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| Counting the Cloud | |
| by Guy Rosen | |
| Indeed, cloud computing has spawned lots of talk bordering on hype (or is it the other way around?). Not to mention, it seems like just about everyone is re-positioning their products to somehow include cloud in their brands. But where are the hard, real numbers? | |
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| Video: Hacking Cloud Computing Adoption | |
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March 31 2010
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The CO-Founder and CEO of Vicardo, creators of a breakthrough proxy-as-a-service platform, gives a keynote at the Cloud Connect Conference. |
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| Cloudbook Video: The Real Cloud - Episode 2: Counting the Cloud – February 2010 | |
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February 22 2010
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| Contributors: Guy Rosen & John Rowell | |
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In the second episode of "The Real Cloud" John Rowell discusses Cloud Computing measurement practices and trends with Guy Rosen, the Co-Founder & CEO of Vircado. |
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| Article: Revisiting EC2 Instance IDs | |
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February 12 2010
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Updates related to the significance of internal Amazon EC2 resource IDs, and the statistics we can infer from them. |
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| Report: State of the Cloud - February 2010 | |
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February 12 2010
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Monthly rundown of cloud computing providers. |
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| Report: State of the Cloud - January 2010 | |
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January 22 2010
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Monthly rundown of cloud computing providers. |
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| Presentation: Measuring the Clouds | |
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October 22 2009
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An overview of cloud-measurement activities and discoveries. |
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| Article: Anatomy of an EC2 Resource ID | |
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September 25 2009
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Breakthrough research uncovering stunning usage figures based on supposedly meaningless numbers returned by Amazon Web Services. |
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| Jack of all Clouds :: Guy Rosen on Cloud Computing Cloud Computing analysis and commentary from Guy Rosen |
| February 21 2011 |
| While I try to not abuse this blog as a platform to toot my own horn, please allow me to break my own rule today :-). This is a guest post from my alter-ego, the entrepreneur. Many readers have asked me about the diminishing volume of posts here on the blog. Where, they ask, have [...] ... read more >> |
| February 01 2011 |
| We break from our regular programming for a guest post. The naming of cloud startups has always befuddled me. To chime in with some opinion on this delicate topic here’s Lucy Schiller of A Hundred Monkeys, a naming firm in San Francisco. So let’s say you need a name for your up and coming cloud [...] ... read more >> |
| January 19 2011 |
| This month’s update to our survey of cloud providers is brief but brings excitement in the race for the top spot. Let’s get to it. Snapshot for January 2011 In this month’s update, following some refreshed IP block info integrated into the survey, Rackspace’s numbers look better than ever – they can be proud to [...] ... read more >> |
| December 29 2010 |
| It’s been over a year since my original Anatomy of an EC2 Resource ID post. In what became my little claim to fame in the industry, I uncovered the pattern behind those cryptic IDs AWS assigns to every object allocated (such as an instance, EBS volume, etc.). The discovery revealed that underlying the IDs is a [...] ... read more >> |
| November 03 2010 |
| After a short hiatus, State of the Cloud is back with a brand new update. Starting from this report, updates will be published every two months. Methodology State of the Cloud is an on-going survey of the market penetration of cloud computing. Specifically, the survey tracks publicly facing websites (i.e., www.something.com) and does not look into [...] ... read more >> |
| October 27 2010 |
| In case you’ve been wondering about the radio silence, worry not. Due to some (positive) developments at my own venture the time left for blogging has greatly diminished; as a result I’ve decided to switch to bi-monthly updates. However - I’d like to open up the floor to contributions from others in the cloud computing [...] ... read more >> |
| September 09 2010 |
| Summer’s over, September’s here, and that means it’s time for another monthly installment of the State of the Cloud report. Snapshot for September 2010 Here are the results for this month. This month Amazon regains the edge lost last month with solid 8% growth since August. However, this month Rackspace takes a hit, losing over [...] ... read more >> |
| August 06 2010 |
| Welcome to the one-year anniversary of State of the Cloud! It’s been an exciting year for the cloud computing industry, which is maturing from a fledgling phenomenon into a massive shakeup of IT. While we haven’t quite crossed the chasm, we’re definitely looking across it and preparing for the leap into the mainstream. In State [...] ... read more >> |
| July 01 2010 |
| After a brief intermission, we’re back this month with an action-packed State of the Cloud report. In this month’s analysis of the top cloud providers we’ll be debuting a newcomer into the charts which makes quite an entrance. We’ll also run the analysis with an alternative data set and see if it confirms or refutes [...] ... read more >> |