A few months ago, Dean Nelson, who for many years ran the eBay data center strategy shared his vision of Infrastructure Masons ( http://www.infrastructuremasons.org ) with me and asked us if we were interested in participating. He invited us to attend the very first Infrastructure Masons Leadership Summit which is being held November 16th at …
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In 2009 AWS launched their EC2 Reserved Instance (RI) pricing model , providing a significant discount compared to the on-demand pricing model if you are willing to commit to 1 or 3 years of usage. Cost management on AWS is a hot topic, with hundreds of blogs on making the right choice of RI’s. A …
BY JAN WIERSMA According to AWS CTO Werner Vogels “Cloud is now the new normal.” Where the first day keynote at AWS’s ReInvent 2015 conference was all about enabling companies to migrate their current services to the cloud, the second day keynote by Vogels was all about the ‘new normal’ – developer enablement. With new services …
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BY JAN WIERSMA Last year my friend Tim Crawford wrote an excellent article on why CIOs should get out of the datacenter business. Tim focused on how current big cooperates are moving away from building, owning or renting datacenter facilities in favour of consuming IT at higher levels of the stack. As he focused on …
