{"id":213,"date":"2011-04-15T02:59:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T02:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2011-04-15T03:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T03:14:00","slug":"techie-debate-cloudhosting-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2011\/04\/techie-debate-cloudhosting-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Techie debate over cloudhosting services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Rackspace vs Amazon Web Services<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"rackspace versus Amazon Web Services\" href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=2448812\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=2448812<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Understanding why <strong>cloud services<\/strong> (software as a service, saas) removed infrastructure as a competitive advantage:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"redmonk, software\" href=\"http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2011\/03\/11\/how-important-is-software\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2011\/03\/11\/how-important-is-software\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And what does Cloud services even mean?!<\/p>\n<p>Read the article at <a title=\"Hyped cloud services\" href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/cloud\/2011\/04\/what-does-that-much-hyped-over.php\" target=\"_blank\">readwriteweb.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/cloud\/2011\/04\/what-facebooks-opencompute-mea.php\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> has released an open computing initiative, removing infrastructure (hardware, software) as a competitive advantage for competitors.<\/p>\n<p>Even <strong>email<\/strong> can outsourced to a cloud provider. Enter: <a title=\"amazon email\" href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ses\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Simple Email Service<\/a> (Amazon SES) (but beta), and a former Twitter techie&#8217;s\u00a0 <strong><a>Message Bus<\/a><\/strong> API.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article at <a title=\"twitter, email\" href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/cloud\/2011\/03\/twitter-and-webshots-veterans.php\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter and Webshots Veterans Launch New E-Mail API<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rackspace vs Amazon Web Services http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=2448812 Understanding why cloud services (software as a service, saas) removed infrastructure as a competitive advantage: http:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/2011\/03\/11\/how-important-is-software\/ And what does Cloud services even mean?! Read the article at readwriteweb.com And how Facebook has released an open computing initiative, removing infrastructure (hardware, software) as a competitive advantage for competitors. Even email &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/2011\/04\/techie-debate-cloudhosting-services\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Techie debate over cloudhosting services&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-webhosting","category-website"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p415hC-3r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulgurney.com\/whats_new_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}