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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…
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A Dispatch from Cloud City – 2014 Retrospective
In an effort to make this an annual event, here is a plumbing-palooza stream of cloud consciousness. Last year’s broad themes remain intact though my Rackspace call didn’t pan out. Cloud Infrastructure Public cloud has won. Thanks Target. Thanks Sony. Thanks Kim Jung Un. If your public cloud gets hacked, you get to blame someone…