Data Conversion - cloud computing

Favorite Interface to Amazon AWS?

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:28:35 +0000

LewisC's An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology I am familiar with several different interfaces to AWS. The three I am most familiar with and have used are Elastic fox, Cloud Studio and amazon's command line interface. I've also heard of a paid GUI ...

Favorite Interface to Amazon AWS?

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:28:13 +0000

Cloud Studio for AWS EC2 and S3

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:05:54 +0000

LewisC's An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology Amazon ships a handful of tools to use EC2 and S3. There are some freely downloaded scripts that make life a bit easier. Personally, I want to use a GUI. I use SSH enough when I connect remotely. If I'...

Windows and SQL Server in the Cloud

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:45:36 +0000

LewisC's An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology Well, that didn't take very long. Not a week after Oracle announces they have databases running under AWS, Microsoft and Amazon announce the same thing for SQL Server. Can DB2 be far behind? What's eve...

Oracle Cloud Computing Center

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:15:27 +0000

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology Yes! Now this is what I have been waiting for. The Oracle Cloud Computing Center. Oracle has played a pioneering role in making Grid Computing relevant to enterprises with ground breaking products such as Real

MS Live Mesh Overview

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:19:03 +0000

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology You might not think of remote desktop as a cloud tool but MS has added cloud storage to remote desktop and called it Live Mesh. I have been using it recently and it is pretty nice. I use VNC fairly

Way Cool Job On The West Coast

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:09:03 +0000

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology Just thought I would pass this along. Aptana is looking for people to join their Cloud Team. This looks like a very cool job. Areas

State of the Database 2008: Vertica, Part 2

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:34:57 +0000

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology In the first part of this series, I talked about Vertica the company and how Vertica is

Cloud Computing in the Past

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 12:18:27 +0000

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology I wrote a few days ago, Thank You Larry Ellison, that Larry is a visionary because he foresaw the cloud computing stuff that is getting big right now. I wrote that after

Thank You Larry Ellison

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:09:43 +0000

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology Larry Ellison is a technology leader. I think that's generally accepted. Some people might not like him, but you can't really deny what he has done with Oracle. Larry apparently has one giant weakness though. He's way ahead of his time. I ran across this

ACID vs BASE, Part 2

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:44:38 +0000

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology I know I promised to write about my ideal job but I decided to continue the thought stream I started the other day in ACID vs BASE, I decided to do a little bit of research on the

ACID vs BASE

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:26:45 +0000

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology I'm just thinking out loud here. If you don't like technical ramblings, don't continue reading. Ok, we all know what ACID is right? In databases I mean, not at woodstock. ;-) Don't take the brown ACID!

Atomicity - all parts of a transaction

Online Cloud Q&A With Me

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:46:24 +0000

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology I recently did a Q&A about my views on cloud computing and cloud databases for the Race Talk Blog. This is the company blog for the Race Point Group, a global PR firm. I met the

Oracle in the Cloud: ApEx?

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 14:31:49 +0000

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology My head seems to be in the clouds these

Who's Who In Cloud Databases

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:50:04 +0000

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology I've been working with EnterpriseDB's cloud offering recently and started looking around at what other databases are doing in the cloud. Amazon's SimpleDB Amazon is the 500 pound gorilla. The market leader in cloud computing