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CloudSigma, Hybrid Cloud and Competing with AWS

September 18, 2013

Business

amazon web services, AWS, Central processing unit, cloud computing, CloudSigma, Equinix, gartner, Magic Quadrant

A peek at the recent Gartner Magic Quadrant for IaaS will show just how incredibly hard it is for any vendor to differentiate itself from Amazon Web Services. In what is perhaps a first, Gartner had to change the…

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Democratizing Development – Where PaaS Should Go

September 9, 2013

Business

amazon web services, Application programming interface, cloud computing, EngineYard, OpenStack, Platform as a service, Services, Visual Basic

A few months ago I wrote a post that looked at application development, and the existing tools that help bring the ability to develop software to an entire audience that formerly didn’t have the ability. Over the past five or…

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Engineering a Single Point of Failure with AWS. Users Beware.

September 4, 2013

Business

amazon web services, AWS, EBS, Elastic Block Storage, Netflix, Ubuntu, US-East, Virginia

Much has been written about the fragility of Amazon Web Services‘ US-East-1 region. Every time AWS has an outage it seems to be the Eastern zone that brings the service down. Eastern has the oldest infrastructure and this, in…

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AppZero Eases Applications Moving to AWS

August 26, 2013

Business

amazon web services, AppZero, AWS, Microsoft Windows, Santa Clara Convention Center, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Zapp

I wrote recently of the fact that almost every “cloud application migration” vendor had pivoted their messaging all of a sudden away from the fraught area of cloud bursting to more conservative, but understandable and palatable areas like disaster…

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GreenQloud – Because PRISM isn’t the Only Way for Non US Clouds to Differentiate

August 23, 2013

Business

amazon web services, Application programming interface, AWS, cloud computing, GreenQLoud, IOS, Netherlands, Paul Miller

Since the news broke of PRISM and the other big Government spying programs, there has been an almost deafening number of non-US cloud vendors use the news as a justification for their product. The highly opportunistic marketing spin goes…

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CloudVelocity – Lots of Funding, Lots of Customers

July 18, 2013

Business

amazon web services, Application programming interface, AWS, cloud computing, CloudVelocity, Disaster recovery, linux, Pelion

The entire cloud migration space is one fraught with difficulties. On the one hand there are the not insignificant difficulties of actually migrating a production workload in real time – it’s often been said the very notion is a…

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CloudVelocity Releases its Cloud Migration Product – Cue the Rainbows of Cloud migration

July 16, 2013

Business

amazon web services, AWS, cloud computing, CloudVelocity, data center, Infrastructure, linux, Microsoft Windows

Cloudbursting – that oft-told urban myth that sees workloads magically move across infrastructure like wisps of smoke. It’s a provocative image and one that never fails to get the back up of seasoned IT folks who wrangle this stuff…

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Joyent’s Manta – A Solution for Data’s Gravity?

June 25, 2013

Business

amazon web services, Big data, Computer data storage, Dynamic random-access memory, Gigabyte, Jason Hoffman, Joyent, Manta

My friend, cloud thought leader and all-around nice guy Dave McCrory has, over the past couple of years been espousing his view on Data Gravity and the impact it has upon the way organizations work. It’s well worth having…

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The Multi Cloud Opportunity – Delivering on the Composable Enterprise

June 21, 2013

Business

amazon web services, AWS, cloud computing, GigaOM Pro, Netflix, OpenStack, PayPal, San Francisco, VMware

I’m making my way home after spending a week in San Francisco attending GigaOM’s Structure event. Structure is one of the highlights of the cloud conference calendar – bringing together old friends, industry super stars and exciting customers in…

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Cloud Infrastructure – It’s All About Granularity

June 7, 2013

Business

amazon, amazon web services, AWS, cloud computing, GigaOm, GovCloud, Platform as a service, rackspace

A post from Barb Darrow over at GigaOm caught my eye this morning. In the post Barb suggests that we’ll see many more specific vertical clouds from AWS, akin to the GovCloud. As she wrote: Here’s one I think…

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