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
by Lydia Leong | May 14, 2012 | Comments Off
For months, there have been an abundance of rumors that Amazon was intending to enter the dynamic site acceleration market; it was the logical next step for its CloudFront CDN. Today, Amazon released a set of features oriented towards dynamic content, described in blog posts from Amazon’s Jeff Barr and Werner Vogels. When CloudFront introduced [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: AKAM, Amazon, CDN
by Lydia Leong | April 7, 2012 | Comments Off
For those who have been wondering where I personally stand in the brouhaha over Amazon, Citrix, Eucalyptus, CloudStack, OpenStack, Rackspace, HP, and so on, along with the broader competitive market that includes VMware, Microsoft, and the Four Horsemen of management tools… I should state up-front that I hold the optimistic viewpoint that I want everyone [...]
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by Lydia Leong | April 6, 2012 | 16 Comments
Citrix contributing CloudStack to the Apache Software Foundation isn’t so much a shot at OpenStack (it just happens to get caught in the crossfire), as it’s a shot against VMware. There are two primary ecosystems developing in the world: VMware and Amazon. Other possibilities, like Microsoft and OpenStack, are completely secondary to those two. You [...]
Category: Industry Tags: Amazon, Cloud, IaaS, open source, RAX, VMware
by Lydia Leong | April 2, 2012 | 1 Comment
Eucalyptus, a commercial open-source cloud management platform (“CMP”, software used to build cloud infrastructure), recently announced that it had signed a partnership with Amazon. Eucalyptus began life as a university project to build a CMP that would create Amazon-API-compatible cloud infrastructure, but eventually turned into a commercial effort. However, like all other CMPs offering Amazon [...]
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 | 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 8, 2011 | 1 Comment
I promised the attendees at my Gartner Symposium workshop, called “Using Amazon Web Services“, that I would post the notes from the session, so here they are — with some context for public consumption. A workshop is a structured, facilitated discussions that are designed to assist participants in working through a problem, coming up with [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Amazon, Cloud, conference, Gartner, GartnerSym
by Lydia Leong | August 7, 2011 | Comments Off
Amazon has introduced a new connectivity option called AWS Direct Connect. In plain speak, Direct Connect allows an Amazon customer to get a cross-connect between his own network equipment and Amazon’s, in some location where the two companies are physically colocated. In even plainer speak, if you’re an Equinix colocation customer in their Ashburn, Virginia [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: Amazon, Cloud, colocation, EQIX
by Lydia Leong | May 1, 2011 | Comments Off
In the wake of Amazon’s recent outage, we know we have Gartner clients who are interested in what we’ve written about Amazon in the past, and our existing recommendations for using cloud IaaS, and managing cloud-related risks. While we’re comfortable with our current advice, we’re also in the midst of some internal debate about what [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: Amazon, Cloud, Gartner, research
