Shameless Plug

While I try to not abuse this blog as a platform to toot my own horn, please allow me to break my own rule today  :-). This is a guest post from my alter-ego, the entrepreneur. Many readers have asked me about...

The clouded world of naming cloud startups

We break from our regular programming for a guest post. The naming of cloud startups has always befuddled me. To chime in with some opinion on this delicate topic here’s Lucy Schiller of A Hundred Monkeys, a...

State of the Cloud – January 2011

This month’s update to our survey of cloud providers is brief but brings excitement in the race for the top spot. Let’s get to it. Snapshot for January 2011 In this month’s update, following some refreshed IP...

Recounting EC2 One Year Later

It’s been over a year since my original Anatomy of an EC2 Resource ID post. In what became my little claim to fame in the industry, I uncovered the pattern behind those cryptic IDs AWS assigns to every object...

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Save the State of the Cloud!

We interrupt our regular programming for the following update. Unfortunately, this month we have no regular post in the State of the Cloud series. Quantcast‘s Top 1M Site list, which is the input data set used by the...

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