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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]