Taking the Fight Where It Belongs

This Guest blog was written by Robert Mahowald, a Group Vice President at IDC who leads IDC's Worldwide Applications research practice, in addition to co-leading IDC's Cloud Services: Global Overview program. A surprising set of facts emerged from the most recent quarterly installment of IDC's...

The Unified Cloud

Throughout the history of cloud computing, 2006 was a momentous year. In 2006 Amazon Web Services released S3, the first pay per GB storage service. By August, they released EC2, allowing you to spin up a server and pay by the hour in the cloud. In the decade that has followed, AWS has emerged as...