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Quarterly Wrap-ups

Infrastructure Wrap-up: Q1 2009 This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

Summary:

The first quarter of 2009 went pretty much as planned in the cloud computing and web infrastructure market. The sector continued to mature, with new announcements by big players such as Sun, Google and Amazon, as well as new entrants to the space. Enterprise adoption of cloud services fueled interest in cloud standards, openness and security, while private cloud services took shape, with new offerings aimed at boosting utility and cutting costs. Hardware trends continued to focus on energy-efficient offerings, with non-x86 architectures gaining popularity for specialized offerings. Increased attention and adoption continued to boost the volume of data, supporting further efforts around MapReduce and data mining activities, as well as content delivery and storage. The quarter was capped by a proposed acquisition of Sun by IBM.

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  1. Executive Summary 
  2. Public Clouds
    1. User Friendliness 
    2. Specialty Clouds 
    3. New Entrants 
    4. Maturity and Enterprise Capabilities 
    5. Openness (and Vendor Politics)   
    6. Security       
    7. Personnel   
  3. Private Clouds   
    1. IBM       
    2. Hybrid Clouds   
    3. Server Virtualization   
    4. Private-Cloud Storage   
  4. Cloud Services   
    1. Outages
    2. SaaS Gains Ground
  5. Data  
    1. MapReduce Goes Mainstream
  6. Hardware   
    1. Cisco Sells Servers
    2. Green Computing 
    3. Heterogeneous Computing
    4. Dell Adds Services to Servers 
  7. Networks 
    1. Moving Info in the Cloud
  8. Financials 
    1. Rumored Acquisitions 
  9. Key Takeaways