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 [...]
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 of [...]
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 will focus [...]
The cloud was abuzz this week with Amazon’s announcement of their Virtual Private Cloud offering. Will this enterprise-oriented offering finally persuade the skeptics? I think not.
To a very high degree, much of this new service offers functionality that was already doable. Extending your network into the cloud with a VPN and securing your instances from [...]
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In this month’s report – EC2 grows by 9%; Rackspace makes an impact
Last month we launched our series of reports on usage of cloud computing infrastructures. Today we’ll follow up to see what has changed in the month that passed. We’re also delighted to expand our coverage into additional providers, providing a wider perspective of [...]
I’ve been talking recently to quite a few companies who decided to take the plunge and move their services into the cloud. Some were just starting while others had plenty of mileage under their belts. A major question posed to these companies was, why did you switch to the cloud?
Here’s what I found.
1. Economy
The most [...]
With the explosion of cloud computing infrastructures, it remains unclear how many organizations and businesses are actually taking advantage of this new platform. I’ve been asking (as well as asked) that question regularly. The large providers aren’t going out of their way to satisfy the thirst of industry analysts and market researchers alike – so [...]
