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IP Address Brokers; Please Stand Up

I've been trying to formulate some clear thinking for awhile now regarding a major challenge on the network today. It's been brewing for years, and the proliferation of API usage is boiling it over. The power of open discussion is giving the topic some structure and

Fatal Flaw in Cloud Based Social Media Apps?

For the purposes of this post I'm going to define "cloud computing" as a service that allows you to easily run your application on someone elses' infrastructure, and importantly, within their IP address block range. As "web app" web API usage continues to

Customer Support and Clouds

You know your business is becoming a commodity when your competitor differentiation becomes "better customer support." If you get to this point, you better be a significant marketshare player in your space otherwise the end is near. Decent customer support is very expensive, and therefore very few firms,

Clouds & Inverse Sunk Cost Arguments

Over the past couple of weeks I've had conversations with several folks about Gnip leveraging Amazon's Cloud services [/gnips-head-is-in-clouds], and the fact that they are not. The vast majority of the time it is clear that the other party is not using the cloud because they&

What kind of Cloud is your solution?

Cirus - What IBM is building. Cumulonimbus - Amazon Stratus - Mosso Cumulus - Google App Engine Fog - we've seen a few of these crop up. they're generally random, small, traditional managed hosting providers jumping into the game with 25% baked APIs to run on

Clouds and Sympatric Speciation

I just canceled Gnip [http://gnipcentral.com]'s account with its traditional hosting provider. We had a good experience with them, but we moved our stuff to the AWS/Ec2 [/gnips-head-is-in-clouds] recently so they became obsolete for us. I also just received the following email from our account representative

Tomorrow's Forecast: Cloudy Skies & Sunshine

Tomorrow's Forecast: Cloudy Skies & Sunshine

Our managed hosting solution reach a tipping point yesterday. We hit a environment configuration bump that was going to eat 24-36 of our precious startup development hours. This was second bump we'd hit with our hosted hardware provider, and it caused me to pick up the phone to

SPOFs and Clouds

I'm really excited about the Cloud computing frenzy in the marketplace right now. So many under utilized CPU cycles within large corporate data centers (eBay, Amazon, Google, AOL, Microsoft, others) are begging for communal use. Amazon leads the pack by far right now, but I'm anxious