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Quarterly Wrap-ups

Big Data, ARM and Legal Troubles Transformed Infrastructure in Q4

Summary:

Some might call this past quarter in the infrastructure space transformative. The rise of ARM-based processing suggests the days of x86 dominance might be coming to an end, while the Amazon Web Services-WikiLeaks controversy cast new light on the legal aspects of cloud computing. Big data got bigger, meanwhile, as the Hadoop ecosystem expanded, and amid all these cutting-edge technologies, two archaic topics — Novell and Java — proved they aren’t going anywhere soon. Companies mentioned in this report include Intel, AMD, Amazon Web Services, IBM, Yahoo, Appistry, VMware, Joyent and Microsoft. For a full list of companies, and to read the full report, sign up for a free trial.

  1. Table of Contents
  2. About Derrick Harris
  3. About GigaOM Pro
  4. Executive Summary
  5. Public Clouds
    1. What’s New With Amazon Web Services
    2. WikiLeaks Exposes Potential Cloud Pitfalls
    3. AWS Competitors Were Active, Too
    4. PaaS Picks Up Steam
    5. HPC Turns to the Cloud
    6. No Stopping Government’s Cloud Momentum
    7. Big Vendors Get Busy on Health Care Clouds
    8. Another Quarter, More Clouds
    9. Elsewhere in the Cloud
  6. Internal Clouds
    1. It’s All About the Startups
    2. The OpenStack Picture Cleans Up
    3. Large Vendors Care About Private Clouds, Too
  7. Cloud Services
    1. Google vs. Microsoft Heats Up
    2. Productivity Competitors Try to Keep Pace
    3. The Salesforce.com Report
    4. Other Noteworthy SaaS Happenings
    5. The Government Weighs in on Cloud Services
  8. Web Infrastructure
    1. Solving Social Networking Woes with Data Centers and Hadoop
    2. Google Spends More, Open Sources More
    3. Everyone’s Growing Their Web Infrastructures
    4. Outages: They’re No Fun
  9. Data Center
    1. Cisco’s Networking Stranglehold Keeps Loosening
    2. Converged Infrastructure Ecosystem Grows, Confuses
    3. More Money and More Innovation in Green IT
    4. OS Wars Resurface, Kind of, in the Server Business
    5. BMC Software Looks a Lot Cloudier
    6. Oracle Keeps Making Open Source Enemies
  10. Data
    1. What Can Stop Hadoop Momentum?
    2. NoSQL Projects Grow Up
    3. Data in the Cloud Takes Off
    4. If It Scales, It Makes Money
    5. Say GoodBye to Spinning Disks
    6. In the End, It’s All About Analytics
  11. Processors
    1. The CPU Market Moves Toward ARM
    2. GPUs Are the Present, and Future, of HPC
    3. Intel and AMD Still Rule, Though
  12. The Internet
    1. Internet Use Keeps Growing, Making Content Delivery Critical
  13. Financials
  14. Near-term Outlook
  15. Key Takeaways
  16. Further Reading