We’ve got 5 a sack-load of Google Wave invites to give away – to the first five people who ask for them in the comments below.
Go ahead; add your name below. We’ll accomodate all we can.
PS: invites will be emailed to the email ID associated with your profile.
The above post was written by Lakshmanan (Lux) Narayan of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, powers the online backup services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides remote backup, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies & universities.
Vembu Home is the only FREE consumer backup solution for free local backups and optional Amazon Cloud backups. Get your FREE COPY now.
Two days ago, Amazon announced Amazon Web Services (AWS) calculator on their blog. I can see this becoming quite useful, and am, in fact, surprised that they didn’t do this earlier.
You can access the AWS Simple Monthly Calculator here. The calculator, currently in Beta, allows you to get an idea of the kind of costs you can expect for different services that you might use. They’ve even had a stab at typical figures you might be seeing for some ‘typical use cases’.
Don’t see the use cases? You need to scroll to the right if your resolution is 1024 x 768 (or lower) – see the screenshot above.
The five use cases they have are (comments in brackets are my own):
A marketing website (bandwidth intensive; requests from visitors)
A Web App (would use more of computing resources, including DB)
A Media application (storage & bandwidth intensive)
HPC Cluster (CPU intensive)
Disaster Recovery & Backup (storage intensive and computing to a lesser degree)
Take the numbers with a pinch of salt (an ounce, in the case of DR & Backup). But that’s not the point – I think it is pretty bold of them to hazard a guess knowing fully well that one size won’t fit all…
Rather than take the numbers at face value, you should focus on the AWS services in the ‘mix’, i.e. the different services that AWS assume you will use for each scenario. It serves to give you a good idea of the services you should be looking at.
We’ll take a more detailed look and provide some data that’s more relevant to StoreGrid + AWS deployments. Stay tuned.
The above post was written by Lakshmanan (Lux) Narayan of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, powers the online backup services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides remote backup, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies & universities.
Vembu Home is the only FREE consumer backup solution for free local backups and optional Amazon Cloud backups. Get your FREE COPY now.
The above post was written by Lakshmanan (Lux) Narayan of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, powers the online backup services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides remote backup, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies & universities.
Vembu Home is the only FREE consumer backup solution for free local backups and optional Amazon Cloud backups. Get your FREE COPY now.
Being an IT analyst is tough work! You need to stay awake through gigabytes of power-point every day.
Additionally, if the person making the presentation is a paying client who is launching a new product or service, you’ll typically also have a lot of polite moments where you go “Great Idea, but haven’t companies A, B, E & K done something somewhat similar before?”. Typically, the accompanying thought stream is “Yeah, Yeah, tell me something I don’t already know – so I can stop pretending to be excited”
When we made an analyst/media briefing ppt for Vembu Home, we thought we’d spare them the “nested points in font size 10” approach – and make it really ‘easy to digest’.
We also had something new to say – with our dual backup approach, the iPhone inspired UI, Amazon Cloud backup, etc. That certainly helped!
A copy of the ppt is embedded below. For all you pptholics, it’s a good intro to Vembu Home.
PS: speaking of ppts, there is an amazing tool we came across. Stay tuned for a ‘fluid version’ of the ppt below.
(note: Scribd seems to have ‘mutilated’ slides 3,14 & 20 a bit; forgive the pagination on these slides)
The above post was written by Lakshmanan (Lux) Narayan of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, powers the online backup services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides remote backup, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies & universities.
Vembu Home is the only FREE consumer backup solution for free local backups and optional Amazon Cloud backups. Get your FREE COPY now.
Week 1: I want a Google Wave invite. I want a Google Wave invite
Week 2: I got a Google Wave invite. I got a Google Wave invite
Week 3: It’s lonely here. What do I do with Google Wave?
Sounds familiar?
I was (and am still, in some sense) in that boat – till the guy who gave me the invite just gave me two tips that really helped.
For all those of you who got into Google Wave, only to find that you and your (wave invitation) benefactor make up your entire wave universe, here’s how you can connect with the rest of the world:
a) Type “with:public” in the search box to search for public waves – and start participating in them. There are Sudokus, guides, conversations & spam.
b) Create a wave of your own and make it public by adding public@a.gwave.com as wave participant. There’s a small ‘trick’ needed with this one. When you Click on the + beside the Manage Contacts link and type public.a.gwave.com as a contact, you’ll get an unfriendly “User does not have a Google Wave account” message. Just ignore it, and hit the enter key. The contact gets added and is called ‘Public’ in your contacts list. Now you can create a new wave and add ‘Public’ to the conversation. And don’t forget to add me: aluxtinas AT googlewave.com
That’s it.
Hello World, anyone?
Note to self: try & rack up some good karma points by illustrating the above in a a video.
Hat Tip: The ‘guy’ who gave me the Google Wave invite and these inputs is James Ramya Rajan. Thanks, James.
The above post was written by Lakshmanan (Lux) Narayan of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, powers the online backup services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides remote backup, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies & universities.
Vembu Home is the only FREE consumer backup solution for free local backups and optional Amazon Cloud backups. Get your FREE COPY now.
