by Kyle Hilgendorf | February 3, 2012 | 9 Comments
I’m pretty vocal when it comes to challenging Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) regarding increasing the amount of public transparency they share with not only customers but with prospects. On a very regular basis, I take calls from Gartner clients about the challenges in evaluating CSPs and the frustration with the lack of published information that [...]
Category: Cloud Evaluation Providers Tags: Audit, Cloud, Evaluation, SSAE 16
by Kyle Hilgendorf | December 16, 2011 | 2 Comments
I’ve focused a significant amount of effort in 2011 in assisting our clients through assessments of various cloud providers, namely at the IaaS level. The topic has been so popular in fact, that I presented an “Evaluating Cloud Providers” session at our Gartner Catalyst 2011 conference as well as a free Gartner webinar (which is [...]
Category: Cloud CSA Evaluation Providers Tags: Cloud, CSA, Evaluation, Providers
by Kyle Hilgendorf | August 23, 2011 | 1 Comment
I just finished two webinars last week on Evaluating Cloud Providers. Attendance was really fantastic and I hope our research has helped a variety of companies in their journey of evaluating cloud providers. Below are my thoughts from the sessions.
Category: Cloud Evaluation Hosting IaaS Providers Tags: Assessment, Cloud, Evaluation, Providers, Transparency, Vendor Management
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 | July 21, 2011 | Comments Off
Chris Wolf and I will be participating in the first ever Catalyst Twitter Chat at the Gartner Catalyst conference next week in San Diego. I am thrilled to be part of this event and the topic is extremely popular right now. For those that know Chris he has some of the best technical depth of [...]
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Category: Catalyst Cloud Gartner IaaS Mobility Virtualization Tags: Cloud, Mobility, Virtualization, VM
by Kyle Hilgendorf | May 31, 2011 | 4 Comments
Citrix’s Project Olympus announcement last week at Synergy regarding commercial support for OpenStack officially signaled the beginning of an intriguing battle for the attention of enterprise cloud computing environments. VMware is the industry behemoth in the data center with the vast market share of server virtualization business. Their vCloud initiative over the past 2 years [...]
Category: Citrix Cloud IaaS OpenStack Private Cloud vCloud VMware Tags: Citrix, Cloud, Iaas, Olympus, OpenStack, vCloud, VMware
by Kyle Hilgendorf | April 27, 2011 | 1 Comment
I have now been employed at Gartner for three months. While that is a very short time of employment, I have come to appreciate the knowledge and perspective I gain daily through peer discussions, vendor briefings, and client inquiries. I am beyond impressed with the talent level within Gartner and the challenging and thought-provoking work [...]
Category: Cloud Gartner Hosting IaaS Tags: Cloud, Gartner, Iaas
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
by Kyle Hilgendorf | February 21, 2011 | Comments Off
Hello. My name is Kyle Hilgendorf and I am a new Principal Research Analyst with Gartner. Reading that sentence out loud makes me feel like I am at a support group. Perhaps that is not too far off. In practice, I hope that is exactly what this blog becomes. A support group for sharing ideas, [...]
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