Driven by user uptake of IaaS (infrastructure-as-a-service) and PaaS (platform-as-a-service) services, public cloud ecosystem revenue during the first quarter of the year jumped by 26% to reach $126 billion, according to new research from Synergy Research Group. The figure takes into account revenue generated by user spending on public cloud services and infrastructure, as well […]
The new AWS: No more dumpster fires
We used to be able to count on a steady blaze of open source dumpster fires raging in the corner of downtown Seattle where AWS is headquartered. But not recently. There’s been a curious lack of drama for the company once castigated for “strip mining” open source. Though such accusations tended to be not a little self-serving, […]
AWS can’t help Amazon avoid first loss since 2015
Amazon’s fast-growing cloud division couldn’t help its parent company avoid posting its first quarterly loss since 2015. Amazon Web Services saw revenue grow by 37% to $18.4 billion for the first quarter of 2022. That amounted to an operating profit of $6.5 billion, which was up 57% year-on-year and outpaced analyst expectations by almost $1 […]
Why public clouds lead with renewables
It’s no surprise that the top tech companies are also the top cloud companies. It’s also no surprise that these top tech companies are making big investments in green energy. Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are now the three largest buyers of solar and wind power, according to new data from BloombergNEF, and they easily outdistance all other […]
Google Cloud sales chief Rob Enslin is leaving for UiPath
Google Cloud is losing its most senior sales executive, Rob Enslin, at a time when it is investing heavily to close the gap between itself and public cloud rivals Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Enslin joined Google Cloud as president of cloud sales from German software company SAP in April 2019. He was […]
Google to donate Istio service mesh to the CNCF
Google Cloud has submitted its popular open source service mesh technology Istio for donation to the vendor-neutral Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). “Today we are excited to announce that Google and the Istio Steering Committee have submitted the Istio project for consideration as an incubating project,” Chen Goldberg, VP of engineering at Google Cloud wrote in a […]
Docker raises $105M funding round to fuel its focus on developers
Docker has raised a fresh round of $105 million in funding, as it continues to focus on serving developers following the sale of its enterprise business to Mirantis in 2019. The $105 million Series C funding round was led by Bain Capital Ventures and joined by Atlassian Ventures, Citi Ventures, Vertex Ventures, and Four Rivers […]
Turns out AWS can partner after all
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has never been the open source ogre that some have claimed, but it also hasn’t been quite as good as some have wanted. As AWS has grown larger, my personal view is that it has sometimes struggled to apply its own Leadership Principles or LPs (“Customer Obsession,” “Deliver Results,” “Insist on the […]
How we should think about cloud lock-in
Does the word lock-in send shivers up your spine? Does vendor lock-in keep your CIO or CTO up at night? Is lock-in really costing organizations tons of money in 2022? The short answer is, no. [ Also on InfoWorld: Cloud lock-in is real ] The early days of technology adoption Two to three decades ago, […]
The real value of 5G and cloud computing
I did some reading during the end-of-year holidays and ran into this article by Peter Cohen covering 5G network automation use cases. Specifically, I was looking for use cases related to cloud computing. I’m taken aback by how much hype 5G receives. My posts about 5G always have the most hits. However, most improvements to […]