Cloud Computing
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Small Blue and the Bonsai Datacenter
Via Flickr IBM today announced new datacenter investment plans to bolster its cloud computing presence. They’re going to spend $1.2 billion to build 15 new datacenters (seen above, lower shelf). After some consultation with the Twitterati on matters of long division, it appears IBM is going to spend a whopping $80 million per datacenter.…
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A Dispatch from Cloud City
A few end of the year observations from Cloud City (aka Seattle): Image via TK769 Cloud Infrastructure AWS remains a beast. Yet a chink in their armor is emerging… Azure has become the clear challenger to AWS. The much maligned Mr. Ballmer is not getting credit for Microsoft’s embrace and execution on cloud. Unlike most…
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Dinosaur Down: IBM’s Q3 Earnings
The earnings release speaks for itself (love that typeface – they must still do press releases on a Selectric typewriter in the IBM museum), but a few comments: A billion dollar (as in $1,000,000,000) miss on the top line. Everything in varying levels of freefall, led by the swan dive of the hardware business (Power…