A new year, a new decade… and also a new month. What a better way to welcome the new year than our regular report on the cloud computing industry. Will 2010 be the year of the cloud? Many are expecting a major shift of the traditional hosting industry, large and small, into the cloud space [...]

Two weeks ago, Amazon announced the launch of a new N. California region, us-west-1. This is now the third region in Amazon’s portfolio, following the N. Virginia-based us-east-1 region and the Ireland-based eu-west-1. I got curious to see how fast the new region was being adopted. Luckily, with the Anatomy of an Amazon EC2 Resource [...]

We’ve seen Amazon EC2’s usage. We’ve also seen GoGrid’s usage. In this post, we’ll take a peek at how many servers are being spun up by users of Rackspace Cloud Servers. In the State of the Cloud series Rackspace seems to be a close second to Amazon. Will the usage data provide confirmation of this? [...]

December is already upon us! Following a small delay due to the days spent at the IGT2009 cloud conference, here are this month’s statistics on cloud usage among the web’s top sites.  The first post in the series describes methodology, data sets and caveats.
Snapshot for December 2009

Little seems to change in this chart from month [...]

In previous posts, we’ve gone to great lengths to make educated guesses regarding Amazon EC2 usage. Amazon, however, are not alone in the cloud space. It makes sense that we do the same for other providers to get an idea of their comparative levels of usage.
In today’s post, we’ll be discussing such an analysis of [...]

It’s that time of month again, which means a new State of the Cloud post is upon us! For new readers, State of the Cloud is a regular report on the adoption of cloud infrastructures, comparing the share held by each provider. The first post in the series describes methodology, data sets and caveats.
Old or [...]

Following up on the cloud research I’ve been conducting and publishing here, yesterday I presented the topic at an IGT workshop. There was a lot of great discussion on the findings as well as ideas for new angles and fresh approaches to looking at the data. Thanks to IGT’s Avner Algom for hosting the session!
I’ve [...]

My recent Anatomy of an Amazon EC2 Resource ID post and the usage statistics it implied caused quite a stir in the cloud computing community. It’s been an exciting couple of weeks to see the discussion taking place. Needless to say, Amazon continues to keep quiet on the real numbers. In the past weeks new [...]

With each new month comes a new State of the Cloud post. In case you have joined recently, State of the Cloud is a regular report on the adoption of cloud infrastructures, comparing the market share held by each provider. As always, please refer to the first post in the series for methodology, data sets [...]

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 – just [...]