Earlier this week VMware announced it’s Desktop-as-Service (DaaS) offering, building on-top of the recently acquired Desktone asset. I have a 451 report for clients up. Here’s the 451 Take: VMware is launching a desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) offering at an appropriate time, both beating Amazon to the 1.0 punch and playing into key trends that seem to be giving virtual desktops a new breath of life. There’s been a steady increase in the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, tightly coupled with the fragmentation of the PC market brought on by mobility: tablets, Apple and Android – not to mention the continued spread of the Web as a major ‘platform.

Earlier this week VMware announced it’s Desktop-as-Service (DaaS) offering, building on-top of the recently acquired Desktone asset. I have a 451 report for clients up. Here’s the 451 Take: VMware is launching a desktop-as-a-service (DaaS) offering at an appropriate time, both beating Amazon to the 1.0 punch and playing into key trends that seem to be giving virtual desktops a new breath of life. There’s been a steady increase in the bring-your-own-device (BYOD) trend, tightly coupled with the fragmentation of the PC market brought on by mobility: tablets, Apple and Android – not to mention the continued spread of the Web as a major ‘platform.

Kay said that on average, partners that have made the transition to the cloud early with IBM are seeing accelerated revenue growth of 2.5 times the average with the cloud In theory, the cloud abhors middleman. We’ll see. Cloud partnering and channel stuff, according to IBM

Kay said that on average, partners that have made the transition to the cloud early with IBM are seeing accelerated revenue growth of 2.5 times the average with the cloud In theory, the cloud abhors middleman. We’ll see. Cloud partnering and channel stuff, according to IBM

Some pundits may argue that it is also going up against Amazon Web Services, but this is not the case: at around 5,000 Intel-powered Dell and SuperMicro servers the company fields around five percent of Rackspace’s fleet, and at most one per cent of Amazon’s. … This funding caps off a period of torrential growth for the company. In January 2013, it had about 2,000 customers and by the end of the year it was closer to 100,000, Uretsky said.

Some pundits may argue that it is also going up against Amazon Web Services, but this is not the case: at around 5,000 Intel-powered Dell and SuperMicro servers the company fields around five percent of Rackspace’s fleet, and at most one per cent of Amazon’s. … This funding caps off a period of torrential growth for the company. In January 2013, it had about 2,000 customers and by the end of the year it was closer to 100,000, Uretsky said.

One of my collegues at 451 asked if I’d be interested in taking over his column at The Register. Of course I would, that’s only about my favorite news outlet ever. My first column is up now, all about what feels to me like the re-emergence of the developer market (tools and middleware), a theme I’ve been puttering about with at 451 for those who’ve been following along. Here’s the last bit of the column:

Office 365 is already leading the charge, with a 500 percent increase in active online users over the past year and already a $1.5 billion-a-year business, making it the fastest growing commercial product in Microsoft’s history (an accolade previously held by Sharepoint). From over at Diginomica. Big growth for Office 365, the $1.5B business

Office 365 is already leading the charge, with a 500 percent increase in active online users over the past year and already a $1.5 billion-a-year business, making it the fastest growing commercial product in Microsoft’s history (an accolade previously held by Sharepoint). From over at Diginomica. Big growth for Office 365, the $1.5B business

Office 365 is already leading the charge, with a 500 percent increase in active online users over the past year and already a $1.5 billion-a-year business, making it the fastest growing commercial product in Microsoft’s history (an accolade previously held by Sharepoint). From over at Diginomica. Big growth for Office 365, the $1.5B business