While I try to not abuse this blog as a platform to toot my own horn, please allow me to break my own rule today :-). This is a guest post from my alter-ego, the entrepreneur. Many readers have asked me about the diminishing volume of posts here on the blog. Where, they ask, have [...]
We break from our regular programming for a guest post. The naming of cloud startups has always befuddled me. To chime in with some opinion on this delicate topic here’s Lucy Schiller of A Hundred Monkeys, a naming firm in San Francisco. So let’s say you need a name for your up and coming cloud [...]
This month’s update to our survey of cloud providers is brief but brings excitement in the race for the top spot. Let’s get to it. Snapshot for January 2011 In this month’s update, following some refreshed IP block info integrated into the survey, Rackspace’s numbers look better than ever – they can be proud to [...]
It’s been over a year since my original Anatomy of an EC2 Resource ID post. In what became my little claim to fame in the industry, I uncovered the pattern behind those cryptic IDs AWS assigns to every object allocated (such as an instance, EBS volume, etc.). The discovery revealed that underlying the IDs is a [...]
After a short hiatus, State of the Cloud is back with a brand new update. Starting from this report, updates will be published every two months. Methodology State of the Cloud is an on-going survey of the market penetration of cloud computing. Specifically, the survey tracks publicly facing websites (i.e., www.something.com) and does not look into [...]
In case you’ve been wondering about the radio silence, worry not. Due to some (positive) developments at my own venture the time left for blogging has greatly diminished; as a result I’ve decided to switch to bi-monthly updates. However – I’d like to open up the floor to contributions from others in the cloud computing [...]
Summer’s over, September’s here, and that means it’s time for another monthly installment of the State of the Cloud report. Snapshot for September 2010 Here are the results for this month. This month Amazon regains the edge lost last month with solid 8% growth since August. However, this month Rackspace takes a hit, losing over [...]
Welcome to the one-year anniversary of State of the Cloud! It’s been an exciting year for the cloud computing industry, which is maturing from a fledgling phenomenon into a massive shakeup of IT. While we haven’t quite crossed the chasm, we’re definitely looking across it and preparing for the leap into the mainstream. In State [...]
After a brief intermission, we’re back this month with an action-packed State of the Cloud report. In this month’s analysis of the top cloud providers we’ll be debuting a newcomer into the charts which makes quite an entrance. We’ll also run the analysis with an alternative data set and see if it confirms or refutes [...]
We interrupt our regular programming for the following update. Unfortunately, this month we have no regular post in the State of the Cloud series. Quantcast‘s Top 1M Site list, which is the input data set used by the research, is broken. Instead of 1 million sites, the list contains only 78,000. Clearly, this makes it [...]
