by Kyle Hilgendorf | April 20, 2012 | 2 Comments
I just returned from full days at the OpenStack conference and analyst day in San Francisco. For full transparency, I’ve been somewhat skeptical about the size of the OpenStack movement and the crippling effect of too many players and the competitive nature of those involved for moving the initiative forward. Perhaps some of this comes [...]
Category: AWS Citrix Cloud IaaS OpenStack Private Cloud Providers Tags: AWS, CloudStack, Iaas, OpenStack, Rackspace, VMware
by Kyle Hilgendorf | August 12, 2011 | 2 Comments
In my recently published Gartner IT1 guidance document, “Moving Applications to the Cloud: Finding Your Right Path”, I highlighted a major contributing factor to the failure of VM to cloud mobility being the Internet bottleneck between enterprise data centers and public cloud providers. In fact, for many large enterprise organizations, achieving uploads of 2-3 GB/hour [...]
Category: AWS Citrix Cloud Dedicated Hosting Hybrid IaaS Mobility Tags: AWS, Citrix, Cloud, Hosting, Hybrid
by Kyle Hilgendorf | April 22, 2011 | 2 Comments
The AWS outage was sad for me to see. As a research analyst that covers cloud computing, I have a vested interested in the success and viability of the cloud. Amazon is a major bellwether for the cloud. They’ve set direction, driven innovation, and challenged status quo. Cloud providers everywhere either try to emulate Amazon [...]
Category: AWS Cloud IaaS Tags: AWS, Cloud, Liability, Outage, Transparency
by Kyle Hilgendorf | March 29, 2011 | Comments Off
Amazon recently announced a new feature in their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Customers that have a VPC can now choose to deploy “dedicated instances” into their VPC that run on hardware (compute capacity) dedicated for that specific customer only. This is a pretty radical shift from Amazon and one worthy of a few comments. In [...]
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Category: AWS Cloud Dedicated Hosting IaaS Private Cloud VPC Tags: Cloud, Dedicated, Hosting, Iaas, Private Cloud, VPC
