Ec2 News & Articles

Amazon's CloudFront has long let users host and distribute the static content elements for websites. Now the service can play host to dynamic content as well, adding support for the full scope of a dynamic, content-rich site or service with access to EC2 applications.

eXo (news, site), well-known for its Java portal and user experience technologies, has announced it is adding Ruby and Git to its eXo Cloud IDE. The inclusion of Git will enable direct deployment to Red Hat's new OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS).

See what happened was… The entire internet and traditional media have constantly focused on the most talked about technology outage since the airline reservation system crashed a decade ago: cloud failure. Now that Amazon's EC2 service is back up and an apology has been issued, let the hindsight discussions begin. Here's a quick round-up of mea culpa analysis including reimbursement details.

Earlier this week -- during the Amazon EC2 outage -- Forrester Research released its report "Sizing the Cloud," which projects the size of the cloud and its various xxx–as-a-service segments between 2011 and 2020. According to the report, the world market for cloud service will expand from $40.7 billion in 2011, with a little over half, $21.2 billion, from public cloud services, to greater than $241 billion in 2020. Do you think EC2-gate makes them want to do one more editing pass?

We earlier introduced Nimbula Director (news, site) as an on-premise cloud management system akin to Amazon EC2. Launched in public beta December 2010, Nimbula has recently announced general availability of its Nimbula Director cloud OS, as well as a functional free version for enterprise users up to a certain scale.

It didn’t take long for treasures to start emerging from Amazon’s recently announced Elastic Beanstalk. eXo (news, site) has released an integrated development environment (IDE) for Elastic Beanstalk -- developed for the cloud, in the cloud. The IDE allows developers to access, view, edit and commit their code from any browser and deploy their applications with a single click. It’s not a golden-egg laying hen, but AWS developers will still appreciate it.

The Asia Pacific region is seen as a growth market in cloud services, which makes it an attractive area for service providers. A recent announcement by KT (news, site) involves the launch of a public cloud service that is said to beat comparable services in terms of performance and price.

Amazon added support for Adobe Flash Media Server 4 (news, site) on its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

Microsoft (news, site) announced new Windows Azure features and cheaper pricing options in hopes for being a stronger competitor against Amazon Web Services’ (news, site) EC2 cloud offering.

Interesting week in the SMB space with the possibility that Microsoft will be launching a new version of Office 2010 specifically for small companies, while Salesforce and DocuSign get together to make signing off business deals in the cloud easier for SMBs

Gartner has just published its list of ‘cool’ business process management (BPM) vendors for 2010. The list consists of five small companies that have made key advances in BPM over the course of the last year.

This week, new research shows a huge increase in the use of video email in SMBs. In the meantime, Symantec released email security SMB edition with simplified licensing.

What to watch this year when it comes to the enterprise? The ever-wise Dion Hinchcliffe of ZDNet has his money on the growth of SaaS and Social Computing, but he's not holding his breath. 

The upgrade to Bitrix’s Virtual Appliance for Amazon EC2 from 1.4 to 1.5 adds a number of improvements that the company says will enhance the user performance of its content management and enterprise content management software.

With a whole pile of pre-configured settings to nip any software compatibility issues in the bud, Bitrix (news, site) says the new release will speed up all the processes and increase the performance of all the components through its built-in mechanisms.

This version allows users to install Bitrix Site Manager and Bitrix Intranet Portal, or any other applications that use the PHP platform, quicker and more efficiently than previous versions. It also includes the most recent version of the Bitrix web environment with optimized memory usage.

It is protected by both Amazon EC2 security settings and by an integrated firewall which is set up automatically. It also now supports all three data center location regions -- US Standard, US N. California, EU -- Ireland -- after recent EC2 development.

However, that is not all you get. It also comes with the beta release of Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Device) customized for Bitrix users giving them 1TB of back-up power for web projects and intranet portals.

Bitrix’s Virtual Appliance is free to download once you have logged in to Amazon Web Services.

Are your skies a little too cloudy? Cloudkick is here to help. The application visually unifies the deployment of seven different providers, including EC2 and Rackspace.