When will Amazon Expand to other Countries? Hints of Germany

One of the possibilities hinted from Andy Jassy’s talk at AWS Summit is AWS adding a data center in Germany.  The WSJ has a blog post on this.

Amazon Hints at New German-Based Data Center

 

By Rachael King and Michael Hickins

Andy Jassy, senior vice president of Amazon.com Inc.AMZN -0.05%’s Amazon Web Services unit, says the company is prioritizing where it locates data centers, and Germany is “one of the few countries” where customers are asking for a data center “on their own soil.” He said that the company has “significant business in Germany,” and that Amazon is likely to build data centers “in multiple major countries over time.”

Can you see the IOT Vaporware? Missing things like integration and features

I was reading GigaOm’s Stacey Higginbotham post on the Vaporware associated with connected devices.

How to recognize the three types of connected device vaporware

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After the launch of a connected device, for many people the waiting begins. They are waiting for the actual product, or an integration or even a promise that the device can’t deliver.

Earlier this week I was at OSIsoft’s User Conference and one of the lessons I learned years ago is integrating the machine data is much harder than people think.  Why?  Because interfaces that are in the specification may be in beta or not work at all.  Or if they do work, they may have latency issues when information is passed from a sensor to a gateway type of device that is responsible for communications.  This is like bad drivers.

The integration of low level communications is not the sexy stuff and gets dropped on the cutting room floor to ship.

How many of you have tried to integrate systems and been frustrated when a piece of hardware doesn’t communicate the way you thought.  As Mike Manos told me once we can show you the pieces of equipment we have in the data center just don’t share how we did the integration.  The integration is the hard stuff.  But too many times this hard stuff is not valued by those who make the purchasing decisions.

Google's Cloud Event favored over AWS Summits Mar 25-26, 2014

I was in SF this week for three days of conference and meetings.   I didn’t make it to the Google Cloud Event.  I did go to the AWS Summit.  My friends who went to the Google Cloud event said great things about the event and how good the party was.  The same friends and I agreed the AWS Summit Keynote was so boring.  There were hundreds of people who walked out of the keynote.  Why?  The AWS event spent time explaining the AWS stack, going over every component.

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There were friends online were making fun of the presentation being so boring.  This presentation could have been made at a Gartner conference, and even included Gartner quotes

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This messaging made sense given the big push was for Amazon Workspaces.

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If you want to see how boring the AWS Summit Keynote was you can watch the video along with the other 763 views.

Or you can watch the Google Cloud video with the other 6,266 views.

I am taking the time to watch Urs.  Good stuff if you want to develop some Cloud apps.  If I watched the AWS I would probably fall asleep listening to how AWS is right for the Enterprise.

 

 

New Data Center Analyst at 451 Research - Dan Harrington

The data center community is a small one, yet important and whose influence in the industry continues to grow.  One of the new arrivals to the Data Center Analyst community is Dan Harrington with 451 Research.  I’ve had the pleasure of chatting with Dan and he has a solid understanding of how the data center works.  Here is Dan’s LinkedIn profile.

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Daniel Harrington

Research Manager, Enterprise Datacenters at 451 Research

Dan worked on IT Capacity Planning at Pfizer, then Research Analyst at IDC.  He moved out to Seattle to work for Microsoft in a few positions and he is moving back to Boston to join the 451 Research team working on Enterprise Data Centers.

What is Happening in the European Cloud Market? GigaOm Research Report

I work for GigaOm Research part time and have had a chance to meet Paul Miller another researcher who covers the Cloud and is based out of the UK. Paul and I have discussed the similarities and differences between the US and European Cloud market.  Many of the insights Paul has shared is available to those of you who subscribe to GigaOm Research.  Here is a link to Paul’s report published yesterday.

 

Sector RoadMap: the European cloud infrastructure market

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Mar. 26, 2014
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Companies looking to adopt public cloud infrastructure for use in Europe must navigate a complex set of choices in selecting the best service for their needs. The scale, price, and continuing innovation of U.S.-based market leaders such as Amazon, Rackspace, and Microsoft are compelling but undermined to a degree by data protection concerns and last year’s revelations of National Security Agency (NSA) snooping. Less-visible European providers may offer the perception of greater security, a network of data centers more closely aligned to the distribution of customers across the continent, and a support operation better suited to European cultural and linguistic diversity.

This Sector RoadMapTM identifies and categorizes the principal disruption vectors at play in this market segment and profiles a set of the significant solution providers in the space.

Amongst the companies surveyed, those with a strong multi-site European presence found themselves at an immediate advantage. Security and data territoriality remain significant concerns, particularly in Europe, but each of the providers discussed here has a credible position with respect to securing customer data inside the European Economic Area. The clearest point of differentiation for many customers lies in the strength of the partner ecosystem and the extent of interoperability with other systems. Current global market leader Amazon Web Services dominates in both of these vectors for now.