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The Cloud is Not Flat
I am late to updating the geographic view of Gartner’s Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Magic Quadrant. Here is the update for 2017 (see 2016, 2015): Commentary: 1\ The Seattle region (aka the Leaders quadrant) is unchanged. This supermassive region may turn into a black hole, warp the space-time continuum, and consume most of the…
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Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes
The capital expenditures (CAPEX) going into the cloud are Sagan-esque, with billions upon billions being spent on sprawling complexes of interconnected datacenters scattered across the planet. The hyper-scale public cloud operators (Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft) operate BFGCs (big, uh, freakin’ global computers) at immense industrial scale, with townships of well-ventilated warehouses that collectively hold…
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Tweetstorm Digest: August 4, 2016
Some @charlesfitz reactions to the long-delayed Gartner Infrastructure as a Service Magic Quadrant plus bonus material: 1/ Gartner IaaS Magic Quadrant is finally out – probably the most important assessment of the cloud market. 2/ I yield to no one in making fun of Gartner but they do a really good job on this one.…