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 12, 2011 | 6 Comments
Gartner is hiring again! We’ve got a number of open positions, actually, and somewhat flexible about how we use the headcount; we’re looking for great people and the jobs can adapt to some extent based on what they know. This also means we’re flexible on seniority level — anywhere from about five years of experience [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Cloud, colocation, Gartner, IaaS
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 | 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 27, 2011 | Comments Off
As many people already know, Google is sunsetting Google Wave. This has led to Google sending an email to people who previously signed up for Wave. The bit in the email that caught my eye was this: If you would like to continue using Wave, there are a number of open source projects, including Apache [...]
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by Lydia Leong | November 20, 2011 | 1 Comment
People often ask me what it’s like to be an analyst at Gartner, and for me, the answer is, “It’s a life of constant client conversations.” Over the course of a typical year, I’ll do something on the order of 1,200 formal one-on-one conversations (or one-on-small-team, if the client brings in some other colleagues), generally [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Cloud, people
by Lydia Leong | November 18, 2011 | 2 Comments
A recent client inquiry of mine involved a very large enterprise, who informed me that their executives had decided that IT should become more like a cloud provider — like Google or Facebook or Amazon. They wanted to understand how they should transform their organization and their IT infrastructure in order to do this. There [...]
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
