By R "Ray" Wang on January 22, 2019
Globalization 4.0 Attempts To Address Populist Revolt Global leaders gathered in the icy cold confines of Davos Switzerland for the 2019 edition of the World Economic Forum (WEF). This 49th annual gathering’s theme focuses on Globalization 4.0 in the fourth industrial revolution. Though most have not encountered the third industrial revolution, let alone the fourth, […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on January 19, 2019
Retail Innovation Continues To Improve As Budgets And Margin Grow Over 40,000 attendees gathered at Jacob Javitz convention center in New York City for the annual big show (see Figure 1.) The show kicked off with a keynote from BJ’s Wholesale Club Chairman, President, and CEO Chris Baldwin. Chris conveyed the impact of retail on […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on January 3, 2019
Awards Recognize Mostly The Pinnacle and A Tinge Of Nadir For Enterprise Tech In 2018, enterprise tech remained fast-paced, innovative, and action-packed. The Constellation Research team attended over 250 enterprise tech events, handled 1000’s of inquiries and briefings, dealt with 1000’s of media inquiries, and reached 100’s of millions in the social sphere. With that […]
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By Louis Columbus on October 14, 2018
Cloud computing platforms and applications are proliferating across enterprises today, serving as the IT infrastructure driving new digital businesses. The following roundup of cloud computing forecasts and market estimates reflect a maturing global market for cloud services, with proven scale, speed and security to support new business models. CIOs who are creating compelling business cases […]
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By Jason Corsello on August 31, 2018
“Platform in King’s Cross train station under an arched glass roof” by Michał Parzuchowski Practically every SaaS vendor talks about their “platform”. Truth be told, most SaaS vendors are not platforms but merely providers of feature-rich applications. Why does this matter? Simply put, without an extensible, open platform, it will become increasingly difficult for application-only […]
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By James Governor on October 19, 2017
While it didn’t garner much if any attention, at OpenWorld Oracle publicly deprecated Hudson, its fork of the Jenkins continuous integration server. It might be more proper to consider Jenkins a fork of Hudson, given Jenkins was originally developed as Hudson at Sun, back in 2004. But Jenkins is the living project and community, led by […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on March 10, 2017
Google Cloud Takes Key Steps To Enterprise Class Over 10,000 customers, prospects, partners, Google developers, and employees gathered in San Francisco’s Moscone West Conference Center for Google’s flagship enterprise event. Of note, Alphabet CEO, Eric Schmidt, book ended the event by highlighting the $30 billion capital infrastructure investment into the overall Google Cloud Platform. The […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on November 14, 2016
2017 Trends Reflect Faster, Better, Cheaper, Safer, Mantra Of Hyperscale Source: Google As clients make a shift from on-premises traditional data centers to the cloud, mega vendors will rush to build out their hyperscale data centers. Hyperscale data centers use nodes to flex up and flex down on compute power, storage, networking, and memory […]
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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 […]
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