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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Google Decision Follow-Up, Amazon Earnings
Grappling with the implications of the Google decision require accepting that antitrust intervention interferes with the market; then Amazon looks like it has unlocked a new retail category.
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Microsoft Earnings, Copilot and CapEx, Pichai on Risk
Microsoft’s earnings were all about the long-term risk of the AI buildout and the importance of building AI-driven products.
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Computex 2024, Is AWS Modular or Integrated?
Computex 2024 feels like a big deal, as AI returns the focus to hardware; then, why I think AWS’s AI efforts are modular, even as its overall cloud is integrated.
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Nvidia Earnings, AMD Earnings, Nvidia’s Goldilocks Pitch
Nvidia crushed earnings as expected, but management’s commentary and Nvidia’s actions highlight the extent to which the company depends on being the best, not necessarily on being integrated.
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An Interview with Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi About Building Enterprise AI
An interview with Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi about founding Databricks, managing large data, and creating AI for enterprise.
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Google Earnings, Google’s Re-Org, Google’s True Moonshot
Google’s earnings made a strong case for the positive impact of AI on the company. Meanwhile, it’s recent re-org raises the possibility that Google might actually make devices a real business.


