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HowTo: Use the Google Authenticator as a virtual MFA Device on the Amazon AWS Console

Posted by Rohit Amarnath on Sat, 11/19/2011 - 02:15
Amazon has supported the use of a hardware based MFA device. But the issue we have had as a firm that deals with many Amazon accounts, carrying 14 or more devices is just not practical.
Hardware-MFA
 
So it was really awesome to see that Amazon released the ability to use virtual MFA Devices like the Google Authenticator. This is available for Android, Blackberry and the iPhone.

Integrating AWS CloudFormation and Chef

Posted by Rohit Amarnath on Mon, 02/28/2011 - 04:09

 

The cloud ecosystem was a-thundering this Friday with Amazon Web Services' announcement on CloudFormation. Much of it positive, and a whole lot said about AWS whacking at the partner ecosystem. The twitter pundits who probably haven't used CloudFormation, Chef or Puppet were quick to claim that CloudFormation is a replacement. At initial glance I thought so as well, but then I looked under the covers and quickly realized that to the contrary, CloudFormation will actually simplify and make our recipes more portable.
 

We Are Hiring! Oracle Hyperion EPM Ninjas

Posted by Rohit Amarnath on Mon, 02/14/2011 - 03:56

 

Full 360 thrives on innovation and is changing the way BI is sold, implemented, and supported. We're Oracle EPM and data warehousing wonks with deep experience in the financial services marketplace. We foster a "lifestyle company" culture because we want everyone working for at Full 360 to enjoy what they do. (If its not enjoyable, it's not worth doing). 
 

2010 Mid-Year Full 360 Update!

Posted by Rohit Amarnath on Sun, 08/08/2010 - 02:43
I would like to take a quick moment to speak about how Full 360 is doing. We have had broad interest in the Agile Data Warehouse and Oracle BI in the Cloud. We have signed up our first few customers, with our first customer going into production end of this month, our first OEM customer, and our first minor dustup with the analyst community over our use of the "Agile Data Warehouse" trademark.

The Agile Data Warehouse™ Trademark Controversy

Posted by Rohit Amarnath on Sun, 08/08/2010 - 02:06
I have been called a number of things in my life (you should hear my ex-wife describe me), but "moron" isn't one I have heard often. So I was surprised recently to see Mark Madsen call me one on Twitter, in regard to our trademark on the brand "Agile Data Warehouse". 

RightScale Contest to win an iPad

Posted by Rohit Amarnath on Wed, 04/07/2010 - 23:02

Our Cloud Management Partner, Rightscale - is offering a very cool contest to win an iPad. They recently announced the 1,000,000th server launched on their service, up from 707,000 just last November. The contest involves guessing how many servers will be launched by the date of their Meetup at the Cloud Conference in New York on April 21.

Plus, if you refer someone to the contest and they make the correct guess, you both win! So refer this contest along, Twitter it, Facebook it - and increase your chances of winning. Just click here to enter: http://bit.ly/bkhtZI

Migrating a Linux S3 Based AMI to an EBS Based AMI

Posted by Rohit Amarnath on Mon, 12/07/2009 - 21:05

While we have been booting from EBS a month after it came out using pivot_root - most of our implementations are based on a couple of AMIs and many different EBS snapshots and volumes. We were nonetheless happy to see Amazon's announcement to allow AMIs to boot from AMIs, it makes some of our scripts much simpler. I put this article together to show migrating an existing Linux AMI to EBS can be a trivial task.

Extracting Government Spending Data via Talend and Ruby into CouchDB

Posted by Rohit Amarnath on Sat, 04/11/2009 - 23:45

Note: To make it easy for anyone to get access to this data I chatted with the good folks at Amazon to expose all the data (both couchdb files and csv) as a public data set! I will also share an ami that you can spin up and use to start looking at this data almost immediately. Look for a post on that soon.

HOWTO: Share the EVDO internet connection on the Mac with the first gen iPhone

Posted by Rohit Amarnath on Mon, 03/02/2009 - 22:11

This post will have nothing to do with Analytics or Data Warehousing but I had such a tough time getting this to work that I figured I'd publish a post on it.

Creating a Just enough OS (JeOS) EC2 Image for Oracle Enterprise Linux

Posted by Rohit Amarnath on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 03:41

I have always been a fan of stripped down "just what you need" OS installations of Windows and Linux. Which is why we use nLite for creating custom XP builds and gentoo for general purpose linux machines. For Oracle applications we use a base installation of Oracle Enterprise Linux.

The advantage of a these minimal builds are: 

  • Better Performance
  • Smaller Footprint
  • More secure (in theory)

This has worked well for us - our hosted instances boot in a minute or less.

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