Analysis from McKinsey & Company that “deflates the cloud” according to coverage by Forbes. I have checked it out and I could wax philosophic on this, but Nicholas Carr has already produced as very good criticism of the report. The cloud will supplement in the enterprise as it will incubate new processes, ideas and competitive advantages. A great example is the New York Times Archives on Amazon AWS. What is going to happen when smart companies figure out how to aim all that raw computing power at their disposal?

Amazon, Microsoft improve their cloud computing game

Interesting read on AWS and Azure offerings. No surprise that Microsoft is offering SQL Server. One thought though is how many less sophisticated organizations run much of their business on Excel or Access. Is this really going to attract those customers?

The AWS pricing is so attractive that I will bet many organizations will bite. It is even tempting for a start up. Hmm…

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Amazon EC2 Introduces Reserved Instances
This is a great pricing model for budgets that have the “use it or lose it” money. It might entice enterprises to try the service without the recurring payments and unexpected fees that many “As A Service” providers use.

Full disclosure: The wife works at Amazon, though in an area unrelated to AWS.