AT&T announced the global launch of AT&T Synaptic Hosting(SM), its next-generation utility computing service with managed networking, security and storage for businesses. More information on the Synaptic Hosting Service can be found on their website. It is good to see more companies jumping into Cloud Computing. Competition and variety of services is a good thing.
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Amazon EC2 High-CPU Instances Available
Amazon announces that they are making another type of EC2 instances available. These instances have proportionally more CPU resources than RAM (compared to our Standard Instances) and are well suited for compute-intensive applications such as rendering, search indexing, and computational analysis. These new instances include High-CPU Medium and Extra Large Instances – the Extra Large […]
Read moreGoogle Apps: Pricing, Open Signups and 2 new APIs Announced
Today Google announced they have opened up Google Apps so that anyone can signup. They also released the planned pricing for people who exceed the free quota. However, they are not yet offering the ability for developers to purchase additional resources. $0.10 – $0.12 per CPU core-hour $0.15 – $0.18 per GB-month of storage $0.11 […]
Read moreNew York Times and Amazon EC2 and S3
I came across an interesting article on the New York Times site that talks about how they used Amazon EC2 and S3 to help make their articles from 1851 -1922 available to the public online. There was a total of 11 million articles. They had to take sometimes several TIFF images and scale and glue […]
Read moreAmazon EC2 and Zillow
In an articles on Forbes.com, “The Death of Hardware”, they discuss Zillow and their recent use of Amazon’s EC2 cloud computing platform to recalculate the values of some 67 million homes for their site. Zillow estimated the task would take 6 months and millions of dollars before they went with the EC2 platform which was […]
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