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Gartner: IaaS Adoption Proves "Healthy" in 2017

03 August 2018 Marco Attard Cloud Computing

According to Gartner, the global Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) market is up by 29.5% in 2017 to reach $23.5 billion, compared to the $18.2bn of 2016. Amazon is the top vendor, followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and IBM.

"The top 4 providers have strong IaaS offerings and saw healthy growth as IaaS adoption is being fully embraced by mainstream organisations and as cloud availability expands into new regions and countries," the analyst says. "Cloud-directed IT spending now constitutes more than 20% of the total IT budget for organisations using cloud. Many of these organisations are now using cloud to support production environments and business-critical operations."

The competitive landscape of the IaaS market is currently consolidating around the 4 leaders-- Amazon, Microsoft, Alibaba and Google-- all hyperscale IaaS providers making 73% of the total market, as well as 47% of the combined IaaS and infrastructure utility services (IUS) market. Amazon leads with 2017 revenues worth $12.2bn, up 25% from 2016, and is the most mature, enterprise-ready provider. Driving growth for the former online bookseller are not only customers migrating from traditional datacentres, but also customers implementing transformational digital business projects, reflecting a broad range of use cases.

Bechtle Joins Forces With AWS

27 July 2018 Alice Marshall Cloud Computing

Bechtle signs a partnership agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), allowing customers throught Europe to access all AWS cloud services through the Bechtle Cloud platform.

The Bechtle Tier 3+ datacentre in Frankfurt hosts the cloud platform, serving as an interface to the AWS global cloud infrastructure. The reseller provides transparent management and billing of cloud services used, while direct connection comes via DE-CIX, the largest internet exchange point in the world, to ensure the performance for workloads and applications running in the AWS cloud.

The "Cloud in a Box" From Lenovo & Cloudistics

19 July 2018 Alice Marshall Cloud Computing

Lenovo joins forces with Cloudistics to expand the ThinkAgile portfolio-- the CP series, a composable "cloud in a box" solution consisting of Lenovo ThinkSystem hardware and Cloudistics software.

The CP series comes complete with fully-integrated infrastructure, application marketplace and end-to-end automation of software-defined networking, compute and storage. Management comes through software-as-a-service portal, and the result promises the agility of the public cloud paired with the security of a private cloud.

Further features include integrated high availability, backup, remote replication, usage metering, live help and support, and multi-layered, multi-tenant security. The marketplace provides a curated selection of applications for deployment, while compute and storage come in plug-and-play, scale-out units.

Snowflake Takes Data Warehouse to Azure

13 July 2018 Alice Marshall Cloud Computing

The Snowflake Computing data warehouse-as-a-service gets to a new cloud-- following launch on AWS, a partnership with Microsoft brings the service to the Azure cloud in preview form before a Q3 2018 launch.

"Migration of an enterprise data warehouse into the cloud is a key requirement for Azure customers," Microsoft says. "We look forward to partnering with Snowflake to enable these data warehouse migrations for enterprise customers."

VMware Takes on Containers

06 July 2018 Marco Attard Cloud Computing

VMware is the next company to take on the container trend with the beta release of VMware Kubernetes Engine (VKE), as well as the release of its collaboration with Pivotal, Pivotal Container Service (PKS) version 1.1.

VKE is a Kubernetes-as-a-Service addition to the VMware Cloud Services portfolio. It is not to be confused with the other VMware container offering, vSphere Integrated Containers, since it runs on the AWS EC2 cloud, not vSphere. The service integrates the upstream Kubernetes container orchestration technology with VMware Smart Cluster technology, providing additional policies such as availability, scale targets and isolation capabilities.

While initially available on AWS, VKE will eventually run on Azure and additional cloud environments as part of the VMware multi-cloud strategy following the initial beta program.