Liftr Look Ahead: What’s in Your Cloud – IaaS What is the controversy? Why should we care? Migrating enterprise apps to the cloud is at the core of digital transformation, but it is not simple. Background and setup When IT was new, everyone had to write their software from scratch. We now live in an…
Cloud Round-Up, Friday, April 13th, 2018 Amazon announced an exciting 250% growth in number of users of its machine learning services, up from last year’s numbers. According to the leading cloud giant, that amounts to tens of thousands of businesses. Despite this, AWS experienced a sight fall in their Liftr Index score due to a…
SAP, a top technology company out of Germany, has announced a $2.1 billion acquisition of U.S. sales software firm Callidus Software. The purchase is a move that SAP hopes will increase revenue from its cloud platform and streamline its overall business. Callidus Software, which trades as CallidusCloud, is a global enterprise software and SaaS company…
IBM stock is surging following an earnings report this week that beat Wall Street estimates largely on the strength of growth in its cloud and security segments. During a call with analysts, IBM Chief Financial Officer Martin Schroeter said the company is staying laser focused on cloud, cybersecurity and data analytics to counter a slowdown…
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