Amazon Web Services ratcheted up the cloud price war again Tuesday when it cut new EC2 Reserved Instances running Linux/Unix, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server by up to 27% or up to 65% compared to On-Demand instances.
Amazon said in a blog that the new pricing applies to all three Reserved Instance models (Light, Medium and Heavy Utilization) for purchases made on or after March 5.
It suggested that customers review their Reserved Instance usage monthly and offered a few economical guidelines: If your server is running less than 15% of the time, use an On-Demand instance; if your server is running 15%-40% of the time, use a Light Utilization Reserved Instance; if your server is running 40%-80% of the time, use a Medium Utilization Reserved Instance; and if your server is running 80%-100% of the time, use a Heavy Utilization Reserved Instance.
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AppZero Named to CIO.com “10 Hot Cloud Startups to Watch”
AppZero, the fastest way to move enterprise server applications to the cloud, has announced that it has been named to CIO.com‘s «10 Hot Cloud Startups to Watch» compiled by Startup 50 writer Jeff Vance. The 10 companies making the list were selected from a «top 25» list that was nominated to the Startup 50 blog. Factors in moving onto the final list were: the company’s standings following a vote, viability of product, competitive advantages and management team’s pedigree.There will be a new round of voting to rank the companies on the top 10 list.
According to Vance, AppZero made the list because, moving applications from traditional IT systems to the cloud isn’t easy. AppZero encapsulates an application and its dependencies in a «virtual application appliance,» without a virtual machine (VM). The result is an application that is flexible, «hypervisor-agnostic, cloud independent, and fast.»
AppZero Named to CIO.com “10 Hot Cloud Startups to Watch”
AppZero, the fastest way to move enterprise server applications to the cloud, has announced that it has been named to CIO.com‘s «10 Hot Cloud Startups to Watch» compiled by Startup 50 writer Jeff Vance. The 10 companies making the list were selected from a «top 25» list that was nominated to the Startup 50 blog. Factors in moving onto the final list were: the company’s standings following a vote, viability of product, competitive advantages and management team’s pedigree.There will be a new round of voting to rank the companies on the top 10 list.
According to Vance, AppZero made the list because, moving applications from traditional IT systems to the cloud isn’t easy. AppZero encapsulates an application and its dependencies in a «virtual application appliance,» without a virtual machine (VM). The result is an application that is flexible, «hypervisor-agnostic, cloud independent, and fast.»
Moving Your Company’s Application or Service into the Cloud?
A number of studies I’ve recently read indicate that more enterprises will use cloud services in 2013 than ever before. This fact is not lost on many of my software vendor clients, who are transitioning many of their on-premises products into cloud-based offerings.
The problem many of these vendors are facing is the inability to address data privacy and security demands placed upon them by their customers due to the weak contractual protections offered by the vendor’s hosting providers. As a result, the time and cost savings expected by leveraging the cloud model are lost by extended contract negotiations between the vendor, customer, and hosting provider.
Weekly Roundup: Amazon Drops Prices for SQS and More News
Last week, there were some offerings and new features release from Amazon. Microsoft made an announcement on Windows Azure Store expansion and new add-ons. Google has published some interesting Google Cloud Platform case studies. Plus, Scalr has announced the extension of their multi-cloud capabilities.
Here’s a quick summary of cloud happenings over the last week.
Early last week, IaaS leader Amazon added three new features to the CloudWatch Monitoring Scripts for Linux. New features include IAM Role Support, Auto Scaling and Aggregate Metrics. These scripts can be run in the background to periodically report system metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. Next, they have announced the beta release of AWS Diagnostics for Microsoft Windows Server. The AWS Diagnostics tool addresses a user request to make the intersection between AWS and Windows Server easier to analyse and troubleshoot.
Weekly Roundup: Amazon Drops Prices for SQS and More News
Last week, there were some offerings and new features release from Amazon. Microsoft made an announcement on Windows Azure Store expansion and new add-ons. Google has published some interesting Google Cloud Platform case studies. Plus, Scalr has announced the extension of their multi-cloud capabilities.
Here’s a quick summary of cloud happenings over the last week.
Early last week, IaaS leader Amazon added three new features to the CloudWatch Monitoring Scripts for Linux. New features include IAM Role Support, Auto Scaling and Aggregate Metrics. These scripts can be run in the background to periodically report system metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. Next, they have announced the beta release of AWS Diagnostics for Microsoft Windows Server. The AWS Diagnostics tool addresses a user request to make the intersection between AWS and Windows Server easier to analyse and troubleshoot.
Critical Enterprise Applications and Cloud Deployments
New technologies always generate hype. To cut through the hype and find the value, you have to see how things fit in the real world, both in implementation and in actual realized benefits.
That’s one of the reasons BlueStripe Software conducts an annual survey of IT Operations executives. It sheds light on their needs, their aspirations, and “what keeps them up at night.” We’ve uncovered some interesting trends, and this year was no different when we asked about service delivery, performance monitoring tools, and the cloud.
It’s conventional wisdom that the cloud is “good for IT” – that it can enable faster time to deployment, savings in capital and operating expense, consolidated infrastructure management, and flexible capacity scaling on demand. With that in mind, one number that stuck out in this year’s survey was seven – the percentage of executives who said they have committed to investing in public or hybrid cloud solutions for their critical applications this year.
Cloud Expo NY: How Enterprises Will Seek a Better Network to the Cloud
How do we connect clouds and improve SLA control? As the Internet has no SLA, many organizations are concerned of being exposed to the vagaries of the Internet. There are only a few options for concrete quality of service (QoS) when accessing public clouds.
In his session at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Jelle Frank van der Zwet, Manager Cloud Segment at Interxion, will show how cloud providers can extend their coverage and offer hybrid cloud solutions. The session includes a market overview and multiple use cases.
Security Orchestration: Herding Digital Cats
Generally speaking when the topic of devops comes up security isn’t something we mention. If we do it’s in hushed tones, eyes darting back and forth, the fear that someone might hear us overriding the certain truth that security can benefit as much from devops as any other operational paradigm but just as certain that even mentioning it in polite IT company might get us labeled as a mite crazy
Because when it comes to orchestrating security, we’re really talking about herding cats. And not the fat, lazy Garfield cats of the world, I’m talking about the almost feral, fiercely independent, runs-your-house-like-their-kingdom kind of cats.
Automating something that’s more art than science, for which exist so many different and highly independent systems and devices with as many different interfaces (and rarely an API) as there are types of beans (seriously, do you know how many different kinds of beans there really are??), is certainly on par with trying to herd that kind of cat.
In other words, it’s not something rational folk decide to do unless they’re into Sisyphean tasks.
IBM Takes on AWS
Big Blue put its back into OpenStack Monday at its Pulse conference in Las Vegas, almost a year after lending its name to the open source cloud platform started by Rackspace and NASA – which has abandoned it.
It announced that “its cloud services and software will be based on an open cloud architecture.”
It said it’s doing it in the name of open standards, arguing that “this move will ensure innovation in cloud computing is not hampered by locking businesses into proprietary islands of unsecured and difficult-to-manage offerings. Without industry-wide open standards for cloud computing, businesses will not be able to fully take advantage of the opportunities associated with interconnected data, such as mobile computing and Big Data.” Ah, FUD.
Basically IBM has declared war on Amazon Web Services and its de facto standards.