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Cloud Brokers, Fungibility and the Amazon-Shaped Elephant in the Room

August 20, 2013

Business

Baumann, cloud computing, Deutsche Börse, Enomaly, Fungibility, John Cowan, rackspace, Zimory

Fungibility is an interesting thing. And super important in the cloud infrastructure space where people opine on the ability for customers to “swap out” one IaaS provider for another. Fungibility is defined as the property of a good or…

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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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Metacloud Raises $10M for FullService OpenStack

June 26, 2013

Business

cloud computing, Metacloud, Open source, OpenStack, rackspace, Ticketmaster, VMware, yahoo

The cloud service provider announcements are coming thick and fast and today it’s the turn of OpenStack SP Metacloud to join the fray. Metacloud deploys and, more importantly, supports OpenStack based clouds. The product is delivered as a service…

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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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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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Cloudscaling Scores $10M Series B and Some High Profile Customer

May 22, 2013

Business

Cloudscaling, Dell, hewlett packard, LivingSocial, OpenStack, rackspace, Trinity Ventures, Virtual Network Computing

Cloudscaling is this morning announcing that it has secured $10M by way of a Series B venture round. This news comes at a super interesting time when public cloud provision is being heavily squeezed into just a handful of…

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The Nasty Truth Around Public Cloud Ecosystems

May 6, 2013

Business

cloud computing, google, Google Reader, Mongolia, OfficeDrop, rackspace, ReadWrite, Xeround

Recently there have been a few high-profile examples of small cloud providers turning off support for one or another public clouds. First came AppFog who made the mysterious decision to cut off all support for their PaaS running on…

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HybridCluster Launches – Scaling and Self-Healing for Web Hosts

May 1, 2013

Business

data center, High availability, HybridCluster, IBM, rackspace, Servers, SQL, VMware, Web hosting service

Last year while talking with Jason Seats, former VP of Engineering at Rackspace and more recently MD of TechStars Cloud, we started talking about existing data centers and what their needs were as they aim to compete with the…

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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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On OpenStack and the AWS API – Internal Divisions Surface

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

Cloudscaling Scores $10M Series B and Some High Profile Customer

HybridCluster Launches – Scaling and Self-Healing for Web Hosts

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