Tag Archives: enterprise

VMware vs. Amazon … ROUND ONE … FIGHT!

September 15, 2009 – 08:00

More and more it’s becoming apparent that VMware and Amazon are headed for a serious collision.  Amazon is eager to capture more of the enterprise business market, VMware’s bread and butter.  Meanwhile, VMware is actively supporting a new crop of Amazon competitors with its recent vCloud Express release.  More importantly, what perhaps neither have realized or, [...]

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The Infrastructure 2.1 Newsletter

August 10, 2009 – 08:00

There are many sources that feed my insatiable need for cloud computing and infrastructure news.  One of these that I have been following for a while I wanted to share with my readers.  It’s the Infrastructure 2.1 Newsletter from the Internet Research Group (IRG) and you can sign up here.  I’ve been following John Katsaros [...]

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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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Up, Out, Centralized, and Decentralized

July 28, 2009 – 08:30

It can be confusing to understand how to scale computing systems, but it’s not rocket science.  There are really only two main axes of scale: out and up.  Closely related to the axis of scale is the general type of architecture: centralized or decentralized.  In this article I’m going to briefly revisit scaling and then [...]

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