I got an email from Amazon this morning announcing a simple storage service for developers. Indeed, it is simple. One may read, write, and delete objects from 1 byte to 5GB and pay $0.15/GB/Month for storage and $0.20/GB/Month for transfer. No minimum charge, no startup fees. Security and simplicity are key tenets of the new service. One has to wonder what the adoption will be and how trusting folks will be when parking objects here. Nevertheless, I remain impressed with the simplicity and cost of the new Amazon offering.

When I think about Sun’s network services, this is a prime example of where I believe we should be going. We have $1/CPU/Hour on the grid. What next from Sun? What next from Amazon? What next from Google? It’s an interesting world out there and will only become more interesting as network services deploy and are pulled together in mashups.

After a brief hiatus, my blogging is now going back into swing. You may notice we have new digs; having moved from an internal to Sun only blog to an external blog.

In February, Sun had a large event called the Sun Analyst Summit. During that event, I had the opportunity to chat with a fellow named James Governor from the firm RedMonk. James had a simple hypothesis: Sun doesn’t talk nearly enough about our services and how they help our customers. James went on to suggest that blogging is a very good way to do this communication.

I thought, “Well heck, I blog. Internally. Why not go public?” Consequently, one of my colleagues who was also involved in the conversation with James, Jay Littlepage started his blog. The combination inspired me to move outside the cozy confines of the firewall and start to post in these environs.

Some of my prior entries have been moved to this venue and I’ll post more on a day by day, week by week basis. Hope folks find something useful here…..stay tuned.