Microsoft
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The DOJ Play at Home Game
While last year’s Platformonomics Holiday Gift Guide brought seasonal joy to vast swathes of humanity, this year’s holiday recommendation has a very specific audience: Googlers. To my friends at Google: You did a great job over the years keeping your email boring and mostly devoid of colorful yet easily cherrypicked soundbites. But your antitrust reckoning…
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Follow the CAPEX: Cloud Table Stakes 2019 Edition
“CAPEX rules everything around me…” Coming from a very asset-light software background (“You get a new laptop! You get a new laptop!”), I was enthralled by the very different set of skills and materials necessary to combine with software to build large scale data centers in the early 2000s. That fascination turned into an early…
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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