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 | 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 | 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 | May 14, 2012 | Comments Off
So I caught an interesting Horses for Sources blog post via Twitter — Phil Fersht of HfS called out a blog post of ISG’s Stanton Jones discussing the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting that I published earlier this year. Stanton Jones’s argument seems to be that analysts sit in ivory towers, theorizing about suppliers, [...]
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Category: Analyst Life Tags: blogosphere, Gartner, hosting, MQ
by Lydia Leong | March 22, 2012 | 1 Comment
Back in December, I blogged about five reasons you should work at Gartner with me, and I’ve pleased to announce that Doug Toombs (formerly of Tier 1 Research / 451 Group) has joined my team. However, Ted Chamberlin, my long-time colleague, has decided he’d like a change of pace, and has just left us for [...]
Category: Analyst Life Tags: Cloud, Gartner, hosting, IaaS
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 | 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 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 | Comments Off
We’re currently in the midst of agenda planning for 2012, which is a fancy way to say that we’re trying to figure out what we’re going to write next year. Probably to the despair of my managers, I am almost totally a spontaneous writer, who sits down on a plane and happens to write a [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, customers, developers, hosting, IaaS, networking, research, VMware
