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10 Charts That Will Change Your Perspective Of Microsoft Azure’s Growth

By Louis Columbus on February 26, 2021

Microsoft Azure revenue grew 50% year-over-year in fiscal Q2, 2021, contributing to a 26% increase in Server products and cloud services revenue. According to the latest earnings call, more than 1,000 Microsoft customers now use Azure Arc to simplify hybrid management and run Azure services across on-premises, multi-cloud and at the edge. Commercial cloud gross […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Azure, Enterprise Cloud Computing, Louis Columbus' blog, microsoft, Microsoft Windows Azure

Microsoft powering more of their Cloud from renewables

Microsoft powering more of their Cloud from renewables

By Tom Raftery on July 17, 2014

We’ve mentioned the issue of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with cloud computing once or twice in the past, and we’ve even ranked cloud computing companies based on their emissions. Obviously not all cloud companies report on their emissions (shame on you Amazon), and consequently those that don’t are at the bottom of the rankings. […]

Posted in Featured Posts | Tagged Azure, Cloud, cloud emissions, cloud transparency, microsoft | 1 Response

SAP to power its cloud computing infrastructure from 100% renewable energy

SAP to power its cloud computing infrastructure from 100% renewable energy

By Tom Raftery on March 26, 2014

Cloud computing is often incorrectly touted as being a green, more environmentally-friendly, computing option. This confusion occurs because people forget that while cloud computing may be more energy efficient (may be), the environmental friendliness is determined by how much carbon is produced in the generation of that energy. If a data centre is primarily powered […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, Azure, Cloud, Cloud Computing, green cloud, ibm, microsoft, Microsoft Azure, renewables, sap

Oracle's Expanding Cloud Ecosystem?

Oracle’s Expanding Cloud Ecosystem?

By Michael Fauscette on July 1, 2013

 Last week was quite the week in the cloud computing world. At one point in the week, I thought that maybe I should check and see if in fact, hell had frozen over. But in tech never say never I guess. Anyway, as you probably guessed I’m talking about Oracle’s three new partner announcements, which […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Azure, CRM, erp, ESN, GTM, HCM, Larry's Kids, microsoft, netsuite, oracle, Partnership, salesforce, sap, workday | 3 Responses

News Analysis: Oracle’s Cloud Disruption Webinar Recording

News Analysis: Oracle’s Cloud Disruption Webinar Recording

By R "Ray" Wang on July 1, 2013

Oracle’s recent partnership announcements to supply Oracle technology to key cloud vendors such as Microsoft, NetSuite, and Salesforce.com create serious implications for the market.On June 28, 2013, Esteban Kolsky, Holger Mueller, and R “Ray” Wang discussed the implications  of Oracle’s recent partnerships for: Salesforce customers Microsoft customers NetSuite customers Oracle customers Cloud competitors such as Amazon, Google, […]

Posted in Business | Tagged @ekolsky, @holgermu, @larryellison, #bromance, Azure, benioff, Cloud, Dell, Esteban Kolsky, HANA, Holger Mueller, hp, ibm, Larry Ellison, Larry's Kids, Marc Benioff, microsoft, netsuite, oracle, R, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, salesforce, sap, saphana, Software Insider, SoftwareiInsider, SoftwareInsider, Steve Ballmer, TeleNovella, Vertica, Zach Nelson

It’s ASP All Over Again

It’s ASP All Over Again

By Denis Pombriant on March 14, 2012

One of my favorite Mark Twain quotes is, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.” I thought of it again last week when I read about the price war going on in the infrastructure as a service space.  Larry Dignan made the clever observation that he paid more for electricity in January than it cost […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Amazon, Application service provider, ASP, Azure, Cloud Computing, CRM, economics, microsoft

Will cloudies take over at Microsoft?

Will cloudies take over at Microsoft?

By Phil Wainewright on February 9, 2011

As the debate continues over who will make up the next leadership generation at Microsoft, I was intrigued to read the two names first on Mary Jo Foley’s list yesterday of potential successors to Bob Muglia, the departing head of Servers and Tools: “There are a number of in-house candidates that might be the kind […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Azure, Bob Muglia, Cloud Computing, Mary Jo Foley, microsoft, Steve Ballmer

Considering PaaS

Considering PaaS

By Michael Coté on January 19, 2011

If there’s ready cash at hand, lock-in and “proprietary” is demoted in favor of a quick buck; if the developers are building a general application with a longer time between compile and cash, an open, standard platform is more attractive.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged Azure, Cloud, CloudBees, Development Tools, enterprise software, heroku, joyent, PaaS, salesforce, vmforce, VMware

Sorting out Microsoft’s clouds – Quick Analysis

Sorting out Microsoft’s clouds – Quick Analysis

By Michael Coté on July 12, 2010

Microsoft expanded its cloud offerings today, answering the call for “private cloud.”

Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Azure, Cloud, Cloud Computing, microsoft, Private Cloud, Quick Analysis

Getting Cloud Crazy Microsoft TechEd 2010

Getting Cloud Crazy Microsoft TechEd 2010

By Michael Coté on June 11, 2010

This week’s Microsoft TechEd was like they swept everything else off the table and focused on that one world: cloud.

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged AppFabric, Azure, Bob Muglia, Cloud, Cloud Computing, conferences, data center, ibm, Java, microsoft, Systems Management, TechEd, TechEd2010, Windows Server

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