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Companies Slowly Join Cloud-Computing. , like Netflix, wants to deliver movies to people’s homes over the Internet.
But the online retailer, based in Seattle, has lately gained traction with a considerably more ambitious effort: the business of renting other companies the remote use of its technology infrastructure so they can run their computer operations. In the parlance of technophiles, they would operate “in the cloud.” Ah, the cloud — these days, Silicon Valley can’t seem to get its head out of it. The idea, though typically expressed in ways larded with jargon, is actually rather simple. Cloud providers, large ones like Amazon, , and , and smaller ones like Rackspace and Terremark, aim to convince other companies to give up building and managing their own data centers and to use their computer capacity instead.
The concept of renting computing power goes back decades, to the days when companies would share space on a single mainframe with big spinning tape drives. As for tethering Netflix’s future to a rival, Mr. Windows Azure turns 1 in 'anemic' market. Network World - One year after Microsoft introduced Windows Azure, the platform-as-a-service market is only about 1/20 the size of the rival infrastructure-as-a-service market led by Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud, and about 1/50 the size of the software-as-a-service market.
While enterprises will spend $112 billion on public cloud services over the next five years, only a small fraction of that amount will be devoted to platform clouds such as Windows Azure, according to Gartner. COMPETITION: Microsoft Windows Azure and Amazon EC2 on collision course So far, Windows Azure has 31,000 active subscribers and is hosting 5,000 applications, whereas competitors Google and Salesforce.com each claim at least 150,000 applications on their platforms. Microsoft, which opened Azure to the public on Feb. 1, 2010, acknowledges the market is a "longer-term play. " Windows Azure turns 1 in 'anemic' market - salesforce.com, Microsoft, internet, hardware systems, Google, Gartner, Data Center, cloud computing - CIO.
Merrill Lynch: Cloud Computing Market Will Reach $160 Billion...Really? - ReadWriteEnterprise. The estimates for cloud computing can make you wonder sometimes about what to believe.
Analyst firms and it looks like investment houses, can be notorious for wild estimates about market sizes. So we have to wonder about the estimates from Merrill Lynch, which is estimating the cloud computing market to reach $160 billion by 2011.The estimate includes $95 billion in business and productivity applications. Whoa! That makes cloud computing one of the fastest growing markets in the world. But Merrill Lynch is not alone in its lofty estimates. How to Build the Business Case for Virtualization. State of the Cloud – November 2010. November 3rd, 2010 | Published in State of the Cloud | 4 Comments After a short hiatus, State of the Cloud is back with a brand new update. Starting from this report, updates will be published every two months. Methodology State of the Cloud is an on-going survey of the market penetration of cloud computing. Specifically, the survey tracks publicly facing websites (i.e., www.something.com) and does not look into internal usage such as R&D, testing and enterprise use.
The technique used is as follows: I use QuantCast’s top 1M site list as a reference. taking the top half of the list (500k sites in total). Snapshot for November 2010 Here are the results for this month. The two market leaders continue to make significant gains, both gaining an average of 2.6% per month over the past two month. Trends Looking back over the time since the survey began, what jumps out more than anything is how the cloud as a whole has grown. Microsoft passes the 10,000 customer milestone with Azure.
Microsoft now has more than 10,000 customers (each with an unspecified number of users) using its Windows Azure cloud environment.
That new milestone was mentioned by Doug Hauger, General Manager of Windows Azure, during his appearance on June 3 at the Cowen & Co. Tech Conference. (I listened to him via the Webcast.) Hauger shared some other new data and statistics. There are four main workloads customers are running on Windows Azure -- Microsoft's cloud operating environment which became commercially available in February this year. How Much Are Cloud Providers Making? « Data Center Knowledge. How much are the major players in cloud computing making from their cloud operations?
The answers are all over the map. Many cloud computing providers are private, and don’t disclose their revenue. Most of the leading publicly-held companies see cloud computing as a promising source of future growth, though perhaps not a large percentage of current revenue. And there’s some significant differences between companies providing software as a service (SaaS) and those offering infrastructure as a service (IaaS). Cloud Research and Stats. Peter Silva covers security for F5’s Technical Marketing Team.
After working in Professional Theatre for 10 years, Peter decided to change careers. Starting out with a small VAR selling Netopia routers and the Instant Internet box, he soon became one of the first six Internet Specialists for AT&T managing customers on the original ATT WorldNet network. Now having his Telco background he moved to Verio to focus on access, IP security along with web hosting.
After losing a deal to Exodus Communications (now Savvis) for technical reasons, the customer still wanted Peter as their local SE contact so Exodus made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. Life in the Cloud: The Cloud Computing Opportunity by the Numbers -[update]- How big is the opportunity for cloud computing? A question asked at pretty well every IT conference these days.
Whatever the number, it's a big one. Let's break down the opportunity by the numbers available today. By 2011 Merrill Lynch says the cloud computing market will reach $160 billion. The number of physical servers in the World today: 50 million. By 2013, approximately 60 percent of server workloads will be virtualized By 2013 10 percent of the total number of physical servers sold will be virtualized with an average of 10 VM's per physical server sold. At 10 VM's per physical host that means about 80-100 million virtual machines are being created per year or 273,972 per day or 11,375 per hour. 50 percent of the 8 million servers sold every year end up in data centers, according to a BusinessWeek report The data centers of the dot-com era consumed 1 or 2 megawatts. 98% of the market is controlled by everyone else. Editorial Article - Cloud Computing & SaaS In 2010. Cloud computing and SaaS (software as a service) were big in 2009 and will only get bigger this year as network managers cut costs and boost productivity by running applications that otherwise would require more manpower, hardware, and software resources in-house.
Although it’s unlikely that data centers and IT departments are going away anytime soon, admins should increasingly be able to cut through the vendor hype, observe their colleagues’ success stories, and learn for themselves through pilot programs and low-risk projects about how cloud computing and SaaS can help them in 2010. According to research firm Gartner, cloud computing services revenue should total $56.3 billion for 2009, representing a 21.3% increase compared to 2008.
The market is expected to explode to $150.1 billion in 2013. Gartner expects SaaS revenue to total $7.5 billion in 2009, which represents a 17.7% increase over 2008 revenue of $6.4 billion. Cloud computing by the numbers: What do all the statistics mean? I came back from my summer break to an avalanche of cloud computing facts and figures in my inbox -- most recently CRN predicting that SMB spending on cloud computing would reach $100B by 2014.
There are dozens of cloud computing forecasts and predictions out there (Reuven Cohen of Enomaly does a fantastic roundup on his blog), but its sometimes a challenge to figure out what they all actually mean. How Big is Amazon’s Cloud Computing Business? Find Out: Cloud «