Sony’s IP Disaster and Amazon’s Cloud Crash — Rough Times Ahead for Hosted Solutions and Data?
It’s been a challenging few weeks for those dependent on the cloud, despite the continued stratospheric valuations of some companies embracing virtual deployment and network business models. Even though we’re not as likely to be i…
Seven lessons to learn from Amazon’s outage
As of the latest update this afternoon on Amazon’s Service Health Dashboard, only a handful of customers are still waiting for their EBS and RDS instances to be restored after Thursday’s harrowing outage. But for everyone involved (not least Amazon’s own operations staff) it’s been a very long four days (see latest Techmeme discussion). What [...]
Red Hat the Master Packager: Open Source and the $1bn annual runrate company
A core research thesis for me is that the best packager in any tech wave wins, and wins big. The number one position in a market, with all the network dominance that implies, goes to the best packager, not the best inventor. Packaging is where you cross the chasm- where geek stuff goes mainstream. Tim [...]
Where’s the Amazon AWS App Store?
I was talking to the interesting folks over at DreamFactory the other day (courtesy of Phil Wainewright who introduced us, thanks Phil!), and we wound up on a fascinating topic of conversation. At a time when many companies are still not in the Cloud, DreamFactory is in 5 different clouds with as many as 8 different applications. [...]
Gartner: The Cloud is Not a Contract
There is a bit of a joust on between Gartner, GigaOm, and likely others over the recent Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure. The Internet loves a good fight! Gartner launched their magic quadrant with some fanfare on December 22. Immediately after the holidays, on January 4, GigaOm’s Derrick Harris threw down the gauntlet by [...]
Amazon Web Services: The De Facto Cloud API?
Read a couple of posts last week that coalesced some thoughts I’d been having into this one. First was the fascinating rumor about a Google EC2 clone. Hat tip to High Scalability Blog for putting me on to this one. The second was James Urquhart’s musings about the desirability of the Amazon API’s as a [...]
Linux and The Enterprise Cloud: A Canonical Gig
Earlier this week I was lucky enough to present to Canonical customers and prospects about what’s going on with the enterprise Cloud market. I was a little nervous because Simon Wardley was on the same agenda, and his cloud presentation is a masterpiece. Luckily he came after me though.
My basic thesis is that Amazon Web [...]
