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  11.19.2012

  3 Rules for Perfect Email

  Your career success hinges on writing easy to understand emails. Now more than ever, teams co-create via the written word versus in-person meetings. Mastering the art of writing great emails will improve personal and group communication thus spurring professional growth. There have been many posts on the subject “getting to inbox zero,” which means various [...]

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  7.5.2012

  The Cheap Cloud versus The Reliable Cloud

  5 Lessons Learned from June 29 2012 AWS Outage Discussing a difficult situation is never fun, and I have been wrestling with how to start this post. It’s about revealing unpleasant cloud truths. And not necessarily the truths you might be expecting to hear. I am not here to preach, but my message to you [...]

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  4.29.2012

  Reflecting on One Year of Cloud Cost Optimization

  For the past year I held the unelected position of “Cloud Cost Czar.” I have written about the duties such a role entails in A Day in the Life of a Cloud Cost Czar. Recently I handed over the cost czar responsibility to a colleague who will carry on the daily routines and continue to [...]

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  4.18.2012

  A Tale of Two Cloud Search Engines

  Sonian Cloud Search and Amazon Cloud Search. Their names may sound the same, but they  couldn’t be further apart in terms of how much they cost to operate and their intended use cases. Sonian is a veteran “Cloud Search” pioneer. In 2008 we launched the first version of search in the cloud, and today the [...]