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
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
by Lydia Leong | November 11, 2011 | 1 Comment
I’ve been trialing cloud IaaS providers lately, and the frustration of getting through many of the sign-up processes has reminded me of some recurring conversations that I’ve had with service providers over the past few years. Many cloud IaaS providers regard the fact that they don’t take online sign-ups as a point of pride — [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, IaaS, security
by Lydia Leong | November 10, 2011 | 1 Comment
I originally started writing this blog post before Forrester’s James Staten made a post called “Public Clouds Prove I&O Pros Are From Venus And Developers Are From Mars“, and reading made me change this post into a response to his, as well as covering the original point I wanted to make. In his post, James [...]
by Lydia Leong | November 9, 2011 | 2 Comments
The fine folks at Nodeable gave me an informal introductory briefing today; they’ve got a pretty cool concept for a cloud-oriented monitoring and management SaaS-based tool that’s aimed at DevOps. I’ve been having stray thoughts on DevOps and the future of IT Operations in the couple of hours that have passed since then, and reflecting [...]
