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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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State of the Cloud – Cloud Camp in the Clouds

October 23, 2009 – 18:17

I recently gave a short, 5-minute ‘lightning talk’ at Cloud Camp in the Clouds.  This is the first ‘virtual’ (online) event for the Cloud Camp folks.  I want to particularly thank the organizers Reuven Cohen, Dave Nielsen, and Sam Charrington for allowing me to give our perspective and also to let us tee up the entire event [...]

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Cloud Futures Pt. 3: Focused Clouds

June 15, 2009 – 09:15

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 [...]

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Cloud Futures Pt. 2: Commodity Clouds

June 5, 2009 – 09:30

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 [...]

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Cloud Futures Pt. 1: Service Clouds

June 2, 2009 – 10:00

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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