Tag Archives: AWS

IBM Spins off GTS. The future is 100% Hybrid and AI

Posted on October 9, 2020 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

On October 8th, 2020, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announced that IBM was spinning off the Infrastructure Management group of Global Technology Services or GTS. This is no small spinoff; $19B in revenue, 90,000 employees, and nearly 5,000 clients and a … Continue reading →

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More evidence – Tough times for legacy tech vendors, and golden time for the Cloud

Posted on March 4, 2020 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

Software Asset Management and Licensing app provider Flexera recently published a report on technology investments that makes fascinating, scary or reassuring reading depending upon your perspective. The Flexera™ State of Technology Spend Report was based on over 300 interviews with … Continue reading →

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AWS goes Local – Bringing the Cloud Closer

Posted on December 16, 2019 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

In December 2019, AWS had its key global customer event re:Invent in Las Vegas. It is no surprise that the game gets bigger, the event gets broader and the content overwhelming in scale and scope. AWS now hosts 65,000 from … Continue reading →

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IBM Asia Pacific Analyst Insights – Red Hat has arrived at IBM

Posted on September 11, 2019 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

IBM recently held its 20th annual Asia Pacific Industry Analyst event in Singapore. Firstly kudos to IBM. No other vendor has had 20 Asia Pacific Industry Analyst events. IBM is not the same company that hosted a small number of … Continue reading →

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Salesforce – Acquires Tableau, accelerates analytics as it plays a Customer 360 game

Posted on June 12, 2019 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

Salesforce announced on Monday, June 10th (US time) the acquisition of data visualisation leader Tableau for US$15.7B. Some jaws dropped at the purchased and the price and some at the purchaser. It was inevitable that Tableau would be acquired, Oracle, … Continue reading →

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AlibabaCloud has the chance to own the ASEAN Cloud Market

Posted on August 24, 2018 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

The cloud in the Asia Pacific region has had considerable build up in the past two years. In the major markets, all of the hyper-scale providers are present or have announced intentions. As a result, Australia, India, Japan, Korea and … Continue reading →

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Salesforce celebrates $10B revenue

Posted on March 1, 2018 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

Today Salesforce released their Q4 and Annual numbers. The magic $10B figure has been achieved. To be precise, FY18 revenue was $10.48B.  This represents growth of 25%. Guidance for 2019 was $12.6B, a growth prediction of 20-21% in the next … Continue reading →

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AWS Reinvents AWS. Again

Posted on December 8, 2017 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

In the last week of November 2017, AWS held it’s customer event, Reinvent in Las Vegas. Not surprisingly, it is big. Total attendees were 43,000. Last year it was less than 30,000. Everyone knows AWS is big. In the last … Continue reading →

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Amazon Go – Taking Retailing to the next level

Posted on October 24, 2017 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

Seattle is an incredibly fortunate city to be home to both Amazon and Microsoft critical yardsticks for technology. Before the rise of technology, it had a very strong retail history. Starbucks, Costco and Nordstrom are all Seattle based there as … Continue reading →

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Telco’s have failed at the Cloud and Streaming. What is the future for them?

Posted on August 14, 2017 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

In a parallel universe, the Telco would be the dominant vendor platform of the modern integrated digital economy for both consumers and enterprise. They could have leveraged their monopolies, network, and utility, and led the way to the digital, cloud … Continue reading →

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