Software companies looking to expand should be aware of the pluses and minuses of platforms. Reading a short interview with the CEO of an ERP vendor can help – “Tech industry might have weathered the storm so far, but challenges… Read more ›
In a story written by Angus Loten, titled “Microsoft’s Focus on Big Customers Propels Cloud Sales”, published on July 23, 2019 by the Wall Street Journal, the writer concludes Microsoft’s pace of signing up tenants for its productivity cloud —… Read more ›
On July 11, 2019 Mike Flasko, Director of Program Management, Information Management & Governance for Microsoft published “Announcing Preview of Azure Data Share”“. As Eldert Grootenboer writes for Infoq Azure Data Share “…provides [organizations] capabilities to share data [internally], as… Read more ›
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… Read more ›
Enterprise technology consumers have made their reluctance clear. In most cases they will not agree to incur the expense and effort required to migrate on-premises computing platforms, like Microsoft SharePoint, to public cloud tenancy. So the ISVs owning the IP… Read more ›
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,… Read more ›
During Oracle’s Q2 2015 earnings conference call, Larry Ellison, Executive Chairman and CTO informed his audience of analysts about the importance of platform as a service, PaaS to Oracle’s strategy to grow its cloud business. Per Ellison, PaaS is the… Read more ›
During Microsoft’s recent Q1 2015 earning conference call, Brent Thill of UBS asked a question at the start of the analyst Q&A. This question provided Satya Nadella with an opportunity to present something about the importance of hybrid cloud computing… Read more ›
As Quentin Hardy wrote in the New York Times Bits column on Monday, April 1, 2012, EMC’s Amazon Challenger Comes Out, EMC is formally introducing “Pivotal”, a new “initiative” in the competitive market for elastic (flexible) computing services and platforms.… Read more ›
