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
clouds
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
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
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
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