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Quarterly Wrap-ups

Infrastructure Q1: Cloud and big data woo the enterprise

Summary:

With enterprises now open to hybrid clouds, Amazon Web Services finally relaxed its rigid public-cloud-only stance and launched services to support hybrid-cloud deployments in the first quarter of 2012. On the big data front, the Hadoop players realized very few companies have teams of systems engineers to learn MapReduce. This has meant adding support for SQL and integrating Hadoop with existing data-management tools and systems. In other words, Hadoop has grown up and is now being taken seriously by companies like Oracle and Microsoft. This quarterly report examines these trends as well the exciting M&A and IPO news in this arena. It also includes a near-term outlook for the next 12–18 months.

  1. Table of contents
  2. Executive summary
  3. Cloud
    1. Amazon still calling the shots
    2. Cloud infrastructure M&A and funding
    3. CloudStack-OpenStack battle begins
  4. Big data
    1. Big data skills shortage a wake-up call to industry
    2. Big data grows up
    3. Hadoop turns a corner, becomes mainstream
    4. Big data M&A and IPOs
  5. Companies to watch
  6. Near-term outlook
  7. Key takeaways
  8. About Jo Maitland
  9. About GigaOM Pro
  10. Further reading