AWS Feature Releases, Enterprise Clouds, and Legacy App Adoption

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Randy Bias

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 →

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Bifurcating Clouds

Posted on August 6, 2009 by Randy Bias

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], … Continue reading →

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The ‘Cloud’ Is NOT Outsourcing

Posted on July 30, 2009 by Randy Bias

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, … Continue reading →

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Private Clouds Matter

Posted on June 4, 2009 by Randy Bias

Some folks think that there is no such thing as a ‘private’ cloud.  By definition all clouds are public.  Unfortunately, some times the confusion is around whether a cloud exists internally or externally rather than if it’s public or private. … Continue reading →

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