Category: Tech Insight
Tech Time Warp: A quick look back at QuickTime’s beginnings
For today’s Mac user, QuickTime is nothing special—just part of the base package, lost among other bells and whistles. But travel back to this week in December 1991, when consumers got their first taste of QuickTime 1.0, and you’ll understand...
Cloud 5: Large enterprises head to the cloud, Pinterest all in on containers
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...
Shift to microservices architectures based on containers is on now
Emerging technologies tend to be double-edge swords for managed services providers. They typically create new opportunities for MSPs, but often at the expense of existing revenue streams. The rise of Docker containers along with the Kubernetes orchestration platform employed to...
Okta has healthy quarter as cloud log-in business continues to thrive
Okta reported their earnings yesterday and the cloud-based identity management company came through with flying colors for the most part. For starters, revenue was a healthy $68.2 million. That’s up 61 percent year over year. Meanwhile, subscription revenue (that’s recurring...
Reliance on external IT services shows steady gains
A global survey of 890 CIOs shows that the percentage of IT managed by external IT services providers is climbing at a slow but steady pace. Conducted by The Logicalis Group, a reseller and provider of managed IT services, the...
Tech Time Warp: The Surprisingly Long History of the MP3
In May, the creators of the MP3 called time of death on their revolutionary file format. The Fraunhofer Institute in Germany announced that its licensing program for MP3-related patents—the first of which was issued in the United States on Nov....
Cloud 5: AWS has re:Invent spotlight, Microsoft-SAP deepen partnership
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...
AWS CEO Andy Jassy still believes it’s going to be an all public cloud future
There is a lot of action in the private/hybrid cloud market these days with many vendors trying to help companies straddle the world between the private data center and the public cloud, while providing all of the benefits the public...
Standard AWS Enterprise Contract heralds wave of change for AWS partners
The coming year promises to be one of great change for managed service providers that partner with Amazon Web Services. At an AWS Global Partner Summit this week, AWS revealed that it is testing a standard Enterprise Contract that it...
Increased consumption of wider variety of cloud services bodes well for MSPs
New data from 451 Research shows the cloud computing market is on track to grow from $28.1 billion this year to $53.3 billion by 2021. That represents a 19 percent compound annual growth rate. But more importantly, the mix of...
