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Ryan Orban

Ryan Orban

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Cloud Computing

Bookmarks

  1. Akash: Decentralized Cloud Computing

    Akash Network is a decentralized cloud marketplace where anyone can sell spare compute capacity and anyone can buy it — an open alternative to AWS/GCP with on-chain pricing and Kubernetes-based workload orchestration.

  2. Making Sense of Dell + EMC + VMware

    Andreessen Horowitz's breakdown of the $67B Dell-EMC deal — the largest tech acquisition in history at the time. The strategic driver was less obvious than it looked: Dell needed enterprise access and scale to survive the commodity hardware collapse, and going private again protected both companies from activist pressure.

  3. Gartner: AWS Five Times the Size of Cloud Competitors Combined

    Gartner's 2013 finding that AWS infrastructure capacity was five times the next 14 cloud providers combined — the market share number that made AWS's dominance narrative concrete and widely quoted. A useful baseline for understanding how lopsided the early cloud market was.

  4. Four Things VMware Must Do at VMworld

    InformationWeek's 2013 analysis of four things VMware needed to do at VMworld to stay competitive — addressing cloud strategy, OpenStack pressure, hyper-convergence threats, and the transition from a pure hypervisor business to a broader software-defined infrastructure platform.

  5. Data Centers Waste Vast Amounts of Energy

    NYT investigation into the massive energy waste inside data centers — servers running at 6-12% utilization, backup systems idling on standby, cooling systems sized for peak loads that rarely arrive. Exposed the gap between the clean, efficient image of cloud computing and the physical reality.

  6. Getting Started with Amazon EC2

    Paul Stamatiou's 2012 getting-started guide to Amazon EC2 — launching instances, SSH access, security groups, and basic server setup. Representative of the era when 'cloud' meant learning EC2 from scratch with no managed services.

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