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Ubuntu Servers Now Offered by Dell

Thursday, February 3rd, 2011

The Dell PowerEdge C2100 and C6100 servers have now been outfitted with Canonical’s Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC), an implementation of the Eucalyptus private cloud software.  This is run by the Ubuntu Server Edition operating system.  These two servers are specifically customized to run Ubuntu-based cloud services.

In the suggested setup, the C2100 server acts as a cloud compute node, while the C6100 can act either as a cloud compute server or as both a server and a node.  Dell specifically set up these servers to organizations developing applications to run on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Organizations could use the servers to test the applications locally before uploading them to Amazon’s paid service. The servers have a preconfigured testing and development environment. Eucalyptus duplicates the AWS APIs (application programming interfaces).

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Jason Child Heads To Groupon As CFO

Monday, December 20th, 2010

Huge deal for Groupon today, after roughly 12 years at Amazon, Jason Child is joining the red hot social commerce startup as chief financial officer.  Jason was most recently Vice President of Finance for Amazon.com’s $14 billion International business.  Previously, Jason held key finance leadership roles for Amazon in Germany and Japan, also serving in Investor Relations, Technology, Marketing and as Worldwide Corporate Controller.

Prior to Amazon, he spent more than seven years at Arthur Andersen where he was a CPA and Consulting Manager.Here’s Child’s comment on his move:

“Groupon is one of the most amazing businesses I have ever seen. I am thrilled to join a great team that is attacking one of the biggest opportunities in e-commerce today.”

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Amazon EC2 with Micro Packages

Friday, September 10th, 2010

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AWS announced new EC2 Micro Instances. Micro Instances are geared towards lower traffic sites and low throughput applications. EC2 Micro is available in 32 and 64 bit versions with 613 MB of RAM. And here’s the clincher, the price: $.02 per hour for a Linux/Unix instance and $.03 per hour for Windows.

The Micro Instances can be monitored with CloudWatch to judge the CPU utilization – important because these instances are really not designed for any substantial volume of requests (only about ten requests per minute). But as AWS Evangelist Jeff Barr notes, “at this low a price you could run CloudWatch configured for Auto Scaling with two Micro Instances behind an Elastic Load Balancer for just under the price of one CloudWatch-monitored Standard Small instance.”

It runs a little under $90 per month for Windows and $60 for Linux. For many small businesses with minimal usage, that’s probably more than they’re willing to budget, and Amazon’s Micro Instances may come at a price that makes the move to the cloud more affordable.

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