Tag: AWS
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Link: An argument against Amazon HQ2 tax breaks, sort of
‘“The bidding process with Amazon shows why we need the federal government to help support cities and communities across America for 21st century jobs,” he said. “Right now, cities have been left to fend for themselves and are desperate to attract any tech jobs. If the federal government were to support fiber and broadband in…
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Link: Amazon HQ2 blamed for high real-estate, rent, and traffic in Seattle
‘High demand and low inventory creates bidding wars and animosity among those who can’t even afford a starter home in the city they grew up in,” Kurt Schlosser wrote in September for GeekWire. “And the rent is too damn high, too. Workers who don’t wear tech badges for a living are forced to look outside…
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Link: Why you city should avoid Amazon HQ2
Just too much growth, too fast, and raising costs which kicks lower income people to the curb: ‘Seattle journalist Knute Berger tells Business Insider that Amazon’s original headquarters has displaced minority communities there, driven up housing costs, and swelled the city’s population of homeless people. Seattle is also in the nation’s top 10 cities with…
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Link: The case against Amazon HQ2 for Austin
“Austin’s tech talent pool has become increasingly tight, and it would be better for our economy to grow by 50 companies with 1,000 employees each than by one mega-project with 50,000 employees.” Original source: The case against Amazon HQ2 for Austin
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Link: The critics are wrong about AWS’s open source approach
“Is AWS selfish? Sure. Does that selfishness translate into greater developer productivity with machine learning and other enterprise software in the process? Yes. And it’s not merely a convenient byproduct: It’s the whole reason AWS exists.” Original source: The critics are wrong about AWS’s open source approach
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Link: Amazon narrows HQ2 search to 20 cities, moving to next phase in contest for $5B economic prize
“Toronto, Columbus, Indianapolis, Chicago, Denver, Nashville, Los Angeles, Dallas, Austin, Boston, New York City, Newark, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Montgomery County, Washington, D.C., Raleigh, Northern Virginia, Atlanta, and Miami.” Original source: Amazon narrows HQ2 search to 20 cities, moving to next phase in contest for $5B economic prize
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Link: Worldwide Public Cloud Services Spending Forecast to Reach $160 Billion This Year, According to IDC
Includes an interesting chart that lists the types of services/features (like data management and appdev platforms) that compose vendor revenue. Plus geographic and vertical rankings. But, just a press release. Original source: Worldwide Public Cloud Services Spending Forecast to Reach $160 Billion This Year, According to IDC
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Link: Complexity bolsters valuations for infrastructure software
In a recent 451 Research survey: “between 2017 and 2019 the amount of IT workloads running on the cloud is expected to increase to 60% from 45%.” Original source: Complexity bolsters valuations for infrastructure software
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Link: Amazon lost cloud market share to Microsoft in the fourth quarter: KeyBanc
For 4Q2017: “Amazon Web Services had 62 percent market share in the quarter, down from 68 percent a year earlier, KeyBanc’s Brent Bracelin and other analysts wrote in a note on Thursday. Microsoft Azure jumped from 16 percent to 20 percent, and Google’s share increased from 10 percent to 12 percent, they said.” Original source:…
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Link: WP Engine Attracts $250 Million Silver Lake Investment
“WP Engine also announced it reached more than $100 million in annual recurring revenue with over 75,000 customers globally, up 30 percent year-over-year.” Link to original
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Link: Vendors talk about why AzureStack is good for their markets
This is especially true in “industrial Internet of Things” applications, where the likes of ABB and GE collect data from sensors on their equipment and analyze it to help with things like predictive maintenance and capacity planning. Often, for performance and/or security reasons, the compute gear that does the analytics is placed directly on oil…
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Link: The economics of serverless cloud computing
“direct expenditure on serverless can be cheaper than on VMs, but only where the number of times the code is executed is under about 500,000 executions per month” Link to original
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Private cloud, beans and franks, and bathrooms – Coté Memo #29
There was some interesting container orchestration news this week which we discussed in Software Defined Talk. If you’re into Slack, I started a Slack channel for Software Defined Talk listeners. There’s other channels in there, of course, but if you’re into extremely low-traffic stuff – or want to make it higher traffic, send me a…
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Amazon grocery store has no cash registers, uses phone
Customers scan the Amazon Go app on their smartphone as they enter the store. The company spent four years developing “just walk out” technology, which detects when items are picked up or returned to shelves and “keeps track of them in a virtual cart,” Amazon said. There’s no checkout line — just leave the store…
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Link: IDC: Federal government seeing cloud spending push
“In addition, the government plans to increase PaaS spending from $227.1 million in FY15 to $231.3 million [in FY16].” We’re still in a phase where categorization causes weird slices of spend like this, but there you have it. More figures on “cloud” spending in the piece. Source: IDC: Federal government seeing cloud spending push
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Link: Cloud Computing Trends: 2016 State of the Cloud Survey
A bit broad, but still legit if you scope the audience right. Source: Cloud Computing Trends: 2016 State of the Cloud Survey
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Link: Tech companies that are likely to acquire startups in 2016
“The roughly 60 or so publicly traded software companies hold more than $380B in cash and short term investments on their balance sheets. Though Microsoft, Google, Cisco and Oracle possess 75% of that cash, 14 other companies have cash reserves of greater than $500M.” Source: Tech companies that are likely to acquire startups in 2016
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Want IoT? Here’s How a Major US Utility Collects Power Data from Over 5.5 Million Meters – High Scalability –
Want IoT? Here’s How a Major US Utility Collects Power Data from Over 5.5 Million Meters – High Scalability –
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[Coté Memo #14] RAX still into IaaS, I think; what’s Pivotal do again?
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #14. Today we have 22 subscribers, so we’re +/- 0. I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). Sponsor 451 Research, is having it’s big cloud conferences this…
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[Coté Memo #7] Winning in cloud hinges on package software, AMZN 2014Q2 marginalia, DevOps sniffing
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #7. Today we have 22 subscribers, so we’re +1. I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io and [@cote](https://micro.blog/cote). Sponsor 451 Research, is having it’s big cloud conferences this Fall,…
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