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Five more reasons to work at Gartner with me 27 Aug 2013 | 04:34 am
A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog post called “Five reasons you should work at Gartner with me“. Well, we’re recruiting again for an analyst to replace Aneel Lakhani, who is sadly leaving us to go...
The 2013 Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant 22 Aug 2013 | 04:21 am
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, 2013, has just been released (see the client-only interactive version, or the free reprint). Gartner clients can also consult the relate...
Instart Logic launches a new kind of acceleration service 18 Jun 2013 | 02:33 am
There have been three core techniques for accelerating content and application delivery over the Internet — caching (“classic” CDN), network optimization (think protocol tricks, like F5 Web Applicatio...
IBM buys SoftLayer 5 Jun 2013 | 12:55 am
It’s been a hot couple of weeks in the cloud infrastructure as a service space. Microsoft’s Azure IaaS (persistent VMs) came out of beta, Google Compute Engine went into public beta, VMware formally l...
VMware joins the cloud wars with vCloud Hybrid Service 22 May 2013 | 12:25 am
Although this has been long-rumored, and then was formally mentioned in VMware’s recent investor day, VMware has only just formally announced the vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS), which is VMware’s foray ...
Dell withdraws from the public cloud IaaS market 21 May 2013 | 04:46 am
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 ...
Recommended reading for Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant 6 Apr 2013 | 12:05 am
If you’re a service provider interested in participating in the Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant process (see the call for vendors), I’d like to recommend a number of my previous blog posts. Foundational Ga...
Call for vendors — 2013 Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant 28 Mar 2013 | 12:56 am
It’s that time of the year again, a little bit early — we’re trying to refresh the Cloud IaaS Magic Quadrant on a nine-month cycle rather than a yearly cycle, reflecting the faster pace of the market....
The myth of zero downtime 21 Mar 2013 | 07:49 pm
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 f...
Some clarifications on HP’s SLA 8 Dec 2012 | 03:13 am
I corresponded with some members of the HP cloud team in email, and then colleagues and I spoke with HP on the phone, after my last blog post called, “Cloud IaaS SLAs can be Meaningless“. HP provided ...
