Posts Tagged ‘Google’
How much money do cloud providers make?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: May 27, 2011
- In: Market
- 3 Comments
Don’s recent attempt to look at financials of 10 publicly traded “cloud” companies got me willing to expand his research to a bigger picture. After all, limiting the scope to 100% cloud companies really skews the charts to “Salesforce.com and everyone else” leaving such cloud juggernauts as Amazon and Google out of the picture. As [...]
Chrome OS shooting for consumers or enterprise?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: December 14, 2010
Marco Arment from Instapaper thinks that Chrome OS will have limited appeal for consumers, will target businesses and not be well-received there due to lack of proper enterprise support and commitment. Here are a few quotes from Marco: Google’s targeting of Chrome OS is interesting. Rather than trying to attract consumers, who have demonstrated that they’re not interested in [...]
Gmail/Google Apps get major new capabilities
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: February 10, 2009
Google has finally made Gmail and Google Apps for Enterprise their focus area – these are no longer just one of their experimental areas. Within just last couple of weeks there were a few significant updates to Gmail/Google Apps (probably more than we’ve seen for the whole year before that!): Offline support both for Gmail [...]
Cloud Computing in 2009: IaaS & PaaS
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: January 1, 2009
- In: Platforms | Predictions
- 5 Comments
Here’s my attempt to put together the list of things I expect to happen to Cloud Computing in 2009 – kind of natural thing to do the fist day of the year, right? Overall, this is going to be a year when cloud computing will start rapidly maturing with competition heating up on the infrastructure/platform [...]
Microsoft so open on datacenters
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: December 10, 2008
Seems that Microsoft is suddenly surprisingly extremely open on how they design and run their datacenters. Not only we have a write up by Michael Manos on their Generation 4 datacenter architecture (and a great concept video), but even more surprisingly James Hamilton is giving us a spreadsheet of their datacenter expense structure! Can you [...]
Google ramps up APIs
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: November 3, 2008
Folks at Google have released another set of APIs for Google Apps and like the previous drop in September this one is for administrative tasks. This is actually a big deal deal because unlike earlier user-oriented APIs these give you programmatic administrative access to all users’ data and settings. Here’s the key difference in what [...]
Microsoft Azure vs Amazon, Google, and VMware
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 29, 2008
- In: Amazon | Google | Microsoft | VMware
- 25 Comments
Now that we had a few days to look at Microsoft’s Windows Azure it is time to compare it with other alternatives on the market. For our comparison we picked solutions from the biggest players in the market and potential to impact the industry in that area: Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google App [...]
Google Apps hitting the chasm?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 22, 2008
Looks like my recent Google Apps customer base estimates need corrections and the current growth is far smaller than the one we were seeing earlier this year. What’s happening? Are they stuck getting all the technology enthusiasts and visionaries they could get, and having no way of attracting the bigger mainstream market? Let’s look at [...]
Google Apps failure – someone’s opportunity
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: October 17, 2008
- In: Google
- 5 Comments
Google Apps (including GMail) were out (again) for commercial customers this week. Considering the August outages not that long ago, this can be a significant PR blow for Google’s enterprise efforts. Or this could be a great opportunity for 3rd-parties to get in and make Google Apps enterprise-ready. Here’s a quick summary from Slashdot: “A [...]
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Can I insure my Google Apps, please?
Posted by: Dmitry Sotnikov on: March 11, 2009
Are online services ever going to be 100% secure? If not should the insurance industry kick in? A few days ago Google Apps had an issue with some Google Docs became accessible to other Google users beyond the security set on the docs. To quote from Google: As we noted in the Google Docs Help [...]