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In the Quest for TCO, We Lose Sight of the Real Issue–Part One

September 4, 2012

Business

amazon, amazon web services, AWS, cloudcomputing, Information technology management, TCO, techcrunch, Total Cost of Ownership

In the last little while I’ve seen a couple of posts that focus on the difficulties around calculating total cost of ownership of cloud versus on-premise infrastructure. First up on TechCrunch was a guest post from Jinesh Varia from…

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Amazon Delivers Glacier for Archival Storage

August 22, 2012

Business

amazon, Amazon Glacier, amazon web services, Archive, AWS, Cloud storage, FedEx, Glacier

News a couple of days ago that Amazon Web Services is adding AWS Glacier to it’s product catalog. AWS is designed for one thing only – long term archival of data that isn’t routinely accessed. I’s not speed optimized…

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Appcara Delivers Cloud Infra and App Management for AWS Based Clouds

August 21, 2012

Business

amazon web services, Appcara, BMC, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, Derek Collison, enStratus, RightScale

Appcara is an unfortunately named (considering the fact that Cloud Foundry creator, and Clouderati pin up boy Derek Collison’s new gig is called Apcera) company in the business of providing automation for cloud deployments. They use a modeling based…

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On Cloud Outages (Yeah, They Happen)

August 8, 2012

Business

amazon web services, AWS, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, data center, enStratus, George Reese, NetworkWorld

Recently the world went wild when Amazon Web Services suffered an extended service outage. I’m not going to make a song and dance about AWS’ woes – suffice it to say that every provider, Cloud or otherwise, has outages.…

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Appsecute Launches–PaaS marketplace and Management Platform

July 11, 2012

Business

amazon web services, AppFog, appsecute, cloudcomputing, Cloudfoundry, Mark Cox, Platform as a service, Single sign-on

A few months ago I was at an event in the US and received a tweet introducing me to some guys back in New Zealand who were apparently building something on top of Cloud Foundry. Now New Zealand isn’t…

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The Future Ain’t Homogenized–Please Stop the FUD Vendors

July 3, 2012

Business

amazon web services, Chris Hoff, cloud computing, enStratus, Heroku, McCarthyism, OpenStack, PistonCloud

In recent weeks we’ve had perfect examples of people preaching perspectives from both ends of the cloud dogma spectrum. First up comes JP Rangaswami, Chief Scientist at Salesforce who proclaimed that the concept of private cloud was essentially flawed.…

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VMware Acquires DynamicOps–Quick Analysis

July 2, 2012

Business

amazon web services, BMC, Christian Reilly, cloud computing, Dell, DynamicOps, RightScale, VMware

News this morning that VMware has acquired DynamicOps for a reported $100-$150M price tag. DynamicOps is a provider of IT management services that (and this is the important bit) span heterogeneous environments. It comes the same day Dell finally…

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HP Moves its Public Cloud Into Publicly Available Beta

April 10, 2012

Business

amazon web services, Apache, Citrix, Citrix Systems, cloud computing, CloudStack, hp, OpenStack, Software release life cycle

Since the announcement last week that Citrix would be moving it’s CloudStack product to Apache, some of the move vociferous support for OpenStack has come from HP, a company that is an active member of OpenStack and has a…

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Citrix Scores a Coup–CloudStack to Become Cloud Platform of the Apache Foundation

April 3, 2012

Business

amazon, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, amazon web services, Apache foundation, AWS, Citrix, CloudStack, OpenStack, Peder Ulander, rackspace, VMware

[Addendum – I knew about this announcement a week ago. Out of respect for those who briefed me on it under embargo I have decided to hold to the embargo despite others decisions not to do so. Personally I…

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Zynga and Z-Cloud–A Corollary to the Public Cloud

February 27, 2012

Business

amazon, amazon web services, Chief technology officer, Netflix, Zynga

At the Cloud Connect event in Santa Clara recently, Allan Leinwand, CTO from Zynga presented a keynote the day after a fairly emphatic statement contained in their earnings call that speaks to their marked retreat from the public cloud.…

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