Comments on: Enterprise Cloud Adoption Is Changing the Playing Field

By: Cialis

Cialis — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 19:16:12 +0000

I believe you’re ultimately suggesting that customers evaluate their IT service requirements and look for areas where they can make changes that embrace “true cloud”, which is good advice. It aligns IT’s strategy with every other aspect of the business, where they often separate Core vs.

By: Predictions for 2011 in Cloud: Chips, Lawsuits and Acquisitions: Cloud «

Predictions for 2011 in Cloud: Chips, Lawsuits and Acquisitions: Cloud « — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:31:18 +0000

[...] Red Hat is starting its cloud M&A activity, after building an impressive foundation in-house. IBM has carried its perpetual acquisition strategy into the cloud, as well. As I predict in a feature at GigaOM Pro, however, more M&A is just one of the trends [...]

By: Dell’s Boomi Buy: Here’s What It Means: Cloud «

Dell’s Boomi Buy: Here’s What It Means: Cloud « — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:59:08 +0000

[...] 3PAR buy – but Boomi is a straight-up application play. Like Cast Iron Systems, which IBM acquired earlier this year, Boomi’s Atmosphere product lets users integrate data between and among cloud-based and [...]

By: Announcing the Structure 2010 Launchpad Finalists!

Announcing the Structure 2010 Launchpad Finalists! — Tue, 25 May 2010 01:01:29 +0000

[...] venture capital (GigaOM Pro, sub req’d) after a fairly fallow period for investment, and large buyers are scooping up more mature startups left and right. Which is why this year at Structure 2010, we’re adding a new feature: the [...]

By: Why a Sudden Surge in Tech M&A? Startups Pay Attention

Why a Sudden Surge in Tech M&A? Startups Pay Attention — Wed, 19 May 2010 03:49:35 +0000

[...] especially managing clouds in ways enterprise customers (GigaOM Pro, sub req’d) might want has led to several acquisitions so far this year on the part of big tech vendors like IBM, VMware and CA, all of which are looking [...]

By: Why Private Clouds Are a Catch-22 for Buyers

Why Private Clouds Are a Catch-22 for Buyers — Wed, 12 May 2010 23:01:08 +0000

[...] are merely works in progress at this point, leaving customers with a catch-22-like situation. They know they need to get their cloud plans underway, but they also know that choosing one vendor over another will mean making functionality [...]

By: Buy, Buy, Baby: Tech Firms Snap up Startups for Growth - A Collection of Latest Happening in Technology Field

Wed, 12 May 2010 19:34:42 +0000

[...] managing clouds in ways enterprise customers (GigaOM Pro, sub req’d) might want has led to several acquisitions so far this year on the part of big tech vendors like IBM, VMware and CA, all of which are looking to add new [...]

By: Buy, Buy, Baby: Tech Firms Snap up Startups for Growth

Buy, Buy, Baby: Tech Firms Snap up Startups for Growth — Wed, 12 May 2010 16:39:13 +0000

By: David Skok

David Skok — Sun, 09 May 2010 19:57:09 +0000

There is an interesting sidetrack for enterprises in their journey to the cloud: Private Clouds. Private Clouds are being pushed by the traditional infrastructure vendors as they don't make much money when enterprises shift their computing to players like Amazon. (Amazon uses largely very low cost boxes and Open Source software, which means low/no dollars to the leading infrastructure players.)

Private Clouds are also a comfortable choice for IT organizations that have their own data centers, as they represent far less change and risk. However in the long run, I believe they represent a poor sidetrack for enterprises, as no enterprise will be able to run their own clouds as cheaply or effectively as a player like Amazon, and the costs and management issues will prove that out in the longer term.

The faster that enterprises get started on moving some early apps to the public cloud, the better. They need experience in understanding the issues and how to solve them.

By: Randy Clark

Randy Clark — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:35:20 +0000

Vendor consolidation, public/private hybrid pilots, pricing by usage, and ease of use services all point back to customer's frustration about their lack of control over their IT vendors. Cloud is changing this for those that are strategically taking control of their architectures and demanding scaleable, commodity cost structures. The implication is that a big battle for control is shaping up between the tech big-boys trying to protect their profits and the leading enterprises trying to fundamentally change their IT cost structures. Randy Clark CMO Platform Computing