(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…

In previous installments (2017, 2018) of Follow the CAPEX™ (merch store opening soon!), we’ve looked at the capital expenditures behind the three hyper-scale public clouds. Now, we turn our attention to two vendors who often tell us they also belong in that group: IBM and Oracle. While I have written about their CAPEX spending before…

The 2018 geographic view of Gartner’s Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Magic Quadrant: Categories explained here. Previous installments: 2017, 2016, 2015