We’re seeing a lot of changes in the IT landscape. Oracle buying its way
into the Cloud, AMD wants in on the server business, Dell is no longer a PC
company, and some legacy players are learning about the Cloud market the hard
way (see: Harris Scraps Secure Public Cloud).
Harris claims customers have a preference for on premise (private cloud)
solutions, though a McKinsey survey mentioned in the article indicates CIOs
will take a “balanced” approach (read: Hybrid Cloud). Besides, acquiring
on-premise IT business won’t get easier in the Federal government space
with its shift to a Cloud First Policy, nor in State government (see Time For
State And Local Govs To Head To The Cloud).
Is the Cloud chasm too wide for legacy players (like Harris) to cross?
Everyone in the industry is positioning for the game of the century as a
result of the disruptive Cloud forces. As I wri... (more)
Okay, so it’s a few more than 300. What can I tell you? The segment is
growing by leaps and bounds. The question remains, who is gaining mind share
in the 1st quarter of 2012?
So let's take a look at the Top Cloud Enablers Gaining Mind Share, and The
Leaderboard (Cloud Innovators, Movers and Shakers). Large enterprise IT
companies continue their rapid restructuring to an on-demand cloud compute
model enhancing their portfolios with Cloud acquisitions. Here is a snapshot
of 2012 acquisitions and the most recent changes to the rankings since 3Q2011
(followed by 2011 and 2010 acqui... (more)
By now you’ve probably heard the term, “Cloud Wars”, though with so
many fronts sometimes it’s difficult to ascertain which Cloud battles are
being referenced. In The Battle for the Enterprise the reference is to cloud
computing leaders making their way into the enterprise segment taking market
share from the legacy IT providers. Others may be referring to the Oracle and
SAP acquisition shootout or the CRM Cloud Wars.
For our purposes, the “Cloud War” discussion will revolve around storage.
There has been a lot of news coverage around the battle being played out
between Microsof... (more)
Do you know how many times Amazon Web Services changed the pricing of its
cloud services in 2011? No? Neither do I.
Cloud services are often dynamic with variable pricing and keeping track of
price changes and optimizing your services accordingly can be quite an
undertaking, particularly as more services are migrated to different cloud
service providers.
With companies migrating to Cloud services in record numbers in order to
address their business inefficiencies, many are bringing those inefficient
practices with them to the cloud. Over-provisioning of resources when
migrating... (more)
There is little doubt that cloud computing is big news, but who is gaining
your mind share? Amazon, NetSuite, and Salesforce.com, have been in the
news recently with a number of announcements.
So many that I’ve been attempting to track them by creating specific
journals for each.
Our experiences are likely to be different, and barring actual surveys and
research, is subjective and based largely on our own impressions and
perceptions of which companies are in the news or making news in this
segment.
There are several lists that are excellent points of reference – The Top
150 Pl... (more)
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