Microsoft cites key cloud and mobile segments for good Q2
Microsoft is claiming strong cloud-and-mobile growth in its second-quarter earnings release. The company which is playing catchup in cloud now claims a $5.5 billion run rate there, up from the $4.4...
View ArticleCloud Computing Market Trends in 2015
Despite multibillion-dollar earnings and the continued birth of new startups, both buyers and suppliers still grapple with what the cloud computing industry will become and what their place within it...
View ArticleUBS: Apple “dictating the terms” in relationship with IBM
Last July, when IBM and Apple announced their pact to deliver enterprise-class iOS apps to businesses, it was portrayed as a push into vertical industries like banking and retail. The first…
View ArticleCloud-Based Billing Solutions in 2015
Cloud-based billing solutions give organizations an enterprise billing application without all the IT involvement and budget concerns.
View ArticleSAP to trim jobs and redeploy resources
Enterprise software giant SAP could cut up to 2,200 jobs (three percent of its 74,000 employees) in a move to rebalance employment around growth areas. The news was first reported by Bloomberg News…
View ArticleShadow IT: data protection and cloud security
Shadow IT is a term describing users or whole lines of business who go outside of their organization’s IT group to meet their IT needs. A disconnect often exists between what IT users feel they need...
View ArticleAll that talk about CIO-CMO collaboration? Good luck with that.
More IT spending is going around rather than through IT departments — mostly because it is now so easy to buy and use SaaS applications. The thinking is that, if you don’t need to buy and provision...
View ArticleDocker and the Linux container ecosystem
Linux container technology is experiencing tremendous momentum in 2014. The ability to create multiple lightweight, self-contained execution environments on the same Linux host simplifies application...
View ArticleNext steps to DevOps: a game plan for adoption and implementation
As is now well known, DevOps seeks to align business goals with the goals of development and operations teams. Associated with it are other practices such as continuous delivery (CD) and continuous...
View ArticleCloud cost control: expense management and auditing for SaaS and beyond
Today’s Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings enable near-instant productivity and capacity. Businesses, however, have little...
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