This month’s update to our survey of cloud providers is brief but brings excitement in the race for the top spot. Let’s get to it. Snapshot for January 2011 In this month’s update, following some refreshed IP block info integrated into the survey, Rackspace’s numbers look better than ever – they can be proud to [...]

After a short hiatus, State of the Cloud is back with a brand new update. Starting from this report, updates will be published every two months. Methodology State of the Cloud is an on-going survey of the market penetration of cloud computing. Specifically, the survey tracks publicly facing websites (i.e., www.something.com) and does not look into [...]

Summer’s over, September’s here, and that means it’s time for another monthly installment of the State of the Cloud report. Snapshot for September 2010 Here are the results for this month. This month Amazon regains the edge lost last month with solid 8% growth since August. However, this month Rackspace takes a hit, losing over [...]

Welcome to the one-year anniversary of State of the Cloud! It’s been an exciting year for the cloud computing industry, which is maturing from a fledgling phenomenon into a massive shakeup of IT. While we haven’t quite crossed the chasm, we’re definitely looking across it and preparing for the leap into the mainstream. In State [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 – [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]