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I would say that having a couple of billion annually to invest in cloud infrastructure and the economies of scale that it enables is a pretty big barrier to ent

I would say that having a couple of billion annually to invest in cloud infrastructure and the economies of scale that it enables is a pretty big barrier to entry. At the moment the only realistic challengers to AWS are Microsoft and Google.

mooreds 12y ago
Rackspace? And what ever happened to Eucalyptus? https://www.eucalyptus.com/ https://www.eucalyptus.com/
- cthalupa 12y ago
  Past numbers had SoftLayer as larger than Rackspace prior to the IBM acquisition. I imagine with the massive growth there post merger, the distance between Rackspace and SoftLayer IBM has only grown larger. That's probably the larger omission than Rackspace.
- pbiggar 12y ago
  Eucalyptus got sold to HP: http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=1790521#.VTrasRPF9F8 http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-news/press-release.html?id=17905...