“For Q2, AWS brought in $1.82bn in revenue, which was 81.5 per cent higher than in the second quarter of 2014. The division’s operating income, on the other hand, was $391m, a 407.8 per cent annual gain.” Shamefaced Amazon admits to actually MAKING MONEY as cloud biz blooms

Accenture makes third digital acquisition in a month – buys Chaotic Moon

DevOps Gaining Traction In The Enterprise

A few weeks back I was on a panel for a Solarwinds conference (done all online, in Solarwinds style, of course). Check out the recording a above (or just a 1 minute excerpt if you don’t have time). There’s also an article covering the discussion. For some reason we started talking a lot about QA, which was odd, but turned out to be interesting. The audience for this was made up of Solarwinds custoners who are not exactly the types in charge of managing custom written software (my primary criteria for “should you care about DevOps), but from the live-chat there were some…and a pretty broad interest in the topic, in addition to complaining about Windows patching and n00bz users.

“By making Bluemix available this way, IBM will equip the developers of tomorrow with the capabilities and skills to join the workforce and create enterprise-class cloud applications at consumer scale, the firm said.” IBM open sources apps in the cloud to boost software development

Shows declining revenue for tech giants. Cisco CEO: ‘Brutal’ Times For IT Coming - Business Insider

“One of our biggest assets … is that we’re highly compatible with what you already have, so we focus solely on .NET and Java. They’re the two most important stacks within the enterprise.” Apprenda Raises $24 Million, Makes Added Container Support a Priority

Dell is closely studying the EMC playbook

Little check-in on IBM cloud strategy with OpenStack, Cloud Foundry, and misc.: “Perhaps more importantly IBM was explicitly positioning to the effect that not all workloads are Cloud Native, 12-Factor etc. Enterprise developers are not used to building or running stateless apps.” IBM Cloud: it’s the infrastructure, stupid

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