Today's Cloud Computing Landscape

TODAY'S Wikibon CLOUD COMPUTING LANDSCAPE Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the Internet. A cloud service has three distinct characteristics that differentiate it from traditional hosting. It is sold on demand, typically by the minute or the hour; it is elastic – a user can have as much or as little of a service as they want at any given time; and the service is fully managed by the provider. PRIVATE/ENTERPRISE CLOUD A proprietary computing architecture that provides hosted services to a limited number of people behind a firewall, and is typically for organizations that needs or wants more control over their data than they can get by using a third-party hosted service. OTHER COMPANIES: EMC FalconStor FUSION io NetApp HP/3PAR ORACLE IBM CISCO VMWARE EST. 1939 EST. 1977 EST. 1911 EST. 1984 EST. 1998 In September 2010, HP announced the The name "Cisco" is not acquisition of 3PAR Inc., a provider of utility storage, for $2.35 billion, to expand HP's storage portfolio into enterprise-class cloud computing environments. In 2009, Larry Ellison railed on the cloud, calling it "water vapor." In 2010, Ellison laid IBM has announced its launch of the Federal Community Cloud, a private cloud program aimed at government organizations. an acronym, but an abbreviation of San Francisco. According to John Morgridge, employee 34 and the company's first president, the founders hit on the name and logo while driving to Sacramento to register the company - they saw the Golden Gate VMware products have reached Common Criteria certification at out his cloud vision of using Oracle's software on a third party cloud and renting Oracle apps in a Saas model on a subscription basis. Evaluation Assurance Level 4, the highest globally recognized security features certification Bridge framed in the sunlight. KEY Revenue Employees Market cap IBM. $114.6 bil $95.8 bil ORACLE CISCO $23.3 bil $35.8 bil $2.0 bil vmware 178.92 bil (IBM) 7,100 employees 104,569 employees 70,714 employees 144.44 bil (Oracle) ....... 107.47 bil (Cisco) 94.89 bil (HP) 304,000 employees 399,409 employees 35.12 bil (VMware) PUBLIC CLOUD A service provider makes resources, such as applications and storage, available to the general public over the Internet. Public cloud services may be free or offered on a pay-per-usage model. OTHER COMPANIES: Silesforce flickr YAHOO! TWITTER GOOGLE MICROSOFT AMAZON FACEBOOK EST. 2006 EST. 1998 AZURE EST. 1994 EST. 2004 Total assets: $162.1 million* Total assets: Total assets: $24.5 billion Total assets: EST, 1975 $40.5 billion $1.5 billion** Total assets: Alexa ranking***. 9 CEO compensation: Unavailable; Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has stepped Alexa ranking: 1 $86.1 billion Alexa ranking: 15 Alexa ranking: 2 CEO compensation: $557,466 (compensation in 2006) CEO compensation: $1.78 million CEO compensation: Unavailable Alexa ranking: 23 CEO compensation: $1.28 million Monthly uniques: 75 million Monthly uniques: 131 million down from his role as CEO of the company Monthly uniques: 146 million Monthly uniques: 57 million CEO Jeff Bezos changed Facebook had allowed users to deactivate their accounts but not Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google together in their friend's garage. Monthly uniques****: 96 million the name Cadabra.com to Amazon.com because When the program was known by its code name of "Red Dog" in 2008, its working team of about 150 included Microsoft heavyweight Dave Cutler, semi- retired lead developer on Windows NT. it sounded too much like actually remove account content from its servers. Jack Dorsey thought of the idea for Twitter while sitting in a park on a children's slide and eating Mexican food, introducing the idea of an individual "cadaver." A New York Times article noted the issue, and also raised a concern that emails and other private user data remain indefinitely on Facebook's servers. Facebook subsequently began permanently deleting accounts on special request. NOTE: Statistics are for Microsoft of which Azure is a small part. using an SMS service to communicate with a small group. Microsoft amazon.com. $1.2 mil "Based on estimates from Search Engine Land, Sharespost. and Techcrunch S1.8 mil Google "Figure represents net worth; total assets unavailable *** Alexa is popular destination for free traffic metrics and $ 27.55 bil Windows Azure ****Monthly unique search analytics visitors to company website- each visitor is counted only once $62.5 bil Go gle $557,466 amazon.com. 231.17 bil (Microsoft) $15.53 bil L3ICLEN $150 mil facebook $800 mil 300 KEY employees 1,700 employees ........ Revenue | Employees 26,100 employees 187.75 bil A Market cap (Google) CEO compensation 23,331 employees 79.92 bil (Amazon) Ibil (Twitter) 88,414 employees 40 bil (Facebook) HYBRID CLOUD verizon SI0.3 mil The use of both private and public clouds to provide an organization's computing needs. Two or more clouds (private, community, or public) that remain unique entities but are bound together by standardized or proprietary technology. KEY Revenue rackspace Employees Market cap $6.7 mil CEO compensation rackspace $398.0 mil verizon 7 terremark $305.6 mil | 887 employees S1.8 mil $107.8 bil 7 terremark 2,452 employees NRE Alliance VERIZON RACKSPACE TERREMARK A coalition of EST. 1983 EST. 1998 799.08 mil EST, 2002 newScale, rPath and Eucalyptus Systems focused on self-service private and hybrid cloud, with a goal helping enterprise IT organizations transform into internally managed versions of a public cloud service. (Terremark) Total assets: $227.2 billion Total assets: Total assets: $668.6 million $11 billion Alexa ranking: 144,743 Alexa ranking: 590 Alexa ranking: 2,386 Monthly uniques: 11 million Monthly uniques: 186,953 Monthly uniques: 12.350 In September 2010, Rackspace pushes a hybrid approach that tightly couples dedicated and cloud Verizon and VMware unveiled an Terremark offers a broad spectrum of offerings from more traditional hosted infrastructure to cloud enterprise-class hybrid cloud solution that promises to enable enterprises to move their applications to the cloud more quickly without compromising security or performance. computing resources. The theory: Customers will begin toggling between and on-demand services. hosted data centers and cloud computing resources as standard operating procedure. 222,900 employees 91.64 bil (Verizon) 3.45 bil (Rackspace) INFO GRAPHIC WORLD Wikibon