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Intel, Rackspace, OpenStack, and a Cloud for All

Intel, Rackspace, OpenStack, and a Cloud for All

By Paul Miller on July 24, 2015

I didn’t really get it, back in January 2014, when Intel, Amazon and others made a big noise about slapping the equivalent of an ‘Intel Inside’ sticker on your favourite cloud. Now they’re at it again, with the birth of a new ‘Cloud for All’ initiative, a nudge for OpenStack, and the promise that Intel and Rackspace […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged cloud computing, cloud for all, intel, openstack, rackspace

Rackspace

Rackspace

By Paul Miller on May 15, 2015

Rackspace results  came in below analyst expectations. Shares ‘tumbled,’ according to The Register. Over at TechCrunch, they ‘plunged.’ Yup. They tumbled and plunged all the way to exactly where they were last week. (Source: Google) More interesting, for me, was the company’s emphasis on its increasingly important business supporting customers of other people’s clouds. Unsurprisingly, Barb Darrow […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged rackspace, rax, tftd

451 Research on IaaS

451 Research on IaaS

By Paul Miller on April 16, 2015

This diagram, from a recent 451 Research report, is intriguing. AWS is top of the heap, “used by the majority of enterprise IaaS customers in the study (57%) and is also cited as the most important IaaS provider by 35% of these current IaaS customers.” But look at Rackspace, ahead of AWS on ‘promise’ and only just […]

Posted in Infrastructure | Tagged 451 research, Amazon Web Services, aws, cloud computing, iaas, Infrastructure as a service, rackspace, tftd, vendor window

Hewlett-Packard gets real

Hewlett-Packard gets real

By Paul Miller on April 8, 2015

The New York Times’ Quentin Hardy reports HP’s Bill Hilf as saying that: “We thought people would rent or buy computing from us. It turns out that it makes no sense for us to go head-to-head [with Amazon].” Well, yes. But, and it’s a huge but… this doesn’t mean HP is abandoning (or should abandon) the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Infrastructure | Tagged amazon, Amazon Web Services, aws, cloud computing, google compute engine, helion, hewlett packard, hp, ibm softlayer, Microsoft Azure, openstack, rackspace, tftd, vcloud air, vmware

Open Letter to the OpenStack Community: OpenStack’s Future Depends on Embracing Amazon. Now.

Open Letter to the OpenStack Community: OpenStack’s Future Depends on Embracing Amazon. Now.

By Randy Bias on July 24, 2013

Dear Stackers,  For three years, elements of the OpenStack community have arbitrarily and unfairly positioned OpenStack against incumbents, especially Amazon Web Services (AWS) and VMware (VMW). The practical expression of this view is that OpenStack should build and maintain its own set of differentiated APIs. I’ve made no secret of my belief that this choice […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged amazon, api, aws, cloud computing, Nova, openstack, rackspace | 1 Response

What Makes Cloud Transformation So Hard?

What Makes Cloud Transformation So Hard?

By Guest Authors on May 20, 2013

Transformation is not a new concept, and has been around a long time before cloud and big data.  It has always been a pretty nebulous term, but generally has referred to the fundamental reinvention or redesign of a business or function.  From an enterprise-wide perspective this typically has meant redefining everything from target markets, products […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, Strategy, Technology | Tagged big data, business, Business transformation, cloud computing, rackspace | 1 Response

Xeround, and a tale of evolving business models

Xeround, and a tale of evolving business models

By Paul Miller on May 3, 2013

Cloud database company Xeround announced that they’re shutting down the version of their service hosted in public clouds such as Amazon, Rackspace, GreenQloud, and others. Users of the free service have until 8 May to move elsewhere, whilst paying customers have until 15 May. The company describes this as an attempt to “re-focus,” with the […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Open Source, Platforms | Tagged amazon, business model, cloud computing, cloud database, database, Enterprise Computing, freemium, greenqloud, mysql, rackspace, saas, software as a service, xeround

Don't Count Microsoft Out of the Public Cloud Race Just Yet

Don’t Count Microsoft Out of the Public Cloud Race Just Yet

By Guest Authors on April 21, 2013

Microsoft this week announced the general availability of Azure Infrastructure Services.  This marks a notable course correction for Microsoft, which initially provided Azure solely through a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) model.  While many market observers assume that public cloud IaaS in the enterprise is now a three horse race between Amazon AWS, Rackspace and Google, they may […]

Posted in Enterprise, Featured Posts, General, Infrastructure, Platforms | Tagged Amazon Web Services, azure, cloud computing, google, IBM, microsoft, platform as a service, rackspace | 1 Response

CloudPassage Cloud Security Survey

CloudPassage Cloud Security Survey

By Dan Morrill on January 16, 2013

CloudPassage was kind enough to share with me the raw data from their latest cloud computing security survey. In many ways this is what you would expect to see in a survey of companies that are still working out exactly what they want to do in the cloud and the approaches they want to take […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Amazon Web Services, cloud computing, CloudPassage, Microsoft Azure, rackspace, survey | 1 Response

[Some of] what you need to know about the cloud for 2013

[Some of] what you need to know about the cloud for 2013

By Paul Miller on January 4, 2013

Towards the end of last year, David Linthicum and I joined GigaOM’s Adam Lesser on a skype chat to take a look back at cloud successes and failures in 2012, and forward to cloud opportunities in 2013. GigaOM released the conversation as a podcast this morning. Amazon, Rackspace, Google, OpenStack, DropBox, and more get a […]

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged 2012, 2013, acquisitions, adam lesser, amazon, Amazon Web Services, cloud computing, david linthicum, dropbox, Enterprise Computing, GigaOM, GigaOM Pro, gigaompro, openstack, Podcast, predictions, rackspace, Review | 1 Response

Nimbula Joins the OpenStack Community

Nimbula Joins the OpenStack Community

By Ben Kepes on October 15, 2012

A piece of news that I’ve been aware of for a month or two now is today public knowledge – Nimbula (more on them here), the cloud infrastructure company famously founded by the team that developed Amazon’s prescient EC2 offering, is signing up to join the OpenStack community. Nimbula is

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged Amazon Web Services, cloud computing, marten mickos, nimbula, Nimbula Director, openstack, rackspace, Reza Malekzadeh | 1 Response

On Open Source Cloud Adoption

On Open Source Cloud Adoption

By Ben Kepes on October 3, 2012

Last week Lydia Leong from Gartner published an analyst report with some opinions on Open Stack. I’ve been critical in the past about traditional analyst firms and I’ve also gone on record as being positive about open source (and, for full disclosure, the CloudU program I run is sponsored by OpenStack member Rackspace) but notwithstanding […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Open Source | Tagged gartner, Krishnan Subramanian, openstack, rackspace, Redmonk | 3 Responses

When did Amazon abandon Main Street for ‘the Skyscrapers of Cloud Hosting’ ?

When did Amazon abandon Main Street for ‘the Skyscrapers of Cloud Hosting’ ?

By Paul Miller on August 20, 2012

In the competitive world of cloud-based computing infrastructure, Amazon remains top dog. It’s highly visible, its footprint is almost global, it incrementally adds features or cuts prices to keep competitors on their toes, and it generally manages to meet most people’s needs, most of the time. It may not always offer the lowest prices, or […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Infrastructure, Platforms | Tagged Amazon Web Services, aws, cloud computing, CloudSigma, digitalocean, Enterprise Computing, financial times, iaas, Infrastructure as a service, pando daily, rackspace, trevor gilbert | 1 Response

OpenStack Seeing the Light of General Availability

OpenStack Seeing the Light of General Availability

By Ben Kepes on August 7, 2012

The last few weeks have been interesting around the OpenStack ecosystem. We’ve had HP moving object storage and Cloud CDN to general availability. We had Morphlabs introduce an interesting combined hardware and software offering called mCloud Helix. The product is powered by OpenStack, and combines that with SSD-powered nodes to deliver a compact rack mount […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged Application programming interface, hewlett packard, Krishnan Subramanian, morphlabs, openstack, oscon, rackspace, techcrunch | 1 Response

Rackspace deploys OpenStack–AppFog Delivers the Promise of PaaS

Rackspace deploys OpenStack–AppFog Delivers the Promise of PaaS

By Ben Kepes on August 1, 2012

Today is an exciting day for anyone who follows the infrastructure or PaaS space today as Rackspace announced the general availability of cloud services powered by OpenStack. It’s also a satisfying day for those who have argued at length with people within the cloud community who have been adamant that OpenStack isn’t actually ready for […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Platforms | Tagged appfog, CloudComputing, open source, openstack, rackspace, Rackspace Cloud

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