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Gartner’s cloud showdown: Amazon Web Services vs. Microsoft Azure
“Gartner IaaS Research Director Kyle Hilgendorf says one of the most common questions he gets from enterprise customers looking to go to the cloud is: AWS or Azure? AWS has been anointed the public IaaS cloud leader by Gartner and many others, but over the past year or so Satya Nadella’s Microsoft has made significant advancements to its public cloud platform. AWS now has competition. … AWS may have more to worry about than just Azure: Google Cloud Platform is turning into an enticing offering for cloud users as well. Hilgendorf plans to put the GCP through the same rigorous test he did with AWS and Azure to see where it stacks up…” Via Brandon Butler, Network World
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Amazon Web Services wants to run your world
“…Amazon says it follows a pattern. The first wave is typically development and testing of new apps, and the deployment of entirely new applications and services. The second wave includes Web sites and “digital transformation,” Big Data and analytics, and mobile applications. The third and final wave is business-critical applications. The phrase “all-in” kept coming up throughout the week. Software vendors (Acquia, Emdeon, IMS Health, Informatica, Pegasystems and Splunk) are putting their entire cloud solutions on AWS… Amazon is being realistic about things — execs say that they know certain legacy applications will continue to run in on-premises data centers for years to come — but they still believe that over the long run few organizations will have their own data centers.” Via John Morris, ZDNet
Microsoft explains latest Azure outage
“The Microsoft Azure cloud outage that affected customers around the world this week was caused by a glitch in a performance update to its cloud storage service, the software giant said Thursday. … The outage, which began for some customers in the US, Europe and Asia at around 11am Sydney time Wednesday, are now mostly resolved… But with Amazon Web Services boasting a growing number of enterprises that are moving their whole data centers to AWS, Microsoft will need to reassure customers that it’s able to react quickly – and more importantly, communicate – when things go wrong with Azure in the future, Microsoft partners said.” Via Kevin McLaughlin, CRN
Source: A Battle Is Brewing Between Two Big Shot Microsoft Executives
“A source close to Microsoft told us there’s a showdown of sorts between two powerful executives in Satya Nadella’s administration: Terry Myerson, the man in charge of Windows (including Windows 10) and Qi Lu, the man in charge of most of Microsoft’s consumer online services, including Bing and MSN, Microsoft’s news portal. The fight is about who gets to control the default home page of Internet Explorer and the enormous amount of attention that page commands. And it all started with a recent redesign to MSN. …” Via Julie Bort, Business Insider
Forrester’s Best of the Best in Private, Public Cloud Space
“Forrester Research just named what it considers the leaders in hosted private cloud solutions and the top guns of security among public cloud platform service providers. In its newly released Wave, the research giant tabbed Virtustream and Datapipe as industry leaders in its Wave for Hosted Private Cloud Solutions. Meanwhile, Amazon Web Services took the top spot in this week’s Wave for Public Cloud Platform Service Providers’ Security. Three other public cloud security offerings- IBM’s, Microsoft’s and CenturyLink’s — offer competitive advantages. Forrester only included those four providers in its public cloud security assessment. …” Via Dom Nicastro, CMS Wire
IaaS: The Telco Tool for Business Growth
“During the next few years, it is likely that your enterprise customers will be managing multiple cloud stacks across various departments and ultimately pursuing a mandate to integrate across cloud providers. In many cases, they will look to their established relationships for help with this “sourcing” challenge. Many believe now is the time to move beyond a reactive response to business demand when considering IaaS usage scenarios. Instead, customers should consider easy access to IaaS capabilities as a means to enable increased innovation, experimentation, and even the ability to “fail fast” and move on with minimal pain, reduced disruption, or risk to either business processes or IT operations. …” Via Tom Homer, Light Reading
Healthcare IT adoption can be spurred by leveraging ‘Economics’ & ‘Design’
“…Consistent adoption of health IT solutions has always been a major challenge for hospital administrators. The case in point is simple: if users don’t use the system, then no meaningful information can be derived, as there is no data. Healthcare has traditionally been awash with machine data (the Diagnostic data & all the ‘ologies data like radiology, cardiology etc) but capturing the prescription data (either entered by doctors themselves or nurses or transcription) has been a big headache for providers. Lots of management driven top down approach, central policies, guidance etc have usually been unsuccessful to propel usage. So what to do? Two simple solutions can help: Using the basic principle of economics that is: aligning the right incentives and Simplifying the Process: aka Designing the process with the end user in mind…” Via Anurag Gupta, Gartner
Nervous? IBM and HP server resellers being eyed up by Fujitsu
“Fujitsu is eyeing up “nervous” HP server resellers according to Tom Roche, head of technology and products for UK and Ireland at the Japanese firm. Roche also indicated that the firm is hoping to take on IBM server partners who are worried about their future following the Lenovo acquisition of IBM’s x86 server business in September. …” Via Jack Gilbert, Channelnomics
SAP preps new 5-year vision: The burning questions
“SAP CEO Bill McDermott on Wednesday said the company in January will outline a “clear vision from 2015 to 2020″ that will revolve around the core business, cloud and profitability. The comments, made at a Morgan Stanley conference in Barcelona, were mostly standard issue from McDermott. He talked HANA, cloud and growth. What was interesting is that McDermott said SAP has already “made the bold moves” and is now entering “an execution phase.” … Reading between the lines, McDermott seemed to signal that SAP will be about organic growth, tuck in acquisitions that “will probably put you to sleep” and innovation…” Via Larry Dignan, ZDNet
Will business and IT ever be united?
“In the end of the day, what it’s all about is enabling the business,” says Mike Piech, General Manager of JBoss Middleware at Red Hat. …“Not only can developers iterate more quickly now, but the business can iterate more quickly,” says Piech, “but the business can actually essentially do trial and error in the same way a developer can because they’re working so closely together.” What shape will the relationship between business decisions and enterprise development take in future? Does the PaaS expert envision a world where the two are tied together? Or shall never the twain meet?” Via Coman Hamilton, JAX Enter
Red Hat Calls CloudFoundry the Unix of the Cloud [VIDEO]
“…The CloudFoundry PaaS project was officially launched by VMware back in 2011. In 2012, then VMware CTO stated that his vision was for CloudFoundry to be, “the Linux of the cloud.” … Paul Cormier, EVP and President, Product and Technologies at Red Hat is not what anyone would call a CloudFoundry fan. In a video interview with Datamation, Cormier detailed his views on the PaaS competition. “CloudFoundry has the potential to be Unix all over again,” Cormier said. In the Unix market, fragmentation has been an issue for decades. Cormier noted that if you look at the CloudFoundry market there are multiple vendors that make their own flavors of CloudFoundry based platforms…” Via Sean Michael Kerner, Datamation
Top 10 Strategic Trends in Technology
“Every business will become a digital business. The boundaries between digital and physical are increasingly blurred. We are starting to spend more time on digital than in the physical. … We spend a significant chunk of our days starring into the digital world, at work, in our homes, while in transit, or even at the dinner table, it has become habit as opposed to a conscious thought. …Things are changing, fast. Here are the top 10 strategic trends in technology from the recent Gartner Symposium ITXPO in Barcelona…” Via Gordon Ching, Huffington Post
Enterprise IT Crosses the Chasm
“…I’ve seen many presentations containing a slide with Mark Andreessen’s quote “software is eating the world” in the past month (and, in the spirit of disclosure, my presentations also have a slide with the quote). The remarkable disruption our economy is undergoing is completely changing the role of IT — turning it from a late adopter of mature products to an innovative creator of leading-edge solutions. Instead of impassively standing on the righthand side of Moore’s chasm, enterprise IT is increasingly reaching across it to incorporate emerging technologies. We are in the very early stages of this process, and it’s becoming clearer and clearer that the world of enterprise IT is going to look quite different in the very near future.” Via Bernard Golden, CIO
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Yesterday’s Marketwatch
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