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Cloud Computing: How to really use it

I have a fear that using cloud computing isn’t really going to take off in higher ed the way I had hoped.  I do think that Amazon’s Reserved Instances will help colleges see that it is a more affordable option.  … Continue reading

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Amazon Reserved Instances

It looks like Amazon Web Services is moving into the hosting market.  They’ve set up something called reserved instances.  Essentially you pay a one time fee and then get a significantly lower hourly usage rate ($0.03/hour as opposed to $0.10/hour). … Continue reading

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AWS Offers New Data Sets

Amazon Web Services is offering data sets for Freebase, DBpedia, and US Bureau of Transportation Statistics.  They have other datasets as well. The datasets are available via Elastic Block Storage: Amazon EC2 customers can access this data by creating their … Continue reading

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