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What is Passive DNS and how do you leverage it in research?

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A good way to think about DNS is to look at the contacts application on your mobile phone. DNS works like a contact application for the Internet. In DNS, this is known as an "A" record and is one of many different record types including, but not limited to AAAA (IPv6), MX (mail), NS (nameserver), and TXT (text).

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DROAM - Dreaming about Cheap Data Roaming - All Things.

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For a while this was great but as this doesnt include web and application internet traffic I started to see a rise in my roaming costs which T-Mobile charges at $15/MB. If you sign up with the coupon code 488 they will donate part of your bill to KIKA which is an organization that supports youth cancer research. CTO - Amazon.com.

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Expanding the Cloud - Cluster Compute Instances for Amazon EC2.

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Today, Amazon Web Services took very an important step in unlocking the advantages of cloud computing for a very important application area. Cluster Computer Instances for Amazon EC2 are a new instance type specifically designed for High Performance Computing applications. CTO - Amazon.com. blog comments powered by Disqus.

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Driving down the cost of Big-Data analytics - All Things Distributed

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Amazon Elastic MapReduce takes away much of this muck by providing a hosted Hadoop framework that enables businesses, researchers, data analysts, and developers to easily and efficiently spin up resizable clusters for distributed processing of large data sets. CTO - Amazon.com. blog comments powered by Disqus. Contact Info.

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5 Terabyte Object Support in Amazon S3 - All Things Distributed

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Or, BioPharma researchers and scientists can stream genomic sequencer data directly into Amazon S3, which frees up local resources and allows scientists to store, aggregate, and share human genomes as single objects in Amazon S3. CTO - Amazon.com. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications.

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Spot Instances - Increased Control - All Things Distributed

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Spot Instances are ideal for use cases like web and data crawling, financial analysis, grid computing, media transcoding, scientific research, and batch processing. CTO - Amazon.com. a Fast and Scalable NoSQL Database Service Designed for Internet Scale Applications. New Route 53 and ELB features: IPv6, Zone Apex, WRR and more.

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The Amazon.com 2010 Shareholder Letter Focusses on Technology.

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And while many of our systems are based on the latest in computer science research, this often hasnt been sufficient: our architects and engineers have had to advance research in directions that no academic had yet taken. As a Kindle customer, of course, we hide all this technology from you. Founder and Chief Executive Officer.

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