Google Cloud: It’s the Infrastructure, Stupid. On Joining the Open Stack Foundation.
Containers + Private Cloud. Google Sponsors OpenStack Foundation Google bringing container expertise to OpenStack Having published this post earlier – IBM Cloud: it’s the infrastructure, stupid, which made the argument that OpenStack may not be hipster, but will see enterprise […]
The industry’s first Workday services blueprint: A new breed of As-a-Service providers has disrupted HR delivery forever
Just a few short years after ADP introduced the basic fundamentals of Business-Process-as-a-Service to the corporate back office with its managed payroll offerings, Workday has rapidly introduced HR-as-a-Service to the corporate, world with its comprehensive HR platform suite, creating a whole new ecosystem of service providers eager to slake the Workday thirst of so many HR […]
Oracle Cloud: The Quest for Operational Excellence
Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle pointed out during this week’s Cloud Summit that consumer tech spending has caught up to enterprise tech spending, and is accelerating. Enterprise tech spending, in contrast, is under all kinds of pressure. He did not say it but in several presentations by him and many of his executives over the […]
Sizing the PaaS Market
Fun with market sizing I’ve spent a lot of time over the years working with cloud market-sizings, and occasionally on them. They’re always a bit whackadoodle and can be difficult to pull apart. But, so long as they’re consistent year of year, they do give a good indication of momentum and a comparison to other […]
How IT Can Change For the Digital Era and What Leaders Can Do About It
I’ve recently come to believe that we’re at a watershed moment in technology as it’s applied to business. The aging, creaky model of centralized IT departments has been increasingly challenged by waves of internal and external competition that it’s never had to face. It started with the outsourcing wave but picked up irresistible momentum with […]
Current perspective on the PaaS Market
I’m often asked for my perspective on the PaaS market, since I used to cover that as an analyst. For reference, here’s a brief overview. Of course I think Cloud Foundry and Pivotal play a big role in it, otherwise, why would I be here? 🙂 (Cross-posted @ Coté.io)
Danger zone: Enterprise maintenance and support
Recently, a client asked for advice on whether to continue paying on-premise maintenance and support to a major software vendor. Support is a complicated issue for many IT organizations, with the pros and cons generally as follows: Why vendor-supplied enterprise support is valuable Avoiding risk: When the system has problems, you know who to call […]
Platforms: What FinancialForce, Xactly, and Hubspot Understand
Platforms – can’t live with them… pass the potatoes. I know, we all hate platforms. The crux of the problem is explaining what a platform is and how it works, I can write for ages about the details and go into nitpicking details – and never publish. The closest I got to it was the […]
Continuing evolution of cloud application software
It’s not just cloud vs. on-premises anymore In technology, everything evolves, mutates and, eventually, goes away after being replaced by something altogether better, newer, cooler and more powerful. Sometimes, even new technologies experience rapid evolution. Cloud computing is definitely in the mutating and evolving phase of its existence. Let’s look at how cloud computing has […]
North Bridge Venture Partners Future Of Cloud Computing Survey: SaaS Still The Dominant Cloud Platform
North Bridge Venture Partners and GigaOM Research released the results of their third annual Future Of Cloud Computing Survey, providing a glimpse into cloud computing adoption trends, inhibitors and drivers of long-term growth. This year’s survey included 855 respondents selected across business users, IT decision makers and cloud platform and application vendors. North Bridge and GigaOM Research report […]
