Cloud Computing
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Sorry Oracle, Clouds are Built with CAPEX, Not Hyperbole
The traditional Oracle marketing playbook is to draw a bead on the leader in any category and try to talk themselves into a rivalry. In what has become an annual event, they’re trumpeting yet again that they’re serious about their IaaS offering (and also distracting from their latest earnings disappointment). I’m sure we’ll hear Oracle…
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Tweetstorm Digest: August 4, 2016
Some @charlesfitz reactions to the long-delayed Gartner Infrastructure as a Service Magic Quadrant plus bonus material: 1/ Gartner IaaS Magic Quadrant is finally out – probably the most important assessment of the cloud market. 2/ I yield to no one in making fun of Gartner but they do a really good job on this one.…
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Google’s Scalability Day
In May 1997, Microsoft held a big press event dubbed Scalability Day. Microsoft was a relatively new arrival to enterprise computing and was beset by criticism it wasn’t “enterprise ready”. The goal of the event was to once and for all refute those criticisms and get the industry to accept that Microsoft would be a…