I’ve written a guest post at Royal Pingdom discussing why Gmail’s recent failure should not be labeled as a wider, fundamental problem with cloud computing. If you’re a hospital, a government facility (or even a datacenter) – do you rely only on the power grid? Of course not, you get yourself some backup generators – [...]

Cloud infrastructures are complicated beasts, be it the machinery behind public clouds or the equipment big companies can buy to power their own private cloud. The large vendors are throwing their hats in the ring – but is all the technology ready? The odds are that no, the gaps are still wide open and the [...]

New technique enables observation of EC2 usage, uncovers stunning data Each time you allocate a resource using EC2 – an instance, a volume or a snapshot – you receive a unique identifier. This is the EC2 resource ID. Have you ever wondered what this ID represents? Well, I did. After noticing similarities between the IDs [...]

Two months ago I began my quest to find out just how much use cloud computing infrastructures are seeing. With today’s third State of the Cloud, the trends are starting to emerge from the data. Please refer to the first post in the series for methodology, data sets and caveats. To avoid confusion, the analysis [...]