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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Cloud Futures Pt. 3: Focused Clouds

Posted on June 15, 2009 by Randy Bias

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 →

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Cloud Futures Pt. 1: Service Clouds

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Randy Bias

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 →

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