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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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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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Google Maps is now a GIS platform – Consumers and Enterprise win

Posted on September 19, 2018 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

  Google held their Enterprise Cloud meeting in San Francisco in July. While there was plenty to hear from them regarding investment in the Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the announcements were not limited to the cloud. For me, as a … Continue reading →

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capioIT releases the 2018 Global Salesforce Solution Providers Capture Share Report – Accenture still leads the way, but competition is catching up.

Posted on August 27, 2018 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

The constant growth of Salesforce has proven to be on of the critical success stories for the SaaS market, if not the most outstanding success. In 2018 it passed US$10B in revenue and is on track to be the fastest … 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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IBM Think 2018 – What will drive IBM toward the future

Posted on April 13, 2018 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

  IBM held their think conference in March 2018. As with all vendor conferences, the content comes fast, it is varied and takes a while to digest. Think was the first time that IBM integrated all their business units into … 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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Dreamforce Winners for 2017

Posted on November 11, 2017 by capioIT - Phil Hassey

Another Dreamforce is over for 2017. Overall this year was a more successful event than 2016 from my perspective. Salesforce was less about big product announcements and more about improving existing capabilities and increasing the ease of customer deployment, training … 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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