Amazon Amazon: "Infrastructure Is Not A Differentiator (Except For Us)" Amazon claims that no one need build and manage a data center, given that it already does this far more efficiently at lower cost. But as data becomes an essential ingredient for a rising number of enterprises, perhaps data centers are critical, after all. Cloud Matt Asay View comments
Amazon AWS vs. VMware vs. OpenStack: And The Cloud Winner Is... Trying to pick a winner in the cloud market? It would help if we could actually coherently define a cloud market at all. Cloud Matt Asay View comments
Cloud Providers Why Amazon Isn't Giving You True Cloud Flexibility The promise of cloud computing lies not only in its technology but in its pricing and packaging structure. So why isn't Amazon more flexible? Cloud Robert Rizika View comments
Microsoft Microsoft Azure: Open Source Is A First-Class Citizen Microsoft's longstanding strategy of embrace and extend has no place on Azure, which seems to be all about embracing all of the open-source software it can find as it seeks to extend its popularity with CIOs to developers. Cloud Matt Asay View comments
Amazon Can Amazon Stay King Of Cloud Computing Forever? Amazon has a crushing lead in the cloud computing race, but serious competitors like OpenStack, Microsoft and Google threaten to give it a run for its money. Cloud Matt Asay View comments
cloud "Other" Poses A Serious Threat To Legacy Server Vendors In an increasingly cloudy enterprise, it's hard to see how legacy server vendors can win, either by ignoring or embracing the cloud. Cloud Matt Asay View comments
VMware VMware: "If Amazon Wins, We All Lose" In a rare admission of both weakness and avarice, VMware's executive team tried to rally its partner troops by castigating the Amazon cloud and expressing a goal to "own the corporate workload now and forever." Enterprise Matt Asay View comments
Cloud Computing Microsoft Strikes Back At Amazon With Windows Azure Community Portal Microsoft is now waging another platform war - the battle for the cloud. But this time it's the underdog. Cloud Daniel Lopez View comments
Amazon In The Enterprise, 88% Worry About The Cloud; 86% Love It Anyway Amazon is doubling its AWS salesforce to pitch CXOs on what enterprise developers already know: The cloud is where innovation happens. Cloud Matt Asay View comments