
New post format: a weekly rollup of links, comments on those links, activity updates and attempts at humor. The intention is quicker hits in addition to the less frequent big posts and more timely hammering on my favorite themes. This is my primary hangout until the contours of the post-Twitter world become clear. Be sure…

For the first time in almost three years, the datacenter denizens grew faster than AWS, resulting in a modest tick back in their favor on the closely watched Platformonomics Repatriation Index™. The PRI™ is a quick and dirty heuristic (people give me grief that it is “not a valid index” of the entire datacenter industry…

Tl;dr: We’re going to need a bigger boat array of telescopes to find evidence of significant cloud repatriation Let’s belabor the great cloud repatriation movement just a little longer! The Platformonomics Repatriation Index™ is a quick and dirty heuristic that compares the revenue of the two biggest data centers operators with Amazon Web Services, the…