Deploying a Web Server on Amazon EC2

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Detailed tutorial on setting up and deploying a web server on Amazon EC2.

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OnDemand Speed Links 28 April 2009

Are Cloud Computing Security Standards More Than an Afterthought?
Good Article on CIO.com that talks about the nascent efforts on developing cloud computing security standards.

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Inside VMware’s vSphere Launch

VMware this week officially launched vSphere v4 at its headquarters in Palo Alto. vSphere is the long awaited 64 bit successor to VMware’s ESX line of virtualization solutions.

Written to take advantage of the Intel Xeon 5500 “Nehalem” chipset; vSphere has about 150 new features compared to ESX. vSphere has an incredible (in my opinion) amount of partner support on its rollout and VMware CEO Paul Maritz was joined on stage by John Chambers, Michael Dell and HP’s John Mouton at the product launch.

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Review of Dot.Cloud: The 21st Century Business Platform

Peter Fingar’s New Book; Dot.Cloud, looks at the current Cloud Computing landscape and and what it all means for business in the future.

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Appirio Professional Service Essentials On Force.com

San Mateo, CA based Appirio provides strategy, implementation and education services along with its core On-Demand applications that help enterprises accelerate their adoption of cloud based applications. Founded in 2006, Appirio is one of the fastest growing Google and Saleforce.com partners and has over 2000 customers in a number of vertical industries.

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Amazon Elastic MapReduce Beta Launched

Amazon Web Services today announced the public beta of its newest addition to its web services portfolio; Amazon Elastic MapReduce.

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