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A Dispatch from Cloud City – State of the Union 2016
With a venerable tradition dating back over a year, the annual Platformonomics state of the cloud union strives to combine the exhilaration of the running of the bulls at Pamplona with the hyperbole of Oracle’s annual proclamation that this year they really are serious about cloud. Or at least to land a few jokes along…
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Tweetstorm Digest: May 19, 2015
Lest you missed a bit of a @charlesfitz victory lap for Cloud City (Seattle) on Twitter: 1/ A geographic look at the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud is revealing: 2/ The Leader quadrant for cloud computing shall henceforth be known as the Seattle quadrant. 3/ Seattle has also annexed the best real estate in the…
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AWS and the Bonfire of Amazon’s Vanities
TL;DR – It is time for Amazon Web Services to get out of Amazon A recent interview with Amazon Web Services’ chieftain Andy Jassy repeatedly touts the “trillion dollar opportunity” associated with the inexorable transition of enterprise IT to the cloud. Perhaps because his interlocutor was so busy inserting himself into the interview, Jassy isn’t…