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  • Profitbricks Ups The Ante–Offers Price/Performance Guarantee

    April 1, 2015

    Uncategorized
     

    It takes a significant amount of chutzpah to stand up and claim to be a better cloud vendor than Amazon, Google or Microsoft. Those three vendors pretty much own the public cloud market (and, if we have to be honest, we’d say that Amazon among them all…

  • Price, Performance or Both? ProfitBricks Extends the Conversation

    July 31, 2013

    Business
    amazon, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, amazon-web-service, AWS, cloud computing, Gauger, ProfitBricks, rackspace, United States
     

    Cloud computing price drops make easy reporting – they happen regularly and have an attractive way of framing the IaaS market as a battle royal between a few different players. They’re also easy for vendors, a price drop takes…

  • Scale Out vs Scale Up – ProfitBricks Aims to Challenge the Current Thinking for IaaS

    September 7, 2012

    Business
    Central processing unit, cloud computing, google, InfiniBand, ProfitBricks, SQL, Virtual machine, VMware
     

    One thing that few people argue about in the move to the cloud is the accepted view that the best way to achieve scale is by throwing together lots of lightweight commodity machines with relatively low specifications, and stringing…

  • CloudSigma, Hybrid Cloud and Competing with AWS

    September 18, 2013

    Business
    amazon web services, AWS, Central processing unit, cloud computing, CloudSigma, Equinix, gartner, Magic Quadrant
     

    A peek at the recent Gartner Magic Quadrant for IaaS will show just how incredibly hard it is for any vendor to differentiate itself from Amazon Web Services. In what is perhaps a first, Gartner had to change the…

  • Cloud Brokers, Fungibility and the Amazon-Shaped Elephant in the Room

    August 20, 2013

    Business
    Baumann, cloud computing, Deutsche Börse, Enomaly, Fungibility, John Cowan, rackspace, Zimory
     

    Fungibility is an interesting thing. And super important in the cloud infrastructure space where people opine on the ability for customers to “swap out” one IaaS provider for another. Fungibility is defined as the property of a good or…

  • Cloud 2020 Agenda Announced – Apply Now for Last Places!

    May 2, 2013

    Business
    #cloud2020, Cloud 2020 Summit, cloud computing, Cloudscaling, data center, DevOps, Jonathan Murray, Krishnan Subramanian, Rodrigo Flores
     

    Next week sees my friend Krishnan Subramanian and I put on the Cloud 2020 Summit in Vegas. The summit is an exclusive look at the future of cloud infrastructure – it’s going to bring together pundits, vendors and enterprise…

  • Cloud and Flexibility, Is It a Technology Problem or a Business One?

    April 11, 2013

    Business
    amazon, amazon-web-service, AWS, Business, cloud computing, Morgan Stanley, ProfitBricks, rackspace
     

    The rise of Infrastructure as a Service got the world used to on demand, utility services that correlate perfectly with an organization’s particular demand profile Indeed one of the key value propositions that all cloud infrastructure vendors articulate is…

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