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Quarterly Wrap-ups

Infrastructure Overview, Q2 2010

Summary:

The second quarter of 2010 belonged to the little guys and the new guys. Almost across the board, from processors to virtualization to cloud services, relatively small vendors and startups had the market cornered on innovation and mindshare. And where there’s tinder in the forms of customer demand, products, funding and a greater societal movement toward environmentalism, something is bound to catch fire.

  1. Table of Contents
  2. Executive Summary
  3. Public Clouds
    1. The Quarterly Amazon Report
    2. Paas Takes Center Stage
    3. More Clouds Roll In
    4. Washington D.C. Moves Closer to the Cloud
    5. Do Benchmarks Matter for Cloud Computing?
    6. Software Vendors Boost Their Cloud Presences
    7. Outages: Fewer Overall, but Still Significant
    8. By the Numbers
    9. Elsewhere in the Clouds
  4. Internal clouds
    1. VMware Fills its Cloud Holes
    2. Systems Management Targets Cloud Computing
    3. Internal IaaS is the Startups' Game
    4. PaaS Takes Off Internally Too
    5. By the Numbers, Internally
  5. Cloud Services
    1. Salesforce.com Has a Busy Quarter
    2. Collaboration Competition Heats Up
    3. More Options for Cloud Storage
    4. Large Vendors, Service Providers Realize SaaS Potential
    5. How to Become a Saas Provider
  6. Web Infrastructure
    1. Web Giants Share Some of Their Secrets
    2. Facebook and its Infrastructure Won’t Stop Growing
    3. What’s the Best Foundation for Web Infrastructures?
  7. Data Center
    1. Green is the New Black
    2. Virtualization Market Swirls Around VMware
    3. Converged Infrastructure Isn’t Going Away
    4. Networking Vendors Vie for Differentiation
    5. Dell Proves Commodity Can Sell at Cloud Scale
    6. New and Improved Management Players
    7. Data Center Demand is Increasing
  8. Data
    1. Hadoop is Ready for the Mainstream
    2. NoSQL Databases Evolve, Expand User Base
    3. “Traditional” Databases Set Sights on Analytics, Scalability
    4. What are We Analyzing? Everything
    5. Following the Cloud, Storage Vendors Scale Out
  9. Processors
    1. New Server Chips on the Horizon (or Here Already)
    2. Intel and AMD Still Command Respect
  10. Networks
    1. There’s No Such Thing as too Much Bandwidth
    2. Can Anyone Really Challenge Akamai in CDNs?
    3. Can Networking be Made Cool Again?
  11. Financials
    1. Cisco Rebounds With Authority
    2. The Big Winners
    3. Not Everybody Wins, Though
  12. Key Takeaways
  13. About Derrick Harris
  14. About GigaOM Pro