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Self-hosting vs Cloud-hosting costs

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: December 22, 2010

Is there hard ROI to use a cloud IaaS instead of a server in your garage/basement/on-premise datacenter? I think there increasingly is and justifying self-hosting is getting increasingly tough. I would actually go as far as posit that you can now get a server in a public datacenter at price comparable to your electricity bill alone! If [...]

Who will be a Red Hat for Eucalyptus?

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: December 1, 2008

Is someone going to step in and provide commercial support for the Eucalyptus open-source project basically following the Red Hat model which made Linux commercially successful and generated good revenue for Red Hat? Here’s what I am thinking based on what I saw and heard at the Cloud Computing Expo (see my notes here): We [...]

Microsoft Azure vs Amazon, Google, and VMware

Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 29, 2008

Now that we had a few days to look at Microsoft’s Windows Azure it is time to compare it with other alternatives on the market. For our comparison we picked solutions from the biggest players in the market and potential to impact the industry in that area: Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google App [...]


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