Oracle
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The Cloud is Not Flat
I am late to updating the geographic view of Gartner’s Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Magic Quadrant. Here is the update for 2017 (see 2016, 2015): Commentary: 1\ The Seattle region (aka the Leaders quadrant) is unchanged. This supermassive region may turn into a black hole, warp the space-time continuum, and consume most of the…
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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.…