Notable “cloud quant” Joe Weinmann (purveyor of the Cloudonomics blog and generator of 10 Laws of Cloud Computing) organized a session at the 2010 Cloud Connect event in Santa Clara titled “ROI, Cost, and Economics”. [I am writing this just prior to the session, but I will speak in the past tense as it’s most [...]
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Funny how seeing your start-up nearly do a convincing imitation of a smoking crater, having an enormous IT management software company swoop in at the 11th hour to make a surprising glove save (only spilled a little), and making the personal transition from a company of O(100) individuals or fewer at any time to one [...]
It’s no secret that Cassatt (my benevolent employer) has been struggling to make a go at selling internal cloud management software. Our CEO, Bill Coleman, is on record stating that we ”vastly underestimated the social and cultural challenge of Cassatt.” Surprisingly, this “challenge” often first manifests itself, not as a conceptual “value of cloud computing” sort [...]
[My apologies for the April posting hiatus. You may have heard that Cassatt, my benevolent employer, may be "nearing the end". The best horror movie scripts consist of prolonged uncertainty and suspense punctuated by frequent protagonist near-death experiences and oft-revived monsters. I don't know how it's going to turn out, but it's been a great [...]
Amazon announced a new pricing structure for EC2 last Thursday based on “reserved instances”, the ability for a customer to pay an up-front fee that will set aside a Linux/Unix AWS instance (Windows reserved instances not yet available) for 1 or 3 years. In return for the one-time fee, reserved instances carry a per-hour price [...]
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