The cloud computing race in 2019 will have a definite multi-cloud spin. Here's a look at how the cloud leaders stack up, the hybrid market, and the SaaS players that run your company as well as their latest strategic moves.
Red Hat delivered revenue growth of 29% and the cloud and cognitive software unit saw sales grow 6%.
Amazon is forming a template for its innovation cadence. Launch a slew of products for multiple use cases and see what ultimately takes off. Funny how Alexa, Echo and AWS product launches are starting to rhyme.
Google's Made by Google hardware event and launch of the Pixel 4, Pixelbook Go and Nest Mini is about the software and system approach than the actual device. Is that enough to compete with Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft?
The SAP HANA Cloud Services updates were outlined at the company's TechEd conference in Barcelona.
The short version is that IBM brings the mission critical workloads and global customer base. Red Hat brings the vehicle that takes those workloads multicloud both horizontally and vertically.
Oracle is betting growth in the year ahead on: The belief that customers will convert to the Autonomous Database; and its cloud platform, with a smidge of rebranding and telling its story better.
Enterprise software vendors are subscription happy, but they're delving into usage plans for customers too. Toss in some perpetual licenses and your negotiations with strategic vendors are about to get more complicated.
According to a survey by Faction, VMware Cloud on AWS is popular as a way to extend data centers, but there are usage and migration challenges.
Sometimes it's not hard to find a skeptic about an acquisition. And when Adobe bought Omniture 10 years ago, the deal was a bit of a head scratcher. Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen had a different idea.