Marketing, Promotion & Sales Consulting for Business

IMB Enterprises, Inc., Huntington, NY 11746 +1 (631) 673-2929, imblonder@imbenterprises.com

azure

Perhaps accurate metrics on the extent of cloud adoption are not important

A lot has been made over the last few weeks about a skew between Microsoft's announcements about sales of cloud SaaS and PaaS subscriptions to enterprise business and the extent to which these subscriptions are actually used. For any readers unfamiliar with the current chatter about Microsoft on ...

Ira Michael Blonder
4 years ago

Microsoft and its partners continue efforts to take down obstacles to wider cloud adoption by enterprise business

Rackspace, a leading provider of managed services to enterprise businesses, reported earnings on February 17, 2015. Some remarks from its CEO, Taylor Rhodes, point to what maybe a promising indicator of enterprise business moving towards increased use of cloud IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services. Micro...

Ira Michael Blonder
4 years ago

IBM introduces a new mainframe computer targeted to some markets better served by clusters of smaller servers

IBM debuted its z Systems line of mainframe computers in January, 2015. The product line is targeted to a hot segment of enterprise computing consumers, organizations with a burning need to manage mobile devices, users availing of cloud computing offers and, above all, secure online data processi...

Ira Michael Blonder
4 years ago

Microsoft publishes an enormous amount of content from TechEd Europe 2014

In yet another gesture towards app developers and their stakeholders, Microsoft is rapidly publishing a very large amount of video content from its recently concluded TechEd Europe 2014 event. All of the content can be found on the Tech Ed Europe 2014 web site. As of the date of this post, Saturd...

Ira Michael Blonder
4 years ago

Microsoft Provides Incentives for iOS and Android App Developers to Implement Xamarin with Visual Studio as their Platform

iOS and Android App Developers comfortable building solutions with C# should consider adopting Xamarin with Visual Studio as their coding platform. Microsoft is offering some financial incentives for these early stage ISVs to adopt Xamarin. Additional information about these incentives can be fou...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Microsoft Differentiates Its Azure Offers via Acquisitions

In the aftermath of the public release of Amazon's most recent quarterly earnings report, analysts have focused on price and margin reductions for its Amazon Web Services (AWS) product line. Microsoft's Azure is a competitor of Amazon AWS, but, per Microsoft's most recent quarterly earnings repor...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Microsoft’s Enterprise Mobility Suite Quickly Magnetizes Interest from Enterprise IT

Microsoft® debuted its Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) in May of this year. During the Microsoft Q4 2014 Earnings Conference Call, Satya Nadella, CEO, referred to this product as a "high value service [running] on top of our base cloud infrastructure". Readers may want to take some time to re...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Microsoft Acquires InMage and Adds Another Dimension to Its Hybrid Cloud Storage Offer

Microsoft publicly announced its purchase of InMage on July 11, 2014. With this purchase Microsoft adds another solution to its growing list of answers for enterprise businesses migrating to a hybrid computing architecture built with on premises and cloud IaaS, SaaS components. The other product ...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Are Valuations of Cloud IaaS Offers Too High?

Are valuations of Amazon, Google and even Microsoft too high as the result of overly optimistic revenue growth assumptions for GCE, AWS and Azure? A brief look at why the value of any one of these offers may elude SMBs, reveals why inflated expectations may be at play here. Reason #1: Marketing C...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago

Is Google’s Compute Engine (GCE) a Direct Competitor to AWS or Microsoft Azure?

Google publicly introduced its Google Compute Engine (GCE) as an actual product back in December 2013. A lot has been written about GCE since its debut, with specific reference to this product as a direct competitor to Amazon AWS. But the lack of support for any Windows O/Ss, databases, etc (at l...

Ira Michael Blonder
5 years ago