by Lydia Leong | July 26, 2012 | 1 Comment
In light of the upcoming Magic Quadrant work, I thought it would be useful to highlight research that myself and others have published that is important in the context of this MQ. These notes lay out how we see the market, and consequently, the lens that we’re going to be evaluating the service providers through. [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, Gartner, IaaS, MQ, research
by Lydia Leong | July 25, 2012 | 1 Comment
At the risk of opening up a can of worms: As a user of the Public Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant — either as a technology buyer looking to make a vendor decision, or as a vendor looking to understand the market, what would make the document better? Understand that I cannot change the process itself [...]
by Lydia Leong | March 22, 2012 | Comments Off
I’d gotten out of the social media habit — Twitter and blogging — over the holidays and never really restarted, and now that a quarter has gone by, I’m feeling like I really ought to get back into the habit. So, it’s time for a catch-up, starting with a round-up of my recent research, and, [...]
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Category: Infrastructure Tags: Gartner, research
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 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 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
by Lydia Leong | November 8, 2011 | 4 Comments
I’ve just finished writing the forthcoming Public Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant (except for some anticipated tweaks when particular providers come back with answers to some questions), which has twenty providers. Although Gartner normally doesn’t do hands-on evaluations, this MQ was an exception, because the easiest way to find out if a given service can do [...]
Category: Infrastructure Tags: Cloud, hands-on, IaaS, research
by Lydia Leong | October 7, 2011 | 4 Comments
Earlier this year, I was part of a team at Gartner that took a futuristic view of the data center, in a scenario-planning exercise. The results of that work have been published as The Future of the Data Center Market: Four Scenarios for Strategic Planning (Gartner clients only). My blog entries today are by my [...]
by Lydia Leong | October 7, 2011 | Comments Off
Earlier this year, I was part of a team at Gartner that took a futuristic view of the data center, in a scenario-planning exercise. The results of that work have been published as The Future of the Data Center Market: Four Scenarios for Strategic Planning (Gartner clients only). My blog entries today are by my [...]
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by Lydia Leong | August 26, 2011 | Comments Off
This is just a quick call-out to draw your attention to the research that I’ve published recently. Do You Have a Business Case for a Top-Level Domain? I blogged previously on this topic, and this research note, done with my colleague Ray Valdes (whose coverage includes online user experience), dives deeply into consideration of the [...]
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