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How Clouds Enable Global Reach

December 19, 2009 – 12:46

Over a year and a half ago, I mentioned that there were four key aspects to cloud computing: scalability, leverage, speed, and reach.  All of these still hold true today.  In particular, the one area that was underdeveloped was the notion of using clouds for global reach.
As you know, since then quite a bit has [...]

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More on Amazon’s SAS70 Type II

November 20, 2009 – 18:59

Amazon hasn’t been forthcoming since my last post on their control and control objectives, which is disappointing, but expected.  I still believe that transparency here is more important than security through obscurity.  Hiding the controls and control objectives doesn’t provide much in the way of particular security benefits, although I’m certain some will argue that [...]

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Why is Amazon’s SAS70 Audit Bogus?

November 16, 2009 – 07:39

At first glance it seems like Amazon’s recent announcement of a successful SAS70 audit is grounds for celebration[1]. Certainly it has met with fanfare on Twitter and blogs.
Unfortunately, a SAS70 audit isn’t what most people think it is. Worse yet, Amazon’s reluctance to provide details of the audit provides a false sense of security [...]

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On Second Thought…How Big Is AWS Really?

October 27, 2009 – 11:11

We are trying something new at Cloudscaling and inviting a few of the more interesting cloud computing bloggers to provide some alternative viewpoints.  We thought we would start with Andy Schroepfer. His additional analysis of AWS revenue is thoughtful and worth consideration.  –Randy Bias, Founder and Cloud Strategist, Cloudscaling
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Amazon’s EC2 Generating 220M+ Annually

October 1, 2009 – 08:00

Today I’m going to tell you how much revenue Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is generating. After all, you, my regular readers, come to this blog for its insight, original thinking, and gems of wisdom. Today I have something particularly juicy for you: real-world numbers on Amazon’s EC2 size and revenue.
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