A recent interview I did with Alex Bewley of Uptime Software is finally available. Although the podcast is nominally about cloud computing for mid-tier enterprises, we actually cover much broader ground. Alex’s blog posting lists the core topics as:
what kinds of businesses are using cloud
how you should go about evaluating it
how to avoid being outsourced [...]
James Hamilton’s presentation at Mix 10 illuminated cloud computing economics that few others have direct experience with, but I also believe that this presentation raises interesting questions that didn’t get addressed. (If you haven’t seen James Hamilton’s Mix10 presentation, go watch it now. You should probably also go through Randy’s follow up, and then watch James talk again… [...]
James Hamilton’s recent MIX’10 presentation on economies of scale for large cloud providers was quite impressive. James “gets it” like few others in the industry. If you haven’t watched his hour-long presentation, I suggest you do. I also recommend this excellent response from James Urquhart. My goal in this posting is [...]
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We’re hiring the devops dream team. Cloudscalers have built major IaaS, PaaS and SaaS systems. We need Senior Developers and [...]
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Once upon a time, a network engineer scrawled an amorphous shape upon a whiteboard and wrote “Internet” thereon. The amorphous circle, a ‘cloud’, soon became the de facto way that we represent “not my problem”, or outsourcing. Hence, the “cloud” in cloud computing means that cloud is predominantly an outsourcing business model. Only large scale [...]