by Lydia Leong | June 4, 2013 | 6 Comments
It’s been a hot couple of weeks in the cloud infrastructure as a service space. Microsoft’s Azure IaaS (persistent VMs) came out of beta, Google Compute Engine went into public beta, VMware formally launched its public cloud (vCloud Hybrid Service), and Dell withdrew from the mark. Now, IBM is acquiring SoftLayer, with a deal size [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, hosting, IaaS, news
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 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 | October 1, 2012 | 1 Comment
I’ve been reading the social media reactions to my recent note on OpenStack, “Don’t Let OpenStack Hype Distort Your Selection of a Cloud Management Platform in 2012” (that’s a client link; a free public reprint without the executive summary is also available), and wanted to respond to some comments that are more centered on the [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Cloud, Gartner, 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
