Month: August 2017
Microsoft, not Salesforce owns SaaS marketshare lead says Synergy Research
When Synergy Research announced their Q2 SaaS marketshare results today, there was a bit of a surprise. Instead of Salesforce, leading the field, it was Microsoft. The shift actually happened a year ago, according to Synergy. Salesforce was of course born...
MSPs Should Benefit as IT Management Plane Moves to the Cloud
It’s usually easy to pick out which server management software being relied on to manage the local data center environment is located. Find the oldest, slowest server and chances are high that’s where the management software is running. After all,...
VMware Cloud on AWS Portends Significant Changes for MSPs
Now that VMware has made the first instance of its software stack available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud managed service providers (MSPs) that have been generating revenue by migrating application workloads from on-premises environments to AWS clouds...
Tech Time Warp: Linus Torvalds Introduces Linux
They say hindsight is 20/20, which is why Linus Torvalds’ Aug. 25, 1991, message to a MINIX newsgroup is so humorous now: “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) … it...
Cloud 5: GCP’s low-cost cloud, Microsoft’s super-fast AI
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...
Spike in private exchange traffic points to digital business growth
The cloud is more than just another means of delivering IT services. As cloud computing continues to evolve, it’s starting to have a profound impact on how digital business processes are deployed and how companies ultimately operate. A new study...
Salesforce surpasses $10 billion run rate
Salesforce had another impressive earnings report yesterday, blowing past analyst expectations and putting them firmly on the road to surpass $10 billion in annual revenue. That’s a huge number and not one to be dismissed easily. In fact, Salesforce claims...
Robin Robins: Fortune-making truths about media, money, and marketing process
Here’s a truth many small business owners DON’T want to embrace, much less give recognition to: The more marketing media you can use simultaneously, the more money you’ll make. You’ll also be a LOT less FRAGILE and vulnerable to an...
MSPs need to evolve as data centers transform
Managed service providers need a two-pronged approach to managing data centers that takes into account both the short-term needs of customers and the rapid rate at which advances in IT management are occuring. When it comes to providing managed services...
Tech Time Warp: When Internet Explorer Was Cool
Let’s time-travel back to August 1995, when Bill Gates and his company introduced the world to Internet Explorer 1.0. Making its debut on August 16, 1995, this wasn’t the IE you later spurned for Chrome and Firefox. No, this was...
