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The Elephant in the Computer Room

Thursday, March 5, 2009

I was sitting next to Jay Fry in Las Vegas (not at the tables, honest), listening to Tom Bittman’s keynote opening the Gartner Data Center Conference in December, when Tom said “[according to Gartner's analysis], if you fully utilize your own equipment, Amazon [EC2] will cost you twice as much.”  Jay kept on furiously taking [...]

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The Cloudology Manifesto

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

I’m a skeptic about cloud computing (if you’re new to cloud computing, check out Wikipedia’s pretty-good definition — watch out for occasional gopher holes in the rest of the article, but hey, it’s Wikipedia — and sample some of the many fine cloud-related blogs).  In fact, I try to be a skeptic about most things, most [...]

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