Earlier this year, I was part of a team at Gartner that took a futuristic view of the data center, in a scenario-planning exercise. The results of that work have been published as The Future of the Data Center Market: Four Scenarios for Strategic Planning (Gartner clients only). My blog entries today are by my [...]
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What does the future of the data center look like to you?
by Lydia Leong | October 7, 2011 | 4 Comments
Introduction to the Future of the Data Center Market
by Lydia Leong | October 7, 2011 | Comments Off
Earlier this year, I was part of a team at Gartner that took a futuristic view of the data center, in a scenario-planning exercise. The results of that work have been published as The Future of the Data Center Market: Four Scenarios for Strategic Planning (Gartner clients only). My blog entries today are by my [...]
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Recent research notes
by Lydia Leong | August 26, 2011 | Comments Off
This is just a quick call-out to draw your attention to the research that I’ve published recently. Do You Have a Business Case for a Top-Level Domain? I blogged previously on this topic, and this research note, done with my colleague Ray Valdes (whose coverage includes online user experience), dives deeply into consideration of the [...]
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OpenStack, community, and commercialization
by Lydia Leong | August 15, 2011 | 7 Comments
I wrote, the other day, about Citrix buying Cloud.com, and I realized I forgot to make an important point about OpenStack versus the various commercial vendors vying for the cloud-building market; it’s worthy of a post on its own. OpenStack is designed by the community, which is to say that it’s largely designed by committee, [...]
Category: Industry Tags: Citrix, Cloud, open source, OpenStack
Citrix buys Cloud.com
by Lydia Leong | August 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
(This is part of a series of “catch-up” posts of announcements that I’ve wanted to comment on but didn’t previously find time to blog about.) Recently, Citrix acquired Cloud.com. The purchase price was reported to be in the $200m+ vicinity — around 100x revenues. (Even in this current run of outsized valuations, that’s a rather [...]
Category: Industry Tags: Citrix, Cloud, RAX, software, VMware
Akamai and Riverbed partner on SaaS delivery
by Lydia Leong | May 15, 2011 | 2 Comments
Akamai and Riverbed have signed a significant partnership deal to jointly develop solutions that combine Internet acceleration with WAN optimization. The two companies will be incorporating each other’s technologies into their platforms; this is a deep partnership with significant joint engineering, and it is probably the most significant partnership that Akamai has done to date. [...]
What CenturyLink is Getting with Savvis
by Lydia Leong | April 27, 2011 | Comments Off
I scribbled off a quick blog post on the CenturyLink acquisition of Savvis but didn’t have time to delve into it in detail at the time. This is a bit of a follow-up. Savvis has three core businesses: Coloation: Savvis has carrier-diverse (though not strictly-speaking carrier neutral), high-quality colocation in data centers around the world. [...]
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CenturyLink buys Savvis
by Lydia Leong | April 27, 2011 | 1 Comment
Ever since Verizon bought Terremark, and Time Warner Cable bought NaviSite earlier this year, people have speculated about the fate of Savvis. Well, today we know: CenturyLink is buying Savvis. CenturyLink is a carrier, which rolled up a lot of rural telco assets before going on to digest Qwest. Acquiring Savvis signals its cloud computing [...]
Cloud as a Business Executive Forum
by Lydia Leong | April 2, 2011 | Comments Off
On Wednesday, April 13th, I will be speaking at Joyent’s Cloud as a Business Executive Forum, an all-day event that they’re holding at the Le Meridien Hotel in San Francisco. I’ll be delivering a presentation on the cloud computing opportunity for service providers, as follows: Service providers face unprecedented opportunity to grow their revenues and [...]
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Category: Industry Tags: Cloud, conference
Cloud IaaS market segmentation
by Lydia Leong | March 13, 2011 | 1 Comment
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been mulling over a way to structure and segment the cloud infrastructure as a service market. Some of those ideas have appeared on my blog, and have since been refined, heavily peer reviewed, and then trial-ballooned at clients. The result is a new research note, called The Structure [...]
