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
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
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
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
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