Comments on: Amazon is No. 1. Who’s next in cloud computing?

By: Tom Laszewski

Tom Laszewski — Mon, 21 May 2012 02:14:38 +0000

Verizon/Terremark, Century Link/Savvis, and AT&T are all big ones as mentioned by Atul. CSC and HP/EDS run some of the biggest data centers in the world, and are starting to host public/private cloud for companies.

By: Robert Jenkins

Robert Jenkins — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 14:52:51 +0000

Barb, this is a very thoughtful piece highlighting the importance of competition in the cloud space. However, there are definitely some key players missing. For example, CloudSigma has built a cloud IaaS offering with unprecedented flexibility that isn’t tethered to the deployment and resource constraints of the Amazons in the market. Our company provides a truly dynamic public cloud by offering a utility style, pay-as-you-go pricing model, open software layers and complete data portability. We don’t restrict our customers’ control over their cloud deployments, and we’re effectively demonstrating that customizability can be a defining feature of IaaS platforms. This kind of innovation is what will really propel the cloud forward and give Amazon a serious run for its money.

By: Jon W

Jon W — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:11:05 +0000

Bah. Even the article you cite has:
“That said, Apple could be biding its time in using Microsoft and Amazon.

Apple is building a $500m data centre in North Carolina. If reports of the hardware going in there are correct, the centre’s data capacity should run into tens of petabytes and be more than suited to running iCloud – for now, at least.”

By: Jon W

Jon W — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 01:02:13 +0000

What do you say to Apple? Billions to invest, check. Massive cloud storage presence already, check. Edge buildout, check… 1E+08s of nudge-able userbase, check

By: Andrew Brabban

Andrew Brabban — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:13:34 +0000

Barb, I see companies wanting hybrid solutions spanning clouds and legacy to deliver reliably and securely (e.g. Keeping data on premise)

By: Barb Darrow

Barb Darrow — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:25:05 +0000

as i said in the article, real #s are scarce from AWS, however if you do look at what’s available — in terms of objects stored and other factors — and talking to dozens of vendors/analysts etc., no one (including the other vendors) suggested any one is larger than AWS in cloud. Here are some #s i took into consideration: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/01/amazon-s3-growth-for-2011-now-762-billion-objects.html
Revenue #s compiled last spring by Tier1 have AWS at #1 with estimated $525B in revenue , force.com #2 w/ $135M and rackspace #3 with $48M. If you know of other estimates I’d love to see them.
thanks for the comment.

By: gwest

gwest — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:10:33 +0000

Somebody up the list said that Gartner Magic Quandrant companies should be on here, I literally LOLed. How about no. their Cloud Q has about the same relation to reality as Friendship is Magic. Yeah, ponies. I went there.

By: Barb Darrow

Barb Darrow — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 14:12:14 +0000

the accenture analyst was referring to physical (blade) servers.
http://huanliu.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/amazon-data-center-size/

By: David Sawatzke

David Sawatzke — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:41:42 +0000

OpSource a Dimension Data Company – http://www.opsource.net/

By: Mullet Reeve

Mullet Reeve — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:04:27 +0000

Could be talking vms and not physical?