Dr. Owen
Rogers
IT hardware vendors, such as Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), are pivoting their revenue models away from product sales toward service-based subscriptions. The objective is to make hardware appear more flexible and cloud-like, so buyers…
Dr. Owen Rogers
Dr. Owen Rogers is Uptime Institute’s Senior Research Director of Cloud Computing. Dr. Rogers has been analyzing the economics of cloud for over a decade as a chartered engineer, product manager and industry analyst. Rogers covers all areas of cloud, including AI, FinOps, sustainability, hybrid infrastructure and quantum computing.
orogers@uptimeinstitute.com
Latest Research
New server leasing models promise cloud-like flexibility
Quantum computing is not a panacea yet
Quantum computing promises a revolution in scientific discovery. Quantum computing's main advantage over digital computing is in quickly solving highly complex problems that require significant time or resources to process. Currently, solutions to…
Alternative clouds are vulnerable to demanding buyers
Although big-name hyperscalers such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft dominate the cloud arena, other companies also believe they have a role to play. Vultr, OVHcloud, Linode, DigitalOcean, Bluehost and Scaleway, for example, don’t offer huge…
Public cloud costs versus resiliency: stateless applications
To improve the resiliency of an application in a public cloud, it is often distributed across data centers. This report quantifies the costs, levels of resiliency and outages compensation for common public cloud architectures.
Costlier new cloud generations increase lock-in risk
Cloud providers tend to adopt the latest server technologies early, often many months ahead of enterprise buyers, to stay competitive. Providers regularly launch new generations of virtual machines with identical quantities of resources (such as…
Is navigating cloud-native complexity worth the hassle?
Last month 7,000 developers traveled to Valencia to attend the combined KubeCon and CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 conference, the event for Kubernetes and cloud-native software development. A further 10,000 developers joined the conference online. The…
Cloud SLAs punish, not compensate
A service level agreement (SLA) is a contract between a cloud provider and a user. The SLA describes the provider’s minimum level of service, specified by performance metrics, and the compensation due to the user should the provider fail to deliver…
Cloud scalability and resiliency from first principles
Cloud computing has evolved to provide more options for resiliency and performance. Understanding these options is crucial for technology buyers, given that the frequency and impact of cloud outages is likely to increase.
Cloud price increases damage trust
In general, the prices of cloud services either remain level or decrease. There are occasional price increases, but these are typically restricted to specific features; blanket price increases across product families are rare.Price cuts are often…
Cloud generations drive down prices
Cloud providers need to deliver the newest capability to stay relevant. Few enterprises will accept working with outdated technology just because it's consumable as a cloud service. However, existing cloud instances don’t migrate automatically…
Why cloud is a kludge of complexity
The cloud model was designed to be simple and nimble. Simple and nimble doesn’t necessarily mean fit for purpose. Over the past decade, new layers of capability have been added to cloud to address its shortcomings. While this has created…
Flexibility drives cloud lock-in risk
Vendor lock-in is regularly levied as a criticism of cloud services. But the reality of IT is, there has always been lock-in. Even before cloud, enterprises were locked into hardware, operating systems, database platforms, data centers and…