by Kyle Hilgendorf | October 23, 2012 | Comments Off
Yesterday was marked with another major cloud outage. Amazon Web Services experienced a single availability zone issue in the US-East-1 region. As with all major cloud provider outages, I get the opportunity to speak to customers affected by the outage or customers considering broader public cloud adoption. One question was asked of me in multiple [...]
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Category: AWS Cloud IaaS Outage Providers Tags: AWS, Cloud, Iaas, Outage
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 | April 16, 2012 | Comments Off
Last week I wrote a short blog on some not-so-common differentiators among public cloud IaaS providers. This week, Gartner published a large corresponding research project that I wanted to highlight. “Evaluation Criteria for Public Cloud IaaS Providers” (Gartner for Technology Professionals subscription required) is the result of a year worth of customer interactions and personal [...]
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Category: Cloud Evaluation Gartner IaaS Providers Tags: Cloud, Criteria, Evaluation, Iaas, Providers
by Kyle Hilgendorf | April 11, 2012 | 4 Comments
I recently took a customer phone dialog regarding key differentiators in a public cloud IaaS offering. The customer wanted to discuss differentiators among services that are not commonly considered. The customer had already considered differences among scalability, geographic offerings, VM catalogs, pricing, security controls, network options, and storage tiers. They were essentially asking about “periphery” [...]
Category: Cloud Evaluation IaaS Tags: Assessment, Cloud, Iaas, Providers, Transparency, Vendor Management
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 | 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
