November, 2009

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82 Billion Objects in Amazon S3

All Things Distributed

At the end of Q3 2009 we counted over 82 billion objects in Amazon S3. Congrats to the team for providing such a rock solid service! When looking at the graph keep in mind that the first 4 markers are a year apart, but the last one only 6 months.

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Restructuring IT: Organizing for Results

The Agile Manager

Up to this point in this series on Restructuring IT , we’ve looked at how IT has adopted an industrial model. IT has achieved scale, but at the cost of results, as is clear from the low rate of success of IT investments. We'll now take a look at how we can organize IT for results. Professional versus Industrial IT needs to reorganize for results, not scale.