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State of the Cloud – July 2010

Jul 1, 2010

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 [...]

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Save the State of the Cloud!

Jun 2, 2010

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 difficult [...]

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State of the Cloud – May 2010

May 3, 2010

A new month, a new State of the Cloud post! In this month’s post we’ll revisit the relative sizes of the top providers and see just how much of the cloud market the biggest players own.
But first, this month’s figures -

Looking at this month’s trends, we find a relatively slow month for the cloud. Overall [...]

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State of the Cloud – April 2010

Apr 9, 2010

Welcome to update #10 in the regular State of the Cloud series. This month we’ll continue to examine how many of the world’s top websites are using cloud providers.

Many of the smaller providers have had a weak month, some even showing up less this month in the sample than they did previously. Only Amazon and [...]

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Presentation at CloudConnect

Apr 2, 2010

A couple of weeks ago I gave a keynote talk at CloudConnect to share some of the findings that I’ve been publishing here on the blog. CloudConnect turned out to be a great event which really brought together many people from the cloud community – this is a good opportunity to congratulate and thank the [...]

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State of the Cloud – March 2010

Mar 4, 2010

Welcome to this month’s update on adoption of cloud providers by public-facing websites. For details on how this is calculated, please see the first post in the series. This month we’ll take a step back and try to appreciate the overall size of the cloud as a whole. But first, to the regular numbers -
Snapshot [...]

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CloudTV Episode

Feb 27, 2010

Last Tuesday I joined John Rowell for a chat about cloud trends. Below is the recording of the show.

Like many in the cloud community, these days I am gearing up for CloudConnect in Santa Clara next month. If you’re going to be there, be sure to catch me and say hi. Don’t miss my appearance [...]

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Upcoming CloudTV Appearance

Feb 11, 2010

Next Tuesday I’ll be joining John Rowell, OpSource co-founder and CTO, for the second episode of The Real Cloud. In the spirit of this blog, we’ll be chatting about cloud adoption trends and calling out the real numbers behind the hype.
Be sure to come and watch, as well as to post your questions during the [...]

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Revisiting EC2 Instance IDs

Feb 4, 2010

Back in September, I published the Anatomy of an EC2 Resource ID where I pointed out some curious patterns in EC2’s ID scheme and proposed a method of “decoding” these patterns to reveal an underlying serial number. In that post I was careful to write that “while the patterns are indisputable, there remain unknowns and [...]

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State of the Cloud – February 2010

Feb 2, 2010

Welcome to the eighth update for the State of the Cloud series. In case you are just joining – this monthly report measures the adoption of leading cloud providers amongst public-facing websites. The data set is based on the top 500,000 sites as measured by QuantCast. As always I’d like to point out the caveats [...]

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