Amazon CEO Jeff BezosAmazon Web Services is on a mission, and as its name might suggest, it's not a particularly small one. Indeed, as Gartner analyst Lydia Leong declares, "They are essentially pursuing world domination."And at its current course and speed, who would bet against Amazon?On the eve of Amazon...
Our friend Leon Anavi has been busy with the Internet of Things, and in this case its the ESP8266 connecting to the cloud using MQTT and the open source project ESP8266-jajda. Previously he has covered how to set up MQTT broker in a Linux container, and now he goes...
Cloud computing now totals nearly $20 billion, but not everyone shares equally in those cumulus riches. According to a new Synergy Research report, Amazon Web Services dominates the cloud with 28% of the overall market, with Microsoft Azure making gains but still commanding just 10% of the market.And while that...
You can't really blame your IT staff for inflicting a private cloud—actually just a corporate data center with a fancy new name—on you. In some ways, their jobs depend upon it. Self-preservation is a powerful incentive.Of course, your CIO's job is only truly threatened by the public cloud if she...
Those new to open source won’t remember just how much of the early code amounted to little more than crappy-but-free clones of popular proprietary products. Boy, how times have changed.Open source, once a clumsy (but free!) imitator of proprietary innovation is now doing taking the lead on industry innovation, with...
Sometimes an untruth is so breathtaking in its audacity that you have to at least admire the chutzpah that gave it birth. Take, for example, IBM's claim that it now does $7 billion in "cloud revenue," making it the world's "largest cloud provider," as a spokesperson told GigaOm's Barb Darrow.While...
HP cloud-services chief Marten MickosWhile the cloud market is still relatively new, all signs suggest that Amazon Web Services (AWS) is going to continue running away with the market. Not only does AWS dominate market share, but it also stands to continue to gain from "relentless economies of scale," as...
OpenStack rules the open-source cloud. Which may simply mean it's the tallest person in Lilliput.With Amazon Web Services (AWS) paving the way for enterprises to move their workloads to the public cloud, including in-house apps, OpenStack’s reign as open cloud sovereign may be short (if not nasty and brutish). The...
Two years ago Digital Ocean had a mere 140 Web-facing servers and a simple mission: make developers lives easier. Today the New York City-based cloud provider runs 116,000 servers and surpassed Rackspace to become the world's third-largest Web-facing cloud, according to Netcraft data. See also: Amazon Cloud's Huge Head Start: It's...
Amazon CEO Jeff BezosLast year, VMware president Carl Eschenbach told a group of business partners, "I find it really hard to believe that we cannot collectively beat a company that sells books." He was, of course, referring to Amazon. And as it turns out, they can't.Indeed, that bookseller seems hell-bent on...
With one hand, Google cuts. And with the other, it connects.That's the ongoing story of Google Cloud Platform, the company's set of products and services for developers looking to host and run apps over Google's sprawling Web infrastructure.See also: Google's Secret Weapon Against Amazon: Blisteringly Fast NetworksOn Tuesday, Google executive...
Amazon CEO Jeff BezosIt's no secret that Amazon leads the public cloud computing race. The question is by how much.A year ago Gartner analyst Lydia Leong pegged Amazon Web Services (AWS) at five times the utilized compute capacity of the next 14 largest cloud competitors combined. More recently Technology Business...
Increasingly, Microsoft is looking like a successful cloud-services company that also happens to sell software, a game console and some other devices.Of course, that's not apparent at first glance. In Microsoft's latest earnings report, covering the July–September quarter, it pulled in overall revenue of $23.2 billion in revenue and earned...
Bless the OpenStack crowd for taking the trouble to figure out the exact moment when it becomes cost effective to run your Amazon Web Services workload in a private cloud ($7,644/month, as Brandon Butler reports). If only that number mattered.See also: Amazon's Cloud Is The Fastest-Growing Software Business In HistoryAfter...
For Apple, China has been a great many things. Vendor. Partner. Customer. Competitor. Now perhaps one more thing can go on the list: Attacker. Following Friday's debut of the latest iPhone 6 in China, hackers spent the weekend targeting Apple’s iCloud data storage service. Apple acknowledged that it has suffered "intermittent...
Twitter launched a new feature for viewing and listening to audio cards directly inside your Twitter stream Thursday. Product Manager Richard Slatter wrote that the new feature will be called Twitter Audio Cards, and will allow you to listen to music or audio while you continue to browse Twitter. “With...
Innovation is for other companies, apparently, not yours—at least if you're among the ranks of the hordes who are busy piling into "public cloud" services offered by Amazon Web Services. At least, that's the striking and somewhat counterintuitive argument raised by Chris Schlaeger, who directs kernel and operating systems at...
Microsoft used to be evil. Then it was irrelevant. Now it looks like a winner.How did this happen?I have competed against Microsoft for most of my career, battling Windows with Linux in the mobile, desktop and server markets, but also taking on SharePoint while at Alfresco and SQL Server in...
Now this is exciting news !!! An Arizona-based startup called Eggcyte has began a Kickstarter project to take control of your private data, and therefore not have you relying on cloud storage or social networking sites. With companies mining and selling off your personal data to the highest bidder,...
Guest author Robert Jenkins is CEO of CloudSigma, a public-cloud "infrastructure as a service" provider.In 2003, the office supply chain store Staples launched the advertising campaign “that was easy.” The campaign featured a red “easy” button workers could press to instantly organize their offices—an icon that even today has a special place...
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