Digital Ocean
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Follow the CAPEX: Digital Ocean
UPDATE: Tl;dr – Digital Ocean tried to make their CAPEX numbers look bigger than they are, which we have to respect. Digital Ocean’s S-1 is out and they use the word cloud 212 times, which definitely suggests they see themselves in the cloud business. Lets see how they stack up on my favorite dimension: CAPEX.…
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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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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…