Category: BigCo
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🗂 Insiders say that Google’s new cloud boss is likely to make some very large acquisitions
Financial analysis of in wild with bizarre predictions. It’s hard to see synergies worth paying for in GCP owning Atlassian or ServiceNow. GCP is infrastructure. Plus, sounds like Google staff throw up resistance to buying old school companies: > In the months before IBM’s mega-deal, Greene formed a close relationship with the Red Hat team,…
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🗂 Some high-profile wins at Microsoft of late, in retail
> The customer win is another example of retailers choosing cloud vendors that are not Amazon. Microsoft last week announced a retail-as-a-service (RaaS) partnership with Kroger, with the super market giant splitting its cloud investments between Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Walmart is also partnering with Microsoft, with the retailer and frequent Amazon foe signing…
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🗂 Is this the future of retail? We checked out the new high-tech store from Microsoft and Kroger
You use an in-store device or you phone to scan items to buy: > The speed is most visible when a shopper calls up an item on her pre-determined shopping list and is guided to the exact aisle and shelf position of that item. As the shopper gets within range, of say, the jar of…
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🗂 COTS kills container cornucopia
> Where we are today, we have quite a bit of package software that we customize. And so we are paying license fee for a product that we can’t even get serviced on because it’s so customized. And so we have the worst of both situations and we have to work our way out of…
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🗂 You wait for one IT giant to show up with its sales figures, then two come at once: Red Hat, Oracle
Still swinging: > “Jeff Bezos gave the command, ‘I want to get off the Oracle database.’ And they’ve been working on this for a few years to try to get off Oracle Database, and get on to the Amazon databases. It’s taken Amazon, which is dedicated to doing this, several years, and they are not…
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🗂 Cloud Comfort Level is Growing, Survey Finds
> Cloud Foundry Foundation reported that more than 50 percent of companies it surveyed are developing at least 60 percent of their applications on cloud platform. That total is up sharply—13 percent—from the group’s last survey released in March. Demographics: > ClearPath Strategies conducted this wave of quantitative research as part of the Global Perception…
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VMware uses NSX for Istio
> The microservice architecture, which breaks complex applications into sets of single-purpose networked components, can be a challenge to manage, as each microservice must be instrumented, secured and locatable in a dynamically reconfiguring network. In addition, multiple copies of microservices may be run in parallel, to meet the demands of a growing demand. Their traffic…
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Rethinking Enterprise Architecture
In the cloud, DevOps, agile, whatever is hot and new era, the role of enterprise architects is rarely addressed. There’s probably plenty useful for them to do still. I’ve been trying to figure out what those things are recently. Also, see the slides, which are usually more up-to-date. There’s also a recording from DevOpsDays Charlotte.
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Multi-Cloud Begets Confusion, Calls for Automation
One reason is confusion over how enterprises define multi-cloud: Just over half of those polled defined it as including a combination of either public or private clouds along with on-premise infrastructure. (That is also a widely accepted definition of “hybrid clouds”.) Meanwhile, 23 percent of respondents said multi-cloud includes all three: public and private clouds…
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Big Ben spycraft
Each news programme opened with a live broadcast of Big Ben tolling the hour –the magical sound of freedom. Ingenious German physicists found a way to determine the weather conditions in London based on tiny differences in the tone of the broadcast ding-dongs. This information offered invaluable help to the Luftwaffe. When the British Secret…
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Platforms are hard to sell, apps easier
Kevin Ichhpurani, executive vice president of global ecosystem and channels at GE Digital, and corporate officer of GE, told CRN during GE’s Minds and Machines conference in San Francisco last week that channel partners will have more success developing and selling applications around IoT, as opposed to grappling with the long and complex sales cycle…
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Telstra speeds up its release cycles with all the great cloud native stuff
According to Telstra, in some cases, its software development time has decreased from 6-8 months to 10-12 weeks through its work with Pivotal, More on how widespread it is: Telstra has moved 100 of its internal teams to Pivotal’s agile software development platform since partnering with the enterprise software company two years ago, with the…
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Fidelity’s cloud native stacks
“The company builds its apps in Docker containers. Apps that need to stay on the company’s premises run on an OpenStack private cloud. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are used for public cloud. Fidelity uses a combination of cloud-native management tools like CloudFormation for AWS, Heat templates for OpenStack, and Terraforms, which runs across…
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Companies that loose billions have a hard time being successful
How all these unprofitable companies sustaining high valuations: bending reality today has three elements: a vision, fast growth, and financing. But: A few firms other than Amazon have defied the odds. Over the past 20 years Las Vegas Sands, a casino firm, Royal Caribbean, a cruise-line company, and Micron Technology, a chip-maker, each lost $1bn…
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ScienceLogic momentum
The company targets very large users, with 60% of its customers being MSPs, followed by enterprises at about 30%, and the rest coming from government agencies. It doesn’t report the number of direct customers, but its website boasts 47,000 organizations as users, many of them employing ScienceLogic via service providers. Average annual contract value for…
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What is Microsoft Doing?
Paying premium bucks to hire influencers for the big cloud migration wars. Source: What is Microsoft Doing?
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The Serverless Revolution Will Make Us All Developers
Consider the case of the connected cows. The grand unified, cloud/AI/IoT/serverless theory: That was the essence of the Build keynote: The cloud interprets IoT telemetry, in real time, with AI. And that AI can, in turn, instruct other IoT devices to do things based on its interpretation. Source: The Serverless Revolution Will Make Us All…
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Oracle Emulates Google, AWS On Its Cloud
Oracle all over that public kubernetes service. Source: Oracle Emulates Google, AWS On Its Cloud
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TIBCO agrees to acquire Cisco’s data virtualization business – 451
The details of the acquisition were not disclosed, but we would be surprised if Cisco made back any of the $180m it paid for Composite Software in 2013. Cisco did at least manage to grow the data virtualization business during its ownership. The company told us in September 2016 that it had 250 paying customers…
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AWS’s private cloud stuff to day, plus VMware
Good round-up of AWS’s private cloud stuff: AWS added on-premises support to its CodeDeploy continuous-delivery service in 2015. AWS introduced the Snowball storage server companies could use to copy data and then ship it to the cloud in 2015. AWS added on-premises support to its EC2 Run Command tool for running shell scripts on many…
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