Futurum analysts Daniel Newman and Todd R. Weiss share their insights on the news that Oracle Q1 revenue is up 18% to $11.4B as cloud revenue rises, which the company hopes to boost even more through its recent $28.4 billion acquisition of electronic hospital records vendor, Cerner.
Palo Alto Networks Unveils Cloud NGFW for AWS, a Managed Firewall Service for AWS
Futurum principal analyst Shelly Kramer offers insight into Palo Alto Networks’ new managed firewall service, Cloud NGFW for AWS, jointly developed with AWS, and how this new approach to security for the public cloud is exactly what businesses need in our cloud-first, quick moving, resource strapped world.
Microsoft JEDI Win Gets Cancelled, Amazon Gets Another Chance and Hello JWCC
Futurum’s Shelly Kramer shares insights on the cancellation of Microsoft’s DOD JEDI contract win, how Amazon’s tenacity paid off, and how changing times mean changing cloud needs for the government. Which is where the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC), a multi-cloud/multi-vendor Indefinite Delivery-Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract, comes in.
HPE Announces Updates to Its HPE GreenLake for Partners Program
HPE announces updates to its HPE GreenLake for Partners program with emphasis on expanded storage, management services, container enablement, enhanced learning, sales and marketing. This strategy is solid, and likely to spur continued steady growth.
HPE Announces Updates to Its GreenLake Cloud Services
HPE announces updates to its HPE GreenLake Cloud Services which include services across container management, ML operations, virtual machines, storage, compute, data protection, and networking.
New Microsoft Azure Data Share Service Helps Companies Share (and Maybe Sell) Data
The newly announced Microsoft Azure Data Share service allows customers to share, manage, control, and maybe monetize, their business data, within the enterprise as well as with partners and third parties. While the sharing part is cool, it’s the monetizing part that’s most interesting to me.
4 Ways Managed Cloud Services Drives Digital Transformation
Are you making the most of your managed cloud services? In today’s digital landscape, you’d better be. As important as technologies like blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), or augmented reality (AR) might be, they all have one thing in common: they rely on cloud technology to fuel them. In that sense, you could say managed cloud services drives digital transformation by …
Everything You Need to Know About Infrastructure as a Service
As companies are scaling up quickly during this time of digital transformation, many are discovering the benefits of a hefty IT department. However, they are not finding the budget to go with it. To meet this demand, many cloud service providers are offering a variety of services that meet the IT needs of organizations in a more cost-effective and productive …
How Are SMBs Using the Cloud in 2018?
Throughout the rest of 2018, small to mid-size businesses (SMBs) are expected to continue to increase their usage of cloud services for data storage, file hosting and sharing, web-based email and customer relationship management — in other words, almost every essential function of business. A vast majority of SMBs are already using at least one cloud-based application, and that number …