InfoChachkie
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
“By the way, back then it was just Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud [EC2] and both ‘Elastic’ and ‘Cloud’ were candidate key terms. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2. The term ‘cloud computing’ only caught on much later.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. And now they want to revolutionize email.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
They then launched processing capabilities (EC2) and we startups suddenly didn’t need to buy production servers. The larger ones also do more to hold CEO summits, create recruiting databases, set up email distribution lists, create pools of stock options that can be shared across companies, etc.
socalTECH
JULY 12, 2013
Amazon EC2 would be considered fully managed cloud, which also happens to be off premise. IN the past, that would have meant sending emails, giving a call to IT, articulating what you need, and eventually your ticket might get closed down in a week or a month. That is on premise, off premise, fully managed, and do-it-yourself.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 5, 2010
We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others.
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