GigaomMission Impossible: Sizing up the cloud contenders
The week in cloud. If you want to know how big your favorite vendor’s cloud business is — in scale, in revenue, in profitability … yeah, good luck with that. Read more »
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) that together make up a cloud computing platform, offered over the Internet by Amazon.com. The most central and well-known of these services are Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. The service is advertised as providing a large computing capacity (potentially many servers) much faster and cheaper than building a physical server farm.
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The CIA cloud, the subject of a heated contract battle between IBM and AWS, is now online, according to a DefenseOne report. Read more »
Microsoft’s cloud biz, including Azure, Office 365 and other stuff, will hit $5.77 billion run rate by December, surpassing Amazon Web Services and Salesforce.com, according to Nomura Securities Analyst Rick Sherlund. Read more »
Mobile apps marketing company Tapjoy opted for an OpenStack private cloud managed by Metacloud for the bulk of its work going forward. Read more »
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In his Weekly Update, David Linthicum, the Gigaom Research curator for cloud, notes ‘A bit of a “Bizarro World” in the cloud space last week’. That is, AWS reported a slowing… Read more »
The week in cloud: IBM wants Watson to be a $10B-a-year and hopes consumer-facing applications to be a big part of that. Read more »
A couple of cloud things happened this week. Microsoft announced a sales increased due largely to cloud-based technology, and AWS’s sales were slightly off. Some of the better coverage from Gigaom’s… Read more »
AWS doesn’t have the public cloud to itself anymore. It faces two gigantic competitors trying to poach reference customers and growing adoption of hybrid cloud. Read more »
Sales in the “other” Amazon Web Services category are down slightly quarter to quarter, but were up 38 percent year over year. Read more »