Re: Setting up a Cloud

2012-01-17 Thread Cameron Childress
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 12:08 PM, Vivec wrote: > This sounds great for something we have in the pipe. > > So can you launch a commercial product on this? > And will the Amazon service scale? Absolutely. Very scalable. Netflix uses it a for certain aspects of their business. Lots of companies

Re: Setting up a Cloud

2012-01-17 Thread Judah McAuley
Without a doubt. It is a huge service used by lots and lots of companies. Pricing can be tough a bit tough to predict as it all depends on your useage. At a lowish level of useage it can be more expensive than some options but it starts to be much more attractive at higher utilization. The big thi

Re: Setting up a Cloud

2012-01-17 Thread Dana
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Re: Setting up a Cloud

2012-01-17 Thread Vivec
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Re: Setting up a Cloud

2012-01-17 Thread Larry C. Lyons
the preso is more on how to than what it is. On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Cameron Childress wrote: > > I haven't seen the preso Larry mentioned, but there are some great ones out > there.  I'd take a look at the suite of products that Amazon offers beyond > just "a server in cyberspace". >

Re: Setting up a Cloud

2012-01-17 Thread Cameron Childress
I haven't seen the preso Larry mentioned, but there are some great ones out there. I'd take a look at the suite of products that Amazon offers beyond just "a server in cyberspace". http://aws.amazon.com/products/ Also - it's worth mentioning that AWS's EC2 (the virtual server product) has a FRE

Re: Setting up a Cloud

2012-01-17 Thread Larry C. Lyons
ister and connect to demo software. > > -Original Message- > From: Cameron Childress [mailto:camer...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 10:49 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Setting up a Cloud > > > I've been playing around alot with AWS l

RE: Setting up a Cloud

2012-01-17 Thread Scott Raley
up a Cloud I've been playing around alot with AWS lately. I haven't put anything live into production yet but have used it a bit and have researched it extensively. I'm still no expert, but I know more than your average chump. Even went to a cloud meetup in ATL last week. Wh

Re: Setting up a Cloud

2012-01-16 Thread Judah McAuley
I've done parts of it but not had to put the whole thing together. You'll need to start with beefy hardware (obviously) and a virtualization environment. I've messed around with Xen some and we used VMWare at my previous job, so have a bit more experience with VMWare. Then the other part of it is

Re: Setting up a Cloud

2012-01-16 Thread Justin Scott
> Has anyone built a Cloud environment from scratch? Not > configured something that was leased. You may need to be more specific when you say "cloud". When I think of a "cloud" I'm thinking of an environment where you can spin up instances on-the-fly and allocate hardware and software on an as-

RE: Setting up a Cloud

2012-01-16 Thread Jacob
Hmmm... set up a server and put it on the Internet? ;-) -Original Message- From: Scott Raley [mailto:sra...@itc-llc.com] Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 5:36 AM To: cf-community Subject: Setting up a Cloud Has anyone built a Cloud environment from scratch? Not configured something that

Re: Setting up a Cloud

2012-01-16 Thread Cameron Childress
I've been playing around alot with AWS lately. I haven't put anything live into production yet but have used it a bit and have researched it extensively. I'm still no expert, but I know more than your average chump. Even went to a cloud meetup in ATL last week. What info are you looking for? -