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Cloud Futures Pt. 3: Focused Clouds

If you can’t be ‘best‘ or ‘cheapest‘, that only leaves being ‘first’ (see Pt. 1: Service Clouds and Pt. 2: Commodity Clouds).  Since Amazon Web Services (AWS) clinched the ‘first’ and ‘best’ titles for the general marketplace, your best bet is to pick a subset of the market to focus on.  Focused clouds find a sweet [...]

Cloud Futures Pt. 2: Commodity Clouds

Ever wonder where the other big guys are in the cloud computing space?  If Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are general purpose service clouds set to dominate as ecosystem plays, then what about those big companies that can’t deliver an ecosystem, but have the size to play ball?  (See Pt. 1: Service Clouds).  The answer is [...]

Cloud Futures Pt. 1: Service Clouds

With cloud computing rapidly accelerating it can be hard to see the road ahead.  I hope to help with this in my own way through this short four part series where I’ll outline how I think this is all going to play out.  It’s clear that the marketplace will continue to become increasingly competitive and [...]

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