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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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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. 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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