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Last week marked the sixth Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent conference I have attended. While AWS has attracted the webscale and startup businesses in full…
Continue reading → Amazon Web Services significantly escalates their enterprise game
One of the biggest challenges for AWS has been to adequately attract the massive, yet largely untapped, enterprise business. There are a number of reasons…
Continue reading → Mapping the AWS platform taxonomy that includes hybrid cloud
This past year, a new term has emerged that appears to be a combination of two terms; hybrid cloud and multi-cloud. Is this a new…
Continue reading → What is HybridMultiCloud and why should you care?
IBM just closed the massive $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat and is about to announce their first quarter of earnings post-close. Beyond the fact…
HPE invited me to join them for the HPE Open House at their new headquarters in San Jose. During the two-day event, the HPE leadership…
Continue reading → HPE paints a fresh vision that addresses the enterprise demand
Just a few days ago, SAP announced earnings and a significant change to their CEO leadership. After a good run leading SAP, Bill McDermott is…
Continue reading → Five things critical to the future of SAP and their co-CEOs
VMware has long served as a key partner for enterprises. For roughly two decades, their VM-based technology and management tools served as a solid base…
This morning, Microsoft and Oracle announced a new partnership between their respective cloud platforms. The partnership between these two enterprise providers should garner great interest by…
Continue reading → Microsoft and Oracle announce new cloud partnership
One of the hottest terms in both technology and business is digital transformation. Executive teams across the world are clamoring at the term as a…
Continue reading → Is it time to move beyond the concept of digital transformation?
With the advent of social media came influencer marketing. The space started with consumer-focused influencers or those who would pitch a company’s products to their…
Continue reading → Understanding the value and types of technology influencers