Comments on: Sun Sees Fragmented Cloud Market

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Camelia Malinova — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:06:10 +0000

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By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 21:28:49 +0000

Frank, I tend to agree with you, both about the need to tightly define what we're actually talking about and that there will be a need to specialized clouds for certain high-end applications.

Niraj, interesting post, not sure I agree with the thesis. It would be like a utility trying to buy GE. Plus not sure Amazon would want to take on the server and software business Sun has. Web services was an outgrowth of hardware and software Amazon already built up. It's now capitalizing on that. Not sure it needs to buy Sun to keep up when Sun is a willing partner. Plus it might eliminate Amazon neutrality when it comes to offering various software configurations.

By: Frank Gillett

Frank Gillett — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:02:31 +0000

I don’t think that Amazon is the market leader for cloud broadly. The problem is the many different things that cloud means or is used to describe. Sun is correct that there will be many different “clouds” by which I think they meant providers of infrastructure or platform as a service. It’s even more true if, as some do, you include software as a service in cloud as well. For the next 5 years, at least, there seems to be enough diversity of work load types, both existing (legacy) and new (web or cloud-style), that there will be hardware diversity and service provider diversity. If you define tigher scope, then it’s easier to have this conversation.

By: craig

craig — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:04:56 +0000

I know of a product called CloudArray that does this type of replication. If interested, mailto: cloudarray@gmail.com

By: Niraj

Niraj — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 07:06:25 +0000

And that is why I believe that Amazon should buy SUN. Now that the market is defined by Amazon – where does the next innovation from(Standards , Interoperability , Chip Design , being one in an ecosystem and not the only one). All these traits require you to be an IT Product Shop and not a commodity player.

Check out – http://www.gandalf-lab.com/blog/2008/11/cloud-vendors-and-why-amazon-should-buy.html