Posts Tagged ‘Amazon’
How much money do cloud providers make?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: May 27, 2011
- In: Market
- 3 Comments
Don’s recent attempt to look at financials of 10 publicly traded “cloud” companies got me willing to expand his research to a bigger picture. After all, limiting the scope to 100% cloud companies really skews the charts to “Salesforce.com and everyone else” leaving such cloud juggernauts as Amazon and Google out of the picture. As [...]
Self-hosting vs Cloud-hosting costs
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: December 22, 2010
- In: Technology
- 4 Comments
Is there hard ROI to use a cloud IaaS instead of a server in your garage/basement/on-premise datacenter? I think there increasingly is and justifying self-hosting is getting increasingly tough. I would actually go as far as posit that you can now get a server in a public datacenter at price comparable to your electricity bill alone! If [...]
Cloud Computing in 2009: IaaS & PaaS
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 1, 2009
- In: Platforms | Predictions
- 5 Comments
Here’s my attempt to put together the list of things I expect to happen to Cloud Computing in 2009 – kind of natural thing to do the fist day of the year, right? Overall, this is going to be a year when cloud computing will start rapidly maturing with competition heating up on the infrastructure/platform [...]
Microsoft so open on datacenters
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: December 10, 2008
Seems that Microsoft is suddenly surprisingly extremely open on how they design and run their datacenters. Not only we have a write up by Michael Manos on their Generation 4 datacenter architecture (and a great concept video), but even more surprisingly James Hamilton is giving us a spreadsheet of their datacenter expense structure! Can you [...]
Who will be a Red Hat for Eucalyptus?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: December 1, 2008
Is someone going to step in and provide commercial support for the Eucalyptus open-source project basically following the Red Hat model which made Linux commercially successful and generated good revenue for Red Hat? Here’s what I am thinking based on what I saw and heard at the Cloud Computing Expo (see my notes here): We [...]
Cloud Computing Expo 2008 Summary
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 26, 2008
- In: Conferences
- 1 Comment
I have posted my notes from all the sessions I attended at the last week’s Cloud Computing Expo 2008 on: Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 (By the way, I have just updated all three posts and added links to the session slides!) Now it is time to share a few general comments on the [...]
Cloud Computing Expo – Day 3
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 24, 2008
Here are my notes from the third day of SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo (see also my notes from day 1 and day 2): Peter Nickolov – President & CTO of 3tera – gave a pitch on how their technology (AppLogic) lets customers use cloud computing for high-availability solutions. In a nutshell, Peter had an instance [...]
Cloud Computing Expo – Day 2
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 21, 2008
Here are my notes from the second day of SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo (Day 1 notes here): Day 2 started with a keynote by Amazon’s CTO – Dr. Werner Vogels. Werner is an amazing speaker, and his enthusiasm really gave a kick-start to the whole day. I would summarize his presentation as: “Yep, we invented [...]
Cloud Computing Expo – Day 1
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 20, 2008
This week I am at the moderately sunny and warm (can’t believe I was driving through a snow storm in Detroit just 3 days ago) San Jose at SYS-CON’s Cloud Computing Expo. I intent to blog from here all three days – so if you could not make it to the event you can at [...]
Microsoft Azure vs Amazon, Google, and VMware
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 29, 2008
- In: Amazon | Google | Microsoft | VMware
- 25 Comments
Now that we had a few days to look at Microsoft’s Windows Azure it is time to compare it with other alternatives on the market. For our comparison we picked solutions from the biggest players in the market and potential to impact the industry in that area: Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google App [...]
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