Oracle
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Follow the CAPEX: Keeping Up With The Clowns
“Clown-1-1” (CC BY-SA 2.0) by americanbulldogbully007 Tl;dr: IBM is the Generalissimo Francisco Franco of cloud: still dead. Like the beleaguered consumer in these inflationary times, Oracle is spending more while falling ever further behind. A Trump Cloud? The opposite of a cloud is a clown. We know this because CAPEX doesn’t lie. Let’s pay another…
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Follow the CAPEX: Clown Watch
“Clown-1-1” (CC BY-SA 2.0) by americanbulldogbully007 There are hyperclouds and there are hyperclowns. Hyperclouds have globe-spanning infrastructure upon which they lavish many billions of dollars every year. Hyperclowns pursue a far more asset-light approach to the same problem, but try to compensate with hot air. It has been just over two years since we last…
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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