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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

Cloud Just Got Real – The Race Begins

Cloud Just Got Real – The Race Begins

By Randy Bias on March 27, 2014

This week, Google hosted its Cloud Platform Live event. Some people were a little surprised at my enthusiastic live twitter coverage for a number of Google’s announcements. I have been waiting for them to “go big or go home” for a while now. My biggest surprise was how long it took Google to get up […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged Amazon Web Services, cloud computing, google, google app engine, Google Cloud Platform

The Case for Tiered Storage in Private Clouds

The Case for Tiered Storage in Private Clouds

By Randy Bias on February 24, 2014

Fall of last year I wrote a controversial whitepaper detailing my concerns about how distributed storage was being marketed.  The blog introduction and the whitepaper were both entitled Converged Storage, Wishful Thinking, and Reality.  There was a certain amount of expected blowback from folks at RedHat and Ceph as well as more thoughtful replies from […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged cloud storage, cloudscaling, google, solidfire, tiered storage

What Entrepreneurs Should Learn From WhatsApp

What Entrepreneurs Should Learn From WhatsApp

By Chris Yeh on February 21, 2014

Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp for $19 billion has dominated all news in Silicon Valley for the past 48 hours.  Yesterday, I was at a urinal, and a group of people asked me what I thought.  Most of the discussion seems to be around whether Mark Zuckerberg was crazy to pay so much for a relatively […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Strategy | Tagged businessmodel, facebook, google, m&a, valuation, whatsapp | 2 Responses

Why Multi-Cloud? Evolution, Freedom

Why Multi-Cloud? Evolution, Freedom

By Ofir Nachmani on February 13, 2014

What drives the creation of countless apps, tools and platforms in the IT market today? The ever-growing web as well as the `consumerization of IT` provide end users with an abundance of options and full discretion. We now understand the vital need to internalize the concept of spreading knowledge and information across a variety of […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts | Tagged amazon cloud, Amazon RDS, cloud computing, cloud federation, devops, google, Information Technology, multi cloud, Ofir Nachmani, ScaleBase

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

Cloud Model 2014: Hybrid, Google, Brokerage, Startups and The Enterprise

Cloud Model 2014: Hybrid, Google, Brokerage, Startups and The Enterprise

By Ofir Nachmani on December 26, 2013

2013 has been incredibly eventful for the cloud industry, mostly for making itself an eminent presence in the mainstream IT market. Businesses of all sizes have made their ways to the cloud, confirming my 2013 predictions. Government agencies worldwide take the cloud seriously, as demonstrated by the CIA’s contract switch over to Amazon from IBM. […]

Posted in Analysis, Business, Enterprise, Featured Posts, General, Infrastructure, Strategy, Technology | Tagged aws, azure, business, cloud computing, google, IBM, microsoft | 4 Responses

Will Success Ruin Silicon Valley?

Will Success Ruin Silicon Valley?

By Chris Yeh on October 28, 2013

Everywhere one looks, Silicon Valley seems ascendant.  Tech companies like Apple and Google are among the world’s most valuable and admired, while tech titans like Larry and Sergey, and Mark and Sheryl are given the first-name-only treatment of offline celebrities. Silicon Valley has even stuck its nose into broader society, helped by the fact that […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Apple, diversity, google, siliconvalley, wealth

The Dark Side Of Big Data

The Dark Side Of Big Data

By Chirag Mehta on October 2, 2013

Latanya Sweeney, a Harvard professor Googled her own name to find out an ad next to her name for a background check hinting that she was arrested. She dug deeper and concluded that so-called black-identifying names were significantly more likely to be the targets for such ads. She documented this in her paper, Discrimination in […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged big data, dark side, facebook, google, Latanya Sweeney | 2 Responses

Innovation Through Logo Design

Innovation Through Logo Design

By Zoli Erdos on September 5, 2013

OK, I stole that title from Krish.  It’s a telling title, almost as good as this one from Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing. Oh, and I really don’t want to write about a logo.  Especially about a fugly one.  One that the entire world hates.  But what can I do, the world is abuzz with […]

Posted in Just for fun | Tagged google, humor, logo, yahoo | 2 Responses

It's Cheaper In The Long Run To Pay For A Professional

It’s Cheaper In The Long Run To Pay For A Professional

By Chris Yeh on August 20, 2013

I firmly believe in the truth of the old saying, “It’s cheaper in the long run to pay for a professional.”  It’s an axiom that applies in nearly any situation, from decide whether or not to attempt to fix your own plumbing problems, to dealing with groupies if you’re a young All-Star. Yet while most […]

Posted in Business | Tagged businessmodel, feedly, free, freemium, google, google reader, news aggregator, pricing, rss

We really all thought it was Google, only to find out it was the person’s employer

We really all thought it was Google, only to find out it was the person’s employer

By Dan Morrill on August 2, 2013

We really all thought it was Google, only to find out it was the person’s employer Yesterday the web site Medium posted that they got a surprise visit from the Joint Terrorism Task Force to talk about some Google searches they were doing about pressure cookers, back packs, and other interesting things to search for. […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology | Tagged Bruce Schneier, facebook, google, Joint Terrorism Task Force, Medium (TV series), Medium.com, politics, Pressure cooking, prism

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

Missing the Point on Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud APIs

Missing the Point on Private, Public, and Hybrid Cloud APIs

By Randy Bias on July 1, 2013

At the recent Structure event in San Francisco, I watched Werner Vogels’ presentation, along with about 500 others in a packed auditorium. Werner is the CTO of Amazon Web Services and one of the industry’s more prophetic voices. (I was honored to share the keynote stage with him at Cloud Connect a couple of years ago.) During Werner’s conversation with […]

Posted in Application Software, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged Amazon Web Services, APIs, Application programming interface, aws, cloud computing, google, google compute engine, hybrid cloud, openstack, private cloud, werner vogels

Social Media is Really Tough in China.  At Least There is Quora.

Social Media is Really Tough in China. At Least There is Quora.

By Jason M. Lemkin on July 1, 2013

SaaStr is in Shanghai for the month of July.  While I have internet access and an iPad … it’s tough to stay connected with the domestic SaaStr audience. Why? Well, first almost everything is blocked:  Facebook, Twitter, WordPress (as an app and URL — individual sites with custom URLs sometimes barely work, sometimes not at […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged censorship, china, facebook, google, Quora, Shanghai

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