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Lydia LeongResearch Director at Gartner, Inc |
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Report: Magic Quadrant for North American Web Hosting, 2008  |
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April 10 2008
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In North America, all major Web hosting vendors have operational expertise in traditional managed, dedicated hosting. But the evolution toward utility computing services is causing major technological and business shifts that not all vendors will manage successfully. Most Web hosting providers can deliver basic managed Web hosting services competently, but breadth of product portfolio, flexible utility pricing, ability to manage complexity, and quality of customer service still differentiate providers. |
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| May 15 2012 |
| So, I want to start this blog post by stressing that, like all of my posts, according to Gartner’s policies, it is strictly personal opinion. But I feel like this issue is important, and that I can say something constructive in the conversation around the role of women in technology and the culture of technology [...] ... read more >> |
| May 14 2012 |
| So I caught an interesting Horses for Sources blog post via Twitter — Phil Fersht of HfS called out a blog post of ISG’s Stanton Jones discussing the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Managed Hosting that I published earlier this year. Stanton Jones’s argument seems to be that analysts sit in ivory towers, theorizing about suppliers, [...] ... read more >> |
| May 14 2012 |
| For months, there have been an abundance of rumors that Amazon was intending to enter the dynamic site acceleration market; it was the logical next step for its CloudFront CDN. Today, Amazon released a set of features oriented towards dynamic content, described in blog posts from Amazon’s Jeff Barr and Werner Vogels. When CloudFront introduced [...] ... read more >> |
| April 07 2012 |
| For those who have been wondering where I personally stand in the brouhaha over Amazon, Citrix, Eucalyptus, CloudStack, OpenStack, Rackspace, HP, and so on, along with the broader competitive market that includes VMware, Microsoft, and the Four Horsemen of management tools… I should state up-front that I hold the optimistic viewpoint that I want everyone [...] ... read more >> |
| April 06 2012 |
| Citrix contributing CloudStack to the Apache Software Foundation isn’t so much a shot at OpenStack (it just happens to get caught in the crossfire), as it’s a shot against VMware. There are two primary ecosystems developing in the world: VMware and Amazon. Other possibilities, like Microsoft and OpenStack, are completely secondary to those two. You [...] ... read more >> |
| April 03 2012 |
| There are dozens upon dozens of cloud management platforms (CMPs), sometimes known as “cloud stacks” or “cloud operating systems”, out in the wild, both commercial and open source. Two have been in the news recently — Eucalyptus and CloudStack — with implications for the third, OpenStack. Last week, Eucalyptus licensed Amazon’s API, and just yesterday, [...] ... read more >> |
| April 02 2012 |
| Eucalyptus, a commercial open-source cloud management platform (“CMP”, software used to build cloud infrastructure), recently announced that it had signed a partnership with Amazon. Eucalyptus began life as a university project to build a CMP that would create Amazon-API-compatible cloud infrastructure, but eventually turned into a commercial effort. However, like all other CMPs offering Amazon [...] ... read more >> |
| March 22 2012 |
| Back in December, I blogged about five reasons you should work at Gartner with me, and I’ve pleased to announce that Doug Toombs (formerly of Tier 1 Research / 451 Group) has joined my team. However, Ted Chamberlin, my long-time colleague, has decided he’d like a change of pace, and has just left us for [...] ... read more >> |
| March 22 2012 |
| I’d gotten out of the social media habit — Twitter and blogging — over the holidays and never really restarted, and now that a quarter has gone by, I’m feeling like I really ought to get back into the habit. So, it’s time for a catch-up, starting with a round-up of my recent research, and, [...] ... read more >> |
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