Tag: bigco
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EnterpriseWeb grows business with its enterprise- and cloud-friendly application layer (451 Report)
I recently checked in with EnterpriseWeb and wrote-up a 451 report on them. They’re an intriguing company, with big ambitions. 451 clients can read the full report, but here’s the 451 Take: In the context of our devops coverage, we often speak about the ongoing need for new application development (appdev) approaches caused by emerging…
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Change the world, get all the marbles
Silicon Valley nurtures a winner-take-all culture that thinks in terms of monopolies and absolute market dominance. The concept of sharing a market with competitors is anathema Change the world, get all the marbles
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I think it’s a bit unreasonable to expect a Web application circa 2013 to be still up and runnable in 2053. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/06/how-to-design-a-web-application-with-a-40-year-lifetime/
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CFEngine marching along
More than 10 million servers in the world are managed by CFEngine today, which is around a quarter of all of the machines installed, depending on whose estimate of the server base you use. Around 10,000 companies worldwide are using CFEngine in at least 100 countries globally. CFEngine marching along
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The two cloud buyers
This anecdote sums up an annoying problem on cloud marketing (and product management): At the break I chatted with a somewhat bemused attendee who had come in the hope of learning about whether he should migrate some or all of his small company’s server requirements to Azure. I explained about Office 365 and Azure Active…
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New IT spend gobbled by cloud by 2016
From a 2013 Gartner press release: The use of cloud computing is growing, and by 2016 this growth will increase to become the bulk of new IT spend, according to Gartner, Inc. 2016 will be a defining year for cloud as private cloud begins to give way to hybrid cloud, and nearly half of large…
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It’s hard to know what’s really running in all them clouds
I just keep getting questioned: “What’s big in cloud and what’s really happening?” You see people saying the cloud market is a hundred bazillion whatever, most of it unsubstantiated. When you drill in, you find they were making numbers up, top down. Enterprise markets are trillions and trillions, so it’s got to be some percentage…
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Things are going bonkers in the cloud orchistration, cluster management space
Recently we have seen Docker cluster management projects appearing which are predominantly focused on managing clusters in a single provider’s environment. Clocker is designed to deploy and manage Docker clusters in a portable and cloud provider agnostic way. Clocker can even be used on-premise exploiting an enterprise’s virtual or private cloud environment. Along with things…
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SwiftStack 2.0, used by HP Helion, going after enterprise storage
For one, it looks like HP Helion OEM’s SwiftStack, which is a nice partnership. Two, their CEO points towards going after enterprise storage: SwiftStack founder and CEO Joe Arnold said all enterprise applications will eventually rely on object storage to keep up with growth of data and access points required by users. ”It’s the only…
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Converged infrastructure to grow to $6bn in 2014
Gartner, in its “Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems” report, a copy of which was reviewed by CRN, estimated the market for integrated systems, which includes single-vendor and multivendor converged infrastructures and hyper-converged infrastructures, will grow more than 50 percent in 2014 over 2013 to reach $6 billion. Converged infrastructure to grow to $6bn in 2014
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We think [Machine OS is] an interesting, somewhat esoteric pursuit,” Swainson said. However, Dell is most interested “cheapest, best, standards-based [tech] – all of this mundane stuff that is how computing gets done. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/06/12/dell_hp_machine_os/ One of the better summaries of Dell’s approach, from Dell itself.
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Red Hat updates RHEL 7 for cloud with containers, Windows support and improvements (451 Report)
My colleague Jay Lyman and I wrote up Red Hat’s recent OS release, RHEL 7. Of interest to us, of course, is the work Red Hat is doing with containers. Clients can read the full report, and here’s the 451 Take: In order to differentiate and draw enterprise interest for RHEL 7, Red Hat is…
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VMware to build converged compute and storage hardware
VMware to build converged compute and storage hardware
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Update on Microsoft’s cloud plans from TechEd
Office 365 makes huge sense for many organisations, and is growing fast – “the fastest growing business in the history of the company,” according to Corporate VP of Windows Server and System Center Brad Anderson, speaking to the press last week Update on Microsoft’s cloud plans from TechEd
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Citrix announces 50% YoY revenue growth from cloud partners, Workspace Services (451 Report)
One of our new, excellent analysts Scott Ottaway and I wrote up a report on Citrix’s Workspace as a Service portfolio and strategy. Clients can read the full report, but here’s the 451 take: Citrix reported impressive double-digit revenue growth and total licenses from its cloud service provider channel. Citrix also launched multiple new technologies…
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SAP HANA momemtum
SAP’s own Business Suite application stack running atop HANA has broken through 1,000 customers and is one of the fastest-growing products in the company’s four decades of operation. Also, some notes in what OSes are used to run SAP, esp. the database portion: UNIX almost never for new deploys. SAP HANA momemtum
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New cloud category: “Cloud Enabled Managed Hosting”
To some extent Gartner has recognized that managed cloud is in its infancy and has named Rackspace in its 2014 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), a report that focuses on multi-tenant cloud infrastructure providers. At Rackspace, we’re looking forward to seeing the upcoming Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud Enabled Managed Hosting, North America, which…
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The Great Rewrite, IBM style: a “reordering”
[Big Data, cloud and social/mobile] are truly going to change the profile of this company. And, if you think about it, actually they’re going to change the profile of this industry. As I like to think of it, the industry is reordering. If you take cloud, data and engagement, those are shifts that taken in…
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How Shippable Has Scaled Docker In A Way It Never Could With AWS VMs
How Shippable Has Scaled Docker In A Way It Never Could With AWS VMs
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