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DB2 has innovative approach for Cloud Computing according to Werner Vogels, Amazon’s CTO

Today was the first day of the Cloud Computing Expo in New York. I’ve been trying to twitt about it as the conference progresses so if you follow me on twitter you will get snippets live as they happen.

The keynote speaker today was Dr. Werner Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com. With nearly half a million customers, Amazon Web Services is the most recognizable name when it comes to Cloud Computing. Amazon, it seems overnight, has morphed itself from a web retailer in to a key provider of IT infrastructure. So, it is no surprise that the keynote was [...]

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The forcast for databases is partly cloudy

The current economic climate is going to dramatically accelerate the adoption of the Cloud Computing. Utility computing just makes good economic sense. Most of us would not think of buying a generator to power our houses; we get our electricity from the grid. I don’t see why we should not be thinking about getting our computing capacity the same way. On the small scale, DBMS can be deployed in the Cloud very easily today and, I think, this is a perfect time to create a test instance just to get a feel for what a future may look like. And this glimpse will cost you about the same as a cup of Starbucks. [...]

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