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Interview With an AWS Cloud Champion

Interview With an AWS Cloud Champion

By Ofir Nachmani on May 1, 2015

Allow me to introduce a good friend, Peter Sankauskas, who I met through the AWS cloud community. Our level of cloud experience evolved with the expansion of the cloud, Amazon in particular, and we have both become prominent members of the AWS community. Having learned more about open source and development, I’d like to focus on the […]

Posted in Platforms | Tagged .NET Framework, Agile software development, Airbnb, amazon AWS cloud, architecture, aws, blog, Bloomberg L.P., devops, Groupon, home, Netflix, Ruby on Rails, trends, Udemy, Web application | 1 Response

5 Recommended AWS re:Invent Breakout Sessions for Scalability and Optimization

5 Recommended AWS re:Invent Breakout Sessions for Scalability and Optimization

By Ofir Nachmani on November 7, 2013

I’m OnDemand is heading to Las Vegas for Amazon’s official cloud show – AWS re:Invent. In my honest opinion, the show is the most significant conference in the cloud and IT industries, and includes a number of fantastic educational sessions.  To navigate the sessions, Amazon has provided conference attendees with a great tool that helps […]

Posted in General | Tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, AWS reInvent, Netflix | 1 Response

The Perceived Risk of The Purely Cloud Deployment

The Perceived Risk of The Purely Cloud Deployment

By Ofir Nachmani on August 22, 2013

In this post series, I will raise some basic questions and will delve deeply into this topic to debate the common resistance to what I call “pure cloud deployment”. Let’s begin with a leading question: Can’t the hybrid economy model live within the public cloud? From the enormous number of conversations with top cloud thought leaders, CIOs, […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, Chief information officer, cloud computing, Cloud Enablement, devops, hybrid cloud, Netflix, private cloud, public cloud

How to Synch S3 Buckets in AWS and design for failover

How to Synch S3 Buckets in AWS and design for failover

By Dan Morrill on July 1, 2012

News of Friday’s problems with the Virginia Data Centers power system taking down sites like Netflix and Pinterestshows that sometimes not programming for fail over or data center failure is a pretty foolish thing to do. Especially with costs somewhat reasonable per gigabyte in Amazon’s S3 system. Anyone who does not program for fail over […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology | Tagged amazon, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Amazon Web Services, aws, cloud computing, Elastic Load Balancing, Netflix | 2 Responses

The Right Storage, the Right Cloud

The Right Storage, the Right Cloud

By Randy Bias on June 28, 2012

We spend a lot of time in this blog talking about the architecture of elastic infrastructure clouds (EIC) like AWS and our own Open Cloud System. We contrast this against the architecture of enterprise virtualization clouds (EVC) like VCE’s Vblock. Nowhere are these differences more obvious than when you look at how storage systems are […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged cloud computing, hadoop, Netflix, Nexenta, open storage

Proxies Are As Useful As Real Data

Proxies Are As Useful As Real Data

By Chirag Mehta on June 17, 2012

Last year I ran a highly unscientific experiment. I would regularly put a DVD in an open mail bin in my office to mail it back to Netflix, every late Monday afternoon. I would also count the total number of Netflix DVDs put inside that bin by other people. Over a period of time I […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, General, Trends & Concepts | Tagged algorithms, big data, linkedin, Netflix, proxy, statistical analysis

Box Solves the Enterprise Adoption Roadblock

Box Solves the Enterprise Adoption Roadblock

By Ben Kepes on May 24, 2012

I’ve spent the last few years watching the meteoric rise of cloud content management vendor Box. Their approach has been to empower individual groups or business units within an organization to collaborate more effectively around their content and then to expand their presence within the organization. The “land and expand” strategy is a valid one, […]

Posted in Application Software, Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged avaya, box, Lennar Corporation, MGM Resorts International, Netflix, Stanford University, Webcor Builders

Data Is More Important Than Algorithms

Data Is More Important Than Algorithms

By Chirag Mehta on May 21, 2012

Netflix Similarity Map In 2006 Netflix offered to pay a million dollar, popularly known as the Netflix Prize, to whoever could help Netflix improve their recommendation system by at least 10%. A year later Korbel team won the Progress Prize by improving Netflix’s recommendation system by 8.43%. They also gave the source code to Netflix […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged big data, cloud computing, collaborative filtering, data scientist, Netflix, NetflixPrize, recommendation systems | 2 Responses

On Public, Private and Horses for Courses…

On Public, Private and Horses for Courses…

By Ben Kepes on March 20, 2012

I recently wrote a post critiquing some shortsighted thinking around Cloud Computing and in particular the relative cost implications of a Cloud versus Self-Hosted approach. A recent series of events has reminded me of this issue and bought me back to the topic. Recently Zynga, during a regular earnings call, released the somewhat startling fact […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud connect, CloudComputing, Netflix, twitter, zynga | 1 Response

Zynga and Z-Cloud–A Corollary to the Public Cloud

Zynga and Z-Cloud–A Corollary to the Public Cloud

By Ben Kepes on February 28, 2012

At the Cloud Connect event in Santa Clara recently, Allan Leinwand, CTO from  Zynga presented a keynote the day after a fairly emphatic statement contained in their earnings call that speaks to their marked retreat from the public cloud. In the space of 12 months Zynga has gone from 80% of workloads being in the […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, Chief technology officer, Netflix, zynga

Why SOPA is going to be unenforceable

Why SOPA is going to be unenforceable

By Dan Morrill on November 16, 2011

I would lay odds that SOPA is going to pass, and pass by a majority in the house and senate; it is debatable if the president will sign it. If you have been involved in Bittorrent or P2P systems for a long time, you know that the minute something passes like a law against something, […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology, Trends & Concepts | Tagged BitTorrent, Netflix, pirate bay, politics, SOPA, Techdirt

Disrupt Yourself Before Others Disrupt You: DVD To Streaming Transition Is Same As On-Premise To Cloud

Disrupt Yourself Before Others Disrupt You: DVD To Streaming Transition Is Same As On-Premise To Cloud

By Chirag Mehta on September 30, 2011

Recently, Netflix separated their streaming and DVD subscription plans. As per Netflix’s forecast, they will lose about 1 million subscribers by the end of this quarter. The customers did not like what Netflix did. A few days back, Netflix’s CEO, Reed Hastings, wrote a blog post explaining why Netflix separated their plans. He also announced […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Strategy | Tagged cloud computing, DVD, Netflix, saas, Streaming media

Beating Apples system Amazon introduces Cloud Reader

Beating Apples system Amazon introduces Cloud Reader

By Dan Morrill on August 10, 2011

Is this one of the first chinks in Apples armor for eBooks? I have tried repeatedly to use the eBook development kit for Apple, and honestly from a user friendly and programmatic viewpoint it is probably the worst chunk of software pushed by Apple. If the eBook fits all specifications and everyone from Amazon to […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts | Tagged amazon, AmazonKindle, Apple, appstore, cloud computing, cloud reader, E-book, ipad, iphone, kindle, Netflix | 1 Response

Plane Simple

Plane Simple

By Christian Reilly on April 26, 2011

It’s amazing, though not in the least bit surprising, that the recent AWS outage has generated such widespread attention, with a plethora of blog posts from customers to industry experts taking up pixel space across all corners of the globe. I think it’s fairly obvious to all that since the event, everything that needs to […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aviation, aws, aws outage, cloud computing, cloud failure, Design, Netflix, outage

Public Clouds :-)

The Hollywood Culture

By Christian Reilly on March 13, 2011

Debates are fun, especially when you are jousting with such fantastic and respected cloud dignitaries as Chris Hoff, Adrian Cockcroft and Simon Wardley. Come on, I mean who wouldn’t enjoy a good natured, well intended, yet fierce back and forth about the various clouds and their various philosophies ? Well, March 12 was a day […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Strategy | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, Chris Hoff, Cloudswitch, Netflix, private cloud, public cloud, simon wardley

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