Hot off the press.

http://green.tmcnet.com/news/2010/03/02/4649834.htm

Mentions two partners using the Cloud "software as a service" model

Terry Suby, CEO, AcuStaf Software
"Initiating a new server used to take 2 to 3 days. This process now takes
just 30 minutes using cloud technology,"

Michael Leo, director, managed services, Kettle River Consulting.
"Kettle River was able to deploy an Ingres web application into Exadel's
pre-packaged cloud environment in less than an hour"


Paul
&
Shift Seven Solutions

Fellow Ingresites,

The gory technical details are available if anyone wants to
chat about it. I spent about 3-4 hours getting an existing web
app that Kettle River had developed for an Ingres customer running
in EC2 using this pre-packaged cloud environment. The 3-4 hours
included

- registering with Exadel and finding my way around
- registering with Amazon EC2 and finding my way around
- deploying the "Cloud in a Box" to my EC2 instance
- creating an Ingres database and creating the application schema with domain data
- loading up the development environment and running unit and integration tests
- deploying the application into the JBoss app server
- running some simulated load against the application

I got the bill from Amazon yesterday.

$0.18 USD.

Granted, I didn't do any serious development or have any actual production load.
But this convinced me that if I need to set up a developer environments for future
projects, this is the way to go.

Especially if my developers aren't Ingres-familiar. I can give them each
their own private Ingres DBMS without reaching out and working on their laptops.

As for production, I'd be willing to give it a try. The nice thing about it is that
if it doesn't work out either because of QoS or cost, I can virtualize the instance
and move it to my own VMware farm.

If anyone wants to know more, let me know. I'd be glad to answer questions.

Cheers,

Mikey

Michael Leo
Director of Managed Services
Kettle River Consulting

MLeo (AT) KettleRiverConsulting (DOT) com

On Mar 2, 2010, at 8:03 AM, Paul White wrote:

Mike Leo wrote:

Mikey, I have been asking for a presentation on deploying Ingres in
the cloud for the IUA conference in June. You would be very welcome!
:-) Let me know ASAP.

If there is anyone else who might be able to get to London a bit easier
than Mike and who'd like to talk about this, send a very brief proposal
to ray.collins (AT) iua (DOT) org.uk.

--
Roy

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