Category: BigCo
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Outlook is a good, mobile email client
And, when I actually think about what is going on, I’m using Microsoft Outlook on my Apple iPhone to read my Google Gmail. I’ve used it since back when it was Acompli. It’s good stuff! I’m looking forward to the desktop Outlook working well in OS X (I run the preview and last I checked…
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Microsoft targeting $20bn cloud business by 2018, currently at $6.3bn run rate
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…
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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,…
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The growth story was, like Amazon, all about the cloud. Ben Thompson on his latest newsletter, on Microsoft’s earnings.
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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…
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Multi-cloud
“At least half of the calls I take are clients that are either actively planning or are already actively deploying a multi-provider strategy,” said Mindy Cancila, an analyst with Gartner, Inc. based in Stamford, Conn. “I believe most organizations are going to end up with more than one public cloud provider, whether they realize it…
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Good journalism takes money. If you are made to pay, it’s to serve you better and please you
The advertisements will be a little bigger, too, and my advice is for you not to complain, but to engage with our sponsors, who pay the bills around this joint and who make our strategic, tactical, and technical material possible. I’m a fan of everything TPM writes, he’s excellent and his coverage is always deep…
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Big data: we’ll get to that real soon, honest!
About 73 percent of organizations in a survey of 302 Gartner partners said they’re investing or planning to invest in big data technologies and services this past June. However, 13 percent have actually deployed those solutions. That figure, for organizations planning to invest in the next two years, is up from 64 percent in 2013…
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Coté Memo #047: Selling a \”platform\” is one of the more difficult tech marketing tasks you’ll ever do
# Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #047. Today we have 52 subscribers, so we’re +/-0. I should write more awesome stuff to get more sign-ups! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. (If you’re reading this on the web, [you should subscribe](http://coteindustries.com/memo) to get the daily email.) See [past newsletters…
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The answer, Sacconaghi thinks, is a bunch of things: CEOs and their CIOs don’t believe in IT value as much today as they used to, even though they do still believe in it; factors such as commoditization have led to deflation in IT prices; customers are hesitant because various new ‘architectures” such as cloud computing,…
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More on the Compuware go private plan, APM
Sell more APM, grow marketshare, probably over at 4-5 year term: The APM market is fragmented. We are the only APM vendor with more than 10 percent share. We can’t reach our potential without joining forces with the channel. No APM vendor has more than 20 percent share, and we aim to change that. If…
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Hardware is the price variable
With EVO, VMware is pitting the hardware vendors against each other for deals that will likely involve hundreds to thousands of nodes in large enterprises, and the competition will drive down hardware prices and therefore the overall price of the EVO solution. If hardware costs less than it might otherwise without such pressure, that extra…
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Facebook ads don’t work too well for \”enterprise\” types
> I am going to sound incredibly churlish here but why on earth Lionel Messi could possibly like our stuff is well beyond my imagination. Flattering though it might be. The same goes for the 20 year career short order cook who posts cat pictures, the retired person who joined Facebook last week, the nurse…
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The “Enterprise Cloud”
Early on, vendors who wanted to compete with AWS would speak to the idea of an “enterprise cloud.” All the US Federal activity that AWS had been up to – including that $600m private cloud for the CIA – seems to nullify most of that. I think what will be more important is targeting the…
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The email iron grip
First, Microsoft and other vendors like IBM still have a tight grip on the largest companies. Gartner analyst Tom Eid—who predicts that enterprise email alone will be a $5 billion global industry this year, growing about 10% from last year—confirms this. He estimates that Microsoft still commands 75% of the market’s spending, versus about 3%…
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Let’s take \”enterprise\” out of the parking lot
> Rather than build out your next Instagram or SnapChat knock-off, consider disrupting 30 years of clunky software with horrendous user interfaces. The office-drone masses will bless you for it. [Let’s take “enterprise” out of the parking lot](http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteenterprise/~3/3C0X6UX3cc8/enterprise-tech-boom-cool-to-be-boring)
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Amazon 2014Q2 marginalia
I took a look at Amazon’s recent earnings call transcript. Not as details-rich as CA’s, and more widely covered, but some little bits and pieces here. See the stand-alone HTML file in my dropbox share, and the raw markdown file if you prefer that. I’m still looking for a better way to render there if…
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Three screens
Microsoft shot for consistency with Metro, putting the square interface on its tablets, phones and PCs under something it called three-screens and the cloud. Yet Microsoft was wrong to lump PC users in with device users, as it turned out neither customers nor developers wanted Metro on their PC – they hated it. There is…
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It’s hard to know what’s really running in all them clouds
I just keep getting questioned: “What’s big in cloud and what’s really happening?” You see people saying the cloud market is a hundred bazillion whatever, most of it unsubstantiated. When you drill in, you find they were making numbers up, top down. Enterprise markets are trillions and trillions, so it’s got to be some percentage…
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Things are going bonkers in the cloud orchistration, cluster management space
Recently we have seen Docker cluster management projects appearing which are predominantly focused on managing clusters in a single provider’s environment. Clocker is designed to deploy and manage Docker clusters in a portable and cloud provider agnostic way. Clocker can even be used on-premise exploiting an enterprise’s virtual or private cloud environment. Along with things…
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