Happy New Year
and to make 2010 happier All Data Transfer In to Amazon S3 is Free until June 30th, 2010 
so if you plan to upload large amounts the window is open. Additionally, Amazon S3 EU WEST (Ireland) storage pricing has been reduced 15% to $0.15 (€0.10*) per GB. Also reducing from $0.012 to $0.010 (€0.07*) per 10,000 GET requests or 1,000 PUT requests.
Things I still need to do.
* approx coversion to euro on date of post
[Update 22.01.10]
Well work is so busy I haven’t had time to do a full write up on these items. But I can say that JungleDisk Server Edition [Linux] installed via RPM and was so easy to setup. I purchased the licence via my Amazon account and added it to an XML file, Hey Presto it was running. I downloaded a client for windows and my server was there waiting to interact and take backup instructions. The backups are scheduled and very painless. Well worth checking out. [btw I had tried to do this 6 months prior to November but it wasn't an available option for my server build]
The EC2 on EBS vols. well again cloud computing is maturing 6 months slower that when I hit it. When I first tried EC2 I couldn’t believe this wasn’t possible and now it is. The GUI makes it possible for less geeky CMD line folk to get what needs to be done done in a visual way. So I played around with it in the run up to Xmas and a bit over the break and can report that it is a major step forward in the Stop / Start usage of on demand computing. I need to have some small but more critical trials of this but I can’t see any draw backs!
Carbonite, PutPlace & JungleDisk. Well Peter@doop is testing Carbonite so I await his views on that, I have been using JungleDisk for a good while now and the new interface is a major step forward. I am backing up much more areas of disk now but nowhere near the amount of data Peter is syncing. I think asynchronous connections are a real pain when trying to upload massive amounts of data over broadband. If you do one thing in 2010, BACKUP! and do it before June 30th.
The First Google Wave Search You Must Know | Smarterware
Gina Trapani tells the new lucky (but lonely) wavers how to stop talking to themselves…
If you’re one of the lucky folks who got into Google Wave this week, your excitement probably turned to “Now what?” when you logged in and realized you had no one to wave with. If anyone on your Google account’s Contacts lists also has Wave you’re set–but for some folks that’s no one, or just one person. I’ve gotten a few waves from people saying “I have no one to talk to, and you’re the only one on my list.”
If that happens to you, it’s time to break out the first search command every Wave newbie needs to know: with:public, which returns a huge moving sea of public waves anyone can read and update. There you can dive in, meet other wavers, see what’s possible with Wave, and ask how to do stuff. Wave documentation is building up fast and furious inside Wave, and since everyone’s new to it, everyone is asking questions and lending each other a hand.
via The First Google Wave Search You Must Know | Smarterware.
Tags: Gina Trapani, Smarterware€22m investment for telecoms firm Intune
doop’s first ever client Intune Networks have secured further funding on 22 million euros! their technology will be integral to moving large amounts of data around the cloud in fast, efficient and in unpredictable ways.
Financier Dermot Desmond and venture firm Kernel Capital are among investors to have pumped €22m into Dublin-based telecoms equipment supplier Intune Networks, it was announced today.The investment was secured by the company in its most recent funding round and is the largest private equity investment in the global telecoms optical equipment sector in 2009. It is also the largest private equity investment round in the European telecoms equipment sector and the third largest in the European IT sector this year.
via €22m investment for telecoms firm Intune | BreakingNews.ie.
100K google wave invites september 30th
100,000 google wave invites will be given away tomorrow. Will you be charlie & the chocolate factory about it or will you be Veruca Salt? Wait? or I want it NOW!
Google’s Sidewiki has a sting in the tail « Richard Stacy @ Stacy Consulting
A few days after the announcement of Google’s new Sidewiki website commenting system, commentators are somewhat cynical about Google’s intentions, even perennial fan Jeff Jarvis thinks this addition could end up being an own-goal for Google, Richard Stacy writes:
A couple of days ago Google announced something very interesting – Sidewiki. This creates an overlay on any website / url allowing a form of commenting and rating. Because this is linked to the browser, the site owners themselves have no say here – you can’t opt-in or opt-out. At one level this could be a move which forces every website into the social media space – whether they like it or not.
Powerful stuff – so I signed-up and at that point realised the sting in the tail. In order to work, your browser has to send Google details of your browsing. This gives Google the information it has been craving for a long time, largely without success thus far – identifiable data about individuals’ behaviour, not just anonymous links that come into a website.
via Google’s Sidewiki has a sting in the tail « Richard Stacy @ Stacy Consulting.
Tags: annonymous, Jeff Jarvis, Richard Stacy, SidewikiMicrosoft Dublin data centre opens – The Irish Times – Thu, Sep 24, 2009
[via CIARA O'BRIEN Irish Times] Microsoft has opened a new “mega datacentre” in west Dublin to support growing demand for online services, the first such centre opened outside the US.
The centre is part of the company’s strategy to build its cloud computing capacity and network infrastructure to meet the demand generated from its Online, Live, and Cloud services, such as Bing, Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite, Windows Live, and the Windows Azure platform.
via Microsoft Dublin data centre opens – The Irish Times – Thu, Sep 24, 2009.
Tags: Azure, Bing, data center, Dublin, Irish Times, Microsoft, Windows LiveGoogle Wave: You need to pay attention to this. – Jason Kolb re: the Future of the Internet
Jason Kolb talks about XMPP and Google Wave as “the next revolutionary leap in Internet application architecture” and goes on to explain how Google will unleash the the full power of the XMPP protocol throough it’s “Sexy” Wave client.
So here’s the deal with Wave: If you deal in technology, and you get this one wrong, you’ll miss the boat. And it’s a big boat. If, on the other hand, you get this one right, you have the potential to do some incredible innovation.
In a nutshell, this is the next revolutionary leap in Internet application architecture. Maybe the first truly revolutionary leap since HTTP itself.
I’ve been wanting to write this post for a while, but first I wanted to read fully thru and digest the specs and available code. I haven’t done any posts about XMPP for quite a while, but you’re going to start hearing a whole lot about it, and not just from me.
via Google Wave: You need to pay attention to this. – Jason Kolb re: the Future of the Internet.
Tags: Google Wave, Jason Kolb, XMPPOffice Web Apps : Demo of the Office Web Apps
Microsoft Office Web Apps enter technical preview stage (by invite only), offering better file integrity between the desktop and the web with no loss of data in the process. Spreadsheets & Powerpoint presentations are now editable in the browser while Word online-editing is not yet ready.
Spreadsheets keep their functions and charts, Powerpoint delivered over the web, with extra functionality if SilverLight is installed though it’s not a requirement.
Office Web Apps will be delivered throught Windows Live Workspace.
Click below for a video demo from Chris Bryant.
Office Web Apps : Demo of the Office Web Apps.
Tags: Microsoft, Office Web Apps, Silverlight, Windows Live