Scale-out file start up Qumulo has revealed all-flash filer nodes.
The all-flash QF2 (Qumulo File Fabric) P-series node joins its QC hardware with its hybrid flash and disk media drives.
The P-series' hardware design is straightforward enough: it's a 2U Intel box that can run up to 24 NVMe SSDs in U.2 format, dual Xeon Skylake Gold-level 6126 processors and 192GB (12 x 16GB) of RAM. The networking interface cards are dual 100GbitE or 40GbitE QSFP+ NICs, with separate front-end and back-end data paths.
Power supplies are fully-redundant.
The latest Qumulo Core software delivers continuous replication and supports AWS as a replication target that is synchronised to a source cluster. It has a REST API interface.
There are two models; the 23T is a 23TB model with 12 x 1.92TB SSDs while the 92T has a 92TB capacity using 24 x 3.84TB SSDs. The drives use 3bits/cell (TLC) 3D NAND.
There are a minimum of four nodes in a cluster. A node delivers 4GB/sec of bandwidth, hence a 4-node set provides 16GB/sec, and a 400-node set pumps out 1.6TB/sec. Qumulo says the system copes with both single-stream (video-editing) and multi-stream requirements.
It scales to billions of files and, Qumulo says, can handle small file workloads as well as large file applications.
The QF2 software can run in the AWS public cloud as well as on the on-premises QF2 nodes. An on-premises cluster can continuously replicate data to another on-premises cluster or to AWS so that AWS QF2 instances can be fired up when a burst of additional processing power is needed beyond available on-premises capabilities.
The system management provides real-time visibility and control of system performance, with analytics focussing down to the file level when trouble-shooting. Cloud-based monitoring of the filer cluster can detect an oncoming SSD failure and alert customers and provides historical trend data.
Qumulo expects to sell all-flash QF2s into the machine learning applications, genomic sequencing and analysis, high-resolution video editing and scientific computing markets. They all have a need for fast performance processing of file-based workloads, including large-scale datasets.
Peter Godman, Qumulo's co-founder and CTO, said; “Using QF2, our customers will sequence more genomes, create more special effects and train more learning models across all-flash and the public cloud.”
The company claims QF2 all-flash clusters deliver the best price performance of any all-flash file storage system available today. It has hundeds of customers, including DreamWorks.
Monday, November 13, 2017
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Partners Praise AWS For Solving Intra-Region Connectivity Challenges With New Offering
Amazon Web Services on Wednesday resolved a major connectivity problem for partners working with some of their most important customers to extend virtual networks across multiple AWS regions in their backbone network.
The new service, Direct Connect Gateway, allows customers with private direct connection circuits that connect their AWS access data centers to the Amazon cloud in other geographic areas without significant investment in terms of time, money and administrative power.
Gateway makes it "simpler and more powerful than direct connection," commented Jeff Barr, AWS principal evangelist.
Partners told CRN that they expected the public cloud leader's ability and often listened to customers that the difficulties in the AWS regions have made them reluctant to adopt the dedicated connectivity solution.
Tom Ray, director of Cloudreach, an international cloud computing consultancy, said clients were asking for an intraregional capability for a long time.
Partners told CRN that they expected the public cloud leader's ability and often listened to customers that the difficulties in the AWS regions have made them reluctant to adopt the dedicated connectivity solution.
Tom Ray, director of Cloudreach, an international cloud computing consultancy, said clients were asking for an intraregional capability for a long time.
According to Amazon, there are more than 60 colocation service providers worldwide that offer direct connection. These dedicated links provide more predictable security, bandwidth and data transfer performance.
The new service, Direct Connect Gateway, allows customers with private direct connection circuits that connect their AWS access data centers to the Amazon cloud in other geographic areas without significant investment in terms of time, money and administrative power.
Gateway makes it "simpler and more powerful than direct connection," commented Jeff Barr, AWS principal evangelist.
Partners told CRN that they expected the public cloud leader's ability and often listened to customers that the difficulties in the AWS regions have made them reluctant to adopt the dedicated connectivity solution.
Tom Ray, director of Cloudreach, an international cloud computing consultancy, said clients were asking for an intraregional capability for a long time.
Partners told CRN that they expected the public cloud leader's ability and often listened to customers that the difficulties in the AWS regions have made them reluctant to adopt the dedicated connectivity solution.
Tom Ray, director of Cloudreach, an international cloud computing consultancy, said clients were asking for an intraregional capability for a long time.
According to Amazon, there are more than 60 colocation service providers worldwide that offer direct connection. These dedicated links provide more predictable security, bandwidth and data transfer performance.
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
AWS vs. Alibaba — Round 1: Southeast Asia
AWS seems to be taking its battles wisely, and although Alibaba in China faces a number of disadvantages, Singapore is a different story. In addition to being named the most favorable country in the business world for several years, Singapore's Internet economy is expected to reach $ 200 billion by 2025. This will be an interesting combination because Alibaba has a large influence in the region, Singapore is not China, and if AWS is looking for a fair fight, this is definitely the place for that, so this seems to be the site of the first round of the AWS against Alibaba Cloud Wars.
The fight begins
The way the world giants exercise their weight strategically is almost like seeing "Game of Thrones", except that the "armies" here are made up of a lot of money. Speaking of a lot of money, Alibaba is injecting another billion dollars to increase its stake in Lazada, its latest acquisition. Lazada itself was the first billion-dollar acquisition in Southeast Asia and has since established a trade and logistics center in Malaysia's free digital trading zone and has doubled its data capacity in Hong Kong. The "History of Singapore" here is that Amazon has landed with Prime and has made all retail industries in the logistics of financial services throughout the region expect to experience a major commotion.
While the acquisition of Lazada and the launch of Amazon Prime have nothing to do with cloud computing, e-commerce is still a different battle from the same war as the cloud. The fact that both companies make their "bread and butter" mainly through e-commerce is just one of the striking similarities between the two companies, and many people think that the battle between Amazon Prime vs. Lazada in Singapore is just an "exhibition party" before the real war for dominance of the international cloud: AWS against Alibaba
AWS vs. Alibaba: King Kong Vs. Godzilla?
Earlier this year, Lazado CEO Maximilian Bittner explained that Amazon was not worried about saying, "It's very difficult for me to worry about someone who has not yet entered the market. they are here now and since there is a $ 250 billion gorilla behind him, the $ 400 billion gorilla in front of him probably does not look scary.
However, from the point of view of a computer director, especially in Southeast Asia, choosing between the two may not be as simple as choosing to buy Cheese and Chocolate Woody Prime or Lazada. Cloud providers offer different pricing models, unique upgrade options, frequent price reductions, different services and different billing styles. To increase confusion, customers' opinions vary according to their personal experience, which is always unique.
Cheaper by a dozen
If we have to generalize, prices and latency will be above any list of users in AWS vs.. Alibaba, and with respect to both, AWS seems to have the advantage. AWS has reduced its rates approximately 52 times so far, with current rates accounting for about half of those charged by the smaller clouds. In addition, Amazon has approximately five times the capacity of the next 14 largest competitors, so Alibaba Cloud will not win this war. Curiously, a recent Financial Times report indicates that Alibaba has "halved" its base prices.
Alibaba has three different price options to choose from, the base is $ 7.49 per month and comes with 1 core, 1 GB of memory and 40 GB of hard drive space. A similar AWS configuration costs about $ 9.50 a month on average, although all calculations are depleted when it increases or decreases. This is probably the reason why customer feedback indicates that there have been cases where Alibaba Cloud was more expensive than AWS
AWS posted
Another implication of the "cloud" of the Amazon Prime launch in Singapore is that it is essentially an AWS cloud ecosystem advertising for the entire region. From now on, millions of customers from Southeast Asian companies will see a concrete example of how a customer-obsessed business works with AWS cloud infrastructure and an ecosystem of powerful tools and services. both open source and custom. It is also speculated that AWS is an important customer for many cloud providers, data and analysis, which will accelerate the entry of these players in this region.
The above statement is funny, it's the ego
The fight begins
The way the world giants exercise their weight strategically is almost like seeing "Game of Thrones", except that the "armies" here are made up of a lot of money. Speaking of a lot of money, Alibaba is injecting another billion dollars to increase its stake in Lazada, its latest acquisition. Lazada itself was the first billion-dollar acquisition in Southeast Asia and has since established a trade and logistics center in Malaysia's free digital trading zone and has doubled its data capacity in Hong Kong. The "History of Singapore" here is that Amazon has landed with Prime and has made all retail industries in the logistics of financial services throughout the region expect to experience a major commotion.
While the acquisition of Lazada and the launch of Amazon Prime have nothing to do with cloud computing, e-commerce is still a different battle from the same war as the cloud. The fact that both companies make their "bread and butter" mainly through e-commerce is just one of the striking similarities between the two companies, and many people think that the battle between Amazon Prime vs. Lazada in Singapore is just an "exhibition party" before the real war for dominance of the international cloud: AWS against Alibaba
AWS vs. Alibaba: King Kong Vs. Godzilla?
Earlier this year, Lazado CEO Maximilian Bittner explained that Amazon was not worried about saying, "It's very difficult for me to worry about someone who has not yet entered the market. they are here now and since there is a $ 250 billion gorilla behind him, the $ 400 billion gorilla in front of him probably does not look scary.
However, from the point of view of a computer director, especially in Southeast Asia, choosing between the two may not be as simple as choosing to buy Cheese and Chocolate Woody Prime or Lazada. Cloud providers offer different pricing models, unique upgrade options, frequent price reductions, different services and different billing styles. To increase confusion, customers' opinions vary according to their personal experience, which is always unique.
Cheaper by a dozen
If we have to generalize, prices and latency will be above any list of users in AWS vs.. Alibaba, and with respect to both, AWS seems to have the advantage. AWS has reduced its rates approximately 52 times so far, with current rates accounting for about half of those charged by the smaller clouds. In addition, Amazon has approximately five times the capacity of the next 14 largest competitors, so Alibaba Cloud will not win this war. Curiously, a recent Financial Times report indicates that Alibaba has "halved" its base prices.
Alibaba has three different price options to choose from, the base is $ 7.49 per month and comes with 1 core, 1 GB of memory and 40 GB of hard drive space. A similar AWS configuration costs about $ 9.50 a month on average, although all calculations are depleted when it increases or decreases. This is probably the reason why customer feedback indicates that there have been cases where Alibaba Cloud was more expensive than AWS
AWS posted
Another implication of the "cloud" of the Amazon Prime launch in Singapore is that it is essentially an AWS cloud ecosystem advertising for the entire region. From now on, millions of customers from Southeast Asian companies will see a concrete example of how a customer-obsessed business works with AWS cloud infrastructure and an ecosystem of powerful tools and services. both open source and custom. It is also speculated that AWS is an important customer for many cloud providers, data and analysis, which will accelerate the entry of these players in this region.
The above statement is funny, it's the ego
Sunday, October 1, 2017
Following AWS, Google Compute Engine also moves to per-second billing
A week ago, AWS announced that it would rapidly change billing per second for users of its EC2 service. This is not a big surprise, while Google today announced a very similar move.
The Google Engine, Container Engine, Cloud Dataproc, and Flex Engine environments will now have per-second billing, starting immediately (AWS users should wait until October 2). This new pricing system extends to preferred virtual machines and machines running high-end operating systems such as Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Enterprise Linux Server. With this, AWS, which offers only invoicing per second for basic Linux instances and not for Windows Server and other Linux distributions on its platform, currently has a separate time load.
Like AWS, Google will charge for at least one minute.
Interestingly, Google has already introduced billing per second for its persistent disks, compromised GPUs and discounts.
While Google contends that for most use cases, billing per second will result in very small billing changes, the company also notes that there are many applications where the level up and down has a lot of meaning (websites, mobile apps and data processing jobs, for example).
"This is probably the reason why we have not heard many customers asking per second," said Paul Nash, Group Product Manager for Compute Engine, in today's announcement. "But we do not want you to choose between your morning coffee and your basic hours, so we're happy to bring billing per second to your virtual machines with a minimum of one minute."
Thus, while Google is not revealed at this time, this is clearly a reaction to the evolution of Amazon, although the company considers it as another box in a comparison of features between the two services in the cloud.
What about Microsoft?
So far, Microsoft has not made a similar move. "With Azure Container Instances, we paved the way for billing per second, with a service that runs in seconds and takes seconds, we realized that it was incredibly critical to give customers that granularity of costs," said Corey Sanders , Microsoft's Product Manager for Azure Compute, told me at the Microsoft Ignite conference when I asked him about his company's plans. "I look forward to seeing other clouds continue and to offer customers the best flexibility for their pricing."
As for regular virtual machines, Sanders remained in the message and noted that Microsoft wanted to focus on the containers because that is where billing per second is the most logical. "We are always looking to improve the billing constructions in our platform and make it more agile and more agile for our customers," he said. I would be very surprised if Microsoft did not try to verify invoicing per second in the near future.
Sunday, September 10, 2017
As Target and Walmart Move Away From AWS, How Much Pain Will Amazon Feel?
As Amazon (AMZN - Get Report) moves into retailing of bricks and mortars with the purchase of Whole Foods, it makes sense that Target (TGT - Get Report), Walmart (WMT - Get Report) and other large retailers are looking for another partner in the cloud, rather than help fund a major rival.
Target would have followed the leadership of Walmart and plans to transfer its business to Amazon Web Services. A massive outflow of AWS retailers would benefit competitors such as Google Cloud Platform (Microsoft Cloud (MSFT - Get Report) and Google Cloud Platform (GOOGL - Get Report)). The Amazon cloud trade is so large that it could withstand losses, however. Microsoft, Google and other major cloud players have their own potential conflicts that could cost them business.
Although Target did not speak directly to Amazon Web Services, the company said it used several cloud service providers. "Earlier this year we evaluated suppliers, as we do on a regular basis, and we have determined that there are options that are more appropriate for our business," a spokesman said. "We have decided to implement changes and we have made changes since then."
Similarly, Amazon declined to comment. While the digital commerce giant may have friction with Walmart and Target, Amazon Web Services still has retail customers such as Brooks Brothers Group Inc., GameStop Corp. (GNE - Get Report) and Nordstrom Inc. (JWN - Get Report) and AWS are also using Lululemon Athletica Inc. (LULU - Get Report), Nike Inc. (NKE - Get Report) and Under Armor Inc..
"While AWS remains the 800-pound gorilla in the public cloud market, we believe that its parent's ambitions can begin to have a greater impact on AWS's ability to move to some vertical markets," said Everkite ISI, analyst "Combine it with the growing momentum behind hybrid cloud architectures and we believe that Azure remains well positioned to gain market share in the next few years as it will be considered a reliable partner and capabilities Azure technologies are essentially on a par with AWS in many areas now (if not in some). "
Although the loss of a large account is undeniably bad, John Dinsdale of Synergy Research Group said in an e-mail that Wal-Mart and Target's defections would be "cutbacks" rather than "big events" for Amazon.
Target would have followed the leadership of Walmart and plans to transfer its business to Amazon Web Services. A massive outflow of AWS retailers would benefit competitors such as Google Cloud Platform (Microsoft Cloud (MSFT - Get Report) and Google Cloud Platform (GOOGL - Get Report)). The Amazon cloud trade is so large that it could withstand losses, however. Microsoft, Google and other major cloud players have their own potential conflicts that could cost them business.
Although Target did not speak directly to Amazon Web Services, the company said it used several cloud service providers. "Earlier this year we evaluated suppliers, as we do on a regular basis, and we have determined that there are options that are more appropriate for our business," a spokesman said. "We have decided to implement changes and we have made changes since then."
Similarly, Amazon declined to comment. While the digital commerce giant may have friction with Walmart and Target, Amazon Web Services still has retail customers such as Brooks Brothers Group Inc., GameStop Corp. (GNE - Get Report) and Nordstrom Inc. (JWN - Get Report) and AWS are also using Lululemon Athletica Inc. (LULU - Get Report), Nike Inc. (NKE - Get Report) and Under Armor Inc..
"While AWS remains the 800-pound gorilla in the public cloud market, we believe that its parent's ambitions can begin to have a greater impact on AWS's ability to move to some vertical markets," said Everkite ISI, analyst "Combine it with the growing momentum behind hybrid cloud architectures and we believe that Azure remains well positioned to gain market share in the next few years as it will be considered a reliable partner and capabilities Azure technologies are essentially on a par with AWS in many areas now (if not in some). "
Although the loss of a large account is undeniably bad, John Dinsdale of Synergy Research Group said in an e-mail that Wal-Mart and Target's defections would be "cutbacks" rather than "big events" for Amazon.
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Microsoft just made it easier for programmers to use archrival Amazon's cloud
Amazon and Microsoft, two archivists in cloud computing and rigorous competitors for Seattle's technological talent, cooperate much more.
Earlier this week we saw the wedding of Alexa's virtual assistant from Amazon and Cortana from Microsoft.
Then, on Thursday, the companies announced that they were joining together so that programmers could more easily take the code they handle in Microsoft tools and publish it in the Amazon cloud.
On Thursday, Microsoft launched a blog post detailing how its local Team Foundation Server software and its cloud service in Visual Studio Team Services can connect to various Amazon Web Services tools.
Once the new tools are installed, developers can transfer content to the widely used S3 storage service of AWS, automate implementations with the AWS CodeDeploy tool and execute applications with the server service without Lambda server, among others, without leaving the limits of Microsoft products
To build integrations, Amazon engineers have collaborated with members of the Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Rangers group, Microsoft program manager Joseph Bourne wrote in the blog entry. The ALM Rangers group is responsible for providing out-of-band solutions for missing features or guidelines, Microsoft said.
In fact, Microsoft provides a new revenue stream for AWS, the largest cloud around and the top competitor of Microsoft's Azure cloud. This is notable because historically, Microsoft has announced the possibility that people use their source code management programs with Azure.
But if Microsoft is serious about making things as simple as possible for end users, the move is logical.
The opening fits in with Microsoft's recent move led by Satya Nadella to work with non-Microsoft platforms. For example, Microsoft has allowed users to use Linux on their Windows 10 operating system.
Earlier this week we saw the wedding of Alexa's virtual assistant from Amazon and Cortana from Microsoft.
Then, on Thursday, the companies announced that they were joining together so that programmers could more easily take the code they handle in Microsoft tools and publish it in the Amazon cloud.
On Thursday, Microsoft launched a blog post detailing how its local Team Foundation Server software and its cloud service in Visual Studio Team Services can connect to various Amazon Web Services tools.
Once the new tools are installed, developers can transfer content to the widely used S3 storage service of AWS, automate implementations with the AWS CodeDeploy tool and execute applications with the server service without Lambda server, among others, without leaving the limits of Microsoft products
To build integrations, Amazon engineers have collaborated with members of the Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Rangers group, Microsoft program manager Joseph Bourne wrote in the blog entry. The ALM Rangers group is responsible for providing out-of-band solutions for missing features or guidelines, Microsoft said.
In fact, Microsoft provides a new revenue stream for AWS, the largest cloud around and the top competitor of Microsoft's Azure cloud. This is notable because historically, Microsoft has announced the possibility that people use their source code management programs with Azure.
But if Microsoft is serious about making things as simple as possible for end users, the move is logical.
The opening fits in with Microsoft's recent move led by Satya Nadella to work with non-Microsoft platforms. For example, Microsoft has allowed users to use Linux on their Windows 10 operating system.
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Whole Foods acquisition stocks shelves for AWS developers
Purchase of Whole Foods' 13.7 billion Amazon, but could cause a change for developers creating AWS retail applications.
The recent acquisition of Amazon Whole Foods seems centered on adding a new distribution channel for its existing online retail sales activities. But beneath the surface, the real opportunity is to open APIs for a variety of new types of UI retail applications for AWS developers.
The acquisition of Whole Foods could offer an opportunity for developers to work with a completely new mode interface that is perhaps more important than the voice UI user interface. Over the next year, AWS is likely to focus on optimizing and rationalizing back-end logistics. This approach, which would follow the same button pattern as Alexa and Amazon Dash is to develop logistic errors - commands unintentional privacy challenges and new vulnerabilities, among others - while providing functionality in a secure way for the first user. But in this case, the first users are homes with smart devices connected in neighborhoods across the country.
Amazon has already tested new user interface designs to details around Seattle payments and inventory optimization. The acquisition of Whole Foods could accelerate this process. Developers should be particularly interested in opportunities to create new applications for the future detail user interface that perfectly combine physical and digital channels. In the short term, AWS could create a specific market for such applications and perhaps even create a venture capital fund in the same model as the Alexa program.
The recent acquisition of Amazon Whole Foods seems centered on adding a new distribution channel for its existing online retail sales activities. But beneath the surface, the real opportunity is to open APIs for a variety of new types of UI retail applications for AWS developers.
The acquisition of Whole Foods could offer an opportunity for developers to work with a completely new mode interface that is perhaps more important than the voice UI user interface. Over the next year, AWS is likely to focus on optimizing and rationalizing back-end logistics. This approach, which would follow the same button pattern as Alexa and Amazon Dash is to develop logistic errors - commands unintentional privacy challenges and new vulnerabilities, among others - while providing functionality in a secure way for the first user. But in this case, the first users are homes with smart devices connected in neighborhoods across the country.
Applications focused on retail
The acquisition of Whole Foods could create a paradigm shift in the way consumers interact with Amazon and other retailers. The detailed UI has not changed much since the advent of barcoding in the Amazon 1990 is better placed to provide a variety of consumer and business-centric applications that enhance the shopping experience in brick and mortar stores, Increase comment, provide new market opportunities and simplify the implementation of new packaging strategies. Examples of these new classes of applications:Smart recipes
The actual sale received has not changed, except for the minor update delivery via email. This leaves the consumer with a black box of information that says very little about what the total amount of sales represents in terms of real estate. Will toilet or food? Kale or ice? Amazon already offers customers an accurate accounting of their online purchases, and would be a small step to provide the same level of depth to physical purchases. Third-party vendors can take the opportunity to launch applications with health surveillance, analysis and monitoring of nutritional tax categories, which could take into account not only the products but also their ingredients - think of mobile applications like mint and MyFitnessPal On steroids.Improvement of feedback
For most, User reviews are limited to the purchase of data. Retailers should perform an analysis on the product packaging, product placement and marketing efforts to determine why the products they sell. Amazon could significantly increase the amount of data that retailers can charge their sales through standard APIs. This could even include anonymous emotional tracking capabilities, such as facial Affective analysis. These standardized APIs will offer new opportunities for third-party consumer applications to make improvements in product marketing practices.New Packaging Strategies
A growing market for the third Foodservice provides packaged food experiences to consumers. These foods range from semi-prepared foods that should be heated only in boxes filled with ingredients of a specific recipe for home cooks. Now, Amazon could provide APIs that allow third parties to build applications for creating recipes and virtual stores, just as they do for physical products. This allows a market of renowned chefs and local connoisseurs to easily sell their best creations.Amazon has already tested new user interface designs to details around Seattle payments and inventory optimization. The acquisition of Whole Foods could accelerate this process. Developers should be particularly interested in opportunities to create new applications for the future detail user interface that perfectly combine physical and digital channels. In the short term, AWS could create a specific market for such applications and perhaps even create a venture capital fund in the same model as the Alexa program.
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
AWS goes direct to Canberra
Amazon Web Services makes a more direct route to Canberra with the data center listed newer place of NEXTDC hosting C1 for AWS Direct Connect.
The announcement is a first in the Canberra market and the latest move in the wake of AWS continues to target government and federal public sector organizations.
The service allows AWS customers to establish a secure, private connection between AWS and their own data center environment, office or proximity function.
This feature will be especially attractive to government agencies that oppose the use of the public Internet to access AWS cloud services.
The AWS Direct Connect service can be accessed through a C1 Canberra cross-connect service facility, which is the fourth AWS Direct Connect presence in Australia and the second outside Sydney.
Andrew Phillips, Public Sector Director AWS ANZ, said C1 would play an important role in innovation in providing digital public services.
"The launch will enable our federal and ACT customers to connect through the AWS cloud microwaves and run synchronous replication in separate areas, which will help ensure the secure management of government data - with a high adaptability "Phillips said.
"This will help government agencies to provide better services to Australian citizens, who increasingly rely on digital services for their interactions with government."
The move is also an advantage for NEXTDC as it adds to the portfolio of services the company offers to government agencies as part of the Data Center facilities in the Supplies panel.
The arrival of the AWS Direct Connect presence in Canberra is also good news for AWS non-government customers, new regional companies can now use the full portfolio of services
The launch of the Bega-based regional program and director of AWS 2S software software partner Liam O'Duibhir reported "the immense power of Amazon Services' web services suite," which could be exploited to provide better Communities in the regions.
The announcement is a first in the Canberra market and the latest move in the wake of AWS continues to target government and federal public sector organizations.
The service allows AWS customers to establish a secure, private connection between AWS and their own data center environment, office or proximity function.
This feature will be especially attractive to government agencies that oppose the use of the public Internet to access AWS cloud services.
The AWS Direct Connect service can be accessed through a C1 Canberra cross-connect service facility, which is the fourth AWS Direct Connect presence in Australia and the second outside Sydney.
Andrew Phillips, Public Sector Director AWS ANZ, said C1 would play an important role in innovation in providing digital public services.
"The launch will enable our federal and ACT customers to connect through the AWS cloud microwaves and run synchronous replication in separate areas, which will help ensure the secure management of government data - with a high adaptability "Phillips said.
"This will help government agencies to provide better services to Australian citizens, who increasingly rely on digital services for their interactions with government."
The move is also an advantage for NEXTDC as it adds to the portfolio of services the company offers to government agencies as part of the Data Center facilities in the Supplies panel.
The arrival of the AWS Direct Connect presence in Canberra is also good news for AWS non-government customers, new regional companies can now use the full portfolio of services
The launch of the Bega-based regional program and director of AWS 2S software software partner Liam O'Duibhir reported "the immense power of Amazon Services' web services suite," which could be exploited to provide better Communities in the regions.
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Amazon.com: AWS - Not The Rivers Of Gold Imagined
NASDAQ with the Amazon.com summary shows that the share price closed at $ 949.04 with a market cap of 453.6 billion and the P / E ratio of 178.39.
The market capitalization of 453.6 billion is 110 times the first quarter of 2011 by Amazon.com Q1-2017, a twelve-month EBIT (TTM) of 4.12 billion.
AWS contributed 77.5% of EBIT Q1-2017 TTM 4.12 billion, which helped keep ongoing earnings growth for AWS vital to Amazon.com.
Investors who buy at $ 949.04 on Monday, intending to hold for five years pending an average return of 10.0% per annum, will sell five to 1,528.44 $ per share. If the expected return on investment is a doubling of the share price, an exit price within five years will be required $ 1,898.08, representing a return of 14.87% per year.
At an expected return of 20% per year, the sale price is $ 2 361.52 per share. However, if the price / EBIT (P / EBIT) ratio should remain at current 110 and provide the outstanding shares remain at 478m, EBIT in five years would only increase by 4.12 billion US dollars. To 6610 million for 10% yield, 8.24 billion for the yield of 14.87% and 10.25 billion for the return on investment of 20% per year. The net profit estimated after interest and taxes for the year 2021, in these scenarios would be between 4 billion and $ 7 billion. Now this level of compensation seems very feasible for this genius online, with a total turnover of 136 billion in 2016. However, there are many "ifs" mentioned above, which means that many uncertainty and increase in Uncertainty equals greater risk. Therefore, investors should definitely look back Amazon.com in the range of at least 10% to 20% and maybe higher.
For performance expectations below 10%, I am sure there are much safer investment options. Stock price gains were averaging over 33% per year between the end of 2011 and the end of 2016, the stock price increasing from $ 179.03 to $ 753.67. From the end of 2016 to May 8, 2017, a further increase of 26% brought the stock price to $ 949.04. I have to ask if there is a quantification of future growth in EBIT would justify stock price increases and the size of the role expected of AWS to contribute to EBIT growth?
The market capitalization of 453.6 billion is 110 times the first quarter of 2011 by Amazon.com Q1-2017, a twelve-month EBIT (TTM) of 4.12 billion.
AWS contributed 77.5% of EBIT Q1-2017 TTM 4.12 billion, which helped keep ongoing earnings growth for AWS vital to Amazon.com.
Investors who buy at $ 949.04 on Monday, intending to hold for five years pending an average return of 10.0% per annum, will sell five to 1,528.44 $ per share. If the expected return on investment is a doubling of the share price, an exit price within five years will be required $ 1,898.08, representing a return of 14.87% per year.
At an expected return of 20% per year, the sale price is $ 2 361.52 per share. However, if the price / EBIT (P / EBIT) ratio should remain at current 110 and provide the outstanding shares remain at 478m, EBIT in five years would only increase by 4.12 billion US dollars. To 6610 million for 10% yield, 8.24 billion for the yield of 14.87% and 10.25 billion for the return on investment of 20% per year. The net profit estimated after interest and taxes for the year 2021, in these scenarios would be between 4 billion and $ 7 billion. Now this level of compensation seems very feasible for this genius online, with a total turnover of 136 billion in 2016. However, there are many "ifs" mentioned above, which means that many uncertainty and increase in Uncertainty equals greater risk. Therefore, investors should definitely look back Amazon.com in the range of at least 10% to 20% and maybe higher.
For performance expectations below 10%, I am sure there are much safer investment options. Stock price gains were averaging over 33% per year between the end of 2011 and the end of 2016, the stock price increasing from $ 179.03 to $ 753.67. From the end of 2016 to May 8, 2017, a further increase of 26% brought the stock price to $ 949.04. I have to ask if there is a quantification of future growth in EBIT would justify stock price increases and the size of the role expected of AWS to contribute to EBIT growth?
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Bumper growth for Amazon competitors no threat to AWS dominance
Competitors from Amazon Web Services narrow the gap in the giant cloud infrastructure service provider, recording significantly higher growth in the last quarter, but this does not prevent AWS as the market reached nearly $ 10 billion - with a Growth of 40%.
The new Synergy Research Group figures show that Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle Alibaba and all have a "significantly higher" Q1 growth rate than AWS, Microsoft, Google and Alibaba with growth of 80% or more .
However, despite the strong growth of its competitors, Synergy Research claims that AWS remains "in a clean league" with "comfortably large" revenue that every five competitors put together.
John Dinsdale, Synergy Research Group, says the first part of the cloud vendor market now shows a clear stratification with AWS, a group of fastest growing hunters and some other niche players run on Salesforce and Rackspace.
While Salesforce and Rackspace have lower growth rates than other companies, Synergy said both maintain a strong position in their niche markets.
"Beyond these leading companies, the cloud market has a long tail of small and medium-sized suppliers or businesses that have only a minor position in the market, usually based on a specific country or area of application Specific, "Dinsdale said.
"There are decent growth opportunities for some of these smaller players, but it is unlikely to have a big impact in terms of global market share in the world," he added.
Synergy Research estimates the quarterly revenue of cloud infrastructure services, which include infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service cloud services and hosted, came "nearly" 10 billion US dollars and Continue to grow at more than 40% per year.
AWS, Microsoft and Google are the leaders in the IaaS / PaaS space, while IBM continues to lead a private cloud offered.
Synergy says the private cloud offered is where Rackspace and some traditional service providers offer more features than the public cloud.
The new Synergy Research Group figures show that Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle Alibaba and all have a "significantly higher" Q1 growth rate than AWS, Microsoft, Google and Alibaba with growth of 80% or more .
However, despite the strong growth of its competitors, Synergy Research claims that AWS remains "in a clean league" with "comfortably large" revenue that every five competitors put together.
John Dinsdale, Synergy Research Group, says the first part of the cloud vendor market now shows a clear stratification with AWS, a group of fastest growing hunters and some other niche players run on Salesforce and Rackspace.
While Salesforce and Rackspace have lower growth rates than other companies, Synergy said both maintain a strong position in their niche markets.
"Beyond these leading companies, the cloud market has a long tail of small and medium-sized suppliers or businesses that have only a minor position in the market, usually based on a specific country or area of application Specific, "Dinsdale said.
"There are decent growth opportunities for some of these smaller players, but it is unlikely to have a big impact in terms of global market share in the world," he added.
Synergy Research estimates the quarterly revenue of cloud infrastructure services, which include infrastructure-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service cloud services and hosted, came "nearly" 10 billion US dollars and Continue to grow at more than 40% per year.
AWS, Microsoft and Google are the leaders in the IaaS / PaaS space, while IBM continues to lead a private cloud offered.
Synergy says the private cloud offered is where Rackspace and some traditional service providers offer more features than the public cloud.
Monday, April 24, 2017
Deep dive on AWS vs. Azure vs. Google cloud storage options
One of the most common use cases for IaaS public cloud computing is storage and for good reason: instead of buying hardware and administering, users simply load the data into the cloud and pay what they put in their place .
It sounds simple. But in reality, the world storing in the cloud has many facets to consider. Each of the top three public cloud providers IaaS - Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform - has a variety of storage options and, in some cases, complicated diagrams for how much.
According to Brian Adler, the company's architecture director at CloudScale, cloud management provider, who recently conducted a seminar comparing storage options in the cloud, there is clearly clearly better than other providers. "Is anyone in mind? It really depends on what is being used (the cloud)," he said. Each provider has its own strengths and weaknesses as the specific use case, he said. Three cases of the most popular use cloud storage and how providers accumulate.
The product is called Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and comes in three main flavors: HHD optimized performance, featuring traditional magnetic disc and spinning; General purpose SSD new generation of readers; And provisional SOPI IOPS, which offers a guaranteed rate of read and write data.
The Azure storage offer blocks called managed disks and is available in standard or premium with the latter based on the SSD.
The version of Google called Persistent Disks (PDS), which is in a standard option or SSD.
AWS and Google have 99.95% availability, while Azure offers a 99.99% service level agreement (SLA) for the bulk storage service.
One of the most important factors to consider when buying storage units is the speed with which you need to access the data stored on the SSD. For this, providers offer different rates guaranteed PIO. Google is in the lead; The company offers 40,000 IOPS to read and 30,000 to write in their records. The AWS general purpose SSD offers 10,000 IOPS, but its offering provides the IOP can offer up to 20,000 IOP example, with a maximum IOP of 65,000 by volume. Azure provides 5000 IOP.
Google not only has the highest IOP, but offers customers the widest range in the size of block storage volumes. For a more traditional hard drive based storage, Google offers volume sizes ranging from 1GB to 64TB. AWS offers volumes from 500 GB to 16 TB. Azure offers volume sizes of 1GB and 1TB. As for SSDs, Google offers the highest level of IOP on hard drives by volume in 3000 for reads and 15 000 for writing. AWS and Azure are 500 GPI max. In terms of volume. Azure maximum rates are 60 MB Google 180 for reading and 120 for writing, and AWS 500 MBps.
As for prices, it becomes a bit complicated (all prices are per GB / month), but for HHD, AWS starts at $ 0.045, Google is $ 0.04 and Azure is $ 0.03.
The SSD price starts at $ 0.10 in AWS, $ 0.17 for Google and between $ 0.12 and $ 0.14 for Azure, depending on the size of the drive.
In a price analysis conducted by RightScale, the company found that, generally, the pricing structure means that Azure has the best price / quality ratio for block storage. But, for workloads requiring higher IOPs, Google becomes the most profitable option.
There are reservations when using the provisioned IOPs, says Kim Weins, vice president of marketing at RightScale. In AWS, if you need a guaranteed amount of IOP, it costs a premium. "You pay a higher cost per GB, but you also pay the required IOPs in addition, which results in a higher cost," said Weins. "Be smart about choosing your IOP level supported because you're going to pay."
Weins adds that RightScale found that some customers paid for IOPs and then forgot to unprotect the EBS instance when they finished using it, which cost money.
The primary storage platform for AWS objects is Simple Storage Service (S3). It offers S3 Infrequent Access for a cool storage and Glacier for cold storage. Google has Google Cloud Storage, GCS Nearline for cool storage and GCS Coldline for archiving. Azure has only one hot and cool option with hot and fresh Azure storage drops; Clients must use the cool storage for archive data. AWS and Google each have an object size limit of 5 TB, while Azure has a limit of 500 TB per account. AWS and Google each release 99.999999999% durability for objects stored in their cloud. This means that if you store 10,000 objects in the cloud, on average, a file will be lost every 10 million years, according to AWS. The goal is that these systems are designed to be ultra-durable. Azure does not publish sustainability service level agreements.
Prices on storage of objects are slightly more complicated because customers can choose to host their data in a single region, or at a slightly increased cost, they can save it in several regions, which is an optimal practice for you Ensure access to your data If there is a breakdown in a region.
In AWS, for example, costs S3 (all prices are in GB / month) $ 0.023; To replicate data across multiple regions, costs twice as much: $ 0.046, plus a transfer fee of $ 0.01 per GB. AWS's S3 Infrequent Access (AI) storage service is $ 0.0125 and its Glacier cold storage / archiving service costs $ 0.004
Google has the most similar offers: its cost of storage at a single region costs $ 0.02, while the multi-region is $ 0.026, with a free data transfer. The company's cool storage platform, Nearline, is $ 0.01 and the Cold / Archival Coldline product is $ 0.007. Google states that Coldline's data recovery is faster (in milliseconds) than in Glacier, which according to AWS could take between minutes and hours.
Azure offers one-region storage for $ 0.0184, and what it calls "Global Redundant Storage" for $ 0.046, but it's read-only, which means you can not write changes, which means Costs more. The cool storage of Azure is called Cool Blob Storage is $ 0.01. Azure does not yet offer a cold or archival storage platform, so customers must use the Cool Blob storage for this use case.
Based on these price scenarios, Google has the cheapest storage costs of pure objects plus the free data transfer, RightScale found. However, AWS beats Google's cold storage costs.
AWS 'offer in this category is called Elastic File Storage, a beta version of June 2016. It allows users to mount files from AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) or local Using AWS Direct Connect or a Virtual Private Connection (VPC). There is no size limit, so it varies automatically according to needs and offers a throughput of 50 MB per second per TB of storage; Customers can pay up to 100 Mbps throughput. It starts at $ 0.30 / GB / month.
Azure, on the other hand, offers Azure File Storage, of a similar nature, but has a capacity of 5 TB per file and 500 TB per account and requires manual scaling. It offers a throughput of 60MBps to play files.
Google does not have a native file storage offering, but offers the open source FUSE adapter, which allows users to mount files from Google Cloud Storage buckets and convert them to a file system. Google says it provides the highest throughput of the three vendors with 180MBps read and 120MBps on writes. But Adler said in his experience that the FUSE adapter is not as well integrated into Google's cloud platform as compared to the other two offerings, resulting in potentially frustrating experiences with users. Adler also notes that AWS EFS does not have a native backup solution, while Azure does. AWS encourages EFS users to rely on third-party backup tools at this point.
Azure and Google offer lower prices for their file storage systems compared to AWS: Azure is $ 0.80 per GB / month and Google is $ 0.20, but Adler says these costs do not account for Replication or transfer costs. While the AWS base price might seem higher, taking into account all it affects scaling, it could be a wash between the three vendors .
It sounds simple. But in reality, the world storing in the cloud has many facets to consider. Each of the top three public cloud providers IaaS - Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform - has a variety of storage options and, in some cases, complicated diagrams for how much.
According to Brian Adler, the company's architecture director at CloudScale, cloud management provider, who recently conducted a seminar comparing storage options in the cloud, there is clearly clearly better than other providers. "Is anyone in mind? It really depends on what is being used (the cloud)," he said. Each provider has its own strengths and weaknesses as the specific use case, he said. Three cases of the most popular use cloud storage and how providers accumulate.
Block storage
The storage drive is a persistent disk storage used in conjunction with virtual machines based on the cloud. Each of the suppliers break their block storage offerings into two categories: traditional dynamic rotating magnetic hard drives or the latest static (SSD) drives, generally more expensive but with better performance. Clients can also pay a premium to get a certain amount of I / O guarantees per second (IOPS), which is essentially an indication of how fast they will back up new log information and read the information stored on it.The product is called Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and comes in three main flavors: HHD optimized performance, featuring traditional magnetic disc and spinning; General purpose SSD new generation of readers; And provisional SOPI IOPS, which offers a guaranteed rate of read and write data.
The Azure storage offer blocks called managed disks and is available in standard or premium with the latter based on the SSD.
The version of Google called Persistent Disks (PDS), which is in a standard option or SSD.
AWS and Google have 99.95% availability, while Azure offers a 99.99% service level agreement (SLA) for the bulk storage service.
One of the most important factors to consider when buying storage units is the speed with which you need to access the data stored on the SSD. For this, providers offer different rates guaranteed PIO. Google is in the lead; The company offers 40,000 IOPS to read and 30,000 to write in their records. The AWS general purpose SSD offers 10,000 IOPS, but its offering provides the IOP can offer up to 20,000 IOP example, with a maximum IOP of 65,000 by volume. Azure provides 5000 IOP.
Google not only has the highest IOP, but offers customers the widest range in the size of block storage volumes. For a more traditional hard drive based storage, Google offers volume sizes ranging from 1GB to 64TB. AWS offers volumes from 500 GB to 16 TB. Azure offers volume sizes of 1GB and 1TB. As for SSDs, Google offers the highest level of IOP on hard drives by volume in 3000 for reads and 15 000 for writing. AWS and Azure are 500 GPI max. In terms of volume. Azure maximum rates are 60 MB Google 180 for reading and 120 for writing, and AWS 500 MBps.
As for prices, it becomes a bit complicated (all prices are per GB / month), but for HHD, AWS starts at $ 0.045, Google is $ 0.04 and Azure is $ 0.03.
The SSD price starts at $ 0.10 in AWS, $ 0.17 for Google and between $ 0.12 and $ 0.14 for Azure, depending on the size of the drive.
In a price analysis conducted by RightScale, the company found that, generally, the pricing structure means that Azure has the best price / quality ratio for block storage. But, for workloads requiring higher IOPs, Google becomes the most profitable option.
There are reservations when using the provisioned IOPs, says Kim Weins, vice president of marketing at RightScale. In AWS, if you need a guaranteed amount of IOP, it costs a premium. "You pay a higher cost per GB, but you also pay the required IOPs in addition, which results in a higher cost," said Weins. "Be smart about choosing your IOP level supported because you're going to pay."
Weins adds that RightScale found that some customers paid for IOPs and then forgot to unprotect the EBS instance when they finished using it, which cost money.
Storage of objects
Do you have a file that you need to put in the cloud? Object storage is the service for you. Again, cloud providers have different types of storage, classified by the frequency at which the customer expects to access them. "Warm" storage is a data that must be almost instantly accessible. "Cool" storage is more rarely available, and cold storage is an archival material that is rarely accessed. The colder the storage, the less expensive it is.The primary storage platform for AWS objects is Simple Storage Service (S3). It offers S3 Infrequent Access for a cool storage and Glacier for cold storage. Google has Google Cloud Storage, GCS Nearline for cool storage and GCS Coldline for archiving. Azure has only one hot and cool option with hot and fresh Azure storage drops; Clients must use the cool storage for archive data. AWS and Google each have an object size limit of 5 TB, while Azure has a limit of 500 TB per account. AWS and Google each release 99.999999999% durability for objects stored in their cloud. This means that if you store 10,000 objects in the cloud, on average, a file will be lost every 10 million years, according to AWS. The goal is that these systems are designed to be ultra-durable. Azure does not publish sustainability service level agreements.
Prices on storage of objects are slightly more complicated because customers can choose to host their data in a single region, or at a slightly increased cost, they can save it in several regions, which is an optimal practice for you Ensure access to your data If there is a breakdown in a region.
In AWS, for example, costs S3 (all prices are in GB / month) $ 0.023; To replicate data across multiple regions, costs twice as much: $ 0.046, plus a transfer fee of $ 0.01 per GB. AWS's S3 Infrequent Access (AI) storage service is $ 0.0125 and its Glacier cold storage / archiving service costs $ 0.004
Google has the most similar offers: its cost of storage at a single region costs $ 0.02, while the multi-region is $ 0.026, with a free data transfer. The company's cool storage platform, Nearline, is $ 0.01 and the Cold / Archival Coldline product is $ 0.007. Google states that Coldline's data recovery is faster (in milliseconds) than in Glacier, which according to AWS could take between minutes and hours.
Azure offers one-region storage for $ 0.0184, and what it calls "Global Redundant Storage" for $ 0.046, but it's read-only, which means you can not write changes, which means Costs more. The cool storage of Azure is called Cool Blob Storage is $ 0.01. Azure does not yet offer a cold or archival storage platform, so customers must use the Cool Blob storage for this use case.
Based on these price scenarios, Google has the cheapest storage costs of pure objects plus the free data transfer, RightScale found. However, AWS beats Google's cold storage costs.
Storage of files
An emerging use case is the use of a cloud-based file storage system. Think of it as a cloud-based version of a more traditional network file system (NFS): users can mount files on the system from any connected device or virtual machine, and then read and recover Files. This is a case of relatively nascent cloud storage use and, as a result, offers are still incomplete compared to storage of blocks and objects, according to Adler.AWS 'offer in this category is called Elastic File Storage, a beta version of June 2016. It allows users to mount files from AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) or local Using AWS Direct Connect or a Virtual Private Connection (VPC). There is no size limit, so it varies automatically according to needs and offers a throughput of 50 MB per second per TB of storage; Customers can pay up to 100 Mbps throughput. It starts at $ 0.30 / GB / month.
Azure, on the other hand, offers Azure File Storage, of a similar nature, but has a capacity of 5 TB per file and 500 TB per account and requires manual scaling. It offers a throughput of 60MBps to play files.
Azure and Google offer lower prices for their file storage systems compared to AWS: Azure is $ 0.80 per GB / month and Google is $ 0.20, but Adler says these costs do not account for Replication or transfer costs. While the AWS base price might seem higher, taking into account all it affects scaling, it could be a wash between the three vendors .
Monday, April 10, 2017
AWS now lets you migrate MongoDB databases to DynamoDB
The public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced an upgrade to its database migration service (DMS). Now, people can transfer their databases into the NoSQL MongoDB open source database in the NoSQL service managed by DynamoDB owning AWS with the help of DMS.
In fact, DMS now supports the migration of NoSQL databases in general, AWS said in a blog post. This suggests that more NoSQL databases could get official DMS support in the future. Currently, DMS can work with Oracle databases, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Amazon Aurora, PostgreSQL and SAP ASE, said Amazon.
AWS presented the DMS and the compatible schema conversion tool in 2015. In December, AWS CEO Andy Jassy said that DMS had made 16,000 migrations in 2016. In total, More than 22,000 migrations, Jassy said in a tweet last month.
In February AWS announced that the schema conversion tool could take data from Oracle and Teradata data warehouses and prepare it for installation in the AWS Redshift data storage service.
MongoDB was once a very trendy technology among developers. The company behind it, also called MongoDB, offers a managed version of the database hosted on AWS. Now, AWS will be able to generate revenue where organizations had previously sought to use MongoDB for databases in their on-site data centers. In other words, AWS is now challenging its own client, and this is not the first time it's happening .
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Azure Surpasses AWS as the Public Cloud of Choice
The survey was controlled by Sumo Logic, a provider of data analysis, and was created by UBM Research. 230 IT professionals were surveyed in companies with at least 500 employees.
The survey found that 80 percent of companies use or should use at least one public cloud provider, if not more currently. And given the numbers, many uses clearly more than one. About two-thirds (66 percent) of the respondents said they were using Azure while 55 percent said they were using AWS. The Cloud of the Salesforce application is in third in 28%, 23% the fourth IBM and Google reaches 20%.
More than half of Azure users of companies with more than 10,000 employees, suggesting that Microsoft's cloud is especially popular among large companies, according to the survey.
The result is remarkable, as it is the first study to put Azure for AWS. All other previous surveys have always found that AWS was the market leader in public cloud providers. Now IT professionals 230 do not make a major trend, but could be the first sign that Microsoft has taken the lead in this market. Or it could be an aberration.
In addition, the survey found that 67 percent of respondents use software as a service (SaaS), around four out of 10 use of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and / or a-Service delivery platform (PaaS) . The development of new applications, which is associated with the use of clouds is also popular: DevOps. UBM found that 68% of respondents plan to adopt or already DevOps.
DevOps is supposed to be a faster way to write and deploy new applications, and this corresponds to the survey results according to which 42% of respondents said they were deploying applications more frequently than in the past, while Only 8% of respondents said they were implementing less frequent applications than in previous years.
"Trends such as cloud computing and DevOps help companies to be more flexible and responsive to market conditions. However, as cloud computing becomes the norm in IT organizations, security issues persist," Said Amy Doherty UBM's technology research director in a statement.
Security remains the main concern of companies embracing the cloud. When asked questions about the biggest security challenges in the cloud has received the highest number of votes (27%) of the respondents. While most respondents (55 percent) said that public cloud services are safer than they were, only 6 percent describe security in the public cloud as "excellent."
Other damaged articles for cloud adopters are migrating applications and data to the cloud (15 percent), to get a unified view of the cloud and traditional IT infrastructure (8 percent), and application and Based operations (7 percent).
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Amazon's cloud VP was on stage talking up
Amazon's cloud VP was on stage talking up AWS at the very moment it went crashing down
Cockcroft had consulted for Battery Ventures, the VC help find new companies to invest in the cloud.
However, he is best known for his years with Netflix as the first most famous client of Amazon Web Services. He directed the project, in 2009, to have Netflix built its streaming movie service on AWS and did not use its own data centers. It was a crazy decision at the time. Cloud computing at the time was best known as a bad, unreliable and possibly dangerous alternative to owning their own computers. When, in 2010, Netflix began to speak publicly about the decision, everyone thought it was a place between Netflix dumb and reckless.
"I gave him a lecture at a conference in late 2010 to 100 or more audience reaction .." You're crazy, "said Cockcroft Business Insider last year." [AWS] was small was unreliable, there were all kinds of things Were not there, we were basically helping to create what is now being declared to AWS, "if you do this, it will work. '' T work, 'and' we need this feature. '"
Even in 2012, AWS was not exactly reliable. Has been famous down on Christmas Eve this year, so the national news.
Flash Forward until the beginning of 2017 and the world loves it all and AWS and cloud computing companies are racing to put their businesses into it. AWS Cockcroft's main job is to talk to companies that do what Netflix did in their day - get rid of their data centers and go through AWS.
A growing list of companies do this like Intuit, Time, Juniper, AOL, Hertz and more all the time, said on stage at a conference in San Francisco on Tuesday.
But sometimes the downside of relying on cloud services like Amazon can become painful obvious.
And unfortunately that was the case on Tuesday, where just when Cockcroft was run by AWS, a good chunk of the Internet had been destroyed (including the Business Insider site) because the AWS data storage service, S3, suffered problems Technicians.
The service has declined so AWS was even struggling to update the "health board image" that tells customers if the service is up or down. Read a message on this page (emphasis added):
Now we have fixed the possibility of updating the service dashboard update service santé.Les are below.General continue to experience high error rates with S3 in US-ESTE-1, which has implications for various AWS.Nous services that work hard for Solving S3 we believe we understand the root cause, and work on implementation of what we believe will correct the problem. "
Even after updating this page to indicate that there was a problem, very distinctly AWS has not called a failure. It is called "high error rate data."
In the few minutes during Cockcroft spoke onstage promoting the benefits of cloud services from Amazon, you probably are not aware of AWS technical problems that occur at the moment, an Internet phenomenon was born.
Sunday, February 26, 2017
AWS GameLift Now Supports Unreal Engine
Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of the online giant distribution, announced that its GameLift service is now available for games developed in the Unreal engine.
In a blog post, Daniel Kayser, Product Marketing Manager for Epic's Unreal Engine says developers can now benefit from the fee-based management system designed to deploy and host multiplayer games. The system is scalable and uses very capable infrastructure in the AWS cloud to support millions of concurrent players.
To go along with the aforementioned features, Kayser also emphasized the newly added GameLift twinning ability that "intelligently selects the closest game server based on the location of each player, giving players the lowest latency possible through Taking advantage of AWS global footprint.
Seth Sivak, executive director of the independent development studio Proletariat Inc. (manufacturers of Zombie Nation Worldwide and Streamline) states:
In a blog post, Daniel Kayser, Product Marketing Manager for Epic's Unreal Engine says developers can now benefit from the fee-based management system designed to deploy and host multiplayer games. The system is scalable and uses very capable infrastructure in the AWS cloud to support millions of concurrent players.
To go along with the aforementioned features, Kayser also emphasized the newly added GameLift twinning ability that "intelligently selects the closest game server based on the location of each player, giving players the lowest latency possible through Taking advantage of AWS global footprint.
Seth Sivak, executive director of the independent development studio Proletariat Inc. (manufacturers of Zombie Nation Worldwide and Streamline) states:
The plug-in is available in the Unreal engine developers market, with availability in the following territories:
- For the Proletariat team, the choice was simple: hire a team of engineers who spend months building our own cloud infrastructure or launching our game in Amazon GameLift in a matter of days.
- GameLift Amazon has made it easy for us to give our inexpensive fans world-class online experience
- (East), Western United States (Oregon), European Union Center (Frankfurt), Western European Union (Asia), Asia Pacific Northwest (Seoul Tokyo) Southeast Asia
Sunday, February 19, 2017
Azure’s rise instills doubts in AWS shops
Microsoft's cloud computing platform is experiencing a surge in adoption, raising fears in some companies of betting on the wrong horse. But the race did not start
The "State of the Cloud" RightScale report is now available and has been well covered by InfoWorld, so it will not give you the summary here. But there are important findings that I want to highlight in terms of business impact.
Companies are questioning the latter, as they have made a huge investment in AWS, but are now late for their support.
Make it clear: Azure's success is well deserved. Microsoft was late for the party, but not so late that he could not do the good things around the adoption of his cloud.
And Microsoft has intelligently leveraged its relationships with existing companies, unlike AWS and Google. Companies that have their IT solutions based on Windows servers, representing a large number of companies, are fruits, inexpensive for Microsoft Azure. Background for the migration is also tempting, although you can also get Windows servers in AWS.
However, AWS has followed the growth of the market. In fact, the growth of AWS almost matches that of the cloud computing market in general. AWS will continue to set the standard for IaaS platforms, and it will not give up its market share unless they do something really stupid. I suspect it will not happen.
Companies have to understand that the cloud computing market is dynamic and in its early days, so the volatility will be with us for some time. Only about 5-7% of the workloads migrated to an IaaS platform, such as AWS or Azure. About 20 percent should be migrated at the end of the year. We do not hit 70% - when we really know if your chosen platform has won - over several years. Today, it could be anything.
It is a fact of life. Companies should not panic if the chosen platform is not the top scorer or the largest producer this quarter. While the market is different, it is clear that AWS, Azure and Google Cloud IaaS are the platforms that are suitable for most companies. If you use one of these, you'll be in good shape for the foreseeable future. This is as good as it is on the Paris gaming platform.
The "State of the Cloud" RightScale report is now available and has been well covered by InfoWorld, so it will not give you the summary here. But there are important findings that I want to highlight in terms of business impact.
According to the report:
- In respondents, RightScale found that Azure has increased overall from 20 to 34 percent, while Amazon Web Services remained stable at 57 percent.
- Google has increased from 10 to 15 percent to maintain third position.
- Within companies, Azure has significantly increased adoption: 26 percent to 43 percent. However, adoption of the AWS has increased slightly from 56 percent to 59 percent.
Companies are questioning the latter, as they have made a huge investment in AWS, but are now late for their support.
Make it clear: Azure's success is well deserved. Microsoft was late for the party, but not so late that he could not do the good things around the adoption of his cloud.
And Microsoft has intelligently leveraged its relationships with existing companies, unlike AWS and Google. Companies that have their IT solutions based on Windows servers, representing a large number of companies, are fruits, inexpensive for Microsoft Azure. Background for the migration is also tempting, although you can also get Windows servers in AWS.
However, AWS has followed the growth of the market. In fact, the growth of AWS almost matches that of the cloud computing market in general. AWS will continue to set the standard for IaaS platforms, and it will not give up its market share unless they do something really stupid. I suspect it will not happen.
Companies have to understand that the cloud computing market is dynamic and in its early days, so the volatility will be with us for some time. Only about 5-7% of the workloads migrated to an IaaS platform, such as AWS or Azure. About 20 percent should be migrated at the end of the year. We do not hit 70% - when we really know if your chosen platform has won - over several years. Today, it could be anything.
It is a fact of life. Companies should not panic if the chosen platform is not the top scorer or the largest producer this quarter. While the market is different, it is clear that AWS, Azure and Google Cloud IaaS are the platforms that are suitable for most companies. If you use one of these, you'll be in good shape for the foreseeable future. This is as good as it is on the Paris gaming platform.
AWS Unveils Chime Conferencing Service
Amazon Web Services on Tuesday launched Amazon Ring, a unified cloud-based communications offering that allows users to participate in high-definition video and audio-quality video meetings on Windows and Mac desktops and on iOS mobile devices and Android.
Companies only have to download the application; They do not need to make initial investments in hardware or software.
Users can switch desktop and mobile applications when needed, even in the conference environment.
Participants click on a ring application button to join a meeting instead of dialing a number and enter a PIN.
A visual list of all participants. Any participant can silence the other, and silenced participants can wake up themselves.
Meetings may be limited. All communications are encrypted and the conversation history of a meeting is not stored on the devices used.
Chat facilities are provided for ongoing collaboration outside of meetings, where historical records and cats are stored safely.
"I'm very surprised that someone does not do the above," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group.
"The current tools are pretty dull ... and mostly unreliable," he told the E-Commerce Times.
"This will disrupt the segment, leaving no player unchanged and put everyone know that they should be better invest in improving the ability to use their products or output," warned Enderle.
"The timing of quality and high-end video and audio devices are fast becoming bets on the table," said Michael Brandenburg, an analyst at Frost & Sullivan.
Amazon Chime is "really on parity with other features on the market today," he told the E-Commerce Times, noting that Amazon brings its "scalability and rich conference feature solution to aggressive pricing.
There are three levels of pricing for Chime:
Basic and Plus users can join conferences created in Pro Chime.
Companies can combine and combine licenses to reduce costs. There is no minimum fee. Charges are based on usage, and users may cancel or change subscriptions at any time.
Interested users can sign up for a free trial of Amazon Pro. After 30 days, they can continue to use the baseline for free or subscribe to a payment level.
Chime will be available in the second quarter of the AWS partner Level 3 Communications and Vonage, which will offer free business customers Amazon Chime Pro.
The Amazon Chime service is "much easier than almost all public offerings and cheap, considering the feature set," Enderle said. Still, "it is not new and still not fully tested, suggesting that, until a critical mass level is reached, the problems are not known and can not be addressed.
Many companies have already begun to move from conferencing solutions to cloud facilities, commented Brandenburg of Frost. However, "their contracts and conference investments in these ecosystems are likely to be more of a pure cost factor.
Chime's focus on usability and convenience "is critical to the widespread adoption of unified communications solutions," said Rebecca Wettemann, vice president of research at Nucleus Research.
However, infrastructure buyers - typical Amazon customers - are within easy reach of commercial drivers that fuel demand for collaborative tools, the E-Commerce Times said.
Announcer to strengthen competition in the unified communications and collaboration market, which could reach $ 96 billion by 2023, according to projections of Global Market Outlook.
Companies only have to download the application; They do not need to make initial investments in hardware or software.
Users can switch desktop and mobile applications when needed, even in the conference environment.
User-Friendly Disruption
Participants click on a ring application button to join a meeting instead of dialing a number and enter a PIN.
A visual list of all participants. Any participant can silence the other, and silenced participants can wake up themselves.
Meetings may be limited. All communications are encrypted and the conversation history of a meeting is not stored on the devices used.
Chat facilities are provided for ongoing collaboration outside of meetings, where historical records and cats are stored safely.
"I'm very surprised that someone does not do the above," said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group.
"The current tools are pretty dull ... and mostly unreliable," he told the E-Commerce Times.
"This will disrupt the segment, leaving no player unchanged and put everyone know that they should be better invest in improving the ability to use their products or output," warned Enderle.
"The timing of quality and high-end video and audio devices are fast becoming bets on the table," said Michael Brandenburg, an analyst at Frost & Sullivan.
Amazon Chime is "really on parity with other features on the market today," he told the E-Commerce Times, noting that Amazon brings its "scalability and rich conference feature solution to aggressive pricing.
Chime Pricing
There are three levels of pricing for Chime:
- Basic - The free version allows users to attend online meetings, to call another person in voice or video, and use email and chat services with Caller;
- The Plus edition, at US $ 2.50 per user per month, adds the ability to manage a mail domain, Active Directory to configure and integrate with identity management systems. Stores 1 GB of messages per user;
- Chime Pro, which costs $ 15 per user per month, adds the possibility of holding meetings with up to 100 participants with shared screen and video. It supports mobile, mobile and in-room video, and includes unlimited VoIP support.
Basic and Plus users can join conferences created in Pro Chime.
Companies can combine and combine licenses to reduce costs. There is no minimum fee. Charges are based on usage, and users may cancel or change subscriptions at any time.
Interested users can sign up for a free trial of Amazon Pro. After 30 days, they can continue to use the baseline for free or subscribe to a payment level.
Chime will be available in the second quarter of the AWS partner Level 3 Communications and Vonage, which will offer free business customers Amazon Chime Pro.
Chime's Sweet and Sour Notes
The Amazon Chime service is "much easier than almost all public offerings and cheap, considering the feature set," Enderle said. Still, "it is not new and still not fully tested, suggesting that, until a critical mass level is reached, the problems are not known and can not be addressed.
Many companies have already begun to move from conferencing solutions to cloud facilities, commented Brandenburg of Frost. However, "their contracts and conference investments in these ecosystems are likely to be more of a pure cost factor.
Chime's focus on usability and convenience "is critical to the widespread adoption of unified communications solutions," said Rebecca Wettemann, vice president of research at Nucleus Research.
However, infrastructure buyers - typical Amazon customers - are within easy reach of commercial drivers that fuel demand for collaborative tools, the E-Commerce Times said.
Announcer to strengthen competition in the unified communications and collaboration market, which could reach $ 96 billion by 2023, according to projections of Global Market Outlook.
Sunday, February 12, 2017
AWS CEO: Luck gave Amazon’s cloud-computing unit a boost
Andy Jassy, chief of Amazon Web Services, said that luck plays a role in the tremendous growth of AWS - but the first decisions that have paved the way for the domination of the cloud computing company.The leader of Amazon Web Services (AWS) said that its dominance in the cloud comes partly from luck - but also from the first decisions that have proven essential for the establishment of a revolutionary organization.
"There's always a fair amount, it's an opportunity," Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS, said during a speech at the University of Washington's Department of Computer Science and Engineering. "You have to have a good time and some things to break."
Jassy's comments come as AWS - Amazon's cloud computing unit, which leases energy and storage businesses, governments and computer entrepreneurs - has become an activity at $ 14 billion a year, Driven by the recent years by the massive migration of data from private companies to shared data centers. This is an old company for a decade Amazon has launched - and a very profitable business.
In 2016, $ 3.1 billion was reported in operating revenues, or 32% more than the North American unit of the Amazon, the most important activity of the company in terms of billing. It is also by far the largest provider of cloud computing.
AWS sales growth rate, however, fell to 47 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016 from 69 percent in the period of last year, amid stiff competition from Microsoft, Google and other high-tech companies .
Among the first decisions of the foundation of the AWS fortune was the creation of "building blocks" primitive basic functions that customers could use and combine according to their needs, Jassy said.
Another key: AWS sells its services to the card and charge based on use, as a public service. It was a big deviation from the costly and multi-year contracts that technology providers usually need. "People gave us a lot of credit from the start to the pricing model," Jassy said.
The next key decision was the first AWS market has gone after.
AWS leaders "very early led software developers and start-ups," even though they knew companies and governments to end up being the main customers, according Jassy.
"This turned out to be a very underserved segment," Jassy said. Many of these developers have only spent a few dollars on AWS services, but "we do not care about that," the executive said. "Some of these will be the next big business in the next five to 10 years."
It was also necessary to continue innovating quickly, to adapt to the needs of growth. "Be quick and fast and be poor in functionality to start only works if you can deliver, and iterate quickly," Jassy said.
Now the scope and sophistication of AWS offers include artificial intelligence, voice data, databases and automated learning tools, some of which rely on innovations Amazon has deployed Alexa PDA and its execution centers.
As for growing competition, Jassy said that the IT services market is so large that there is no room for a number of successful cloud providers. However, "I do not think there will be 30 due to the scale that really matters."
Monday, January 9, 2017
UKCloud: We ARE cheaper than Microsoft or AWS online Storage
UK-based infrastructure services UKCloud says it is "fighting" against industry giants by dramatically reducing the online storage price.
Customers looking for cheap online storage with data volumes above 1000 TB will pay 1.46 pence per GB per month, 66 percent, and most importantly, no additional charge for bed, writing, bandwidth and Support.
Bettors who choose to 500 TB will cough 1.81 pence per GB per nine-pence month, although additional fees may be charged at this level.
Simon Hansford, CEO of UKCloud, a leading provider of government services to the G-Cloud, told us that an updated hiperconvertida of its storage platform has saved costs.
"The UKCloud storage cloud cheaper is cheaper than cloud storage [for general use] cheaper AWS and Azure," he said.
The cheapest for a comparable AWS storage service is 1.81 per GB per month, and Microsoft is 1.83 pence. Both companies also have appropriate replacement storage services for deep archive documents
Hansford said the local cloud vendors might be "too paranoid" about AWS and Microsoft, but El Reg question using the word paranoid.
No doubt some are looking on their shoulders, but rightly so; AWS marketing machine has done a good job of talking about price cuts - over 50 since its release. On the other hand, this was the tenth UKCloud price reduction since its release.
Hansford says AWS offers "big share prices," but said that "customers almost need a degree in AWS price because there are so many warnings and a few."
The decline in prices comes after the rise of Microsoft cloud their prices by an average of 22 percent since the beginning of this month, with the movement of the pound sterling against the blamed US dollar.
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