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 [...]

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 [...]

Welcome to Jack of all Clouds! Whether you are a new reader or are joining us from the InfiBase blog, I hope you enjoy the new blog (and subscribe, of course!). In case you’re still making up your mind, here are five reasons to stick around: You can expect a steady pace that is easy [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]