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Cloud IaaS market share and the developer-centric world
Bernard Golden recently wrote a CIO.com blog post in response to my announcement of Gartner's 2013 Magic Quadrant for Cloud IaaS. He raised a number of good questions that I thought it would be useful to address. This is part 1 of my response. (See part 2 for more.)
(Broadly, as a matter of Gartner policy, analysts do not debate Magic Quadrant results in public, and so I will note here that I'm talking about the market, and not the MQ itself.)
Bernard: "Why is there such a distance between AWS's offering and everyone else's?"
In the Magic Quadrant, we rate not only the offering itself in its current state, but also a whole host of other criteria — the roadmap, the vendor's track record, marketing, sales, etc. (You can go check out the MQ document itself for those details.) You should read the AWS dot positioning as not just indicating a good offering, but also that AWS has generally built itself into a market juggernaut. (Of course, AWS is still far from perfect, and depending on your needs, other providers might be a better fit.)
But Bernard's question can be rephrased as, "Why does AWS have so much greater market share than everyone else?"
Two years ago, I wrote two blog posts that are particularly relevant here:
- Common Service Provider Myths About Cloud Infrastructure
- In Cloud IaaS, Developers are the Face of Business Buyers
These posts were followed up wih two research notes (links are Gartner clients only):
- New Entrants to the Cloud IaaS Market Face Tough Competitive Challenges
- How Buyers Purchase Cloud IaaS
I have been beating the "please don't have contempt for developers" drum for a while now. (I phrase it as "contempt" because it was often very clear that developers were seen as lesser, not real buyers doing real things — merely ignoring developers would have been one thing, but contempt is another.) But it's taken until this past year before most of the "enterprise class" vendors acknowledged the legitimacy of the power that developers now hold.
Many service providers held tight to the view espoused by their traditional IT operations clientele: AWS was too dangerous, it didn't have sufficient infrastructure availability, it didn't perform sufficiently well or with sufficient consistency, it didn't have enough security, it didn't have enough manageability, it didn't have enough governance, it wasn't based on VMware — and it didn't look very much like an enterprise's data center architecture. The viewpoint was that IT operations would continue to control purchases, implementations would be relatively small-scale and would be built on traditional enterprise technologies, and that AWS would never get to the point that they'd satisfy traditional IT operations folks.
What they didn't count on was the fact that developers, and the business management that they ultimately serve, were going to forge on ahead without them. Or that AWS would steadily improve its service and the way it did business, in order to meet the needs of the traditional enterprise. (My colleagues in GTP — the Gartner division that was Burton Group — do a yearly evaluation of AWS's suitability for the enterprise, and each year, AWS gets steadily, materially better. Clients: see the latest.)
Today, AWS's sheer market share speaks for itself. And it is definitely not just single developers with a VM or two, start-ups, or non-mission-critical stuff. Through the incredible amount of inquiry we take at Gartner, we know how cloud IaaS buyers think, source, succeed, and sometimes suffer. And every day at Gartner, we talk to multiple AWS customers (or prospects considering their options, though many have already bought something on the click-through agreement). Most are traditional enterprises of the G2000 variety (including some of the largest companies in the world), but over the last year, AWS has finally cracked the mid-market by working with systems integrator partners. The projected spend levels are clearly increasing dramatically, the use cases are extremely broad, the workloads increasingly have sensitive data and regulatory compliance concerns, and customers are increasingly thinking of AWS as a strategic vendor.
(Now, as my colleagues who cover the traditional data center like to point out, the spend levels are still trivial compared to what these customers are spending on the rest of their data center IT, but I think what's critical here is the shift in thinking about where they'll put their money in the future, and their desire to pick a strategic vendor despite how relatively early-stage the market is.)
But put another way — it is not just that AWS advanced its offering, but it convinced the market that this is what they wanted to buy (or at least that it was a better option than the other offerings), despite the sometimes strange offering constructs. They essentially created demand in a new type of buyer — and they effectively defined the category. And because they're almost always first to market with a feature — or the first to make the market broadly aware of that capability — they force nearly all of their competitors into playing catch-up and me-too.
That doesn't mean that the IT operations buyer isn't important, or that there aren't an array of needs that AWS does not address well. But the vast majority of the dollars spent on cloud IaaS are much more heavily influenced by developer desires than by IT operations concerns — and that means that market share currently favors the providers who appeal to development organizations. That's an ongoing secular trend — business leaders are currently heavily growth-focused, and therefore demanding lots of applications delivered as quickly as possible, and are willing to spend money and take greater risks in order to obtain greater agility.
This also doesn't mean that the non-developer-centric service providers aren't important. Most of them have woken up to the new sourcing pattern, and are trying to respond. But many of them are also older, established organizations, and they can only move so quickly. They also have the comfort of their existing revenue streams, which allow them the luxury of not needing to move so quickly. Many have been able to treat cloud IaaS as an extension of their managed services business. But they're now facing the threat of systems integrators like Cognizant and Capgemini entering this space, combining application development and application management with managed services on a strategic cloud IaaS provider's platform — at the moment, normally AWS. Nothing is safe from the broader market shift towards cloud computing.
As always, every individual customer's situation is different from another's, and the right thing to do (or the safe, mainstream thing to do) evolves through the years. Gartner is appropriately cautionary when it discusses such things with clients. This is a good time to mention that Magic Quadrant placement is NEVER a good reason to include or exclude a vendor from a short list. You need to choose the vendor that's right for your use case, and that might be a Niche Player, or even a vendor that's not on the MQ at all — and even though AWS has the highest overall placement, they might be completely unsuited to your use case.
Posted on September 4, 2013, in Infrastructure and tagged Amazon, cloud, developers, Gartner, IaaS, MQ, research. Bookmark the permalink. 200 Comments.
Well, I'm a long time reader of Mr. Golden's insights into cloud computing, and I appreciate the clear explanation provided by Ms. Leong in response to Mr. Golden's article about the positioning of AWS in the Gartner MQ.
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The style is reflected in some of the short films he made at USC: "1:42:08" focused on the sound of a Lotus race car's engine driving at full speed and "Anyone Who Lived in a Pretty How Town," inspired by an e.e. Cummings poem. In later interviews, Lucas described his early films as "visual exercises."
Lucas' intellectual explorations led to an interest in anthropology, especially the work of American mythologist Joseph Campbell, who studied the common thread linking the myths of disparate cultures. This inspired Lucas to explore archetypal storylines that resonated across the ages and around the world.
Lucas' epic battle with the movie industry began after Warner Bros. forced him to make unwanted changes to an early film, "THX 1138". Later, Universal Pictures insisted on revisions to "American Graffiti" that Lucas felt impinged on his creative freedom. The experience led Lucas to insist on having total control of all his work, just like Charlie Chaplin and Walt Disney in their heyday.
"In order to get my vision out there, I really needed to learn how to manipulate the system because the system is designed to tear you down and destroy everything you are doing," Lucas said in an interview with Charlie Rose.
He shopped his outline for "Star Wars" to several studios before finding a friend in Alan Ladd Jr., an executive at 20th Century Fox. Despite budget and deadline overruns, and pressure from the studio, the movie was a huge success when it was released in 1977. It grossed $798 million in theaters worldwide and caused Fox's stock price at the time to double.
In one of the wisest business moves in Hollywood history, Lucas cut a deal with distributor Fox before the film's release so that he could retain ownership of the sequels and rights for merchandise. He figured in the 1970s that might mean peddling a few T-shirts and posters to fans to help market the movie. Over the decades, merchandising has formed the bedrock of his multi-billion-dollar enterprise, resulting in a bonanza for Lucas from action figures, toys, spinoff books and other products.
Industrial Light & Magic, the unit he started in a makeshift space in the Los Angeles suburb of Van Nuys, moved to the ranch in northern California and lent its prowess to other movies. It broke ground using computers, motion-controlled cameras, models and masks. Its reach is breathtaking, notably among the biggest science fiction movies of the 1980s: "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial," ''Poltergeist," ''Back to the Future," ''Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark," ''Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" and more.
"Between him and (Steven) Spielberg, they changed how movies got made," said Matt Atchity, editor-in-chief of movie review website Rotten Tomatoes.
These days, the talent at ILM has spread around the globe, and many former employees have become top executives at other special effects companies, said Chris DeFaria, executive vice president of digital production at Warner Bros.
"You meet anybody who's a significant executive or artist at a company, they've spent their time at ILM or got their start there. That's probably one of George's greatest gifts to the business," DeFaria said.
Lucas helped make the tools that were needed for his films. ILM developed the world's first computerized film editing and music mixing technology, revolutionizing what had been a cut-and-splice affair. Pixar, the imaging computer he founded as a division of Lucasfilm, became a world-famous animated movie company. Apple's Steve Jobs bought and later sold it to Disney in 2006.
But the goliath Lucas created began to weigh on him. Fans-turned-critics felt the "Star Wars" prequel trilogy he directed fell short of the first films. Others believed his revisions to the re-released classics undid some of what made the first movies great.
Giving up his role at the head of Lucasfilm may shield him from the fury of rebellious fans and critics. He said in a video released by Disney that the sale would allow him to "do other things, things in philanthropy and doing more experimental kind of films."
"I couldn't really drag my company into that."
Still, Lucas is not planning on going to a galaxy far, far away.
Speaking on Friday night at Ebony magazine's Power 100 event in New York, Lucas said: "It's 40 years of work and it's been my life, but I'm ready to move on to bigger and better things. I have a foundation, an educational foundation. I do a lot of work with education, and I'm very excited about doing that."
This week he assured the incoming president of Lucasfilm, Kathleen Kennedy, that he'd be around to advise her on future "Star Wars" movies —just like the apparition of Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi helps Luke through his adventures.
"They're finishing the hologram now," he told Kennedy. "Don't worry."
Liedtke reported from San Francisco.


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Get ready to meet the young Samantha Jones!
When The Carrie Diaries returns for its second season, Carrie Bradshaw (AnnaSophia Robb) is spending her summer in the city, where she'll meet future bestie Samantha Jones (Lindsey Gort), the cousin of her high school nemesis Donna LaDonna (Chloe Bridges). How different is Sex and the City's resident vixen when she's in her 20s? TVGuide.com caught up with Gort, who talks about the pressure of filling Kim Catrall's high-heeled shoes, how she almost didn't get the role and how Carrie and Samantha's relationship will evolve to what fans know today:
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What did you have to go through to get this role?
Lindsey Gort: It was long and arduous. It was about a month-and-a-half long [process]. I got the audition and got the call back. It was between me and two other girls. Two days later, I got a no. They were waiting for a bigger name. I accepted that. That's Hollywood. About a week after that, I got a call and they asked if I wanted to come back in and try again. I went back in and a week later they said no, they're still waiting for a bigger name. I said I understood. About a week and a half after that, they called me said I'd come in that day and read one more time. It was between me and one other girl. If I booked it, I'd leave the next day for New York. No pressure. I worked my butt off and went in and found out that night I got it. I left the next day. It was a secret. Most people didn't even know that I went back in. I couldn't tell anyone I booked it and left, so people were like, "Where are you tonight? What are you doing?" "Oh, I'm just staying in." I'm really racing to LAX airport. It was the biggest thing that ever happened to me and I had to keep it a secret for 48 hours and it almost made me explode.
Were you a fan of Sex and the City?
Gort: I was a huge fan. I actually lived in New York while the show was still on. I was young and it was four of us girls living in a two bedroom apartment, so it was like the four girls of the show. We would watch every Sunday night, and I'd watch reruns whenever they'd come on. It was like a comfort security blanket, keeping it on in the background. I hadn't watched it really since I started working on the show. Every once in a while, I skip over it, but I don't want to even subconsciously become obsessed with how she says certain things. We all change as we get older, so it doesn't have to be exact. But there are certain things that I've made sure to pull from the O.G. Samantha so people feel connected to her still.
Tell us about what kind of person this younger Samantha is.
Gort: She's from Florida. When you first meet her, she's pretty much how you would expect being that type of woman. She's already sexually free and liberated. I think that she was probably born that way. She's very confident and secure with who she is to a certain extent, as much as anyone in her early 20s can be. The biggest difference is that she doesn't have the Birkin or the Manolos yet. She's not a career woman. She's still figuring her footing out and what she wants to do with her life and trying to open up her heart a little more. She's a go-getter and not afraid to speak her mind and tell you what's going on.
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Samantha wasn't always that person we know from Sex and the City, so talk about her evolution as you've been playing her.
Gort: The way the episodes go, Samantha is almost 10 years older than Carrie, so she has experiences that I can only imagine. To me, it's burn me once, shame on you, burn me twice, shame on me. She probably put her heart out there and it didn't work out and because of that, she's a lot more guarded. She's not a puppy dog with a crush and gets hurt. She's already in a man's world living like a man. In that sense, I come from a place of those things happening in the past. There are some walls that are fun because this is such a big character with a very confident and brassy personality. I love the moments the writers give me where you see the chinks in the armor. It's not often you see someone like that break. You do start to see those things happen to her and how she stiches back up again.
Did the producers give you any specific instructions on how to play her or ask you to watch certain scenes?
Gort: No. When I went through all the auditions, there were so many notes. At the end of it, I was like, "Which one do you want?" There's a joke that there's Samantha 1 and Samantha 2. We typically have different directors for every episode. Everybody thinks they know Samantha, so I have to hold her pretty close and give direction as to how I'm playing her and if they want Samantha 1 or Samantha 2. Samantha 2 is the one most people feel like they know from Sex and the City. Samantha 1 would be the younger version. I try not to overthink it that much.
Kim Catrall had said to me that the Samantha persona can feel like a responsibility, but at the end of the day, she's just a girl. That's been very helpful. It's true. I'm just playing a person. My first week, I just had to keep asking, "Is this right?" and everyone is like, "It's so crazy how much your mannerisms and the body language is like her." For me, I just stopped questioning it. I'm just going to keep doing what I'm doing until they tell me to stop. When you're portraying anyone that people are so passionate about and feel like they know so well, you want to respect it and not get overwhelmed by it. I don't want to do wrong by Kim and make her not like it. Whatever she did worked and I'm happy to take those reins and just do it a few years earlier.
What's her relationship with Carrie like?
Gort: The dynamic at first is not love at first sight because Carrie is a new soul in the city and naïve to a certain extent and I've been living in the city for a while, so she's fresh meat. I used to wonder how two people can stay friends for so long, so even though there's an age difference, we bring out the best in each other. Carrie is such a vulnerable, wears-her-heart-on-her-sleeve-type person and I'm a very confident, no holds barred sassy lady who doesn't take anything from any man. In that respect, Carrie teaches me a thing or two about vulnerability and letting people in. I am able to help her out with standing up for yourself and knowing what you want and what's important to you. It's the same problems, just a little earlier.
Are you excited to meet the young Samantha Jones? Hit the comments!
The Carrie Diaries returns Friday at 8/7c on The CW.
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Dana Milbank: Different paths for the GOP
For a dozen years, Paul Ryan and Mike Pence were Republican colleagues in the House of Representatives and fellow soldiers in the conservative movement. Last week, they parted ways: one toward temperance, the other toward extremism.
Pence chose the sensible path. Elected governor of Indiana in November, he delivered his first State of the State speech Tuesday, describing his proposed budget that, though a fiscally conservative plan, increases funds for education, job training, transportation, veterans, child-protective services, and health care for the poor.
"Especially heartbreaking to this father," Pence told Indiana legislators, "one in five Hoosier children lives in poverty. That is simply unacceptable."
Contrast that with Ryan, the former vice presidential candidate, who, on the same day as Pence's speech, took a radical step. As the price for getting restive House Republicans to go along with suspending the debt ceiling for three months, his office announced that Ryan, the Budget Committee chairman, would produce a budget that ends deficits in 10 years -- 16 years earlier than he had previously proposed. This would mean cutting all government operations by one-sixth -- or, if Ryan exempts entitlement programs and defense, cutting all other government operations by nearly 40 percent.
Why this sharp split? To be sure, part of it is circumstance. The budget is already in balance in Indiana, where Pence's predecessor, Mitch Daniels, did a lot of cutting; Pence can afford to be more generous.
But there is something deeper going on here, too. Pence, for the first time, is actually in charge. Because the state has a Republican legislature, his budget, or something close to it, will likely become law. He has real power, so he is acting responsibly.
Ryan and his fellow House Republicans, by contrast, know their budget will never become law. They are free to be as reckless as they want to be, to throw as many bombs as they wish.
The dichotomy explains why the national Republican Party is in so much difficulty now, even as Republican governors maintain strong brands. Washington Republicans, by acting irresponsibly, are not giving Americans a reason to trust them with actual power.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, a former member of the House himself, on Thursday night denounced the Washington mindset of his Republican colleagues, who have fallen into the "wrong game" of arguing about government spending. "We as Republicans have to accept that government number-crunching, even conservative government number-crunching, is not the answer to our nation's problems," Jindal told a gathering of Republican leaders. "We must not become the party of austerity," he warned.
Ryan, of course, is all about austerity. His latest promise to his fellow House Republicans, that he will write a budget that balances within a decade, requires him to cut nearly $800 billion a year by the end. If Ryan wants to protect Social Security, Medicare and defense from cuts, everything else (homeland security, food-safety inspections, air-traffic control, medical research and the like) will have to be cut an average of 37 percent -- and more, if he plans further tax cuts.
Ryan is free to propose such a cockamamie plan because he knows that President Obama and Senate Democrats will never go along with it.
Then there's Pence, who, as a leader of the Republican Study Committee, a group of House conservatives that dominates the GOP caucus, championed conservative Christian positions on abortion and routinely ranked among the most conservative House Republicans. But when he stood in the state Capitol last week, he sounded very different:
"Our budget proposes an increase in funding for education, including full-day kindergarten, and we fully fund the teachers' pension each of the next two years."
"We provide $18 million over the next two years to ensure that all Hoosier workers have the skills they need to find a job in today's economy."
"We're investing nearly $350 million in excess reserves on Indiana's roads and bridges and infrastructure."
"I have also set a goal in our administration to procure 3 percent of state contracts from veteran-owned businesses."
And so on.
Certainly, Pence didn't become a bleeding heart. He's also seeking a 10 percent income-tax cut, he didn't go along with Obama's expansion of Medicaid eligibility, and he's seeking less for education and infrastructure than even some fellow Republicans want.
But he avoided contentious social issues and he made overtures to Democrats, even though, with Republican super-majorities in both chambers, he doesn't have to. "From Pence, nothing bold but nothing polarizing," said an Indianapolis Star headline Wednesday over an analysis of Pence's State of the State speech.
Pence is ready to govern. When will Washington Republicans be?
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Ack – the day is almost over (at least nap time is almost over) and I'm just now sitting down to post for the week! So it's a simple and short one.
One of my other goals for 2011 is to get back on that menu planning wagon again. I've written about planning menus many-a-time before, and it really does save time, money and sanity, as well as usually results in healthier and tastier meals for the family. I don't know exactly why I stopped planning menus last year. Or when, for that matter. BUT I have seen our budget take a hit. Usually in the summer we have so much food around that much goes to waste if we're not careful to plan what to eat and what to store. But in the winter, I'm often lazy and forget to get things down from the freezer or wait to go shopping until our house is mistaken for Old Mother Hubbard's.
This week, as I was helping Rick make the grocery list (he's been shopping AND cooking while I've been gestating), I realized that I was finally sick of the "what's for dinner tonight" question that one or both of us asks every night. This week's menu is pretty simple. I used some example menus from one of the magazines I subscribe to. But it's not cheating. It's just getting the ball rolling again. Here's what's on the docket for the week:
Tonight: Spicy Black Bean Soup
Tomorrow: Potato-onion Frittata
Wednesday: Mushroom and Black Bean Tortilla Casserole
Thursday: Butternut Squash Pasta Bake
Friday: Orechetti with Spicy Bacon-Tomato Sauce
Saturday: Pheasant Noodle Soup
On Sunday, we are celebrating Rick's thirtieth birthday by going out for barbecue and bowling with friends. I'm excited about this, since it'll be a fun night out. For my birthday, my mom is taking me to see Riders in the Sky on Friday. I can not contain my excitement! I've been a fan since I was a kid! Yee-Haw!


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