Microsoft Corp. wants to reach annualized revenue of $20 billion in its corporate cloud business in the fiscal year that ends in June 2018.
At the moment, it’s:
The company last week said it has a current run rate of $6.3 billion for the cloud business, which includes its Azure data-center services and cloud versions of Office software and customer management programs.
Microsoft targeting $20bn cloud business by 2018, currently at $6.
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Is OpenStack a Success?
From the data I have seen the number of production OpenStack deployments worldwide in 2014 was on the order of hundreds – not thousands or tens of thousands.
Some criteria for “should I use OpenStack” as well.
Is OpenStack a Success?
The more flexible SOA
“But microservices want to bring you into tomorrow,” says Winterberg. “Microservices add a bit to the category concept, defining a service over all application layers, including the UI. So people already doing SOA may gain a kind of new freedom by adopting microservice ideas.” That freedom includes technology independence and an alternative to aging technologies, because individual services within an application can be gradually swapped out for those based on more-modern technologies, without having to replace the entire application.
The growth story was, like Amazon, all about the cloud.
Ben Thompson on his latest newsletter, on Microsoft’s earnings.
The flywheel go-to-market model
The Flywheel Model differs from the Traditional Model in one fundamental regard. The enterprise sales team is exclusively inbound. They are explicitly denied the option of seeking business outside the customer base, and must gin up business from only existing customers. The enterprise sales team is an up-sell and cross-sell team. In fact, so is the mid-market sales team. Only the SMB marketing team is permitted to acquire new leads.
Survey shows companies want to use IT to drive growth
“The second-most-important category of business priority for 2015 and 2016 is technology related. This is the highest position we have ever seen for technology in this survey and it’s our firm belief that CEOs are more focused on this area than at any time since 1999,” said Mr. Raskino. “When we examine the subtext of the responses, the purpose of CEOs’ interest in technology becomes immediately obvious. Over half of the responses relate to revenue- and growth-related technology issues such as multichannel, e-commerce and m-commerce.
Microservices is a modern take on software architecture, in which complex applications are composed of small, independent processes communicating with each other using APIs. These services are small, highly decoupled and focus on doing a small task. The rise of Docker, the proliferation of third party developer tools and the increasing reliance on the cloud all play into the growth of microservices.
This is the state of IT everywhere
Interesting inquiry with internal IT dept of a major cloud provider that wants to use AWS, and not their own company’s cloud service.
Old ways - and here, new! - of doing service management are just not cutting it.
This is the state of IT everywhere
There’s a leap once he starts talking about crotches, but the rest is pretty interesting and helpful for thinking through making resilliant businesses.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
How the pull nature of open source changes your partner strategy
In answering what Red Hat has to offer partners, CEO Jim Whitehurst says:
So when we talk about containers, we talk about, here’s how, if a customer wants to implement containers, you can offer solutions to help them do that. And when we want to talk about OpenStack, well, here’s how you can offer an OpenStack solution in a supported way to run production applications. Here’s how you can actually deliver products and services around DevOps with our OpenShift and PaaS offerings.