VMware’s success has resulted in a dominant market position leaving it both searching for new growth opportunities and facing pernicious threats to the market it controls. At VMworld Europe 2015, the company was facing uncertainty from the announcement that its parent company EMC was to be acquired by Dell. Its own long-term strategic vision also [...]
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been a leader in cloud since it launched Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and Simple Storage Service (S3) the first widely accessible cloud computing infrastructure service a decade ago in 2006. What was given little respect in 2006 has evolved into game changing technology that impacts everyone from start-ups to multinational [...]
A major challenge for all software vendors is how to engage with the market especially where that market is incredibly diverse in terms of customers. In the age of cloud and pay-as-you-go service offerings, vendors are increasingly vying for the same broad group: from individual developers to enterprise IT. Trying to reach out to all [...]
Amazon recently ran its 4th AWS Summit in London celebrating 9 years since it launched the market leading public cloud platform. Amazon Web Services started life as a small number of basic services and now has more services and features than anyone could probably name. Its scale as a product is matched by the scale [...]
Last week Amazon published financials for its Amazon Web Services (AWS) business for the first time. These showed that the old man of public cloud computing is a $5bn business with 49% year-over-year growth. The data also showed that Amazon experiences healthy margins on AWS which puts them in a good position to handle the [...]
Google recently shifted their Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering, Compute Engine, into general availability meaning that it is now production ready. CIC covered this in a blog post along with our thoughts on the product in the context of the Cloud market. By any figures the biggest player in that market is Amazon, and [...]
