStatus. He took a step back right afterwards, but why not just watch the video to see his response to the CloudStatus launch?


Amazon AWS Loves CloudStatus.com, Here’s The Proof (Hyperic Video 2/2) from Toon Vanagt on Vimeo.

On a sidenote: Hyperic’s newly launched CloudStatus detected the outage at 8:45am PDT, a full 20 minutes before Amazon posted that they were aware of the issue, at 9:05 PDT on http://status.aws.amazon.com/. CloudStatus saw several server errors coming from the majority of their S3 and SQS monitoring agents, in addition to other problems with EC2 (lots of EC2 zombies being created) that may have been related.

Like hurricane warning systems, while Hyperic CloudStatus could not have prevented the S3 outage, it was able to provide enough of a “storm” warning for users to take action. The company will be adding additional cloud services to CloudStatus in the coming months, next up is Google App Engine.

Hyperic

Filed Under: Featured, Interviews, People, Videos Tagged With: Amazon, Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services, AWS, CloudStatus, CloudStatus.com, Hyperic, Hyperic CloudStatus, interview, Jeff Bezos, Jon Travis, video, virtualisation, virtualization, Werner Vogels, Xavier Soltero

Get A 10% Discount For Structure 08, And Start Putting Cloud Computing To Work

June 4, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

In about 3 weeks, one of the world’s most popular tech blogs, GigaOm, is hosting what is likely to become one of the must-attend events in the storage, hosting, cloud computing and virtualization industry for this year.

The conference is dubbed Structure 08, and features a slew of kick-ass speakers like Werner Vogels (VP & CTO Amazon), James Crowe (President and CEO Level 3), Mendel Rosemblum (Co-founder VMware), Albert Esser (VP, Data Center Infrastructure, Dell), Greg Papadopulous (CTO, Sun Microsystems and many others.

Structure 08 logo

The event takes place on June 25 at the Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco.

Tickets are selling out quickly, so sign up fast! As one of Structure 08’s media partners, we can offer our readers a 10 % discount on the registration fee. Simply click the event logo above and the discount will automatically calculated.

We’ll attend the event ourselves, so expect lots of reports and video interviews!

If you’ll be there too, don’t hesitate to get in touch if you want to hook up.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Albert Esser, cloud computing, Giga OmniMedia, GigaOm, Greg Papadopulous, James Crowe, Mendel Rosenblum, Om Malik, Structure 08, Structure08, virtualisation, virtualization, Werner Vogels

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