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  1.27.2012

  The Problem with PaaS Pricing: Total Cost Uncertainty at Scale

    Highlights of this post: PaaS costs are difficult to predict at scale IaaS costs are going down due to improved operational proficiency Admin cost differences between IaaS and PaaS are negligible PaaS should be less expensive to get better market traction   Here’s a handy decoder ring for all the acronyms in this post: [...]

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  1.22.2012

  The Evolution of Purchasing Cloud Compute

  In the beginning, as it were, just five years ago, purchasing cloud compute was simple because the rules were easy to understand and there were no choices. There was one cloud compute instance type that cost ten cents an hour. And a credit card was the only way to pay your monthly cloud compute bill. [...]

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  1.9.2012

  Emerging BRIC Companies Will Leap to Cloud IT

  I’ve been thinking about penning this post for awhile. Amazon’s  new South American cloud region spurred me to finally sit down and write it. The basic theme is this: The trend we saw with world-wide mobile phone adoption is about to repeat for global enterprise IT. In the 1980’s the United States led mass mobile telephone [...]

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  12.17.2011

  Cloud Innovation Acceleration Effect: Now Releasing 100 Stories

  Cross-posting here a two part essay I wrote for the Sonian blog on how Sonian is benefiting from, and contributing to (by amplification,) the innovation cadence in cloud computing. I’ve been working in enterprise software since the late 1980′s, and what I am witnessing as a participant in “the cloud” is the pace of cloud technology [...]