It wasn’t that many years ago that when you spoke of colocation pricing trends the numbers that were mentioned were $400.00 plus per Kw, especially for the enterprise class market leaders such as Equinix, Savvis and others. While smaller niche players were able to win business by being more agile and price competitive, they too […]
Caulfield Comments on the Private or Public Cloud Conundrum
ANTARA Group CEO, Tim Caulfield had an opportunity to answer some questions for Drew Turney’s piece on private vs. public clouds. Buy or rent: the private or public cloud conundrum Summary: Public cloud services are still conquering the world, but some think it’s more cost effective to make your own. How do you know when […]
Understanding the “What’s What?” of Data Centers
Are you currently looking to expand your IT infrastructure beyond your company’s walls? Are you considering the benefits of co-locating at a nearby data center? Are you already well down the path of data center evaluation, but puzzled because their offerings sound way too similar? Many of the companies we’ve been working with started off […]
HP’s Helion Cloud Announcement – My Take
HP made an announcement today – 05/7/14 on their new Cloud Platform, HP Helion Cloud. Helion is built on OpenStack and with the announcement comes a $1B dollar comment on the part of HP. If I’m in the OpenStack community I’m certainly feeling that the platform took a huge step forward today as the virtualization […]
Cloud Price Wars? Now What?
Recently I was asked about a piece that appeared in The Wall Street Journal about the cloud services price war. [A Price War Erupts in Cloud Services: As Amazon, Microsoft and Google Battle, Users Reap Benefits – by Shira Ovide] I find it interesting that cloud services has crossed over to the point where pricing […]
