Posts Tagged ‘Gartner’
Gartner case study on transition from software to services
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: September 30, 2010
Ruggero Contu has published a case study which he created after studying Quest Software‘s transition from being a pure software vendor to also a SaaS cloud-based IT management company: “Case Study: Quest Leverages Cloud Services to Introduce SaaS-Based Log Management Product” (registration required to access the page): Although new business opportunities can justify a SaaS [...]
Cloud Definitions: NIST, Gartner, Forrester
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: August 4, 2009
Analysts should love hype – it lets them jump into a hot area and be the thought leaders who everyone has to consult to make any sense out of what is going on in the area. “Cloud” is probably the most hyped word in the industry these days and everyone has a definition of what [...]
SaaS growing fast in Asia/Pacific
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: July 1, 2009
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You’d think that after all the news of China blocking Google and other web sites Software-as-a-Service and cloud computing would be the worst software delivery model you would imagine? Customer survey on SaaS Gartner conducted in November 2008 has shown that Asia/Pacific region is getting ahead of North America and Europe in SaaS adoption. Their [...]
A VM running in EC2 is not SaaS
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: June 23, 2009
Just because you have software packaged as a virtual machine and running in Amazon EC2 does not mean you have a “cloud” offering. As easy as it sounds in most cases when a vendor claims they have their software available as a service/cloud offering – it is just that: a virtual machine image (such as [...]
Government adoption of cloud growing
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: June 17, 2009
That’s what Gartner’s Andrea Di Maiofound in his recent report: “Government in the Cloud: Much More Than Computing“. This might surprise initially – after all Forrester just told us that public sector was lagging in the cloud computing adoption rush. However, Andrea builds up a pretty impressive case of why cloud trend is inevitable for [...]
Garter finds a ‘Killer App’ for Cloud Computing
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: June 10, 2009
“APaaS: A Step to a ‘Killer App’ for Cloud Computing?” is a great report by Yefim V. Natis and Eric Knipp published by Gartner last week. Yefim and Eric, as it seems to me, managed to articulate the very essence of what makes Cloud Computing so disruptive: “Easy to learn and use application development environment, [...]
Gartner surveys cloud backup solutions
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: May 22, 2009
“Dataquest Insight: Cloud-Based Server Backup Services, 2Q09 Update” by Adam W. Couture is a good feature-by-feature (including pricing) comparison of a dozen of major online backup solutions for the enterprise space. Backup might initially sound like the worst cloud application you can think of: after all it involves big data transfers and most likely the [...]
Will Cloud make SOA mainstream?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: April 14, 2009
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Gartner has just posted a quick report on SOA and Cloud Computing: “Cloud Computing Will Cement the Mainstream Role of SOA” (SOA stands for Service-Oriented Architecture). The report argues that Cloud Computing is an evolution of multiple technologies “including virtualization, workload hosting, consumerization of IT, Web architectures, metadata-based software engineering, grid computing, extreme transaction processing, [...]
Gartner’s Cloud Research Overview
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: March 24, 2009
Gartner’s recent “Key Issues for Cloud-Enabled application infrastructure, 2009″ was published on March 17. And in my opinion is does not really have much besides the common-sense discussion on how cloud/services approach to application delivery is poised to grow in mid-size market and is disruptive for traditional players: Microsoft, Oracle, IBM. I guess I could [...]
Gartner Highlights 5 Cloud Start-Ups
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: March 23, 2009
“Cool vendors” reports have always been among my favorites, and Gartner’s “Cool Vendors in Cloud Computing Management and Professional Services, 2009” paper published last week has a great overview of 5 select start-ups in the cloud computing space with Gartner’s take on their strengths and weaknesses. This time they looked at: Appirio – which provide [...]
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