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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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! [...]

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 [...]