Tag Archives: cloud futures series
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
Cloud Futures Pt. 4: The Culling
Like the advent of the commercial Internet before it, cloud computing is likely to have a similar ‘bust’. In parts 1 (Service Clouds), 2 (Commodity Clouds), and 3 (Focused Clouds), I covered the types of clouds most likely to survive. … Continue reading
Cloud Futures Pt. 3: Focused Clouds
If you can’t be ‘best‘ or ‘cheapest‘, that only leaves being ‘first’ (see Pt. 1: Service Clouds and Pt. 2: Commodity Clouds). Since Amazon Web Services (AWS) clinched the ‘first’ and ‘best’ titles for the general marketplace, your best bet is … Continue reading
Cloud Futures Pt. 2: Commodity Clouds
Ever wonder where the other big guys are in the cloud computing space? If Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are general purpose service clouds set to dominate as ecosystem plays, then what about those big companies that can’t deliver an ecosystem, … Continue reading
Cloud Futures Pt. 1: Service Clouds
With cloud computing rapidly accelerating it can be hard to see the road ahead. I hope to help with this in my own way through this short four part series where I’ll outline how I think this is all going … Continue reading
