“So tell me” asked the AWS user from Los Angeles, “exactly what differentiates Cloudyn from other players in the space?” It was a great question and fortunately I had solid answers. Combined with his successful 20 day free trial, the … Continue Reading >
In most areas of life, but particularly in business, we love comparing our good (and not-so-good) deeds with those of our peers. This benchmarking enables us to ensure our performance meets industry standards while identifying areas for growth. For those … Continue Reading >
AWS customers looking to reduce the cost of EC2 consumption know that reserved instances are generally much more cost-effective than on-demand. The payback can be huge with most Amazon cloud customers saving between 30%-46% on their AWS bill. [Read more … Continue Reading >
If you read our business intelligence on Amazon EC2 in last week’s blog post, some of you should have been able to boost your AWS computing performance by 30% while keeping your costs the same. Not too shabby for reading … Continue Reading >
One of the side-effects of monitoring over 3 million AWS EC2 instances and 2.6 petabytes of Amazon S3 storage is that we are sitting on some really big data with some interesting industry trends and insight. Here are a few … Continue Reading >
A recent Symantec report highlighted how enterprises and SMBs are barely leveraging the efficiencies of cloud storage with only a 17% utilization rate of available cloud storage. Symantec claims that this results in companies “paying for roughly 6 times as … Continue Reading >
At the start of 2013 we wanted to get a clear picture of our customer base. So we analyzed the profile of 260 Cloudyn customers and the resulting data produced a great map of the AWS users base – including … Continue Reading >
This week London will play host to Cloud Expo Europe, providing European businesses an opportunity to hear from leading cloud insiders, meet vendors and network with their peers. While the expected 6,000 delegates clearly indicate increased interest in cloud computing, … Continue Reading >
Last Friday as I was wrapping things up, my inbox beeped with an email. One of our customers had just received their Cloudyn cost-to-date alert, informing them of their total AWS spend up until that point in the month. They … Continue Reading >
We are just wrapping up the first full week of 2013, and Amazon is already at the center of a stormy cloud debate. Financial analysts are predicting a huge year for AWS as they move into the enterprise space. However, … Continue Reading >
