July 1st, 2010 | by Guy Rosen | published in State of the Cloud
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 [...]
May 3rd, 2010 | by Guy Rosen | published in State of the Cloud
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 [...]
April 9th, 2010 | by Guy Rosen | published in State of the Cloud
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 [...]
March 4th, 2010 | by Guy Rosen | published in State of the Cloud
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 [...]
February 2nd, 2010 | by Guy Rosen | published in State of the Cloud
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 [...]
January 2nd, 2010 | by Guy Rosen | published in State of the Cloud
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 [...]
December 5th, 2009 | by Guy Rosen | published in State of the Cloud
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 [...]
November 2nd, 2009 | by Guy Rosen | published in State of the Cloud
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 [...]
October 3rd, 2009 | by Guy Rosen | published in State of the Cloud
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 [...]
September 2nd, 2009 | by Guy Rosen | published in State of the Cloud
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 [...]
