By R "Ray" Wang on September 26, 2016
Adobe Move To Azure Signals Closer Partnerships Ahead On September 26th, 2016 at the Microsoft Ignite conference in Atlanta, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, and Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, announced a strategic partnership between the two companies. Constellation sees the announcement from three points of view: Adobe makes Microsoft Azure the preferred cloud platform. Adobe intends […]
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By Louis Columbus on September 19, 2016
As of Q2, 2016 Microsoft Azure has achieved 100% year-over-year revenue growth and now has the 2nd largest market share of the Cloud Infrastructure Services market according to Synergy Research. Microsoft’s FY16 Q4 earnings show that Azure attained 102% revenue growth in the latest fiscal year and computing usage more than doubling year-over-year. 451 Research […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon AWS, Amazon Web Services, analytics, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Cloud Computing, Louis Columbus' blog, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Windows Azure Platform, software as a service, SQL Azure, Windows Azure Platform |
By R "Ray" Wang on May 9, 2015
SuiteWorld Comes Of Disruptive Age Over 7,500 attendees convened at the San Jose McEnery Convention center for the 5th annual NetSuite SuiteWorld. The four day event brought together customers, partners, and influencers among the ecosystem. As one of the original cloud pioneers, the appropriate event theme focused on the impact of disruption. Taking its […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on June 4, 2014
Microsoft’s Platform DNA and Salesforce.com Quest For User Productivity Drive The Strategic Partnership On May 29th, 2014, the Redmond based mega vendor Microsoft and the San Francisco based Cloud pioneer salesforce announced a partnership. From the teleconference call with CEOs Satya Nadella and Marc Benioff; and in conversations with over 50 key executives, partners, and […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on May 5, 2014
Management Team Changes Provide A Breath Of Fresh Air To Culture, Customer, and Products Over 4000 customers, prospects, and partners gathered April 27th to 30th for the flagship Epicor customer conference, Insights 14, at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event provided the $968M revenue, 20,000 customer, Austin based software company […]
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By Tom Raftery on March 26, 2014
Cloud computing is often incorrectly touted as being a green, more environmentally-friendly, computing option. This confusion occurs because people forget that while cloud computing may be more energy efficient (may be), the environmental friendliness is determined by how much carbon is produced in the generation of that energy. If a data centre is primarily powered […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, Azure, Cloud, Cloud Computing, green cloud, ibm, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, renewables, sap
By R "Ray" Wang on August 12, 2013
Non-US Based Organizations And Even Some US Organizations Will Not Tolerate Snooping In A Post PRISM World Since the Edward Snowden PRISM revelations, Constellation has received a steady stream of inquiries on cloud strategy. In fact, nervousness runs high among many non-US based companies using services from US based cloud companies across the cloud stack. […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on June 25, 2013
At the end of the day two veterans of the enterprise software industry, Hasso Plattner and Larry Ellison are re-inventing their companies through database innovations…
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By R "Ray" Wang on March 20, 2013
Customer Success, Acquisition, And New Features Drive Day 1 Headlines Almost 12,000 Microsoft faithful converged in New Orleans for the flagship Dynamics event. Wayne Morris (@WayneMorrisOz), CVP kicked off the event reiterating the theme of “A World Ahead”. Meanwhile, Kirill Tatarinov (@KirillTatarinov), President of Microsoft Business Solutions Division, led the session with a series of […]
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By Vinnie Mirchandani on October 4, 2012
I have waited for over a decade to see an enterprise vendor – IBM, HP, SunGard, EMC etc – detail how they would deliver to their promises of on-demand, utility, cloud computing. But they continue to persist with data centers designed during the Cold War in locations which often violate more recent tax, latency and […]
Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, ibm, iCloud, Microsoft Azure, netsuite, OOW, oow12, oracle
