Your *aaS Looks Big - 8/10 companies using multiple clouds

Posted by matellis on Thursday May 10, 2012 @03:53PM
from the venturebeat.com dept.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/10/cloud-services-data/

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Re:Your *aaS Looks Big - 8/10 companies using multiple clouds by twog on Thursday May 10, 2012 @04:50PM (#3955942)

While it looks beautiful, this is kind of a silly infographic. The data has been collected from https://cloudability.com/, a company that helps you track multiple cloud costs. Why would you be using cloudability if you werent tracking multiple clouds? Thats the whole point of their product.

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Re:Your *aaS Looks Big - 8/10 companies using multiple clouds by taligent on Thursday May 10, 2012 @04:53PM (#3955958)

Cloudability is for much more than just clouds. It's for all the services around it e.g. UserVoice, ZenDesk, Pingdom etc.

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Re:Your *aaS Looks Big - 8/10 companies using multiple clouds by nl on Thursday May 10, 2012 @05:43PM (#3956266)

Those "services" are delivered as "Software as a Service" (SaaS) aka "Cloud Software".

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Re:Your *aaS Looks Big - 8/10 companies using multiple clouds by twunde on Thursday May 10, 2012 @05:16PM (#3956080)

It looks like there may be some doublecounting involved. If you're using Amazon AWS then does using EC2 and S3 that looks like ti would be counted as 2 services.

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Re:Your *aaS Looks Big - 8/10 companies using multiple clouds by stormental on Thursday May 10, 2012 @05:22PM (#3956114)

Nope, the infographic was based on people using multiple service providers, not services within a provider. You're right though, the terminology is a bit ambiguous.

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Re:Your *aaS Looks Big - 8/10 companies using multiple clouds by 12uu45dd on Thursday May 10, 2012 @05:25PM (#3956144)

Love this title. So many bad, uncreative titles. At this one is honest. Albeit in poor taste.

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Re:Your *aaS Looks Big - 8/10 companies using multiple clouds by jhomhenvhisst on Thursday May 10, 2012 @06:44PM (#3956541)

I think they should use the word cloud more. Ridiculous.

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Re:Your *aaS Looks Big - 8/10 companies using multiple clouds by bilmeswe on Thursday May 10, 2012 @04:03PM (#3955691)

Nice to see the spread on multiple Iaas.

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Re:Your *aaS Looks Big - 8/10 companies using multiple clouds by dkador on Thursday May 10, 2012 @04:42PM (#3955912)

Pretty sweet infographic.

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Re:Your *aaS Looks Big - 8/10 companies using multiple clouds by taligent on Thursday May 10, 2012 @04:50PM (#3955943)

I actually think there are massive opportunities for startups in this space.

One of the apps I would have loved is something that can recommend me deployment options that take into account latency e.g. find me a dedicated server that is close to EC2 US-East to pair with my existing instances/SQS. Or where should I put my servers if I need to serve Japan and UK customers from the same servers.

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