Cloud Computing
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IBM has bought Red Hat in an attempt to recreate its success in the 90s; it’s not clear, though, that the company or the market is the same.
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AWS seems to have a dominant position in enterprise computing, but Google is trying to change the rules to favor their inherent strengths.
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Larry Ellison has declared that Oracle is a cloud company, but their customer offering seems more suited to the world that was.
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Amazon’s Hardware Event, Ring and Tesla, Luna
Amazon’s Alexa event was notable for how little it featured Amazon; perhaps that is why Tesla and Apple appear to be partners. Plus, the Luna gaming service.
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Snowflake’s S-1, Snowflake vs. the Public Cloud, Snowflake’s Sales & Marketing
A look back at Snowflake’s S-1, and why it is no surprise the company had a successful IPO.
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Microsoft and ZeniMax, Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft and COVID
More on Microsoft’s acquisition of ZeniMax and how it fits in with the company’s Xbox strategy, and then a review of the big themes from the company’s Ignite conference.
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PS5 and Xbox, Sony’s Console, Microsoft’s Service
Sony and Microsoft have both released details about their next generation consoles, and their strategies couldn’t be more different.
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Nvidia’s Integration Dreams
Nvidia’s acquisition of ARM only makes sense from a financial perspective, unless you buy Jensen Huang’s datacenter dreams.
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Jio Follow-up, Google Cloud Next, Kurian vs. Google
Jio has two big obstacles to success; then, while most didn’t pay attention to Google Cloud Next, the progress Thomas Kurian is making is impressive.
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MongoDB Cloud, MongoDB Versus AWS, MongoDB’s Playbook
MongoDB continues to thrive despite being built on “open source”; it is creating a playbook for other open source companies to follow.
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Zoom’s Earnings, Zoom and AWS, Zoom and End-to-end Encryption
Zoom didn’t just add free users: it’s revenue exploded as well. How AWS made that possible, and why Zoom’s encryption plans are a good idea.
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Apple Earnings, Amazon Earnings
Apple’s Earnings show the stabilizing factor of services and the upside of China; Amazon’s earnings show that supply constraints make forecasts easy.


