Yearly Archives: 2009

Introducing Amazon EBS Shared Snapshots

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Amazon AWS posted on their website that it is now possible to share EBS snapshot to multiple accounts.

“Amazon EBS shared snapshots make it easy for you to share this data with your co-workers or others in the AWS community. With this feature, users that you have authorized can quickly use your Amazon EBS shared snapshots as the basis for creating their own Amazon EBS volumes. If you choose, you can also make your data available publicly to all AWS users. Because all the data is stored in the AWS cloud, users don’t have to wait for time consuming downloads, and can access it within minutes. You can quickly start sharing your data through the AWS Management Console by visiting the Snapshots section in the Amazon EC2 tab, or by leveraging the API Tools.

Please visit our Amazon EBS detail page for additional information on Amazon EBS shared snapshots and Amazon EBS and see our developer documentation for more information on the new API calls.”

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CloudFoundry Acquired by SpringSource

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After few days after SpringSource was acquired by VMWare for $420M, SpringSource acquired also CloudFoundry to support their cloud deployment platform.

http://www.springsource.com/newsevents/springsource-launches-enterprise-java-c

http://www.techcrunchit.com/2009/08/19/springsource-picks-up-cloud-foundry-launches-new-cloud-platform/

The amount of acquisition for CloudFoundry is undisclosed and Chris Richardson is now the head of cloud development at SpringSource.

The interesting part now is the strategy of VMWare to integrate these products (VMWare, Hyperic HQ,Spring,CloudFoundry) to create full stack of Java Cloud Enterprise Solution.