Big Data’s first IPO has hit NASDAQ and I’m sure there will be plenty more to come. Why’s this a big deal? Big Data, defined as crunching numbers in the Giga, Tera and Petabyte levels, is what is taking business intelligence to the next level. Just for comparison, your PC or Mac probably has about [...]

Amazon Web Services just made another beta release of one of their new services. This one is SES Simple Email Service. Email is arguably one of the hardest and most important services to get correct. If you email from your application, it better get to the recipient. Many roadblocks can trip an email up from [...]

Amazon Web Services just released the beta version of their new service, Elastic Beanstalk. Beanstalk will allow you to deploy an application easily using their EC2, S3, loading balancing, and notification services. Now its easier then ever to own an application that can easily scale to support huge numbers of visitors. Before Amazon’s load balancing [...]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an internet solutions company seperate from, but owned by the well known parent company, Amazon.com. AWS offers several products and services, one of which is secure, online data storage. Their prices are amazing low, 15 cents for each Gigabyte. This tutorial will walk you through the steps to setup AWS [...]