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By Paul, on July 9th, 2010
There have been a couple of trends in the Cloud marketplace recently that are noteworthy.
First there is now a general acceptance that enterprises will choose hybrid Clouds as the best way to meet their needs. This was picked up by David Sherr in his recent blog entry (http://dsherr23.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/ive-looked-at-clouds-frm-both-sides-now/) and covered by David Linthicum in his blog on InfoWorld (http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/hybrid-clouds-new-twist-old-trick-514).
There has also been increasing debate about whether Microsoft will be one of the top 5 Cloud providers (or Cloud Champions as I refer to them) three to five years out. David Linthicum has covered this quite well [...]
By Elliott, on May 26th, 2010
In his article “Microsoft has nowhere to go but up in cloud market”, Robert Mullins examines BTC Logic’s cloud computing ranking report. As part of the cloud computing ecosystem, Microsoft could take a leadership role through cloud technology, to help the enterprise CIO understand their unit costs, and supporting how best to allocate costs across business lines. As a major player, they could support the revitalization of unit costing in data center management.
In a recent discussion with a top 10 cloud management company, the chief marketing officer mentioned a major sales challenge: getting [...]
By Paul, on March 11th, 2010
The Cloud Foundation segment of the marketplace includes those companies who provide the tools and software that make up Cloud infrastructure. These companies provide such essentials as server software, virtualization, multi-tenancy, and hypervisor tools.
However, it is important to separate out Cloud Foundation companies from Cloud Infrastructure or Network Services companies, as they provide a fundamentally different set of products and services. In many cases these Cloud Foundation companies are already vendors to your existing data centers; transforming the way that those data centers are run, by reducing costs, and changing the required skill sets for staffing.
At the top [...]
By Elliott, on March 10th, 2010
When googling “cloud computing” companies, in less than 0.30 seconds you receive 20,600,000 hits. Included in the hit list are the top 10 to 100 companies to watch, as well as insights on how these companies are changing the world. The list includes company sizes from start-ups, all the way to large, publicly established companies making lots of noise and promising the world’s best possible solutions.
What seems to be missing is a business perspective ranking, or a tool kit that lets a business executive quickly ascertain what companies and areas make sense to investigate. Not wanting to spend unnecessary time, [...]
By Paul, on March 8th, 2010
Who is the number one player in the Cloud? This is a frequently asked question, but one that is difficult to answer. There have been several attempts to classify companies in the Cloud (such as the top 150 Cloud companies to watch) and these are definitely helpful in increasing awareness of newer or smaller companies that have an interesting cloud offering. However, the resulting lists are usually sorted by alphabetical order, and may not be a good starting point for an enterprise decision-maker looking to use the Cloud to solve a specific business problem.
Most recently, Peter Laird [...]
By Paul, on February 18th, 2010
I was reading through David Linthicum’s posting on the death of the data center, and have to mostly agree with him. Read the article here.
While companies are showing a significant move to virtualization within the data center and a clear shift to adding resources in the Cloud rather than an in-house data center, the short term effect will likely be to increase the number of data centers – Amazon being a good example of this.
However, I do believe that the ownership and location of the new data centers represents a dramatic shift. It will be [...]
By Paul, on February 8th, 2010
The number one challenge for most of our clients in 2010 remains finding ways to lift revenue while maintaining or increasing profit margins. There are still attractive segments in new geographical markets such as China, India, and Brazil, but expansion there can cause unusual problems such as the censorship issue in China, or heavy regulation in India.
The US and European markets are still very sluggish –the strength of countries like Germany and Norway is offset by continuing weakness in the UK, Spain, Greece, and Portugal. The removal of government stimuli in developing markets such as China will slow [...]
By Charlton, on January 30th, 2010
http://stevenf.tumblr.com/post/359224392/i-need-to-talk-to-you-about-computers-ive-been
This is a well thought-out perspective in terms of *usage*. Steve’s positions on the “New World” use model and its pervasiveness are rather valid. That is a good thing – we would have very different lives if compute power were still in the hands of “Old World” IT. Despite all the advantages of an “Old World” experience where one needed to know how things worked from the inside out, it greatly limited the applicability and accessibility of computing to relatively few. If you wanted to use a PC in the “Old World”, you either needed to know how one worked [...]
By Paul, on December 21st, 2009
Eucalyptus, now a Benchmark-funded company, is looking to expand its open source-based service to overtake AWS and VMWare as the leading provider of cloud computing infrastructure services. This bold objective may not be achievable near term.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10415578-16.html?tag=mncol;title
By Paul, on December 21st, 2009
Startup CloudShare, formerly known as IT Structures, has raised $10 million in series B financing from Sequoia Capital, Gemini Capital, and Charles River Ventures. This brings CloudShare’s total funding up to $16 million.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/11/cloudshare-lands-10-million-to-bring-software-demos-to-the-cloud/
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