TDWI's Take On Cloud BI

[Steve Bennett]

TDWI has made public a recent presentation on "Business Intelligence In The Cloud" by Steve Dine of Datasource Consulting. It adds some interesting information to my recent blog asking Will The Cloud Democratise BI? Apart from a good overview of some of the risks and benefits, Steve also quotes from a recent Informationweek 'Cloud Computing Survey' that (unsurprisingly) the biggest concern today is security: There is also some nice detail on Amazon's EC2 Instance Pricing: * EC2 Compute Unit (ECU) – One EC2 Compute Unit (ECU) provides the equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.0-1.2 GHz 2007 Opteron or 2007 Xeon processor. You can open the powerpoint presentation here. If you are interested in the cloud, then it's well worth the 5 minutes to review it.

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[Doug Heywood]

Thanks for posting the TDWI presentation Steve. Here is something I have just read:


Amazon Web Services to expand into Asia-Pacific
New 'availability zones' will reduce latency

Chris Kanaracus (IDG News Service) 16/11/2009 08:17:00

Amazon Web Services will expand its footprint to Asia-Pacific during the first half of 2010, the cloud-computing infrastructure vendor said Thursday.

Multiple new "availability zones" will be initially launched in Singapore during the first six months of next year, and in other Asian regions later in 2010, according to the company.

The expansion will reduce latency issues for Asia-Pacific customers who may be using availability zones in the U.S. or Europe.

Initial services will include Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Storage Service (S3), SimpleDB, Simple Queue Service, Elastic MapReduce, CloudFront and the recently announced Amazon Relational Database.

Pricing information wasn't immediately available. Amazon Web Services recently cut costs for its EC2 service in other regions.

The announcement comes as interest in cloud computing is growing among Asia-Pacific developers, according to a report released in July by Evans Data Corp.

More than 25 percent of developers in the region were either already using or planning to use cloud services within the following six months, according to the survey.

Meanwhile, this week Amazon Web Services also announced a software development kit for developers working with Microsoft's .NET technology.

The development kit includes APIs (application programming interfaces) "that hide much of the low-level plumbing associated with programming for the AWS cloud," according to an official blog post.

Other features include code samples and templates for Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE (integrated development environment).