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Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes
The capital expenditures (CAPEX) going into the cloud are Sagan-esque, with billions upon billions being spent on sprawling complexes of interconnected datacenters scattered across the planet. The hyper-scale public cloud operators (Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft) operate BFGCs (big, uh, freakin’ global computers) at immense industrial scale, with townships of well-ventilated warehouses that collectively hold…
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Tweetstorm Digest: August 4, 2016
Some @charlesfitz reactions to the long-delayed Gartner Infrastructure as a Service Magic Quadrant plus bonus material: 1/ Gartner IaaS Magic Quadrant is finally out – probably the most important assessment of the cloud market. 2/ I yield to no one in making fun of Gartner but they do a really good job on this one.…
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Google’s Scalability Day
In May 1997, Microsoft held a big press event dubbed Scalability Day. Microsoft was a relatively new arrival to enterprise computing and was beset by criticism it wasn’t “enterprise ready”. The goal of the event was to once and for all refute those criticisms and get the industry to accept that Microsoft would be a…