Category Archives: Cloud

Covid-19 Impact on AWS

Posted on April 2, 2020 by halberenson

The tl;dr version is that Covid-19 is putting at best mildly upward pressure on AWS growth rate, with dramatic acceleration in some areas and significant drop-offs in others. But to think that any PaaS/IaaS vendor can see dramatic growth while … Continue reading →

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ARM in the Cloud

Posted on December 3, 2019 by halberenson

I know I’m long overdue on a “Part 2”, but wanted to slip this in first. I’ve long been a skeptic on ARM becoming a mainstream processor choice for servers. But today’s announcement by Amazon Web Services of the ARM … Continue reading →

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Endings and Beginnings (Part 1 – AWS)

Posted on August 13, 2019 by halberenson

Last week’s announcement of Amazon Aurora Multi-Master being generally available marked a kind of ending for me. It also served as a reminder that I haven’t written anything about my new venture, Gaia Platform. So nearly two years after I … Continue reading →

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Google goes to the dark side on JEDI

Posted on October 9, 2018 by halberenson

Every time I read an article on the U.S. Department of Defense large Cloud project known as JEDI I find myself suppressing an urge to comment.  Google dropping out of the bidding finally made that urge difficult to suppress. It is … Continue reading →

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The Big Non-Hack?

Posted on October 6, 2018 by halberenson

This week Bloomberg Businessweek (BBW) published “The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies” which claimed that 30 companies, most notably Apple and Amazon Web Services, had servers using hacked Chinese-made motherboards from U.S. manufacturer … Continue reading →

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Challenges of Hyperscale Computing (Part 3)

Posted on August 25, 2018 by halberenson

Back in Part 2 I discussed the relationship between failures and the people resources needed to address them, and demonstrated why at hyperscale you can’t use people to handle failures.  In this part I’ll discuss how that impacts a managed … Continue reading →

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Amazon and the ACLU

Posted on July 26, 2018 by halberenson

Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have all been under pressure these last few months over being suppliers of technology to the law enforcement and defense markets.  Pretty much all technology vendors have sold into these markets since well, the beginning of … Continue reading →

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Challenges of Hyperscale Computing (Part 2)

Posted on January 20, 2018 by halberenson

In part one of this series I used recent increases in maximum database size as a driver for introducing the challenges of hyperscale computing.  In this part we dive into the heart of the matter, which is what it takes … Continue reading →

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Service Level Agreements (SLA)

Posted on December 13, 2017 by halberenson

I wanted to make some comments on Service Level Agreements (SLAs), so we interrupt our scheduled Part 2 on 16GB Cloud Databases.  A Service Level Agreement establishes both an expectation between a service provider and a customer of the level … Continue reading →

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16TB Cloud Databases (Part 1)

Posted on December 13, 2017 by halberenson

I could claim the purpose of this blog post is to talk about Amazon RDS increasing the storage per database to 16TB, and to some extent it is.  It’s also an opportunity to talk about the challenges of a hyperscale … Continue reading →

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