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“Hybrid” Clouds are Half-Baked

February 2, 2010 – 09:49

It’s difficult to throw a stone these days without hitting a so-called ‘hybrid cloud.’ The problem is that the term hybrid, used in this context, appears to mean: “Put any two kinds of clouds together.” In fact, that’s how NIST defines it in their cloud definition document [1]. The problem with this [...]

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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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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 “Open” Cloud is Coming

April 28, 2009 – 14:24

The rhetoric from open source pundits about the ‘closed’ cloud has already started.  From Richard Stallman to others there has been nay-saying related to the cloud being ultimately closed and proprietary.  This is a fundamentally misguided understanding.
Where ever you stand on ‘free markets’, there is no doubt that market forces play a major role in [...]

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Cloud Standardization Like Internet Standardization?

April 12, 2009 – 15:07

One of my favorite and very opinionated folks is Benjamin Black.  He just posted a presentation he gave last year that mirrors some of my earlier thoughts about the parallels between the advent and standardization of Internet+TCP/IP and Cloud Computing.
On a related note George Reese has a well thought out response to the earlier brouhaha around the [...]

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