My report on BMC’s Control-M’s recent updates catering to developer is now up, for 451 clients.
The 451 Takes is below:
BMC’s proposition to speed up the batch job process cycle squares with what we tend to see in the mainstream wilds of IT. Cloud and devops are creeping into these shops at a steady pace. These shops often have sophisticated batch job processing at their center – submitting inventory orders, processing HR files, supply chain analytics, or otherwise nightly updating the enterprise state machine to drive decisions and actions in the next business day.
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I still hear CIOs worry that cloud vendor lock-in would let them raise prices. This ruse is used to justify private cloud investments. Even without switching vendors, you will see repeated price reductions for the public cloud systems you are already using. This was the 42nd price cut for AWS, the argument is ridiculous.
Business instincts and intuition are being augmented and increasingly replaced by data analysis as the drivers of success. We’ve seen it at Dell. Our marketing team uncovered more than $310 million in additional revenue last year through the use of advanced analytics. This year, we expect that number to exceed half-a-billion.
Michael Dell, who invested personally in the recent Cloudera mega-round
I am not sure what to conclude from the obvious high level of interest in compiling [.Net] apps for iOS and Android.
Tim Anderson, ever astute and detailed on the Microsoft programming ecosystem
Business instincts and intuition are being augmented and increasingly replaced by data analysis as the drivers of success. We’ve seen it at Dell. Our marketing team uncovered more than $310 million in additional revenue last year through the use of advanced analytics. This year, we expect that number to exceed half-a-billion.
Michael Dell, who invested personally in the recent Cloudera mega-round
I am not sure what to conclude from the obvious high level of interest in compiling [.Net] apps for iOS and Android.
Tim Anderson, ever astute and detailed on the Microsoft programming ecosystem
I still hear CIOs worry that cloud vendor lock-in would let them raise prices. This ruse is used to justify private cloud investments. Even without switching vendors, you will see repeated price reductions for the public cloud systems you are already using. This was the 42nd price cut for AWS, the argument is ridiculous.
AWS opens its desktop as a service to the market, joins the growing DaaS fray (451 Reports)
Our report on Amazon WorkSpaces is up. The full report is available for 451 research clients, but here’s the 451 Take.
When it comes to making things cheap, few companies have the zeal and credibility of Amazon. While new, mostly non-Microsoft devices are rapidly changing and fragmenting the end-user device market, there’s still a palpable need to support existing Windows applications. DaaS seems like a viable ‘green screen’ strategy for supporting these corporate applications on new devices.
AWS opens its desktop as a service to the market, joins the growing DaaS fray (451 Reports)
Our report on Amazon WorkSpaces is up. The full report is available for 451 research clients, but here’s the 451 Take.
When it comes to making things cheap, few companies have the zeal and credibility of Amazon. While new, mostly non-Microsoft devices are rapidly changing and fragmenting the end-user device market, there’s still a palpable need to support existing Windows applications. DaaS seems like a viable ‘green screen’ strategy for supporting these corporate applications on new devices.
Microsoft goes bonkers for cross-platform
With these changes Microsoft has shifted its emphasis from Windows developers building Windows apps via Windows Azure to all developers building all apps via Microsoft Azure – an important distinction and one likely to grow more apparent over the coming months.
It sounds like Build is a nice conference with some dramatic changes from previous Microsoft policy (strong ties to Windows and NIH). To be fair, many bits and pieces on Microsoft have long been “heterogenous,” it just wasn’t emphasized too much as a big deal.