The Big Cloud Winners Are...Not Just the Hyperscale Players
It may come as a surprise, but the big winners in the infrastructure-as-a-service space aren’t just the hyperscale players. Those providers – including AWS, Microsoft, and Google – do receive a lot of...
View ArticleIs It Really 'Game Over' for Most IaaS Providers?
While there are plenty of witless headlines about cloud computing, I’ve noticed many lately that claim the competitive race for public IaaS has already been run and the winners decided. It’s little...
View ArticleHP to Acquire Eucalyptus: Questions, Comments and Concerns
HP stirred up plenty of discussion late last week by announcing its plans to acquire Eucalyptus, a company that sells open source software for building and managing private clouds. The announcement...
View ArticleOnApp Federation Grows Stronger with SolusVM Acquisition
On September 16th, 2014 OnApp announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SolusVM, a virtual server management system used by thousands of service providers. Prior to the...
View ArticleThe Problem with Forced Cloud Reboots
On September 24th, 2014, Amazon Web Services began notifying customers of a mandatory update that would require roughly 10% of EC2 instances globally to reboot. The maintenance window was scheduled...
View ArticleColocation: The New Center of Hybrid IT
HybridThe term “hybrid” has been used for a long time in IT. Consider “hybrid server environments.” People used to say they had a hybrid server environment when they used a mix of x86 and RISC servers....
View ArticleGood News for Cloud Job Seekers in 2015
The future is bright for skilled cloud experts, according to a recent article from Forbes contributor, Louis Columbus. By compiling data from WANTED Analytics – a leading provider of data analytics on...
View ArticleChanging Competitive Dynamics for IaaS Providers
The Basic Reseller Model Reselling has been part of the hosting industry for a long time. It offers a relatively easy way for new market entrants to begin selling hosting services without needing...
View ArticleCompliance Drives Buying Decisions in the Cloud
Compliance is important to cloud adopters and remains a barrier to entry for some large enterprises and government agencies. Without assurance that services will meet the right standards, many adopters...
View ArticleRevisiting the Benefits of SaaS
I’ve recently spent some time with Verismic Software (see www.cloudmanagementsuite.com), a company that develops cloud-based IT management technology. As I looked at the value proposition and benefits...
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