by Lydia Leong | February 16, 2009 | 4 Comments
James Governor’s thoughtful blog post on finding the REST of cloud prompted me to think about developer-driven versus sysadmin-driven adoption of cloud. This is a fulcrum that’s separate from GUI vs. CLI vs. API tug-of-war, which in many ways is a sysadmin-driven debate. The immediacy of cloud provisioning has instinctive appeal to developers who just [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: appdev, Cloud
by Lydia Leong | February 12, 2009 | Comments Off
A client recently asked me what my Clifton Strengths are. I couldn’t remember at the time, but I’ve dug out old 1.0 results from back in 2006… Ideation. People strong in the Ideation theme are fascinated by ideas. They are able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena. Strategic. People strong in the Strategic theme [...]
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Category: Analyst Life Tags: people
by Lydia Leong | February 11, 2009 | Comments Off
Back in 2005, my colleague Monica Basso and I wrote a research note titled, “Wide Array of Communications Overwhelms Users“. In it, we pointed out that the proliferation of communication mechanisms and the complex intermixing of personal and business communications would become increasingly unmanageable. Until a few months ago, Gartner had a policy that disallowed [...]
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Category: Analyst Life Tags: networking, people
by Lydia Leong | February 10, 2009 | 2 Comments
I’ve recently discovered TripIt through LinkedIn, which has an app to link in TripIt travel plans. I’ve got to say, it’s pretty awesome. Forward your confirmation emails to it, and it will automatically build them into travel plans. I normally get PDFs via American Express. But my trips are a multi-email jumbled mess of multiple [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: travel
by Lydia Leong | February 9, 2009 | Comments Off
Joel Spolsky has two UI design principles: Users don’t have the manual, and if they did, they wouldn’t read it. In fact, users can’t read anything, and if they could, they wouldn’t want to. These ought to be core principles of cloud UI design, and, in fact, most cloud infrastructure providers do seem to earnestly [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, people
by Lydia Leong | February 8, 2009 | Comments Off
Matthew Sacks has blogged Keynote performance test results for Akamai via Distribution Cloud. There are other Akamai resellers out there, but Distribution Cloud posts its prices publicly, starting at 50 GB for $150 per month ($3/GB), and going up to 1 TB for $2,200/month ($2.20/GB), with storage at $15/GB. That’s 10x the cost of Limelight [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: AKAM, CDN
by Lydia Leong | February 7, 2009 | Comments Off
Benjamin Black’s blog has an interesting story: his perspective of how Amazon EC2 came to be. An interview with Chris Pinkham and Amazon’s Cape Town Development Centre site are interesting reads, too. The latter is focused upon EC2 development.
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: Amazon, Cloud
by Lydia Leong | February 6, 2009 | Comments Off
We’re in the midst of a fascinating discontinuity in IT purchasing patterns. Even the dot-com crash didn’t cause this kind of disruption. Practically everyone is scrambling to save money immediately, and some organizations are looking at long-term belt-tightening. The most obvious immediate impact is that buyer tolerance for paying a premium is rapidly diminishing. Quality [...]
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by Lydia Leong | February 6, 2009 | Comments Off
Gartner is hiring! Here’s the formal job posting: Research Director, Emerging Enterprise Network Services, Europe. (Or you can go to Gartner Careers and search for req 7705BR.) Informally, here’s the scoop: My team is looking for a European counterpart for me — someone who will be European-based, European-focused, and cover Internet infrastructure services and other [...]
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Category: Analyst Life Tags: Gartner
by Lydia Leong | February 5, 2009 | Comments Off
January was a crazy, crazy month, and February looks to be shaping up to be just as intensive, if not more so. During January, in the fifteen available working days (the days not completely consumed by travel or by our research planning process), I had one hundred interactions — one hundred individual client/prospect inquiries or [...]
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Category: Analyst Life Tags: Gartner
