Dmitry Sotnikov is trying to answer this question at his enterprise cloud blog. He doesn’t try to be comprehensive. It’s a lot easier to look at the sales of large public companies since they have to provide so much disclosure when they make capital investments. And of course, the big vendors have been sinking large [Read More →]
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Microsoft moving 1,600 USDA email accounts to the cloud every day
May 2, 2011 — GusThe federal government is well into its plan to move a significant percent of its IT onto cloud servers. The Washington Post has an update and it reports Microsoft is deep into the process of moving the Agriculture Department’s email system with 17,000 accounts moved already and over 100,000 scheduled to be moved before the [Read More →]
Amazon apologizes
April 29, 2011 — GusIf you take away someone’s livelihood for three or four days, it’s just good manners to apologize. And to show you really mean it, why not add 10 days worth of free service to show you really mean it. Well that’s what Amazon is doing. They’ve sent out a 5,000 word apology to customers in [Read More →]
Scaling Java apps within Amazon EC2 with Eucalyptus and Terracotta
February 10, 2010 — GusA partnership between Eucalyptus Systems and Terracotta should help developers scale their Java applications on the Amazon platform. Terracotta is a developer of tools for improving Java application performance. Its Ehcache FX provides a cache partition that will manage scaling of applications; it is designed specifically to improve Java appilcations ineraction with relationship databases. Eucalyptus [Read More →]
Azure emerges from beta, is a price war next?
February 3, 2010 — GusMicrosoft kept to its schedule and has promoted Windows Azure from its very long beta status to full-fledged paid product. And the first market reaction came almost immediately, as Amazon dropped prices. The timing could not have been more obvious. The same day that Amazon agreed to change pricing policies on Kindle eBooks in reaction [Read More →]
New page on cloud computing stocks
January 15, 2010 — GusIn recent months, a number of technology companies have seen their share prices rise on positive news about cloud computing initiatives. To keep up, I’ve compiled a list of publicly traded companies with a significant cloud business. I’m not going to include every company that has made a cloud announcement. If their new initiatives turn [Read More →]
U.S. Navy gives Amazon EC2 a thumbs up
December 15, 2009 — GusFrom this point on, any debate about the security of Amazon Web Services is sure to bring in a call to the military. The U.S. Navy is looking at cloud computing technologies as it develops its next generation Naval Networks Enterprise-2016 strategy and in the early tests, EC2 and S3 passed muster. Dataline, a consultant [Read More →]
Rackspace CEO says cloud computing is a game changer
November 16, 2009 — GusRackspace has been an especially hot company on Wall Street. In 2009, the stock is up over 200 percent. And when Rackspace revealed its quarterly financial results, it is clear why: while other companies have struggled to grow revenue, Rackspace grew its topline at an enviable 17 percent year-over-year. The company’s CEO is giving cloud [Read More →]
Amazon plugs MySQL into its cloud offerings
October 27, 2009 — GusAmazon officially launched RDS — Relational Data Services — as the latest item on the menu at Amazon Web Services. This offering can be seen as a step up from Simple DB which Amazon has been offering for hosted databases that needed little more than indexing and query tools. RDS provides a complete MySQL engine [Read More →]
Linux distribution will provide a direct path to public cloud platform
October 26, 2009 — GusCloud computing in the open source environment receives a boost later this week with the inclusion of direct support for a cloud platform within one of the most popular Linux distributions. Linux Ubuntu 9.10 will ship on Thursday with software from Eucalyptus, which runs a host platform compatible with Amazon’s EC2, S3 and EBS interfaces. [Read More →]