by Lydia Leong | December 23, 2011 | 1 Comment
Akamai is acquiring Cotendo for a purchase price of $268 million, somewhat under the rumored $300 million that had been previously reported in the Israeli press. To judge from the stock price, the acquisition is being warmly received by investors (and for good reason). The acquisition only impacts the website delivery/acceleration portion of the CDN [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: AKAM, CDN, news
by Lydia Leong | December 13, 2011 | 8 Comments
I’m happy to announce that the new Gartner Magic Quadrant for Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service has been published. (Client-only link. Non-clients can read a reprint.) This is a brand-new Magic Quadrant; our previous Magic Quadrant has essentially been split into two MQs, this new Public Cloud IaaS MQ that focuses on self-service, and [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, Gartner, hosting, IaaS, MQ, research
by Lydia Leong | December 9, 2011 | 3 Comments
Many cloud IaaS providers have been struggling to articulate their differentiation for a while now, and many of them labor under the delusion that “not being Amazon” is differentiating. But it also tends to lead them into misleading marketing, especially when it comes to trying to label their multi-tenant cloud IaaS “private cloud IaaS”, to [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, IaaS, networking
by Lydia Leong | December 7, 2011 | 1 Comment
Randy Bias has blogged about Amazon mandating instance reboots for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of instances (Amazon’s term for VMs). Affected instances seem to be scheduled for reboots over the next couple of weeks. Speculation is that the reboots are to patch a recently-reported vulnerability in the Xen hypervisor, which is the virtualization technology that underlies [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Amazon, Cloud, IaaS
by Lydia Leong | December 2, 2011 | 2 Comments
As I noted previously, cloud IaaS is a lot more than just self-service VMs. As service providers strive to differentiate themselves from one another, they enter a software-development rat race centered around “what other features can we add to make our cloud more useful to customers”. However, cloud IaaS providers today have to deal with [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, IaaS
by Lydia Leong | December 1, 2011 | Comments Off
Thus far, merger-watchers eyeing the rumored bidding for Cotendo seem to be asking: Why this high a valuation compared to the rest of the CDN industry? Who are the potential suitors and why? What if anything does Cotendo offer that other CDNs don’t? How do the various dynamic offerings in the market compare? Who else [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: AKAM, CDN
by Lydia Leong | November 28, 2011 | 2 Comments
Eric Domage, an analyst over at IDC, is being quoted as saying, “The decision in the next year or two will only be about the private cloud. The bigger the company, the more they will consider the private cloud. The enterprise cloud is locked down and totally managed. It is the closest replication of virtualisation.” [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, IaaS, security
by Lydia Leong | November 17, 2011 | Comments Off
Estimates of Amazon’s revenues in the cloud IaaS market vary, but you could put it upwards of $1 billion in 2011 and not cause too much controversy. That’s a dominant market share, comprised heavily of early adopters but at this point, also drawing in the mainstream business — particularly the enterprise, which has become increasingly [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: Amazon, Cloud, IaaS
by Lydia Leong | November 16, 2011 | Comments Off
One year ago, when we did our 2010 hosting/cloud Magic Quadrant, you were doing pretty well as a service provider if you had a bare-minimum cloud IaaS offering — a service in which customers could go in, push buttons and self-service provision and de-provision virtual machines. There were providers with more capabilities than that, but [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, hosting, IaaS
by Lydia Leong | November 14, 2011 | 1 Comment
We’re wrapping up our Public Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant (the drafts will be going out for review today or tomorrow), and we’ve just formally initiated the Managed Hosting and Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant. This new Magic Quadrant is the next update of last year’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting. [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, Gartner, hosting, IaaS, MQ, research
