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Quarterly Wrap-ups

Infrastructure Q2: Big data and PaaS gain more momentum

Summary:

Big data and Platform-as-a-Service offerings highlighted the second quarter, suggesting that we can expect to see a shift in enterprise IT practices around application development and analytics very soon. On the PaaS front, we saw new projects like DotCloud and Cloud Foundry gain incredible momentum in just a few short months. The big-data activity ranged from major new Hadoop vendors to heavy investment in flash storage that will speed the serving of data to processing engines. In other areas, we saw an uptick in cloud-computing plans from large vendors, OpenStack continued to mature and pick up both contributors and users, and Facebook caught our eye by launching an open-source project around the designs for its specialized servers and data centers. Additional companies mentioned in this report include VMware, Salesforce.com, IBM, Heroku and Calxeda. 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. Outages reinforce cloud vulnerability
    2. PaaS grows up and out
    3. Telcos keep pushing IaaS M&A
    4. Microsoft bets big on Windows Azure
    5. AWS: The new features just keep coming
    6. Everyone else tries to keep up
  6. Private clouds
    1. OpenStack looks legitimate
    2. Cloud.com is killing it
    3. Joyent does Asia
    4. Tech giants, unite!
    5. Rounding out the private cloud
  7. Cloud services
    1. Google vs. Microsoft: Round ∞
    2. VMware buys every service under the sun
    3. The trend toward Everything-as-a-Service continues
    4. New services mean new money
    5. Large vendors call it SaaS, and it’s big money
    6. Storage and security go hand in hand
    7. Cloud services need data integration
  8. Web infrastructure
    1. Facebook goes green
    2. Google shows off its range
    3. Twitter’s infrastructure is still a mystery
    4. Of iCloud, Amazon and Nirvanix
  9. Data centers
    1. Coming to a data center near you: Flash storage
    2. Cisco coming on strong in servers
    3. Honing in on Cisco’s LAN dominance
    4. Converged is still the word in infrastructure
    5. Green IT a big concern for everyone
  10. Big data
    1. Hadoop now a full-fledged market
    2. Big-data use cases proliferate
    3. Big-data-as-a-Service
    4. Analytics databases
    5. It’s all about predictions
    6. NoSQL finds its role
    7. Big data, small power bills
    8. Storage still matters
  11. Processors
    1. SeaMicro looks really good . . .  so does Intel
    2. Is x86 finally feeling the heat?
    3. GPUs are making supercomputers everywhere
  12. The Internet
    1. Moving more data faster
    2. CDN draws much investment
  13. Near-term outlook
    1. Cloud high availability will become an area of heavy investment
    2. Hadoop innovation should be moving up the stack
    3. Data integration should become a household term
    4. Cisco will likely make some very big acquisitions around the data center and cloud computing
    5. NoSQL consolidation will finally begin
  14. Key takeaways
  15. Further reading