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Amazon Web Services (EC2 & S3) - The Future of Data Centre Computing? Part 4

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Jay
at September 25, 2007 in AWS, IT, Infrastructure, Java, Performance and Security. 3 Comments

Following on from our last blog entry on Amazon’s Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2) platform, in this blog we are going to explore two of the remaining topics on our original five-point roadmap. So far we have covered:

Next up we want to tackle, probably the two most important topics when it comes to making EC2 a viable platform for commercial business:

  • Security
  • Integration

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DSI to Present at UK Oracle User Group Conference 2007

Published by
nmalone
at July 31, 2007 in AWS, Database, IT, Java and Performance. 1 Comment

Well done to Jason Barry, DSI’s Performance Architect, who has recently been accepted to present at the UK Oracle User Group ( UKOUG) Conference this December.

Presenting a 45 minute session on “ Stress Testing and Performance Monitoring in a Virtualised Environment”, Jason will demonstrate how a Java application can be deployed to a virtualised server environment and then scaled to meet almost any expected, or unexpected, load. He will also show how this environment can be stressed, monitored and subsequently analysed using market leading tools like Quest’s PerformaSure and Apache JMeter. The core technologies of interest in the presentation include Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Computing (EC2), Quest Software’s PerformaSure, Apache JMeter and Oracle’s JEE Container (OC4J).

Jason has spent some time looking into what Amazon Web Services is offering in terms of processing power on demand and addressing specific Java Web Application related development challenges (Tomcat clustering, Terracotta etc). His blogs on the subject start here - “Amazon Web Services (EC2 & S3) - The Future of Data Centre Computing?”

Further details on the UK OUG Conference 2007 can be found at http://conference.ukoug.org/. If any of our readers or fellow bloggers are going to be at UK OUG, feel free to drop us a line!

- Nessa

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Amazon Web Services (EC2 & S3) - The Future of Data Centre Computing? Part 3

Published by
Jay
at May 23, 2007 in AWS, Infrastructure, Java and Performance. 6 Comments

I am going to take a slightly different angle on the AWS/EC2 topic this month. In the last blog entry I focused on addressing specific Java Web Application related development challenges (Tomcat clustering, Terracotta etc). This month, I am going to look at how we can extend EC2 to be used in the real world by ‘normal’ users. I know, in this day and age, it is fairly difficult to classify normal users; but for me a normal user is someone who uses their PC, MAC or whatever, to browse the web, write some letters, check their email and other normal day stuff.

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Amazon Web Services (EC2 & S3) - The Future of Data Centre Computing? Part 2

Published by
Jay
at February 12, 2007 in AWS, IT, Java, Security and Spring. 21 Comments

Since my last blog entry on AWS, there has been a number of interesting developments. Firstly, I said before that there were no documented success stories on EC2; well now there are! This is a clear indication that the EC2 community is alive and kicking and that, finally, people are starting to find a purpose for EC2. Maybe the most interesting of these, from a business potential point of view, is gumiyo.com; an ‘end to end mobile commerce platform’, connecting buyers with sellers, either on the mobile, hand-held devices or on the web. Up to this point, most ventures into EC2 consisted of social networking or media sharing applications, so it is nice to see something that has a real dollar value being rolled out on EC2.

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Amazon Web Services (EC2 & S3) - The Future of Data Centre Computing? Part 1

Published by
Jay
at January 29, 2007 in AWS, IT, Java, Ruby and Spring. 5 Comments

On the back of an article published by CNet news.com on Sun CTO’s, Greg Papadopoulos, assertion that “the world only needs five computers”, DSI has taken the time step back and look at what Amazon, surely a strong candidate for one of the five, is offering on the market today in terms of processing power on demand.

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