By R "Ray" Wang on February 15, 2014
A 10-Minute Preview Video Interview Of The Digital Business Disruption Ahead From The #NASSCOM_ILF Team On January 17th, 2014, the NASSCOM team interviewed Constellation Research about the digital disruption ahead. The short 10 minute video covers key topics including: Convergence of the five pillars of digital business drive the current digital disruption. The end of […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on August 14, 2013
There’s Always More To The Obvious Source: Bloomberg/Getty Images Over the past few weeks many have discussed the state of old media. Since Jeff Bezos announcement to buy the Washington Post, the theories have run wild. I thought I’d add to the analysis with a different point of view. A few facts: The Washington Post […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on August 12, 2013
Non-US Based Organizations And Even Some US Organizations Will Not Tolerate Snooping In A Post PRISM World Since the Edward Snowden PRISM revelations, Constellation has received a steady stream of inquiries on cloud strategy. In fact, nervousness runs high among many non-US based companies using services from US based cloud companies across the cloud stack. […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on June 25, 2013
At the end of the day two veterans of the enterprise software industry, Hasso Plattner and Larry Ellison are re-inventing their companies through database innovations…
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By Phil Wainewright on August 8, 2011
Amazon has told its EC2 customers in Europe some of them could face outages of as long as 24 to 48 hours as the cloud provider struggles to recover from a lightning strike that disrupted power supplies to its Dublin, Ireland data center. It took 3 hours to recover the first of the affected instances […]
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By Jeff Nolan on April 28, 2011
Yesterday at the Pervasive Software Metamorphosis event I spoke on a panel hosted by the esteemed Ray Wang and on this panel, which was for an audience of journalists and analysts, we talked about the cloud and big data. Here’s my take on a range of topics we discussed: 1) Amazon Out(r)age It happened and we […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on April 25, 2011
Amazon’s Cloud Outage Catches Most Clients Offguard The recent Amazon cloud outage at its Northern Virgina data center from 5 am Thursday, April 21, 2011 to roughly 5 am Friday, April 22 has shaken the confidence of some executives on public cloud computing. Most notably, FourSquare, HootSuite, Reddit, and Quora publicly suffered visible performance issues. […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on May 12, 2010
Move Signal Seriousness To Acquire Key Innovation Driven Technologies SAP announces a $5.8B acquisition of Emeryville, CA, based Sybase. The acquired entity will remain a stand alone company. At first customers, prospects, and casual observers will wonder why SAP has agreed to acquire what is perceived as an aging, legacy database company. However, industry watchers […]
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By R "Ray" Wang on April 22, 2010
Lawson External Cloud Services Represents A Big Step In On Demand ERP Options On March 31, 2010, Lawson Software (Nasdaq: LWSN) announced the Lawson External Cloud Services offering. The venerable St. Paul, Minnesota vendor plans to deliver the full ERP Suite including Lawson S3, Lawson M3, and Lawson Talent Management via Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud […]
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