July, 2011

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Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Expanding the Cloud - AWS Import/Export Support for Amazon EBS. By Werner Vogels on 07 July 2011 01:40 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The AWS Import/Export team has announced today that they have expanded their functionality significantly by adding Import into Amazon EBS.

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Annual Budgeting and Agile IT, Part I: Why the CFO Isn't Impressed with Agile

The Agile Manager

I’ve been asked by a number of people recently how we can reconcile Agile IT, which shuns long-range deterministic planning, with annual budget & planning cycles, which are dependent on it. This 3 part series will look at the CFO's perspective on the business, the inherent conflict in IT investments financed through business operations, and what CIOs can do to decouple IT finance from IT operations.

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My Final C++ and Beyond 2011 Sessions

Sutter's Mill

I just posted two more sessions I’ll be giving next month at C++ and Beyond. (Aside: If you’re interested in coming, register soon; there are now only 11 seats left.). “C++ Renaissance.” I’ve been asked to give the opening “Welcome, Everyone!” keynote talk at C&B 2011, and it’s time to cover an increasingly open secret: After a decade-long affair with managed languages where it became unfashionable to be interested in C++, C++’s power and efficiency are now getting v

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Spot Instances - Increased Control. By Werner Vogels on 11 July 2011 07:22 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). Today we announced the launch of an exciting new feature that will significantly increase your control over your Amazon EC2 Spot instances. With this change, we will improve the granularity of pricing information you receive by introducing a Spot Instance price per Availability Zone rather tha

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APAC Summer Tour - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. APAC Summer Tour. By Werner Vogels on 03 July 2011 03:57 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I have just landed in Tokyo for what will be a month long tour visiting our customers in the Asia Pacific Region. Next to customer visits I will take part in a number of events organized by AWS and by our partners.

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