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 | December 23, 2011 | 1 Comment
Akamai is acquiring Cotendo for a purchase price of $268 million, somewhat under the rumored $300 million that had been previously reported in the Israeli press. To judge from the stock price, the acquisition is being warmly received by investors (and for good reason). The acquisition only impacts the website delivery/acceleration portion of the CDN [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: AKAM, CDN, news
by Lydia Leong | August 8, 2011 | Comments Off
(This is part of a series of “catch-up” posts of announcements that I’ve wanted to comment on but didn’t previously find time to blog about.) Riverbed made two interesting acquisitions recently, which I think signal a clear intention to be more than just a traditional WAN optimization controller (WOC) vendor — Zeus, and Aptimize. If [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, network, news
by Lydia Leong | July 23, 2011 | 1 Comment
Recently, I’ve been deluged with client inquiries about the new gTLDs that ICANN finally approved last month. (That’s three years after they first accepted the gTLD stakeholder recommendation, and two years after they said they expected to start taking applications… which they now say they won’t do until January 2012.) Tonight, I decided to write [...]
by Lydia Leong | May 15, 2011 | 2 Comments
Akamai and Riverbed have signed a significant partnership deal to jointly develop solutions that combine Internet acceleration with WAN optimization. The two companies will be incorporating each other’s technologies into their platforms; this is a deep partnership with significant joint engineering, and it is probably the most significant partnership that Akamai has done to date. [...]
by Lydia Leong | January 24, 2011 | 2 Comments
Amazon recently released a new offering called the Elastic Beanstalk. At its heart, it is a simplified interface to EC2 and its ancillary services (load-balancing, auto-scaling, and monitoring integrated with alerts), along with an Amazon-maintained AMI containing Linux and Apache Tomcat (an open source Java EE application server), and a deployment mechanism for a Java [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Amazon, Cloud, news
by Lydia Leong | January 14, 2011 | 1 Comment
A little change of pace today, back to some CDN market news… Rackspace forms a strategic alliance with Akamai. Today, Rackspace’s Cloud Files storage service is integrated with Limelight’s CDN. The new alliance means that Akamai will be replacing Limelight as the CDN, and some new features will be offered as the integration is done. [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: CDN, news
by Lydia Leong | January 7, 2010 | Comments Off
Renesys has posted its yearly ranking of Internet transit providers. For anyone interested in understanding how transit volumes across various networks are changing, this should be very interesting data. Ryan Kearney’s Comparing CDN Performance is an interesting overview of cloud CDNs. His methodology is flawed by the limited number of locations he’s testing from, but [...]
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by Lydia Leong | July 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
Interesting recent news: Amazon’s revocation of Orwell novels on the Kindle has stirred up some cloud debate. There seems to have been a thread of “will this controversy kill cloud computing”, which you can find in plenty of blogs and press articles. I think that question, in this context, is silly, and am not going [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Amazon, Cloud, hosting, news, RAX
by Lydia Leong | July 3, 2009 | 1 Comment
This is just a round-up of links that I’ve recently found to be interesting. Barroso and Holzle (Google): Warehouse-Scale Computing. This is a formal lecture-paper covering the design of what these folks from Google refer to as WSCs. They write, “WSCs differ significantly from traditional data centers: they belong to a single organization, use a [...]
