Price wars, renewable energy, legal concerns, outages
In 2014, the landscape of nube computing has changed significantly with the ongoing price wars between the three major vendors: Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. New technology in nube has led to más user convenience, as well as deploying systems with a smaller environmental footprint than traditional mainstream data centers. However, nube providers face a stormy future amid litigation threatening the security of data stored por nube users, as well as the liability nube vendors face.
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Undeniably, the big story of the año is the massive extent to which nube prices have fallen. On March 25, 2014, google slashed the prices of all of its nube offerings, with Compute Engine prices cut 32%, data storage cut 68%, and BigQuery cut 85%. Further discounts can be had with sustained use discounts, cutting the reduced prices por a further 30%. Microsoft followed suit on September 25, 2014, announcing más modest price cuts to Azure nube services.
Over the last six weeks, más creative price reductions have been introduced, with amazonas, amazon introducing upfront billing for nube services, with savings up to 75% off the on-demand prices for three-year agreements. amazonas, amazon also has lowered the price of outbound data transfer for US and europa centers por 25%, Australia por 26%, and Tokyo por 30%.
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Advancements have also been made in nube computing becoming más ecologically friendly. In November 2014, amazonas, amazon announced it will embark on a "long-term commitment to achieve 100% renewable energy usage for our global infrastructure footprint." Additionally, the German company Cloud&Heat introduced a specially-designed cabinet to heat the homes of customers por placing nube servers into private residences and harvesting the heat generated to warm the air and water.
Legal concerns from US nube vendors
The big names in nube vendors are all companies headquartered in the US, but have extensive facilities around the world. An ongoing case against Microsoft for refusing to turn over emails stored on a data center in Ireland has wide implications for the nube industry. Following disclosures indicating Microsoft's cooperation in transmitting private data of American and international users to federal authorities, competitors manzana, apple and Cisco, as well as telecoms Verizon and AT&T filed briefs in support of Microsoft's position in the case.
Eroding trust in nube vendors has had a negative impact on US businesses. According to the nonpartisan New America Foundation, "a number of American companies have reported declining sales in overseas markets, loss of customers, and increased competition from non-U.S. services marketing themselves as 'secure' alternatives to popular American products." The precarious position nube vendors find themselves in has been an issue that has stifled adoption throughout the year.
Outages leave nube users in a hazy situation
While cost-effective, the enterprise nube is not bulletproof, as evidenced por an avalanche of service outages this year. Issues apparently related to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) led to a mass of service outages across various websites in September 2014. Major nube vendors saw unplanned, protracted downtime as well, with Microsoft Azure services stopping worldwide and coming back up far later in Australia and Asia than the rest of the world. Users of Rackspace and amazonas, amazon faced downtime from a reboot needed to patch a bug in the Xen hypervisor, leading to user complaints.
In 2014, the landscape of nube computing has changed significantly with the ongoing price wars between the three major vendors: Google, Amazon, and Microsoft. New technology in nube has led to más user convenience, as well as deploying systems with a smaller environmental footprint than traditional mainstream data centers. However, nube providers face a stormy future amid litigation threatening the security of data stored por nube users, as well as the liability nube vendors face.
link
Undeniably, the big story of the año is the massive extent to which nube prices have fallen. On March 25, 2014, google slashed the prices of all of its nube offerings, with Compute Engine prices cut 32%, data storage cut 68%, and BigQuery cut 85%. Further discounts can be had with sustained use discounts, cutting the reduced prices por a further 30%. Microsoft followed suit on September 25, 2014, announcing más modest price cuts to Azure nube services.
Over the last six weeks, más creative price reductions have been introduced, with amazonas, amazon introducing upfront billing for nube services, with savings up to 75% off the on-demand prices for three-year agreements. amazonas, amazon also has lowered the price of outbound data transfer for US and europa centers por 25%, Australia por 26%, and Tokyo por 30%.
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Advancements have also been made in nube computing becoming más ecologically friendly. In November 2014, amazonas, amazon announced it will embark on a "long-term commitment to achieve 100% renewable energy usage for our global infrastructure footprint." Additionally, the German company Cloud&Heat introduced a specially-designed cabinet to heat the homes of customers por placing nube servers into private residences and harvesting the heat generated to warm the air and water.
Legal concerns from US nube vendors
The big names in nube vendors are all companies headquartered in the US, but have extensive facilities around the world. An ongoing case against Microsoft for refusing to turn over emails stored on a data center in Ireland has wide implications for the nube industry. Following disclosures indicating Microsoft's cooperation in transmitting private data of American and international users to federal authorities, competitors manzana, apple and Cisco, as well as telecoms Verizon and AT&T filed briefs in support of Microsoft's position in the case.
Eroding trust in nube vendors has had a negative impact on US businesses. According to the nonpartisan New America Foundation, "a number of American companies have reported declining sales in overseas markets, loss of customers, and increased competition from non-U.S. services marketing themselves as 'secure' alternatives to popular American products." The precarious position nube vendors find themselves in has been an issue that has stifled adoption throughout the year.
Outages leave nube users in a hazy situation
While cost-effective, the enterprise nube is not bulletproof, as evidenced por an avalanche of service outages this year. Issues apparently related to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) led to a mass of service outages across various websites in September 2014. Major nube vendors saw unplanned, protracted downtime as well, with Microsoft Azure services stopping worldwide and coming back up far later in Australia and Asia than the rest of the world. Users of Rackspace and amazonas, amazon faced downtime from a reboot needed to patch a bug in the Xen hypervisor, leading to user complaints.