AWS, cloudy colo, cloud nodes, APAC, SD-WAN
It was a shorter week with the US Thanksgiving weekend slowing things down in the US. However, the following week will be a busy one across the sector. The AWS re:Invent show kicks off in Las Vegas and there are sure to be infrastructure-related developments – both good and bad – coming out of the Black Friday online shopping surge.
One of the more interesting product developments leading up to re:Invent, and sure to get some attention there, was QTS CloudRamp. QTS is trying to make colocation cloudier and the move could be a sign that things will change over time for its retail cloud infrastructure services.
The managed third party cloud market was busier in recent weeks. TeraGo in Toronto reported its 3Q17 results and disclosed some useful insight into how managed third party cloud is ramping in its pipeline. Meanwhile, we tracked a number of managed AWS wins for Ensono.
QTS was giving colocation a new spin and Rackspace and HPE is trying to make private cloud cloudier as well. The movement of workloads to and between clouds remains a focus for many and OVH took advantage of VMware technology to enable these kinds of capabilities across its portfolio.
Finally, the Asia-pacific region remained busy. India’s Netmagic continues to expand in India and Interoute added a cloud node in Sydney, Australia – extended the reach of its cloud infrastructure footprint and SD-WAN-enabled network. Interoute’s use of SD-WAN is another example of how portability and performance is increasingly important in building a differentiated infrastructure service offering.
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