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How much cloud do Telstra’s $842 million buy?
Fierce Telecon reports that: Telstra … [is] going to spend over AUD 800 million (USD842 million) to expand its cloud capabilities through 2016. This is presumably to compete with Amazon, Rackspace and the like. Let me see: call it five years, so it’s $168m per year if only invested in storage at Amazon, at 1.5…
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Eucalyptus and OpenStack: A Discussion with Marten Mickos
In response to my recent post “Ubuntu, OpenStack, Eucalyptus: When Open-Source Competes with Open-Source”, Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems (and previously of MySQL) offered to discuss the Eucalyptus strategy with me in the “hope … that we would NOT confuse you.” I took him up on it, and a lively and rather interesting discussion…
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Four Competing Visions of PaaS Evolution
I spent some time recently trying to understand how platform-as-a-service efforts might evolve from here. The OpenStack Design Summit this past week, and the Talk Cloudy To Me event of the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group on Saturday were particularly helpful. I figure I might as well blog what I found… which is four competing…
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InfoGraphic: How Big Is Cloud Computing?
Really interesting graphic. Can’t vouch for the numbers but their ballpark seems right. Via: Wikibon
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Why the EC2 Outage Might Have Killed Amazon’s Shot at PaaS Dominance
Today is Monday morning after the biggest cloud outage ever, and one thing is certain: CEOs in so many board rooms around the world are heatedly demanding from their CTOs that something like this never happen to their businesses again. CTO: “but we did plan for fast recovery into a different availability zone. Who knew…