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Amazon Stealing the Cloud « SmoothSpan Blog - 2 views

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shared by dhtobey Tobey on 18 May 10 - Cached
  • A survey of 600 developers by Mashery reported that 69% of respondents said Amazon, Google, and Twitter were the most popular API’s they were using.
  • Amazon and Netflix jointly published a great case study and announced Netflix would move more infrastructure into Amazon’s Cloud.
  • A wonderful post on CNet talks about Goldman Sachs’ findings for the Cloud.  There were a ton of them including:           – A ranked list of apps moving into the Cloud.  Web Conferencing and Salesforce Automation were #1 and #2. 
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  • The majority of SMB’s now have a “SaaS first” policy, they prefer it. 
  • Amazon.com is used by 67 percent of the survey respondents. It is clearly the out-in-front leader, despite being a “newcomer” to enterprise IT. For internal clouds, VMware’s leadership remains pronounced, with 83 percent of respondents using its virtualization technology.  Platform-as-a-service layers are gaining momentum, dominated by Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud, or EC2, service, with 77 percent of respondents choosing EC2 as a preferred partner, well ahead of Google.  These share numbers are why the title of this post is that Amazon is stealing the Cloud.  They represent remarkable share and momentum.
  • UK firm Netcraft finds that the Amazon Cloud hosts 365,000 web sites.  Evidently a number of firms have discovered that web hosting is a great commodity use for the Cloud. -  PC World asks why Amazon doesn’t charge more for its service.  They conclude that AWS is looking to build economies of scale and set low prices that act as a barrier to entry for new competitors.  Like I said, Amazon isn’t afraid of being commoditized for they are the commoditizers.
  • And they’re building barriers to entry of several kinds: -  Nobody but Amazon has the experience of running a Cloud service on this scale.  They can’t help but be learning important things about how to do it well that potential competitors have yet to discover. -  There is a growing community of developers whose Cloud education is all about Amazon. 
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DynaMed - 1 views

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evidence-based-medicine EBM Dynamed publisher competitor hosted-service partner

shared by dhtobey Tobey on 30 Apr 10 - Cached
  • The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has determined that DynaMed may be of assistance to family physicians in answering clinical questions with high-quality evidence.
  • dhtobey Tobey on 30 Apr 10
     
    This could be a potential partner or competitor to an EBM community desktop. They have been endorsed by AAFP which is probably closer to the equivalent of NERC on the practitioner side with perhaps C-PATH being the equivalent on the pharma side.
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