Month: September 2017
Oracle cloud biz begins to take center stage
There were a couple of contrasting news stories about Oracle this week that suggest the cloud part of the business is ascending, while some older pieces like the hardware business could be in decline. Let’s start with the bad news first with...
How IT labor trends impact delivery of managed services
The day after Labor Day in the U.S. seems like an appropriate moment for managed service providers to take stock of how IT labor trends and the cost of IT labor is impacting their business. A new U.S. Salary Report...
Tech Time Warp: W3 Catalog Makes the Internet Searchable
“Let me Google that for you.” A few of us still remember life before Google. Turns out that even before there was an Excite or a Lycos, there was a W3 Catalog. Making its debut on Sept. 2, 1993, the...
Cloud 5: Walmart to build GPU data center, Latest OpenStack release
Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...