Blog Archives

The Value Lies Further Up the Stack – Business bricks as a Service

August 12, 2013

Business

AWS, cloud computing, John Engates, Jonathan Murray, Platform as a service, Savvis, Software as a Service, Warner Music Group

In The other day Twitter was all a flutter with news that AWS had, once again, slashed its EC2 pricing. Regardless of the veracity of the actual percentage reduction – and Rackspace CTO John Engates in particular came out…

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Buzzword overload from FatFractal – But a Telling Glimpse of the Future of PaaS

July 11, 2013

Business

cloud, cloud computing, DevOps, Donnie Berkholz, google app engine, Platform as a service, RedMonk, Savvis

Warning – If you’re the sort of person who chokes on industry buzzwords, then the press release I just got from FatFractal (a pretty cool name for a company) will make you gag. Here’s the headline: FatFractal announces ‘Cloud-in-a-Box’…

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Speaking in Tech Podcast

April 29, 2013

Business

cloud computing, CloudConnect, google app engine, hewlett packard, Margaret Dawson, platform services, San Francisco Bay Area, Savvis

While I was in the Bay Area recently for Cloud Connect, I took the opportunity to spend half an hour or so recording a podcast with Ed Saipetch from Savvis and Margaret Dawson, newly appointed VP of Marketing and…

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Layer 7 and Cloud Redundancy Through Brokerage

April 28, 2011

Business

amazon web services, Application Layer, Application programming interface, cloud computing, Cloud Foundry, Layer7, OpenStack, Savvis, VMware

After the recent AWS outage – much attention has been given to the need for cloud users to create redundancies across zones, data centers, regions and even providers. All of which sounds fine in theory, but gets a little…

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Blog Archives

The Value Lies Further Up the Stack – Business bricks as a Service

Buzzword overload from FatFractal – But a Telling Glimpse of the Future of PaaS

Speaking in Tech Podcast

Layer 7 and Cloud Redundancy Through Brokerage