Linode Founder and CEO Chris Aker has no illusions about challenging Amazon Web Services in the cloud, but that doesn't mean he cant build a quality cloud. As he explains in this Structure Show interview, quality infrastructure and simple billing can go a long way.…
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3 areas where Amazon Web Services might be vulnerable (if the competition can exploit them)
Foundry Group Managing Partner and TechStars Co-founder Brad Feld came on the Structure Show this week to talk about why Amazon Web Services might be feeling the pinch from competitors, and how it and other cloud providers should approach their business models.…
Read MoreDon’t cry for Box and Dropbox: Amazon’s real targets are Google and Microsoft
Amazon Web Services' new file-sharing service might be bad news for for companies like Box and Dropbox, but if they're hurt they'll only be collateral damage. The real targets are cloud platform competitors Google and Microsoft.…
Read MoreWith Microsoft, IBM and Red Hat backing it, Google’s Kubernetes is a peace pipe and Trojan horse
A handful of technology companies big and small have vowed to support and contribute to Kubernetes, Google's open source technology for managing Docker containers. That's a big boon for portability in cloud computing, and a good way for Google to show off its infrastructure edge.…
Read MoreA cloud startup gets transparent on pricing
Ben Uretsky, CEO of cloud computing startup DigitalOcean, came on the Structure Show this week to talk about how his company lures customers in the shadow of Amazon Web Services and Google.…
Read MoreGoogle adds a big data service and lots of monitoring to its cloud
Google rolled out a slew of new cloud services at I/O, including one called Dataflow that's meant to put standard MapReduce to shame. It's advertised a much simpler way to build data pipelines that can handle both batch processing and streaming data.…
Read MoreIt’s time to stop the open-on-open violence in cloud computing
A Structure conference panel discussing the state of open source cloud computing agreed that open source clouds need to get easier to use, but not on much else.…
Read MoreWhy Google is sowing the seeds of container-based computing
Google open sourced a Docker-centric tool called Kubernetes that lets its cloud computing customers automate their resource management similar to how Google does it internally. It's part of a sustained approach to prove Google's chops as a cloud provider by pushing its vision of computing.…
Read MoreThe data center demands of selling Hadoop have Cloudera eyeing the cloud
Big data vendor Cloudera is no Google when it comes to data center footprint, but the cost and complexity of its infrastructure are growing with each passing year. Cloudera VP of engineering Peter Cooper-Ellis explains how better data centers and cloud computing help ease the burden.…
Read More5 technologies that will help big data cross the chasm
Big data has been a buzzword for years, but it's a lot more than just buzz. There are now so many tools and technologies for creating, collecting and analyzing data that almost anything is possible if you know where to look.…
Read MoreWhy user experience and ecosystem will rule the cloud
It's easy enough to start offering a cloud platform, but doing so successfully is a lot more difficult. James Urquhart explains how Amazon Web Services, Cloud Foundry and others are capitalizing on great user experiences and great ecosystems.…
Read MoreHow can telcos compete in cloud computing? Ask CenturyLink
On our Structure Show podcast, CenturyLink's VP of cloud explains why he thinks the company be the first telco to really make a dent in the cloud computing market by leveraging its network assets and offering an enterprise cloud that also caters to developers.…
Read MoreOnApp’s federated CDN model has limitations, says departing customer CDNify
CDNify has revamped its service, largely by setting up its own network instead of reselling OnApp's federated CDN. It had a few choice criticisms to make as it moved on -- but are they valid?…
Read MoreWhy the operating system still (kind of) matters
Canonical founder and space traveler Mark Shuttleworth came on the Structure Show this week to discuss Ubuntu's role as the operating system of choice for cloud computing. As OpenStack takes precedence over the operating system, he argues, Red Hat's licensing can't last.…
Read MoreMore evidence that scale is the name of the game in cloud computing
Publishing analytics startup Parse.ly just switched its entire IT footprint to Amazon Web Services, saving money and improving performance in the process. As clouds keep getting cheaper and better, resistance to them is becoming futile.…
Read MoreVMware, in all its permutations, is still a force in the cloud
Kim Weins, vice president of marketing at RightScale, sees a lot about where its customers are deploying cloud workloads and how they intend to expand them across multiple platforms. She came on the Structure Show to talk about what's hot, including -- surprisingly -- VMware.…
Read MoreDid Google just doom the lot of small-scale cloud providers?
Google has kicked off a cloud price-cutting war with Amazon Web Services, which is a turn of events that doesn't seem to bode well for small cloud providers that will have a hard time keeping up on price, features and scale.…
Read MoreSpanish IaaS provider Gigas picks up an extra $2.7M to fund Latin American push
The Madrid-based firm says fitting into the Spanish business culture counts for a lot in its quest to take on Amazon Web Services.…
Read MoreA private-cloud market assessment in 5 quotes
Eucalyptus CEO Marten Mickos has been around the private cloud space since its inception. Nearly five years after the company's launch, Mickos shares his thoughts on a market that rose fast, fell hard and appears to be on the rebound.…
Read MoreParallels teams up with Flexiant to take on vCloud Director
The tie-in gives Parallels the ability to offer a fully hypervisor-agnostic package for service providers looking to provide infrastructure-as-a-service, and it gives Flexiant a huge boost to its reach.…
Read MoreMesosphere thinks everyone’s servers should run like Twitter’s do, and it’s here to help
Apache Mesos is the open source cluster-management software that automates operations at companies such as Twitter and Airbnb. Now, a startup called Mesosphere is building a business around taking it mainstream.…
Read MoreIO launches an OpenStack cloud running on open source servers
IO, which is known for its modular data center designs and specialized data center management software, is getting into the cloud provider space with a new service called IO.Cloud. It's very open at the foundational level, at least, running OpenStack software on Open Compute hardware.…
Read MoreEnough PaaS vs. IaaS: The cloud is really about Services as a Platform
Platform as a service has been hailed as the next frontier in cloud computing, but some experts are saying it's more a feature than a market. James Urquhart says PaaS versus IaaS is a moot debate, because "Services as a platform" is the real cloud model.…
Read MoreJoyent co-founder on why AWS will win, OpenStack will flatline and connected cars will (hopefully) be zombie-proof
Jason Hoffman, Joyent co-founder and former CTO, and current VP at Ericsson, shares his thoughts on all things cloud -- from why Amazon Web Services is king in IaaS to why data prices for connected cars had better be reasonable.…
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