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Bifurcating Clouds

August 6, 2009 – 08:30

There will soon be two major paths for cloud computing providers: commodity and premium.  If you read my series, Cloud Futures, you’ll know that I broke down cloud service providers into three major categories: service clouds, consumer clouds (previously ‘commodity’)[1], and focused clouds. In retrospect I realize now that there are possibly four, not [...]

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The ‘Cloud’ Is NOT Outsourcing

July 30, 2009 – 15:13

There was recently a small brouhaha on twitter regarding whether a ‘private’ or ‘internal’ cloud is really a ‘cloud’.  There was a very high level of chatter including a ton of the clouderati such as @jamesurquhart, @samcharrington, @boblozano, @jesserobbins, @ITKLcameron, @samj, and many more.  The argument of the folks who claim that internal clouds aren’t [...]

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Private Clouds Matter

June 4, 2009 – 09:00

Some folks think that there is no such thing as a ‘private’ cloud.  By definition all clouds are public.  Unfortunately, some times the confusion is around whether a cloud exists internally or externally rather than if it’s public or private.  Yet, even in the case where this confusion doesn’t exist, the notion of a private [...]

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