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Werner VogelsVP, CTO at Amazon.com, Inc |
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| Video: Strata 2011: Data Without Limits |
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February 02 2011 - Strata 2011
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Strata 2011: Data Without Limits with the CTO at Amazon.com. |
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| Video: High Performance Computing on AWS |
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November 15 2010
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The CTO, Werner Vogels, and Sr Business Development Manager, Deepak Singh, at Amazon Web Services discuss how businesses and researchers can easily fulfill their high performance computational requirements with the added benefit of ad-hoc provisioning and pay-as-you-go pricing. |
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| Video: Cloud Computing is Enabling Innovation and Faster Time to Market |
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November 11 2010
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The CTO at Amazon.com talks about how cloud computing is helping boost business in this market. |
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| Video: Reality & The Cloud |
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October 27 2010 - MENA ICT Forum 2010
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Building on massive regional broadband and access initiatives, individuals and organizations now have ample opportunities to access a continuously growing variety of online services that are based on cloud computing. |
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| Video: Computing Remotely |
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October 26 2010
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Amazon.com CTO, Werner Vogels, talks about cloud computing, the Indian market, and the economics of free services. |
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| Video: The CTO at Amazon Gives Advice for the Future Iteem Entrepreneurs |
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May 19 2010
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Werner Vogels, CTO at Amazon.com, gives advice to future entrepreneurs on how to innovate on top of other services. |
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| Video: Gaining Altitude Part 2 |
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April 12 2010
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The Chairman & CEO at Salesforce.com, Marc Benioff, and the VP & CTO at Amazon.com, Werner Vogels, discuss the direction of cloud computing at the Google Atmosphere event. |
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| Video: Cloud Capability: Why Customers are Choosing Cloud Computing |
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October 22 2009
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The CTO at Amazon.com discusses why customers are choosing cloud computing at the Google Atmosphere event. |
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| Video: Google Atmosphere Panel: The Perfect Storm |
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October 22 2009
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This panel of Cloud Computing professionals answers some key questions on this new emerging business model, including: Why now? Is business ready? Do new forms of collaboration increase productivity and innovation? & If it's so self evident, why hasn't everyone done this already?
Panelists: Dr Wener Vogels - CTO, Amazon.com; Nicholas Carr - Author, The Big Switch; Paul Daugherty - Chief Technology Architect, Accenture; Dr Carsten Sorensen – LSE |
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| Video: Clouds Over Washington: The Cloud and How it Can Serve Government |
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September 16 2009
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The CTO at Amazon, Werner Vogels, and the GSA's CIO, Casey Coleman, discuss the potential of cloud computing in government at the Gov 2.0 conference. |
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| Article: Seamlessly Extending the Data Center - Introducing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud |
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August 25 2009
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From young businesses and established enterprises to hospitals and government agencies, all are equally enthusiastic cloud customers for whom IT infrastructure has changed forever. Now, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) allows customers to seamlessly extend their IT infrastructure into the cloud while maintaining the levels required for their enterprise management tools to do their work. |
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| Video: Fireside Chat with Greg Papadopoulos & Werner Vogels at GigaOM Structure |
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June 25 2009
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Former keynote speakers Greg Papadopoulos, CTO and EVP, Research and Development at Sun Microsystems and Werner Vogels, VP and CTO at Amazon.com, return to share their thoughts on the rise of Cloud Computing and what direction they see Amazon and Sun leading the evolution of the Cloud Computing industry and the opportunities it generates. |
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| Article: CTO Roundtable: Cloud Computing |
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June 22 2009
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| Contributors: Werner Vogels & Lew Tucker | |
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How can companies take advantage of the new opportunities Cloud Computing provides?
A CTO Roundtable discussion to give practitioners useful advice on how to evaluate cloud computing for their organizations. Five current thought leaders discuss the potential of cloud computing to solve business problems. They explore some of the basic principles behind cloud computing and highlight some of the key issues and opportunities that arise when computing moves from in-house to the cloud.
Moderator: Mache Creeger, Principal at Emergent Technology Associates
Panelists: Wener Vogels – CTO at Amazon.com; Greg Olsen - CTO & Founder of Coghead; Lew Tucker – CTO of Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems; Greg Badros - Sr Director, Engineering at Google; Geir Ramleth – CIO at Bechtel; Steve Bourne - CTO at El Dorado Ventures |
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| Video: How Cloud Platforms Change the Game for ISVs |
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June 09 2009
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| Contributors: Werner Vogels , Steve Lucas & Mani Gill | |
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Virtualization technologies and the subsequent emergence of cloud computing have changed the game for independent software vendors (ISVs), opening up a bewildering array of hosting, PaaS and SaaS options. This keynote panel brings together top executives from the leading platform providers to answer questions about what the evolving cloud landscape means for ISVs, examining the impact of utility provisioning on business models, development cycles, channel partnerships and customer retentionships.
Moderator: John Chapman - Business Development Director, IT Europa
Panelists: Mani Gill - VP, OnDemand, SAP Business Objects Division; Steve Lucas - SVP, Force.com, Marketing & ISV Recruitment, Salesforce.com; Treb Ryan - CEO, Opsource, Inc; Werner Vogels - VP & CTO, Amazon.com |
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| Video: Building Confidence in The Cloud |
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June 09 2009
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Trust is the biggest obstacle to winning mainstream acceptance of cloud computing. Enterprises are not going to entrust business critical applications to the cloud unless they feel confident that providers won't let them down on a range of metrics including availability, performance, governance, security, privacy and sustainability. With a set of short presentations followed by a Q&A discussion, this panel looks at what SaaS and cloud providers can and are doing to enable and assure enterprise-class cloud computing.
Moderator: Alexis Richardson - CEO & Co-Founder, Rabbit Technologies Ltd Presenters: Kevin O'Brien - Director, SaaS Strategy & Programs, Oracle Corporation; Pascal Walschots - Communications Sector, Microsoft EMEA; Werner Vogels - VP & CTO, Amazon.com |
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Presentation: Building Confidence in The Cloud  |
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June 09 2009
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Slides from Werner Vogels presentation at SIIA OnDemand Europe. |
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| Video: Cloud Computing Power Panel Live from Times Square |
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May 04 2009 - SYSCON TV
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| Contributors: Werner Vogels , Hal Stern & John Engates | |
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The panel includes Werner Vogels from Amazon.com, John Engates from Rackspace, Rod Fonticella from Booze Allen Hamilton and Hal Stern from Sun Microsystems. |
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| Video: Dr Werner Vogels Interviewed by Kara Swisher at LeWeb 08 |
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November 19 2008
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Dr Werner Vogels Interviewed by Kara Swisher at LeWeb 08 |
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| Video: Dr Werner Vogels Explains Cloud Computing to TiburonTV. |
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November 11 2008
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Dr Werner Vogels explains Cloud Computing to TiburonTV. |
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| Video: A Head in the Cloud: The Power of Infrastructure as a Service |
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September 26 2008
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A lecture by Dr. Werner Vogels for the Stanford University Computer Systems Colloquium.
This presentation reviews some of the lessons learned from building one of the world's largest distributed systems; Amazon.com. Dr. Vogels focuses on state management which is one of the dominating factors in the scalability, reliability, performance and cost-effectiveness of the overall system. |
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| Video: Werner Vogels on the Future of Datacenter Virtualization |
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October 29 2007
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InfoWorld's Ephraim Schwartz talks to Werner Vogels about the future of datacenter virtualization. |
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| All Things Distributed Werner Vogels' weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. |
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| May 14 2012 |
| In the past three and a half years, Amazon CloudFront has changed the content delivery landscape. It has demonstrated that a CDN does not have to be complex to use with expensive contracts, minimum commits, or upfront fees, such that you are forcibly locked into a single vendor for a long time. CloudFront is simple, fast and reliable with the usual pay-as-you-go model. With just one click you can ... read more >> |
| May 09 2012 |
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Invention comes in many forms and at many scales. The most radical and transformative of inventions are often those that empower others to unleash their creativity – to pursue their dreams.
We are creating powerful self-service platforms that allow thousands of people to boldly experiment and accomplish things that would otherwise be impossible or impractical.
Jeff Bezos
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| May 08 2012 |
| The software that powers today’s world of Internet services has become incredibly diverse. Today’s announcement of Amazon RDS for Microsoft SQL Server and .NET support for AWS Elastic Beanstalk marks another important ste ... read more >> |
| April 19 2012 |
| Over the past several years I’ve spent much of my time traveling around the world speaking about distributed systems. From building infinitely scalable data stores, architectures for high performance computing, to the challenges imposed by the CAP theorem, there are wonderful, complex, fascinating problems to be solved in the area of distributed computing. During my travels I’ve met thousands of brilliant engineers who are leveraging the ... read more >> |
| April 19 2012 |
| Today Amazon Web Services launched AWS Marketplace, an online store that makes it easy for you to find, buy, and immediately start using software and services that run on the AWS Cloud. You can use AWS Marketplace’s 1-Click deployment to quickly launch pre-configured software on your own Amazon EC2 instances and pay only for what you use, by the hour or month. AWS handles billi ... read more >> |
| April 12 2012 |
| Today Amazon Web Services is introducing Amazon CloudSearch, a new web service that brings the power of the Amazon.com’s search technology to every developer. Amazon CloudSearch provides a fully-featured search engine that is easy to manage and scale. It offers full-text search with features like faceting and user-defined rank functions. And like most AWS services, Amazon CloudSearch scales a ... read more >> |
| April 06 2012 |
| From tax preparation to safe social networks, Amazon
RDS brings new and innovative applications to the cloud
Empowering
innovation is at the heart of everything we do at Amazon Web Services (AWS). I often
get to meet, discuss, and learn from innovators how they are using AWS to
deliver transformative applications to their users, customers and partners. Often
we think about innovation as doing 'new things' or based on revolutiona ... read more >> |
| March 21 2012 |
| Today’s AWS Elastic Beanstalk announcement of PHP and Git support reminded me of the post where I mentioned that we want to let a thousand platforms bloom on AWS. Some might ask why AWS wou ... read more >> |
| March 06 2012 |
| AWS today announced a substantial price drop from March 1, 2012 for many of the Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache instances types around the world. For example, the popular m1.small instance type will see a price drop of 6% for EC2 On-Demand usage and 33% for EC2 Reserved Instance usage. Some of the other instance types have even greater savings: for example, the high memory M2 instances will see a 10% price cut for On Demand and ... read more >> |
| February 22 2012 |
| Today AWS launched an exciting new service for developers: the Amazon Simple Workflow Service. Amazon SWF is an orchestration service for building scalable distributed applications. Often an application consists of several different tasks to be performed in particular sequence driven by a set of dynamic conditions. Amazon SWF makes it very easy for developers to architect and implement these tasks, run t ... read more >> |
| February 06 2012 |
| One of the things that differentiates Amazon Web Services from other technology providers is its commitment to let customers benefits from continuous cost-cutting innovations and from the economies of scale AWS is able to achieve. As we showed last week one of the services that is growing rapidly is the Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3).
AWS today announced a substantial price drop per Februa ... read more >> |
| January 23 2012 |
| Today Amazon Web Services has launched the AWS Storage Gateway, making the power of secure and reliable cloud storage accessible from customers’ on-premises applications.
We have been working closely with our customers on their requests to bring the power of the Amazon Web Services cloud closer to their existing on-premises compute infrastructures. The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud extends on-premises compute with all the power of AW ... read more >> |
| January 19 2012 |
| Today is a very exciting day as we release Amazon DynamoDB, a fast, highly reliable and cost-effective NoSQL database service designed for internet scale applications. DynamoDB is the result of 15 years of learning in the areas of large scale non-relational databases and cloud services. Several years ago we published a paper on the details of ... read more >> |
| January 14 2012 |
| Join me at 9AM PST on Wednesday January 18, 2012 to find out what is next in the AWS Cloud. Registration required.
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| December 15 2011 |
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Today, Amazon Web Services is expanding its worldwide coverage with the launch of a new AWS Region in Sao Paulo, Brazil. This new Region has been highly requested by companies worldwide, and it provides low-latency access to AWS services for those who target customers in South America.
South America is one of the fastest growi ... read more >> |
| August 23 2011 |
| Today AWS has launched Amazon ElastiCache, a new service that makes it easy to add distributed in-memory caching to any application. Amazon ElastiCache handles the complexity of creating, scaling and managing an in-memory cache to free up brainpower for more differentiating activities. There are many success stories about the effectiveness of caching in many different scenarios; next to helping a ... read more >> |
| August 20 2011 |
| There are some great job openings within Amazon Web Services. I will try to highlight some of those in coming weeks. This week it is an opening for senior leaders with AWS Database Services.
AWS Database Services is responsible for setting the database strategy and delivering distributed structured storage services to our AWS customers. This team is constantly rethinking the assumptions behind how traditional databases were built and c ... read more >> |
| August 19 2011 |
| The Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) team announced today the ability to seamlessly use Amazon EC2 Spot Instances with their service, significantly driving down the cost of data analytics in the cloud. Many of our Big-Data customers already saw a big drop in their AWS bill last month when the cost of incoming bandwidth was ... read more >> |
| August 18 2011 |
| As some of you may remember I was pretty excited when Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) released its website feature such that I could serve this weblog completely from S3. If you have a largely static site you can rely on the enormous power of S3 to make serving your content highly scalable and storing it extremely durable. ... read more >> |
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