I’ve made the argument on numerous occasions that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is essentially the quintessential cloud computing offering, particular for infrastructure.  To boil down my argument again, it’s essentially: Cloud computing is an entirely new model for IT This model displaces ‘enterprise computing’ (or ‘client/server’) just as that model...

Randy Bias gave an on-camera interview to Steve Levine of TheCloudist TV at Cloud Expo in Santa Clara last week. Known for calling it like he sees it, Randy covers a lot of ground in just a few minutes: “Cloud management” is a term that confuses the market. Smart cloud...

I had meant to put more content together around these numbers, but due to time constraints I won’t be able to.  Regardless, the picture speaks for itself.  Here’s my AMZN ‘Other’ revenue numbers with the blue bar representing my estimates of AWS revenue with the green bar representing the rest...

After the NIST presentation I gave last week in Washington, D.C., there were a large number of requests for the presentation itself.  Rather than reply to all of the individual requests, I thought I would direct folks to the NIST presentation while also providing a quick roundup of key talks...

I just returned from the Open Compute Project (OCP) Summit in NYC. It was an eye opening experience. I thought I would share my take aways plus talk about what I perceive as a core issue: can the Open Compute Project (OCP) grow beyond Facebook? By that, I mean there...

We can all see it Amazon’s continued growth. The ‘Other’ line in their revenue reports is now the #1 area of growth for Amazon, even above consumer electronics. Their latest 10-Q reported 87% year-over-year growth, well over their consumer electronics business. Per predictions from myself, UBS, and others, AWS is staying...

I’ve talked about this idea many times and it’s been picked up and echoed by many in the mainstream media.  The idea is this: Cloud computing is a new paradigm for IT that displaces the current dominant paradigm, enterprise computing.  This is in the same way that enterprise computing (or...

When you don’t hear from a well known blog and startup for a long while you have to wonder what’s up.  Usually this means one of two things: the blog/startup is folding OR the folks behind it are really busy, usually with factors related to success Well, Cloudscaling isn’t folding...

Co-Founder and CTO Randy Bias is in Dublin telling the world’s largest telcos that web-scale cloud is the only way to be successful in the cloud Carriers have a huge opportunity in the cloud, but only if they embrace the disruption of web-scale cloud and adopt a two-cloud strategy in...

I recently did a podcast interview with Michael Coté of Redmonk. We’ve posted a PDF transcript on our website. It’s a lengthy conversation, so we thought we’d post a text version here, with key comments underlined and bolded. It’s an hour long interview, but with a lot of high quality...