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Wikibon trip report from re:Invent: Welcome to Amazon Web Services 2.0
For the first decade of Amazon Web Services — call it AWS 1.0 — Amazon.com Inc. devoted much of its time to proving the cloud could work. The companies that fully embraced AWS as a platform tended to be startups in technology and media, which had the business models, processing requirements and skills that aligned ...
Wikibon’s predictions for 2017 and beyond: It’s all about putting data to work
What’s in store for 2017 and beyond? We’ve huddled with our community and come up with a list of questions that need answering and answers in the form of predictions. The overall theme: Put more data to work. Our research shows consistently that this current period of digital transformation needs to be understood not in ...
Is bigger better for you? Wikibon dispatch from Dell EMC World
Since the early days of the computing industry users have pondered: Do I go with the big vendor or the smaller start-up? The big vendor offers breadth of portfolio and global coverage. The small start-up offers best-of-breed specialization and a hunger to make the deal. Which tends to be the better choice? I’m here at ...
Wikibon trip report from OpenWorld 2016: Oracle stakes its cloud claim
Do you want more Oracle? That is the fundamental question that executives at most of the Global 2000 should ask themselves as they make cloud decisions over the next few years. Here’s the trade-off: On the one hand, Oracle OpenWorld this week in San Francisco dramatically pushed the cloud state-of-the-art forward. New technology? Check. Oracle has ...