Cloud Computing

The Cloud CIO: A Tale of Two IT Futures

root — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:47:35 -0700

Will the IT group of the future emphasize commodity, or play a vital role in business offerings? CIO.com's Bernard Golden says both views are true -- and the CIO of the future has to push one to make room to achieve the other.

Servers preloaded with Amazon-friendly cloud software

root — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:47:34 -0700

Ubuntu and Dell have come up with a scheme to make it easier for Amazon EC2 customers to shift workloads to and from the cloud -- by shipping Dell servers preloaded with Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud software, or UEC.

Verizon buys Terremark

tludwig — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 01:47:34 -0700

A couple of days ago, Verizon bid to acquire Terremark, for a total equity value of $1.4 billion. My colleague Ted Chamberlin and I are issuing a First Take on the event to Gartner clients; if you’re looking for advice and the official Gartner position, you’ll want to read that. This blog post is just some personal musings on the reasons for the acquisition.

Gartner is NOT dissing Amazon’s cloud

tludwig — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:48:16 -0700

By Lydia Leoung

I’ve now seen a number of press reports and some related writing, about the Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastrucure as a Service and Web Hosting, that I feel mischaracterize statements made on the MQ in ways that they were certainly not intended to be taken, and in some cases, mischaracterize the nature of a Magic Quadrant itself. I feel compelled to try to attempt to make some things explicitly clear. Specifically:

Cloud Makes Capacity Planning Harder: 3 Fight-Back Tips

root — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:48:12 -0700

Cloud computing will kill capacity planning as CIOs know it and utilization risk will move to cloud providers, says CIO.com's Bernard Golden. Here's his take on what IT and airlines will soon have in common -- plus three strategies for avoiding trouble.

IBM's networking lineage

root — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:48:18 -0700

One of the topics that we frequently wrote about in 2010 was how the adoption of virtualization and cloud computing was one of the primary factors driving the acquisition strategy of many vendors.

Qualifying for the next Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant

tludwig — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:50:10 -0700

Now that the Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service and Web Hosting, 2010 has been published, we’re going to be getting started on the mid-year update almost immediately (in February). The mid-year version will be cloud-only, specifically the self-provisioned “virtual data center” segment of the market. Since I have been deluged with questions about what it takes to be included (and there’s been some interesting fud on Quora), I thought I’d explain in public.

Cloud Computing Baffles Midmarket

tludwig — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 23:45:31 -0700

48% of IT workers didn't know the meaning of the term, while 54% of respondents that use apps like Gmail or Salesforce.com didn't recognize them as cloud-based, according to a Virtacore survey of midsize businesses.

How the Cloud is Driving Profits at Rackspace

tludwig — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 22:08:47 -0700

Can cloud computing make data center providers more profitable? Financial metrics show that the growing cloud computing operation at Rackspace Hosting is helping the company deliver more revenue from its data centers.

Skype Struggling To Recover From Outage

tludwig — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:39:38 -0700

Millions of Skype users have been unable to make voice or video calls over the VoIP service since Wednesday.