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In the Quest for TCO, We Lose Sight of the Real Issue–Part One
In the last little while I’ve seen a couple of posts that focus on the difficulties around calculating total cost of ownership of cloud versus on-premise infrastructure. First up on TechCrunch was a...
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Re:Invent Announcements–Boundary Introduces Pre-Emptive Monitoring
This week marks the first Amazon Web Services user conference. The AWS event, re:Invent, is being held in Las Vegas and given the massive awareness that AWS and its ecosystem has, we should see lots of...
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HP Discover Europe and the Viability of HP’s Cloud Play
I’m heading to Europe for HP’s Discover event and the conference has me thinking about the last Discover event I attended in Las Vegas earlier his year and HP’s awful few weeks around the Autonomy...
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AWS, Redshift and Co-Opetition
Long time technology commentators understand the tensions between platform companies, intent on both growing their business and creating a healthy ecosystem, and ecosystem partners who leverage what...
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Cloud and Flexibility, Is It a Technology Problem or a Business One?
The rise of Infrastructure as a Service got the world used to on demand, utility services that correlate perfectly with an organization’s particular demand profile Indeed one of the key value...
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Rackspace Taps Third party Service Providers to Build Out International Presence
Rackspace (disclosure – Rackspace supported the creation of the CloudU education program I formerly ran) is a little bit like the little engine that could. It’s continually fighting the perception...
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When Does Co-Opetition Flip to War? On Competing with AWS
Recently Chris Potter from Screenlight wrote a guest post on GigaOm looking at the growing trend of Amazon Web Services (AWS) introducing services that compete with its own customers. As Potter pointed...
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Cloud Infrastructure – It’s All About Granularity
A post from Barb Darrow over at GigaOm caught my eye this morning. In the post Barb suggests that we’ll see many more specific vertical clouds from AWS, akin to the GovCloud. As she wrote: Here’s one I...
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On OpenStack and the AWS API – Internal Divisions Surface
It’s OSCON week, and three years since OpenStack was officially launched – in that time it’s built a vibrant ecosystem, real world customers and more debate than anyone would have ever imagined. There...
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Price, Performance or Both? ProfitBricks Extends the Conversation
Cloud computing price drops make easy reporting – they happen regularly and have an attractive way of framing the IaaS market as a battle royal between a few different players. They’re also easy for...
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