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GCP’s drive for OPEX optimization and low-cost leadership is not a strategy to extract value from enterprise accounts. GCP has focused on a small handful of verticals to create enterprise solutions value. The combination is probably not enough to maintain its third-place public cloud revenue position against aggressive competitors. Google Cloud revenue was $2.61B in…
Microsoft has frozen hiring except for strategic services according to recent reports (paywalled link). It is important to note that during Satya Nadella’s six-year reign as Microsoft’s CEO, Microsoft has become a cloud company. While Azure is Microsoft’s public cloud service, Microsoft delivers its core revenue-driving applications as cloud services. Cloud permeates most of Microsoft’s…
Cloud supply chain earnings reports occur in two broad clusters each quarter, this post continues from the first cluster of reports. Key messages are summarized first, with detail for recent earnings reports following. Cloud service provider summary: AWS extended its server depreciation from three to four years, which will potentially change the cadence of new infrastructure…
HPE recently completed its acquisition of Cray, after doing the same with SGI just three years ago. Due to consolidation, top merchant supercomputer vendors (as opposed to government entities building their own) now include server OEMs Dell, HPE and IBM based in North America, Fujitsu in Japan and Atos Bull in Europe. Inspur, Lenovo and…
During Google Cloud Next ’19 (April 9-11, 2019) flurry of announcements, a technical detail with significant business impact surfaced. Google Cloud’s new Anthos hybrid and multi-cloud platform depends on VMware vSphere if an IT shop wants to containerize legacy applications that use local storage. Part of why containers and Kubernetes are so portable and easily deployable is…
IBM spent the past six years building an AI that can hold a structured discussion with a human at an almost human level of achievement. IBM demonstrated its Project Debater AI at its Think event on February 11 in a live on-stage debate with an expert human debater. Project Debater lost the demonstration debate. However,…
Reviewing 2018 by Conferences You’re a busy cloud professional, so you might’ve missed some events. To help you stay informed about the cloud industry, here’s what you might want to know from events I went to in 2018. I attended a few more events, but these stood out by providing key insights into the cloud…
As you may have noticed, Liftr has been undergoing some construction lately as we grow and adapt to the ever-changing cloud market. Last week we rolled out some of our new branding as a sneak-preview, and adjusted our content format. This week, we have even more exciting updates for you. Liftr Cloud Insights Firstly,…
NVIDIA and Intel are dominant players in datacenter artificial intelligence (AI) acceleration. Xilinx intends to compete against them in the growing field of machine learning as a service (MLaaS). At its 2018 developer forum (XDF), Xilinx announced its new SDAccel integrated development environment (IDE), enabling a larger FPGA development and deployment ecosystem. Xilinx’s SDAccel is up against NVIDIA’s GPU Cloud…
Microsoft is taking a very different approach to edge storage than Amazon Web Services (AWS). Azure Data Box Edge and its ruggedized Azure Stack are Microsoft’s first branded enterprise servers. However, under the unassuming faceplate, the two products use a Dell EMC server chassis. They are already enterprise-class servers, not a Microsoft first attempt at designing enterprise-class servers. Branded enterprise…