Tag: IaaS
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Cloud market share shows vendors eyeing a $1T opportunity – “the revenue shares for our eight cloud companies in the combined IaaS/PaaS cloud market at nearly $300 billion projected for 2024. AWS has 36% of this combined market, Microsoft 23% and Google 7%. Alibaba, Oracle Tencent Huawei and IBM combine for around 14% of the…
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20+ years of all this cloud, DevOps, and platform engineering stuff, interview with Purnima Padmanabhan, GM of VMware Tanzu
Code to Production: From Cloud to DevOps to Platform Engineering, with Purnima Padmanabhan There’s not that many people who’ve worked through the early years of cloud, the rise of cloud and IaaS, DevOps, cloud native apps, and now platform engineering…but my colleague Purnima Padmanabhan sure has. So, it was fun to talk with her about…
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Platform Engineering Probably Doesn’t Mess with CaaS and IaaS
MidJourney: man who is sick with children crawl all over him, sitting on a green couch, cinematic, 8k, dutch angle, action dramatic epic. I’m in the middle of some kind of cold today, so I’m spending most of my time staring at the wall or sleeping.1 This means it’s a good time to catch up…
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Platform Engineering Probably Doesn’t Mess with CaaS and IaaS
From the report “Top Strategic Technology Trends for 2023: Platform Engineering,” Paul Delory and Oleksandr Matvitskyy, Gartner, Oct 2022. The authors don’t take a strong position here (?), but I think their vision of platform engineering sits above the infrastructure layer. See the diagram above, for example. The platform engineering group doesn’t mess with that stuff. This…
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Link: Gartner Says Worldwide IaaS Public Cloud Services Market Grew 29.5 Percent in 2017
“The worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) market grew 29.5 percent in 2017 to total $23.5 billion, up from $18.2 billion in 2016” Original source: Gartner Says Worldwide IaaS Public Cloud Services Market Grew 29.5 Percent in 2017
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Link: Will Containers Replace VMs?
“One of the most important benefits containers provide is that once you have a containerized application, it runs in exactly the same environment at every stage of the lifecycle, from initial development through testing and deployment, so you get mobility of a workload at every stage of its lifecycle,” said Iams. “In the past, you…
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Link: Oracle Gets Cloudy: What’s Behind Their Change in Financial Reporting?
“Oracle did announce during the earnings call that cloud revenue was $1.7B for the quarter, but failed to break that out between SaaS and the combined IaaS and PaaS, as was previously reported. Also, with BYOL, it is impossible to know if customers are using those licenses in the cloud or on-prem, thereby obfuscating their…
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Link: Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Public Cloud Revenue to Grow 21.4 Percent in 2018
“The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 21.4 percent in 2018 to total $186.4 billion, up from $153.5 billion in 2017, according to Gartner, Inc. The fastest-growing segment of the market is cloud system infrastructure services (infrastructure as a service or IaaS), which is forecast to grow 35.9 percent in 2018 to…
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Oracle’s cloud plans
“We intend to compete aggressively in the commodity infrastructure-as-a-service marketplace,” he said. “We’re not going to have that alone … our intention is to sell our customers IaaS and the same customer a highly differentiated platform-as-a-service which will let us get better margins and a highly differentiated suite of applications for the cloud.” Oracle’s cloud…
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The Secret to IaaS Success? Don’t Beat Amazon Web Services
I suspect the prevalent “slow follower” mentality within the public IaaS companies that are chasing AWS will continue. So too will the confusion about their inability to catch up with AWS, let alone pass them by. At the end of the day, this is about inventing new ways to provide better and more resilient computing…
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