Amazon Outage: Is it a Story of a Conspiracy? – Chapter 2
In April 2011, when Amazon’s cloud s east region failed. I posted the first chapter of the Amazon Cloud Outage Conspiracy – it was already very clear that the cloud will fail again and here it is… Chapter 2 Let’s first try to understand Amazon’s explanation for this outage. At approximately 8:44PM PDT, there was [...]
Who Will Disrupt AWS?
Last week Amazon Web Services (previous CloudAve coverage) announced that they are lowering their support costs and also introducing a free plan. The AWS Support program just got even better! We have added features, lowered prices, and created a new free support plan that includes immediate access to customer service and technical support for AWS [...]
HP’s AWS Strategy
HP yesterday announced that they are releasing their public cloud in public beta. During the media blitz preceding the announcement, Zorowar Biri Singh SVP and GM for HP Cloud Services (disclosure: a friend of mine from before he joined HP) told Business Insider about how they plan to compete with AWS. He told them that [...]
AWS Launches a Marketplace–Proof that Much of the Value is Further Up the Stack
Summary – it’s a long post so here’s what you need to know. Amazon Web Services is moving up the stack. Existing ecosystem partners will benefit from that in the short term but it’s a risk for them long term. Other infrastructure vendors will surely follow suit. It’s game on! Now if you have the [...]
The Futility of Meaningless Business to Business Surveys
Some of you might know that I run my own company, and we have Amazon.com as an outlet for our awesome products. In 2011 we decided early on that we wanted to use Amazon-New-Detail-Page (Photo credit: kokogiak) FBA, Fulfillment By Amazon for our products that were top selling to help customers who were upset about [...]
Is India Becoming The Next Cloud Destination?
APAC was a hot destination for cloud vendors last year and the trend is continuing this year too. However, it appears India could turn out to be the next stop in their journey. Last year, Tata Communications used the now Citrix CloudStack to launch their public cloud offering in India. Theirs was the first public [...]
New Book on Cloud Computing
In case you have been wondering what has been keeping me busy, the InfoSec Institute out of Chicago has requested that I write down everything I know about Cloud Computing, and this is turning into an interesting project. As I am nearing my deadline, and finishing up the book on Advanced Cloud Computing for ISI, [...]
Why 99.9% of All Mobile Games are Not Profitable: The 6 Things Mobile Game Developers Must Do to Survive
Our minds are strongly biased towards causal explanations and they do not deal well with statistics. How else can you explain why mobile game developers continue to create games for an App Store market with 100,000 games already flooding it? Incredibly, there are 104 games per day that are being released into Apple’s App Store [...]
Zynga and Z-Cloud–A Corollary to the Public Cloud
At the Cloud Connect event in Santa Clara recently, Allan Leinwand, CTO from Zynga presented a keynote the day after a fairly emphatic statement contained in their earnings call that speaks to their marked retreat from the public cloud. In the space of 12 months Zynga has gone from 80% of workloads being in the [...]
Simple Workflow Service – Amazon Adding One Enterprise Brick At Time
This week Amazon announced a new orchestration service called Simple Workflow Service. I would encourage you to read the announcement on Werner’s blog where he explains the need, rationale, and architecture. The people I spoke to had mixed reactions. One set of people described this as a great idea and were excited that the developers can [...]
Nimbula Launches Version 2 of Director
Ever since is launched, Nimbula has been focused on brining “Amazon-like” functionality to private data centers. There messaging has unwaveringly been about the agility and flexibility of the public cloud, for private data center operations. Their aim came another step closer today with the beta release of version two of
Next Iteration Of PaaS: Will Amazon Join That Race?
I have been critical of “me too” approaches to PaaS by current breed of PaaS providers and have been calling for some differentiation which will take innovation to the next level. Some people have been asking me how the next generation of PaaS will look like. I have framed a simple model to explain where [...]
Microsoft, the USA PATRIOT Act, and European cloud computing
Microsoft announced last month that its Software as a Service (SaaS) offering, Office 365, will better comply with European guidelines to ensure that customer data is adequately protected. This move is certainly welcome, but the long-armed spectre of the USA PATRIOT Act continues to hang over Microsoft and other US companies, regardless of customers’ nationality [...]
Cloud Computing Came to a Head in 2011
Happy New Year! I hope you all had a fantastic holiday. This is a review post that I think you will find particularly compelling. Rather than predicting the future I thought I would take a look back at five long years of ‘cloud computing’. As many of you long time readers know, I’ve been ‘in [...]
Boundary Latest to pick up Cloud Monitoring Funding
Whenever technology platforms change, there is a scramble to provide the underlying services upon which the new paradigm sits. The move to the cloud is no different and cloud monitoring is one area where there is a significant amount of activity in terms of startups being founded and funded. Today it’s the turn of Boundary, [...]
