Liftr Look Ahead: AMD Launches 2nd Gen. EPYC
What Happened? AMD launched its second-generation EPYC server processor with cloud support from Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Twitter; OEM server support from Dell Technologies,…
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Liftr Insights
Liftr Insights is a global industry research and advisory service. Liftr Insights’ Internet-attached infrastructure market intelligence enables technology investors, designers, manufacturers, channels and customers to make informed business and financial decisions for their respective organizations.
Objective, data-driven, monthly cloud insights
We Measure and Analyze Cloud Infrastructure
Liftr Insights’ Liftr Cloud Component Tracker service specializes in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), including bare metal deployments. We measure, track and analyze:
We answer the question “Which compute instances are deployed, where and what is in them?” We identify and catalog processor and accelerator prices, types and configurations, including CPU, GPU, FPGA, TPU and newer accelerator technologies as they deploy into public cloud service provider (CSP) datacenters.
We compare CSP offerings across a spectrum of relevant metrics. We even run daily social media sentiment analysis on the clouds we track to analyze what’s important to IT customers.
We use modern DevOps-based data collection to research cloud technologies, cloud services and cloud industry trends. We deliver automated real-time insights, analysis and hard data about specific cloud service providers and the cloud industry overall to enterprise IT, the cloud ecosystem and investors.
We Measure and Analyze Cloud Infrastructure
Liftr Insights’ Liftr Cloud Component Tracker service specializes in Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), including bare metal deployments. We measure, track and analyze:
We answer the question “Which compute instances are deployed, where and what is in them?” We identify and catalog processor and accelerator prices, types and configurations, including CPU, GPU, FPGA, TPU and newer accelerator technologies as they deploy into public cloud service provider (CSP) datacenters.
We compare CSP offerings across a spectrum of relevant metrics. We collect industry data and aggregate that data into eight “attributes”, including marketplace size, regional presence, reliability and security. We even run daily social media sentiment analysis on the clouds we track to analyze what’s important to IT customers.
We use modern DevOps-based data collection to research cloud technologies, cloud services and cloud industry trends. We deliver automated real-time insights, analysis and hard data about specific cloud service providers and the cloud industry overall to enterprise IT, the cloud ecosystem and investors.
Cloud Insight is Not Optional
You need objective advice that cuts through the chaos and future promises. Liftr Insights delivers dependable, objective advice about the state of cloud infrastructure now and what to realistically expect from cloud infrastructure in your planning timeframe.
For IT-as-a-Service Professionals
You run an in-house IT organization. You know that IT is becoming a service. Not all of your IT needs to be in the cloud, but you know you need to implement private cloud for your baseline on premises needs. That means also creating a public cloud migration plan. If you are a government IT shop, chances are you have the mandate to move to the cloud. Either way, how can you ensure that your internal customers will trust that you have a sound plan? Do you have the tools to optimize your cloud migration strategy and individual app migration plans in real-time?
For the Cloud Supply Chain
You are a technology supplier to cloud service providers. You know how fast your competitive field is moving. You know what you are shipping, but your competitive arena is expanding and moving as fast as you are. Your current market data sources can’t give you the resolution you need on technology deployment in the cloud at the cadence you need. How can you react competitively when you only get quarterly survey data two months after the end of each quarter? Plus, your cloud customers may be promoting several of your competitors at the same time they are promoting you. How can you keep your investors and customers objectively up-to-date on how successful you’ve been in the cloud?
For Cloud Service Providers
As a cloud service provider, you know what’s in your cloud and what your supply chain is trying to sell you. If you are a larger provider, you may even implement some of your own competitive intelligence. But your internal competitive intelligence is resource- and budget- constrained and may not be getting a complete picture. Is there an industry source that is objectively measuring your progress against your competitors at the speed you are innovating? And if you are not a top-tier cloud service provider, do you have a chance of getting into that competitive matrix?
For Technology Investors
You manage millions and possibly billions of dollars of investment capital. You are sifting through the same quarterly earnings and quarterly industry analyst reports as everyone else for cloud industry success vectors. That’s not giving your long-range predictive models an edge. Your analytics team has already embraced DevOps and is deep into machine learning. Where can you find objective, real-time cloud industry telemetry, and insight to enhance your models and decision making?
Cloud Insight is Not Optional
You need objective advice that cuts through the chaos and future promises. Liftr Insights delivers dependable, objective advice about the state of cloud infrastructure now and what to realistically expect from cloud infrastructure in your planning timeframe.
For IT-as-a-Service Professionals
You run an in-house IT organization. You know that IT is becoming a service. Not all of your IT needs to be in the cloud, but you know you need to implement private cloud for your baseline on premises needs. That means also creating a public cloud migration plan. If you are a government IT shop, chances are you have the mandate to move to the cloud. Either way, how can you ensure that your internal customers will trust that you have a sound plan? Do you have the tools to optimize your cloud migration strategy and individual app migration plans in real-time?
For the Cloud Supply Chain
You are a technology supplier to cloud service providers. You know how fast your competitive field is moving. You know what you are shipping, but your competitive arena is expanding and moving as fast as you are. Your current market data sources can’t give you the resolution you need on technology deployment in the cloud at the cadence you need. How can you react competitively when you only get quarterly survey data two months after the end of each quarter? Plus, your cloud customers may be promoting several of your competitors at the same time they are promoting you. How can you keep your investors and customers objectively up-to-date on how successful you’ve been in the cloud?
For Cloud Service Providers
As a cloud service provider, you know what’s in your cloud and what your supply chain is trying to sell you. If you are a larger provider, you may even implement some of your own competitive intelligence. But your internal competitive intelligence is resource- and budget- constrained and may not be getting a complete picture. Is there an industry source that is objectively measuring your progress against your competitors at the speed you are innovating? And if you are not a top-tier cloud service provider, do you have a chance of getting into that competitive matrix?
For Technology Investors
You manage millions and possibly billions of dollars of investment capital. You are sifting through the same quarterly earnings and quarterly industry analyst reports as everyone else for cloud industry success vectors. That’s not giving your long-range predictive models an edge. Your analytics team has already embraced DevOps and is deep into machine learning. Where can you find objective, real-time cloud industry telemetry, and insight to enhance your models and decision making?
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Liftr Cloud Components Tracker
The Liftr Cloud Components Tracker identifies and catalogs the prices, configurations, and components of all the IaaS and bare-metal compute instances being deployed by tracked cloud service providers by region.
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Deep Dives into Hot Cloud Topics
Liftr Cloud Patterns
Liftr Cloud Patterns are topical, stand-alone reports that leverage data and insights from our subscription services for an in-depth treatment of a specific topic.
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