Navigating IaaS Pricing | Gaining Altitude in the Cloud

Last year, I wrote here that cloud services were “differentiated commodities.”  The evolution of the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market over the last 18 months continues to reinforce this view. A recent analysis of an enterprise’s IaaS options for an IT infrastructure workload that is expected to grow ten-fold during the next few years illustrates this observation [...]

Amazon in the Headlines | Gaining Altitude in the Cloud

I’m sure many of you have read the reports of Amazon’s new CEO’s steps to revitalize the company’s growth. News of restructuring that could involve widespread layoffs that cut deeply across Amazon, including some of its key development areas are also driving changes across the company’s management ranks. Meanwhile, there’s at least one part of Amazon that is taking [...]