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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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Infrastructure-as-a-Service Builder’s Guide v1.0

December 17, 2009 – 08:00

Just in time for the New Year, we’re releasing a short 12 page whitepaper on building Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds.  This whitepaper is targeted at folks building public or private clouds who want to understand our general take on clouds, cloud computing, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service.  In particular, we highlight some of the important areas to think about [...]

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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 ‘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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