Tag: microsoft
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Trying Times for Tech – “Microsoft is trying to socialise the costs of its AI investments because people largely don’t care about AI and don’t want to pay for it. Microsoft really doesn’t want The Line to notice how little demand there is for AI and would prefer to force customers to pay back the…
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Cloud market share shows vendors eyeing a $1T opportunity – “the revenue shares for our eight cloud companies in the combined IaaS/PaaS cloud market at nearly $300 billion projected for 2024. AWS has 36% of this combined market, Microsoft 23% and Google 7%. Alibaba, Oracle Tencent Huawei and IBM combine for around 14% of the…
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That time when Microsoft bought and killed Nokia phone unit – “Barely two years after it was announced, the whole thing fell apart and Microsoft wrote the whole thing off as a tax loss.” And: “Elop was right, but his solution wasn’t.” // “Disruption” is an easy word to say, but a very difficult one…
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IBM takes on AWS, Google, and Microsoft with Watsonx – If it works, it lets enterprises build up huge, custom trained models, and it has enough governance controls, it’d be a big deal for IBM. They key things learned from ChatGPT is that it has to be super easy, frictionless to get started with. That’s…
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Maximizing ROI: The Key to Successful Enterprise Software Company Acquisitions
In Enterprise Software, the Synergy is Sales In my experience, when a tech larger company acquires a smaller one, the most important synergy is sales. “Synergy” in my use just means “the things that make the two companies more money because they are now one.” In enterprise software (or cloud, or whatever), this means changing…
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🗂 Link: VMware emulates 1990s Microsoft, builds a horizontally integrated IT portfolio
Source: VMware emulates 1990s Microsoft, builds a horizontally integrated IT portfolio
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Link: Microsoft milestone: Tech giant’s cloud revenue now matches traditional products, analyst says
“We estimate that FY 4Q 19 was the first time MSFT generated as much revenue from running software in its own data centers, including cloud offerings like Azure and Office 365, as well as LinkedIn, Bing, GitHub and Xbox-Live, as it did from software licenses and upgrades, hardware and professional services,” according to the note…
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Link: Microsoft, Red Hat Partner on OpenShift
The OpenShift-Azure deal extends collaboration between Microsoft and Red Hat that includes the addition of Microsoft SQL server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The deal signaled Microsoft’s embrace of OpenShift application container management. The expanded partnership also gives OpenShift users access to public cloud services such as Azure Cosmos and SQL databases along with cloud-based…
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🗂 Microsoft signs cloud deal with Albertsons
Cleaning up that grocery store game. www.cnbc.com/2019/01/2…
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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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Link: Container Orchestration Market – Global Forecast to 2023, from Research and Markets
The global container orchestration market size is expected to grow from USD 326.1 million in 2018 to USD 743.3 million by 2023, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 17.9% during the forecast period. Composed of: SUSE, Oracle, Microsoft, Red Hat, AWS, Google, Docker, Mesosphere, Rancher Labs, Cisco, Critical Stack, Giant Swarm, Ericsson, Aptible,…
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Link: Walmart pick Microsoft Azure for cloud
“Walmart plans to deploy Microsoft’s machine-learning, artificial-intelligence and other services to help employees, for example, pick products that go on shelves and optimize the performance of freezers and other equipment. The retailer is aggressively cutting costs as it invests in growing sales online, and it is using tech to analyze its operations, an area of…
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Link: Microsoft’s Container Strategy Continues To Evolve
Overview of Microsoft’s history with containers, in Windows. Original source: Microsoft’s Container Strategy Continues To Evolve
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Link: Happy 10th birthday, Evernote: You have survived Google and Microsoft. For your next challenge…
Original source: Happy 10th birthday, Evernote: You have survived Google and Microsoft. For your next challenge…
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Link: CIOs planning to snub Oracle for other cloudy vendors – analyst
“Murphy has told clients that a survey of 154 CIOs revealed negative spending intentions towards Oracle, with CNBC reporting that his note said just 2 per cent of respondents said Oracle was their most integral vendor for cloud computing. In contrast, 27 per cent chose Microsoft and 12 per cent opted for Oracle CTO Larry…
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Link: The Cost of Developers
That’s a lot of money. “on the other side of the spectrum, purely enterprise-focused companies like IBM or Oracle would be tempted to wring every possible bit of profit out of the company…. What Microsoft wants is much fuzzier: it wants to be developers’ friend, in large part because it has no other option.” Original…
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Link: The Kubernetes ‘fork’: Open source purists miss the point | InfoWorld
“Enterprises want stuff that works. As much as we in the open source world chatter and fret about vendor lockin, enterprises have demonstrated a remarkable ability to shrug off that concern and buy deeply into Microsoft, Oracle, and, yes, Red Hat’s OpenShift.” Original source: The Kubernetes ‘fork’: Open source purists miss the point | InfoWorld
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Link: Microsoft sees Red …Hat for OpenShift-on-Azure public cloud offering
‘Rollout of the partnership will occur in two phases, with Azure support for OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Azure and Azure Stack available now. The jointly managed OpenShift on Azure project is slated to go into its preview phase “in the coming months.”’ Original source: Microsoft sees Red …Hat for OpenShift-on-Azure…
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Link: Innovation at the edge: the top air defence trends by domain
“Software company Pivotal, backed by Dell EMC, VMWare, GE, Microsoft and Ford, has developed a tanker refuelling solution for the USAF with the US Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx); Running on the firm’s Pivotal Cloud Foundry platform, the software solution was built for under $2m in 90 days and is now being used in operational…
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