by Lydia Leong | November 17, 2010 | 2 Comments
FlyingPenguin has posted a good critique of my earlier post about Amazon’s ISO 27001 certification. Here’s a succinct correction: To quote Wikipedia, ISO 27001 requires that management: Systematically examine the organization’s information security risks, taking account of the threats, vulnerabilities and impacts; Design and implement a coherent and comprehensive suite of information security controls and/or [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Amazon, Cloud, security
by Lydia Leong | November 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
Greetings from Gartner’s Application Architecture, Development, and Integration Summit. There are around 900 people here, and the audience is heavy on enterprise architects and other application development leaders. One of the common themes of my interaction here has been talking to an awful lot of people who are using or have used Amazon for IaaS. [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Amazon, Cloud, security
by Lydia Leong | November 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
Prospects or Gartner clients who want to meet with me: I will be in Los Angeles on November 18th, and in the San Francisco Bay Area on November 22nd and 23rd. If you want to meet while I’m there, contact your account executive. I’ll also be at Gartner’s Application Architecture, Development, and Integration Summit in [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Gartner
by Lydia Leong | November 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
Amazon recently introduced a Free Usage Tier for its Web Services. Basically, you can try Amazon EC2, with a free micro-instance (specifically, enough hours to run such an instance full-time, and have a few hours left over to run a second instance, too; or you can presumably use a bunch of micro-instances part-time), and the [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Amazon, Cloud, RAX
by Lydia Leong | November 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
How to tell when a CDN has arrived: Akamai sues them for patent infringement. The lawsuit that Akamai has filed against Cotendo alleges the violation of three patents. The most recent of the patents, 7,693,959, is dated April 2010, but it’s a continuation of several previous applications — its age is nicely demonstrated by things [...]
by Lydia Leong | November 9, 2010 | Comments Off
Dan Rayburn’s blg post about the Akamai/Netflix relationship seems to have set off something of a firestorm, and I’ve been deluged by inquiries from Gartner Invest clients about it. I do not want to add fuel to the fire by speculating on anything, and I have access to confidential information that prevents me from stating [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: AKAM, CDN
by Lydia Leong | November 8, 2010 | 3 Comments
Those of you who are Gartner clients know that in the last year, my colleague Joe Skorupa and I have become excited about the emergence of software-based application acceleration via page optimization approaches, as exemplified by vendors like Aptimize and Strangeloop Networks. (Clients: See Cool Vendors in Enterprise Networking, 2010.) This approach to acceleration enhances [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: AKAM, CDN, Google
by Lydia Leong | November 7, 2010 | 2 Comments
I originally wrote this right after Orlando Symposium and forgot to post it. Now that Symposium is over, I want to reflect back on the experiences of the week. Other than the debate session that I did (Eric Knipp and I arguing the future of PaaS vs. IaaS), I spent the conference in the one-on-one [...]
Category: Industry Tags: Cloud, Gartner, research, symposium
