Former Netflix Architect Adrian Cockcraft and Speaking In Tech host Greg Knierieman had an interesting exchange on Twitter. Adrian compared Netflix’ $100M investment in House of Cards to Zynga’s $100 outlay in a data center. .@adrianco If you are going
As a follow up to a couple of related posts, I talk about the challenge of getting enterprise shadow IT give up their AWS account. Related Posts OpenStack vs. AWS: It’s about the developers Amazon AWS really wasn’t designed for the Enterprise
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is “The” power house in Cloud computing. However, Amazon has struggled to gain a foothold in the enterprise. This is the case even when the geekiest of the enterprise SMEs finds creative uses for the service
So, I’ve ignored Amazon’s VDI offering for a few blogging cycles. It’s clear that Amazon is offering their VDI service as a way to get their foot in the door of the enterprise. If you think about it Amazon has
Too often I run into both management and engineers that default to the thinking that migrating infrastructures to Cloud computing will reduce costs. It’s true that there are some capital expenses that will be reduced once you account for depreciation
The more I think about it the strategy of VMware joining OpenStack is starting to make more and more sense. I wrote an earlier piece on how vCloud Director vs. OpenStack wasn’t the debate. Similar I don’t believe VMware and
In episode 3, I talk about the Ars Technica article on VMware vs. AWS and if VMware needs to worry about Amazon’s price cuts. Yet another large company has rolled back their tele-work program. Bestbuy announced the end of R.O.W.E.
So, Amazon had four major outages of their cloud services last year with the longest and most notable being the one that took Netflix streaming down for 23 hours during the busy holiday period. This article over on TechTarget discusses
It has taken me a couple years for me to understand Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions like AWS and OpenStack. I’ve built infrastructures for Software as a Service (SaaS) environments. I’ve also been part of a larger team that
OpenStack has gotten a lot of attention the past few months. As well as it should as it’s an ambitious project. The question that I constantly ask, “What is the impact to the enterprise of these IaaS solutions.” In theory