by Eric Knipp | March 6, 2012 | 3 Comments
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced yet another cut in its infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) pricing (it also announced cuts in select PaaS capabilities, including the relational database service). I’ve been telling Gartner clients for years that this will never stop. Amazon.com is a retailer and at its core, AWS is a retail business. It is a mistake to look [...]
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by Eric Knipp | February 15, 2012 | Comments Off
Cloud computing has become an important element of every enterprise IT provider’s business strategy and it is long past time to treat “a cloud [as] water vapor,” as Oracle CEO Larry Ellison famously said in 2009. Even Oracle is now well-entrenched in the cloud war through both acquisition and internal initiatives. Microsoft, IBM, SAP, and [...]
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