Ning within our platform provides a whole suite of APIs for easily building social networking applications; Salesforce within its platform provides a whole suite of APIs for easily building enterprise applications; Second Life within its platform provides a whole suite of APIs for easy building objects that live and interact within Second Life. EC2, at least for now, has no such ambitions, and is content to be more of a generic hosting environment.
Marc Andreessen: "The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet" (2007, retriev... - 1 views
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Akamai, coming from a completely different angle, is tackling a lot of the technical requirements of a Level 3 Internet platform in their "EdgeComputing" service -- which lets their customers upload Java code into Akamai's systems.
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Amazon's FPS -- Flexible Payments Service -- is itself a Level 3 Internet platform.
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"This post is my attempt to disentangle and examine the topic of "Internet platform" in detail. I will go at it by identifying three distinct approaches to providing an Internet platform, and project forward on where I think each of the three approaches will go. At best, I might be able to help make a new landscape clear. At worst, hopefully I can at least provide one framework for future discussion."
cloud_cube_model_v1.0.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views
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aim of this paper is to: - point out that not everything is best implemented in clouds; it may be best to operate some business functions using a traditional non-cloud approach - explain the different cloud formations that the Jericho Forum has identified - describe key characteristics, benefits and risks of each cloud formation - provide a framework for exploring in more detail the nature of different cloud formations and the issues that need answering to make them safe and secure places to work in
Amazon Elastic MapReduce - 0 views
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Amazon Elastic MapReduce is a web service that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. It utilizes a hosted Hadoop framework running on the web-scale infrastructure of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
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