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What to Make of Amazon’s Work Practices?

What to Make of Amazon’s Work Practices?

By Mark Suster on August 17, 2015

There is much discussion about this weekend’s article in the NY Times regarding Amazon’s work practices. People seem polarized between, “that’s what it takes to succeed” to “I can’t believe what a heartless, intolerant and misogynistic company culture they’ve built.” I’ve heard the gamut from reading opinions online and even hearing the debate in circles […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged amazon, Apple Inc., jeff bezos, larry ellison, startup lessons, The New York Times

Amazon iterates, Google partners

Amazon iterates, Google partners

By Paul Miller on July 17, 2015

Positive cloudy news from two of the big three, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) making some significant improvements to their DynamoDB service and Google signing on as a sponsor of the OpenStack cloud platform. AWS has got this incremental improvement thing down to a fine art, to the extent that too many competitors have stopped […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, aws, cloud computing, Containers, docker, dynamodb, google, google compute engine, kubernetes, open source, openstack, tftd

Hewlett-Packard gets real

Hewlett-Packard gets real

By Paul Miller on April 8, 2015

The New York Times’ Quentin Hardy reports HP’s Bill Hilf as saying that: “We thought people would rent or buy computing from us. It turns out that it makes no sense for us to go head-to-head [with Amazon].” Well, yes. But, and it’s a huge but… this doesn’t mean HP is abandoning (or should abandon) the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, aws, cloud computing, google compute engine, helion, hewlett packard, hp, ibm softlayer, Microsoft Azure, openstack, rackspace, tftd, vcloud air, vmware

Focus On Your Customers And Not Competitors

Focus On Your Customers And Not Competitors

By Chirag Mehta on October 1, 2014

A lorry is a symbol of Indian logistics and the person who is posing against it is about to rethink infrastructure and logistics in India. Jeff Bezos is enjoying his trip to India charting Amazon’s growth plan where competitors like Flipkart have been aggressively growing and have satisfied customer base. This is not the first […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Strategy | Tagged amazon, Flipkart, India, jeff bezos

50% on S3? AWS Helping Google Into the Game or Stopping the Cloud Race to Zero?

50% on S3? AWS Helping Google Into the Game or Stopping the Cloud Race to Zero?

By Ofir Nachmani on April 22, 2014

One day after Google announced a substantial price reduction for their cloud services, Amazon announced their own dramatic price reduction on several AWS offerings. This move will reduce the revenues of one of Amazon’s most profitable services, the S3, by about 50%. What were the AWS leaders thinking just before Andy Jassy went on the […]

Posted in Analysis, Business, Featured Posts, Strategy | Tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, aws, cloud computing, Cloud Costs, Cloudyn, google

Amazon's Cloud Price Reduction, A Desire To Compete Hard And Move Up The Value Chain

Amazon’s Cloud Price Reduction, A Desire To Compete Hard And Move Up The Value Chain

By Chirag Mehta on April 1, 2014

Recently Google slashed price for their cloud offering. Amazon, as expected, also announced their 42nd price reduction on their cloud offerings since its inception. Today, Microsoft also announced price reduction for their Azure offerings. Unlike many other people I don’t necessarily see the price reduction by Amazon as waging a price war against the competition. […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged amazon, cloud computing, ec2, google, iaas, microsoft, Price war | 4 Responses

Google is Amazon’s Only Real Competition

Google is Amazon’s Only Real Competition

By Randy Bias on February 6, 2014

Recently, Barb Darrow wrote a great note to Google Compute Platform, suggesting “8 things it could do to freak Amazon out.” As long term readers know, I predicted Google’s entry into the public Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market long before anyone else. Cloudscaling is also well known for having created the Google Compute Engine (GCE) APIs for […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged amazon, cloud computing, gogrid, google, google compute engine, openstack | 3 Responses

5 Recommended AWS re:Invent Breakout Sessions for Scalability and Optimization

5 Recommended AWS re:Invent Breakout Sessions for Scalability and Optimization

By Ofir Nachmani on November 7, 2013

I’m OnDemand is heading to Las Vegas for Amazon’s official cloud show – AWS re:Invent. In my honest opinion, the show is the most significant conference in the cloud and IT industries, and includes a number of fantastic educational sessions.  To navigate the sessions, Amazon has provided conference attendees with a great tool that helps […]

Posted in General | Tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, AWS reInvent, Netflix | 1 Response

The Perceived Risk of The Purely Cloud Deployment

The Perceived Risk of The Purely Cloud Deployment

By Ofir Nachmani on August 22, 2013

In this post series, I will raise some basic questions and will delve deeply into this topic to debate the common resistance to what I call “pure cloud deployment”. Let’s begin with a leading question: Can’t the hybrid economy model live within the public cloud? From the enormous number of conversations with top cloud thought leaders, CIOs, […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, Chief information officer, cloud computing, Cloud Enablement, devops, hybrid cloud, Netflix, private cloud, public cloud

Open Letter to the OpenStack Community: OpenStack’s Future Depends on Embracing Amazon. Now.

Open Letter to the OpenStack Community: OpenStack’s Future Depends on Embracing Amazon. Now.

By Randy Bias on July 24, 2013

Dear Stackers,  For three years, elements of the OpenStack community have arbitrarily and unfairly positioned OpenStack against incumbents, especially Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware (VMW). The practical expression of this view is that OpenStack should build and maintain its own set of differentiated APIs. I’ve made no secret of my belief that this choice […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged amazon, api, aws, cloud computing, Nova, openstack, rackspace | 1 Response

Who are you, Cloud Broker?

Who are you, Cloud Broker?

By Ofir Nachmani on July 17, 2013

Cloud brokers were recognized and described by Gartner analysts as the `Intermediary services that support fast cloud adoption`. From their customers’ perspectives cloud brokers are the system integrators (SI) or the `cloud enablers` that support fast adoption and maintenance of cloud technologies. For example, the independent software vendor (ISV) can benefit greatly from a cloud […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged accenture, amazon, amazon cloud, Amazon Web Services, business, cloud, Cloud Broker, Cloud brokerage, cloud computing, Cloud Ecosystem, gartner, IT MSP, managed services, reuven cohen, system integrator | 1 Response

Rethinking IT Transformation for the Cloud

Rethinking IT Transformation for the Cloud

By Guest Authors on July 16, 2013

As cloud computing matures and success models emerge, enterprises are now getting serious about using cloud to drive IT transformation.  JP Morgan Chase, Toyota, GE and other leading organizations are moving beyond incremental costs savings and are using cloud and next generation platforms to drive innovation, growth and competitive advantage.  Unfortunately many CIOs and their […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, General, Strategy, Technology, Trends & Concepts | Tagged amazon, CIO, cloud computing, cloudstack, dropbox, enterprise software, eucalyptus, IT transformation, openstack, salesforce.com, Strategy | 5 Responses

Amazon, Microsoft and Google: The Cloud Leading Trio

Amazon, Microsoft and Google: The Cloud Leading Trio

By Ofir Nachmani on July 11, 2013

Following several discussions with fellow bloggers and industry executives, I found it quite fitting that the natural cloud leaders are the top software and web giants: Google, Microsoft and Amazon. While Amazon’s AWS is The public cloud today Google recently reported that it is doubling its office space near Seattle, just miles from the campuses of Amazon and Microsoft, […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, General, Strategy, Trends & Concepts | Tagged amazon, aws, cloud computing, Consumerization, google, google docs, microsoft, vmware | 1 Response

Has the Time Come for Cloud Insurance?

Has the Time Come for Cloud Insurance?

By Guest Authors on June 17, 2013

In the enterprise market much of the adoption for public cloud IaaS services so far has been driven by innovators and early adopters.  One of the defining characteristics of these early adopters is their willingness to accept and manage risk.  These risks can come in many forms, including technological, organizational, operational and financial.  Financial risk […]

Posted in Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts, General, Security | Tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, cloud computing, insurance, Liberty Mutual | 4 Responses

Enterprise Grade Cloud Enabled by the Ecosystem

Enterprise Grade Cloud Enabled by the Ecosystem

By Ofir Nachmani on May 30, 2013

While investing in building new data centers all over the world and creating the management overlay in order to be able to sell their hardware, IaaS operators are also relying on their ecosystem to support the evolving enterprises that go to the cloud (e.g. the “Enterprise Grade Cloud”). API First – The move to the […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, APIs, Application programming interface, aws, cloud computing, ecosystem, Network Attached Storage, Newvem

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