by Lydia Leong | December 11, 2008 | Comments Off
I am spending as much of my research time as possible on cloud these days, although my core coverage (colocation, hosting, and CDNs) still demands most of my client-facing time. Reflecting the fact that hosting and cloud infrastructure services are part of the same broad market (if you’re buying service from Joyent or GoGrid or [...]
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by Lydia Leong | December 11, 2008 | 5 Comments
CDN provider Velocix has announced the launch of a new product, called Velocix Metro. (I was first briefed on Metro almost eight months ago, so the official launch has been in the works for quite a while.) Velocix Metro is essentially a turnkey managed CDN service, deployed at locations of an Internet service provider’s choice, [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: CDN
by Lydia Leong | December 11, 2008 | Comments Off
Sacramento-based colocation provider RagingWire has launched a subsidiary, StrataScale, whose first product is a managed cloud hosting service, IronScale. (I’ve mentioned this before, but the launch is now official.) I’ll be posting more on it once I’ve had time to check out a demo, but here’s a quick take: What’s interesting is that IronScale is [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, hosting
by Lydia Leong | December 10, 2008 | 1 Comment
Excerpt: Click here to read the original. Google announced something very interesting yesterday: their Native Client project. The short form of what this does: You can develop part or all of your application client in a language that compiles down to native code (for instance, C or C++, compiled to x86 assembly), then let the [...]
Category: Applications Tags: appdev, excerpt, Google, security
by Lydia Leong | December 10, 2008 | Comments Off
In order to keep this blog more focused on my coverage topics, as well as less deep-dive geeky, I’m going to be keeping posts that extend beyond my coverage at Gartner, as well as drill-down, hands-on, stuff, just on my own personal blog, CloudPundit (cloudpundit.com). I’ll excerpt those posts on this blog, though, clearly marked [...]
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by Lydia Leong | December 9, 2008 | Comments Off
If a customer really wants to leave, you are probably best off letting them leave. Certainly, if they’ve reached the end of their contract, and you are actively engaged in dialogue with one another, you should note little things like, “Your contract auto-renews”. What not to do: Not tell the customer about the auto-renewal, then [...]
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by Lydia Leong | December 5, 2008 | Comments Off
There’s no free lunch on the Internet. That’s the title of a research note that I wrote over a year ago, to explain the peering ecosystem to clients who wanted to understand how the money flows. What we’ve got today is the result of a free market. Precursor’s Scott Cleland thinks that’s unfair — he [...]
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Category: Industry Tags: Google, net neutrality
by Lydia Leong | December 5, 2008 | 1 Comment
My colleague Tom Bittman has written a great summary of the hot topics from the Gartner data center conference this past week. Some personal observations as I wrap up the week… The future of infrastructure is the cloud. I use “cloud” in a broad sense; many larger organizations will be building their own “private clouds” [...]
Category: Industry Tags: Cloud, colocation, conference, Gartner
by Lydia Leong | December 3, 2008 | 1 Comment
Amazon SimpleDB is now in public beta. This database-as-a-service has been in private beta for some time, but what’s really noteworthy is that with the public beta, Amazon has dropped the price drastically, and the first 25 machine hours, 1 GB of storage, and 1 GB of transfer are free, meaning that it’s essentially free [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Amazon, Mosso, storage
by Lydia Leong | December 2, 2008 | Comments Off
I have three new research notes out: Determine Your Video Delivery Requirements. When I talk to clients, I often find that IT is trying to source a video delivery solution without having much of an idea of what the requirements actually are. This note is directed at them; it’s intended to serve as a framework [...]
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