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How Clouds Enable Global Reach

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Randy Bias

Over a year and a half ago, I mentioned that there were four key aspects to cloud computing: scalability, leverage, speed, and reach.  All of these still hold true today.  In particular, the one area that was underdeveloped was the … Continue reading →

More on Amazon’s SAS70 Type II

Posted on November 20, 2009 by Randy Bias

Amazon hasn’t been forthcoming since my last post on their control and control objectives, which is disappointing, but expected.  I still believe that transparency here is more important than security through obscurity.  Hiding the controls and control objectives doesn’t provide … Continue reading →

On Second Thought…How Big Is AWS Really?

Posted on October 27, 2009 by Andy Schroepfer

We are trying something new at Cloudscaling and inviting a few of the more interesting cloud computing bloggers to provide some alternative viewpoints.  We thought we would start with Andy Schroepfer. His additional analysis of AWS revenue is thoughtful and … Continue reading →

Amazon’s EC2 Generating 220M+ Annually

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Randy Bias

Today I’m going to tell you how much revenue Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is generating. After all, you, my regular readers, come to this blog for its insight, original thinking, and gems of wisdom. Today I have something particularly … Continue reading →

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