by Lydia Leong | May 21, 2013 | 4 Comments
Although this has been long-rumored, and then was formally mentioned in VMware’s recent investor day, VMware has only just formally announced the vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS), which is VMware’s foray into the public cloud IaaS market. VMware has previously had a strategy of being an arms dealer to service providers who wanted to offer cloud [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, IaaS, news, VMware
by Lydia Leong | May 20, 2013 | 1 Comment
Today, not long after its recent acquisition of Enstratius, Dell announced a withdrawal from the public cloud IaaS market. This removes Dell’s current VMware-based, vCloud Datacenter Service from the market; furthermore, Dell will not launch an OpenStack-based public cloud IaaS offering later this year, as it had originally intended to do. This does not affect [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, IaaS, news
by Lydia Leong | April 5, 2013 | Comments Off
If you’re a service provider interested in participating in the Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant process (see the call for vendors), I’d like to recommend a number of my previous blog posts. Foundational Gartner research notes on cloud IaaS. Recommended reading to understand our thinking on the market. Having cloud-enabled technology != Having a cloud. Critical [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, Gartner, IaaS, MQ, research
by Lydia Leong | March 27, 2013 | 1 Comment
It’s that time of the year again, a little bit early — we’re trying to refresh the Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant on a nine-month cycle rather than a yearly cycle, reflecting the faster pace of the market. A pre-qualification survey, intended to gather quantitative metrics and information about each provider’s service, will be going out [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, Gartner, IaaS, MQ, research
by Lydia Leong | March 21, 2013 | 1 Comment
Every time there’s been a major Amazon outage, someone always says something like, “Regular Web hosters and colocation companies don’t have outages!” I saw an article in my Twitter stream today, and finally decided that the topic deserves a blog post. (The article seemed rather linkbait-ish, so I’m not going to link it.) It is [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, colocation, hosting, IaaS
by Lydia Leong | December 7, 2012 | 6 Comments
I corresponded with some members of the HP cloud team in email, and then colleagues and I spoke with HP on the phone, after my last blog post called, “Cloud IaaS SLAs can be Meaningless“. HP provided some useful clarifications, which I’ll detail below, but I haven’t changed my fundamental opinion, although arguably the nuances [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, IaaS
by Lydia Leong | December 7, 2012 | Comments Off
Gartner will soon be starting the process of updating our Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting, currently targeted for publication in Q1 of 2013. This is the update to the Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting that was published in March 2012 of this year; a free reprint is available. If you consider yourself to be an [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: Gartner, hosting, MQ, research
by Lydia Leong | December 5, 2012 | 7 Comments
In infrastructure services, the purpose of an SLA (or, for that matter, the liability clause in the contract) is not “give the customer back money to compensate for the customer’s losses that resulted from this downtime”. Rather, the monetary guarantees involved are an expression of shared risk. They represent a vote of confidence — how [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, IaaS
by Lydia Leong | November 30, 2012 | Comments Off
Many people confuse “using a hardware and software stack that potentially enables a cloud” with “cloud infrastructure as a service”. Analyst firms haven’t necessarily done a good job with drawing the distinction, either — there are plenty of (hopefully non-Gartner) analysts who use “IaaS” interchangeably to describe the technology stack and the service itself. The [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: Gartner, hosting, IaaS, research
by Lydia Leong | August 24, 2012 | 1 Comment
Of late, I’ve been talking to Amazon customers who are saying, you know, AWS gives us a ton of benefits, it makes a lot of things easy and fast that used to be hard, but in the end, we could do this ourselves, and probably do it at comparable cost or a cost that isn’t [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Amazon, Cloud, IaaS, people
