Posted by Lydia Leong
Posted on August 10, 2010, in Industry and tagged cloud, hosting. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.
Lydia Leong is an analyst at Gartner, where she covers cloud computing and related topics in infrastructure and operations, Internet services, and digital transformation. [Read more.]
This is a personal blog, and as such, it should not be taken to express Gartner’s views. Coverage-related posts are, however, mirrored on the Gartner Blog Network.
Standard Gartner social media disclaimer: I am using this medium as an opportunity to test ideas and move research forward. Because the content I posted here does not undergo our standard editorial review, all comments or opinions expressed hereunder are mine and do not represent the views of Gartner, Inc., its subsidiaries or its management.
More Comments
CloudPundit: Massive-Scale Computing
Hi, Lydia,
Are you sure about classifying the Windows Azure Platform as IaaS? Everyone one else, including Microsoft, classifies it as PaaS.
Cheers,
–rj
LikeLike
It’s PaaS. Not sure where it’s marked as IaaS?
LikeLike
Hi, Lydia,
See exemplar “Slicing the Cloud” slide posted to my blog
http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/windows-azure-and-cloud-computing-posts_10.html#Events (scroll down a bit.)
Cheers,
–rj
LikeLike
Ah. As far as I know (this is a standard Gartner cloud graphics slide), that’s intended to show Microsoft as a hypervisor/tools vendor, rather than representing Azure. (Same reason VMware’s logo also appears; they are an arms merchant at the infrastructure layer.)
LikeLike
Was there a video of this presentation? I would love to hear the content around the bullet points.
Thanks,
Tb
LikeLike
thanx admin
LikeLike