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The Cloud is Not Flat – 2019 Edition
The 2019 geographic view of Gartner’s Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Magic Quadrant: Previous geographic locales Seattle, Lesser Seattle, and Nichelandia remain unchanged. A new locale, Next Generation Hybrid Cloud Multicloud Fantasy Island, has been added to reflect IBM’s cloud strategy de jour. Previous installments: 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015
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Follow the CAPEX: Commercial Open Source vs. the Cloud
A mighty albeit abstruse debate rages: whether commercial open source companies can withstand and/or deserve to withstand the immense and feature-crushing gravitational pull of the public cloud black holes. While others far more versed (or at least self-interested) in the metaphysical intersection of open source ideals and cold, hard economics furiously deliberate the stakeholders’ putative…
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Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2018 Edition
After recently receiving a non-ironic lecture on Twitter that CAPEX investment is the best tell for cloud competitiveness, I’m starting to think Follow the CAPEX™ is building a following. Beyond the circular wisdom of Twitter, awareness is growing of the importance of CAPEX as both a leading indicator of the ability to compete at hyper-scale…