Tag Archives: aws
What can CIOs learn from Shadow IT?
(Check out Matt Asay’s piece in Read Write Cloud on shadow IT, referencing this post.)(Register now for our March 7, 2013 webinar on shadow IT.)There’s been a lot of discussion in the past few years on the issue of shadow … Continue reading
Looking back, looking ahead: 200th Linthicum podcast
Bloggers who consistently provide clarity, useful information and opinions backed by knowledge can be hard to find in the cloud space. One who consistently delivers is Dave Linthicum. When he’s not writing for InfoWorld or blogging, he’s CTO of Blue … Continue reading
Cloud Computing Came to a Head in 2011
Happy New Year! I hope you are all having a fantastic holiday. This is a year end posting that I think you will find particularly compelling. Rather than predicting the future I thought I would take a look back at … Continue reading
Three Lessons from AWS Rolling Reboots
Three takeaways from the AWS rolling reboot of EC2 instances: Architecting apps to be cloud-ready is key Architecting massive-scale clouds to handle massive-scale updates is critical to a successful security strategy; see #1 AWS again shows that the web scale … Continue reading
CloudBeat 2011: Uncomfortable Choices on the Road to Cloud Computing
Building a cloud that works like AWS or Google involves a complete rethink of just about every concept considered canonical in enterprise IT for the past 20 years. This is the message Randy Bias and Lew Tucker (Vice President and … Continue reading
Two Disruptions for the Price of One
We stand at the beginning of a Cambrian explosion of new business models, driven by the colliding disruptions of cloud computing and mobile ecosystems. A conversation last week between Randy Bias and mobile analyst/Asymco founder Horace Dediu maps out how … Continue reading
Carriers Catching on to Commodity Cloud: David Bernstein Talks With Ian Scales
Cloudscaling’s David Bernstein spent some time earlier this week with Ian Scales of Telecom TV while in London to speak at an IEEE event. In the short segment, David and Ian explore the five key points that carriers and large … Continue reading
Podcast w/ Blue Mountain Labs & Cloudscaling
Great podcast this morning with David Linthicum and Bill Russell of Blue Mountain Labs. Dave kept it lively and fast-paced as usual, so it won’t take you long to listen. We covered: The recent AWS outage Why you need two … Continue reading
AWS Dedicated Instances, Hypervisor Security, and Multi-tenancy
Most everyone in the blog ecosystem has missed both the point and some of the economics of AWS Dedicated Instances that were recently announced. Folks like The Register focus on how a single virtual instance can cost $109,324 for a year … Continue reading
AWS Feature Releases, Enterprise Clouds, and Legacy App Adoption
A couple of weeks ago I posted about Amazon’s continued rapid release cycle and tallied up their releases by year. I think it’s even more interesting to look at where these feature releases are happening by service. The stacked graph … Continue reading
