Links for 05-04-2010

• Cloud.com | The Power Behind Your Cloud - I just found out that Peder Ulander (who I know from Sun) now runs marketing here.
• Nikola Tesla predicted mobile phones in 1909 - Recombu
• Understanding Cloud Datacenter Economies of Scale | Cloudscaling - James Urquhart disputes the claims around networking but this post gives a good overview of economies of scale. It's an important point because some early cloud assumptions posited very high scale points needed for economies.
• 1,000,000 iPads. 28 days. First Take « GartenBlog - "Apple has validated this market. As i’ve talked in the past, there’s a worldwide market for 50,000 of anything. Try to sell 500,00 that’s another story. Get to a million and you’re a success by any measure. I suspect that in the history of ‘tweener devices, if you added up all the efforts over the last decade they likely didn’t app to a million units sold. The market is real and it’s a new line of business."