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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…
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Dinosaur Row
IBM’s cloudy predicament is now widely understood. BusinessWeek made IBM’s existential crisis a cover story (a concept that doesn’t really exist any more if you read the publication online): Forbes then called out recently departed IBM CEO Sam Palmasaino for his financial engineering shenanigans with “Why IBM is in Decline”. Cringely went one better with…
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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.…