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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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A Very Cold Take on IBM, Red Hat and Their Hybrid Cloud Hyperbole
I start more blog posts than I finish, due to no shortage of other distractions and at times a near-crippling inability to blog short. When IBM announced they were acquiring Red Hat in October 2018 for $34 billion, I embarked on a deeply intertwined discourse about the continued decline and fall of IBM, the two…
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If I Had $34000000000
(With apologies to Barenaked Ladies and all the beleaguered IBM shareholders) If I had 34 billion dollars (If I had 34 billion dollars)Well, I’d buy you a hybrid cloud (I would buy you a hybrid cloud)And if I had 34 billion dollars (If I had 34 billion dollars)I’d buy you a container platform for your…