Category Archives: Azure

Covid-19 Impact on AWS

Posted on April 2, 2020 by halberenson

The tl;dr version is that Covid-19 is putting at best mildly upward pressure on AWS growth rate, with dramatic acceleration in some areas and significant drop-offs in others. But to think that any PaaS/IaaS vendor can see dramatic growth while … Continue reading →

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Google goes to the dark side on JEDI

Posted on October 9, 2018 by halberenson

Every time I read an article on the U.S. Department of Defense large Cloud project known as JEDI I find myself suppressing an urge to comment.  Google dropping out of the bidding finally made that urge difficult to suppress. It is … Continue reading →

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Challenges of Hyperscale Computing (Part 3)

Posted on August 25, 2018 by halberenson

Back in Part 2 I discussed the relationship between failures and the people resources needed to address them, and demonstrated why at hyperscale you can’t use people to handle failures.  In this part I’ll discuss how that impacts a managed … Continue reading →

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The rise of custom chips

Posted on April 7, 2018 by halberenson

The Verge published an interesting piece this week on why Apple (at least as the rumor goes) will replace the use of Intel processors with its homegrown ARM-based processors. The author asserts that it is because Intel is standing still.  … Continue reading →

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Challenges of Hyperscale Computing (Part 2)

Posted on January 20, 2018 by halberenson

In part one of this series I used recent increases in maximum database size as a driver for introducing the challenges of hyperscale computing.  In this part we dive into the heart of the matter, which is what it takes … Continue reading →

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Service Level Agreements (SLA)

Posted on December 13, 2017 by halberenson

I wanted to make some comments on Service Level Agreements (SLAs), so we interrupt our scheduled Part 2 on 16GB Cloud Databases.  A Service Level Agreement establishes both an expectation between a service provider and a customer of the level … Continue reading →

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