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When Does Co-Opetition Flip to War? On Competing with AWS

June 6, 2013

Business

amazon, amazon web services, AWS, competition, Om Malik, OpenStack, rackspace, Screenlight, SendGrid, Zencoder

Recently Chris Potter from Screenlight wrote a guest post on GigaOm looking at the growing trend of Amazon Web Services (AWS) introducing services that compete with its own customers. As Potter pointed out, it’s been a continuing trend, from…

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A Tale of Two Public Cloud Strategies – Dell Drops Out While VMware Embraces Hybrid

May 29, 2013

Business

amazon web services, cloud computing, Dell, Netflix, OpenStack, Pat Gelsinger, Simon Wardley, VMware

Want to look at two legacy vendors displaying wildly differing approaches to the public cloud? Roll up and compare Dell and VMware. In the past few weeks Dell announced that it was backing away from its OpenStack powered private…

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The Empire Strikes Back – VMware Launches Hybrid Cloud Service

May 21, 2013

Business

amazon web services, Business, Business-to-Business, cloud computing, data center, e-commerce, Pat Gelsinger, Puppet Labs, vCloud, vCloud Hybrid Service, VMware, vSphere

There’s a fair few VMware folks scratching their heads today and wondering when the world changed quite so much. The company today announced its hybrid cloud solution, avialable today on an early access program. GA is slated for Q3…

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Arise the New Public Cloud Platform – Google is for Real

May 21, 2013

Business

amazon web services, AWS, cloud computing, GCE, General Certificate of Education, google, google app engine, google compute engine

I’ve just spent a few days at the extravaganza which is Google IO. As with previous occasions, this year’s event didn’t fail to blow away the attendees with the sheer amount of “wow” that Google manages to pull out…

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Enterprise Development and Testing Agility with CloudShare

May 16, 2013

Business

ALM, amazon web services, Application Lifecycle Management, Business, Business-to-Business, Cloning, cloud computing, CloudShare, CloudShare Labs, e-commerce, Software as a Service, Software development process, Team Foundation Server, Virtual private network

One of the big value propositions for cloud infrastructure is that in greatly reduces the hurdles that developers face when setting up environments for development and testing purposes. There are two issues that often get in the way of…

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Operations is Dead, but Please Don’t Replace it with DevOps

May 15, 2013

Business

amazon web services, Cross-functional team, DevOps, Israel, Jez Humble, Platform as a service, Quality assurance, Werner Vogels

OK, so the title is provocative, but bear with me here. Recently I spent a mind-expanding day at DevOpsCon in Israel – I presented the first keynote, which aimed to set the scene for why DevOps is a necessary…

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Breaking – AppFog Switches off the Rackspace Cloud

April 27, 2013

Business

amazon web services, AppFog, cloud computing, online communities, OpenStack, Platform as a service, rackspace, VMware

AppFog customers received an email today advising them that the PaaS company will no longer support applications hosted on Rackspace infrastructures (screen grab below). We’ve been hearing through the back channel for quite some time that AppFog has been…

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OpenStack and The Enterprise Cloud – Not the Usual Suspects

April 24, 2013

Business

amazon web services, AWS, cloud computing, IBM, OpenStack, Pat Gelsinger, rackspace, VMware

Last week saw me travel very briefly to Portland to attend the analyst day at the OpenStack Summit (disclosure – alongside a posse of my analyst colleagues, the OpenStack foundation covered my T&E to attend the event. I’m also…

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Rackspace Taps Third party Service Providers to Build Out International Presence

April 14, 2013

Business

amazon, amazon web services, AWS, Business, cloud computing, Customer, e-commerce, Lanham Napier, Open source, OpenStack, rackspace

Rackspace (disclosure – Rackspace supported the creation of the CloudU education program I formerly ran) is a little bit like the little engine that could. It’s continually fighting the perception (and, to be frank, the reality) that it’s the…

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Cloud 2020 Summit – Apply to Attend Now!

April 10, 2013

Business

#cloud2020, amazon web services, cloud computing, data center, Krishnan Subramanian, Las Vegas, OpenStack, Rishidot Research, VMware

Sometimes in the day to day discussions of product announcements, funding activity and M&A froth we miss the opportunity to take a deep look at what the future looks like. This is especially so in the infrastructure space where…

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