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Oracle and Engine Yard Up a Tree, P-A-A-S-I-N-G

September 27, 2013

Business

amazon-web-service, Cloud Foundry, EngineYard, Heroku, Java, oracle, Platform as a service, Windows Azure

When Engine Yard announced awhile back a strategic investment from Oracle – it kind of felt like a Hail Mary pass. Engine Yard, which a solid and reliable platform, has lost much of its shine as its competitors get…

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Price, Performance or Both? ProfitBricks Extends the Conversation

July 31, 2013

Business

amazon, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, amazon-web-service, AWS, cloud computing, Gauger, ProfitBricks, rackspace, United States

Cloud computing price drops make easy reporting – they happen regularly and have an attractive way of framing the IaaS market as a battle royal between a few different players. They’re also easy for vendors, a price drop takes…

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On OpenStack and the AWS API – Internal Divisions Surface

July 24, 2013

Business

amazon, amazon-web-service, AWS, Cloudscaling, google, OpenStack, rackspace, Simon Wardley

It’s OSCON week, and three years since OpenStack was officially launched – in that time it’s built a vibrant ecosystem, real world customers and more debate than anyone would have ever imagined. There are some notable critics, none so…

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On Standards in the Cloud

July 15, 2013

Business

amazon-web-service, AWS, cloud computing, CloudStack, OpenStack, PayPal, Simon Wardley, VMware

Cross posted from Diginomica The other day I wrote a post reflecting on a couple of conversations I’ve been a part of in recent months around the validity or otherwise of the entire “cloud broker” concept. The rationale behind…

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Want an Irrefutable Example of the Value of Cloud? Here Goes

April 22, 2013

Business

amazon-web-service, Business, Business-to-Business, cloud computing, e-commerce, Information technology, Multi-core processor, Opscode

While the pundits debate the minutiae of cloud computing, and spend hours in detailed and complex arguments of what should and shouldn’t be moved to the cloud, other people are simply going out and doing stuff on the cloud…

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Cloud and Flexibility, Is It a Technology Problem or a Business One?

April 11, 2013

Business

amazon, amazon-web-service, AWS, Business, cloud computing, Morgan Stanley, ProfitBricks, rackspace

The rise of Infrastructure as a Service got the world used to on demand, utility services that correlate perfectly with an organization’s particular demand profile Indeed one of the key value propositions that all cloud infrastructure vendors articulate is…

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Engine Yard Differentiates through Control and Choice

February 26, 2013

Business

amazon-web-service, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, EngineYard, Heroku, oracle, platform services, Salesforce.com, SAP, SAP AG

I kind of feel sorry for Engine Yard sometime – once seen as one of the two best-known Platform as a Service offerings (alongside Heroku), the acquisition of Heroku by Salesforce kind of reduced Engine Yard’s visibility. The subsequent…

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AWS, Redshift and Co-Opetition

December 3, 2012

Business

amazon, amazon-web-service, AWS, BitYota, Data warehouse, IBM, Redshift, SQL

Long time technology commentators understand the tensions between platform companies, intent on both growing their business and creating a healthy ecosystem, and ecosystem partners who leverage what the platform brings, but remain apprehensive about the long term intensions of…

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Rackspace deploys OpenStack–AppFog Delivers the Promise of PaaS

July 31, 2012

Business

amazon-web-service, AppFog, Carlson, cloudcomputing, OpenStack, platform services, rackspace, Rackspace Cloud

Disclosure – I run the CloudU education program which is supported by Rackspace, one of the key backers of OpenStack. I am also an investor in Appsecute, a PaaS management platform. Today is an exciting day for anyone who…

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Standing Cloud Launches Their Very Own Marketplace

May 18, 2012

Business

amazon, amazon-web-service, AWS, cloudcomputing, Independent software vendor, Service provider, StandingCloud

A few weeks ago the cloud punditry was excited by the announcement that Amazon was introducing a marketplace to provide high-stack services on top of their infrastructure services. A number of us believe that as infrastructure becomes ever-more commoditized,…

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