The notion that pay-as-you-go cloud computing will eliminate shelfware — paid-for but unused computing resources — has always been suspect. Last year I wrote that the proliferation of unused compute instances resulting in… Read more »
It’s been just over a year since I left Netflix and joined Battery Ventures. So it seemed appropriate (if a couple of weeks late) to take a look back at some technology and… Read more »
Datadog, which promises to let companies see how well (or badly) their various cloud deployments are performing, now has $31 million in fresh Series C funding, bringing its total to about $53 million… Read more »
While many tech enthusiasts may still be reeling from last week’s wave of Amazon-related cloud announcements, this week showed that Amazon isn’t the only company making big cloud news. Read more »
Open source software is widely available and hugely helpful. But the packaging can be dicey and deployment difficult. So say hey to Netflix’ ZeroToDocker. Read more »
Microsoft announced a trio of new cloud data services on Wednesday aimed at stream processing and data pipelines. They’re not revolutionary, but they appear to have their own advantages, and they… Read more »
VMware used third-party benchmarks to claim that vCHS is less expensive than Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure. But really, what would you expect them to show? Read more »
Adrian Cockcroft, technical fellow at Battery Ventures and noted cloud expert from his days at Netflix, has traveled the world and come back with some predictions of cloud trends. Here are… Read more »
Amazon has hopped into the video transcoding business with it’s new Elastic Transcoder service, joining Microsoft, Encoding.com and others as providers of such a service. Read more »
Next year, “the cloud” will finally be ready for enterprise workloads and big companies will finally start moving them there. Data centers will stop being enclosed by walls and those are… Read more »