Gigaom: VMware shakeup: Maritz is reportedly out
A tech trade publication is reporting that VMware CEO Paul Maritz is being pushed out and will be replaced by Pat Gelsinger, the current COO of EMC. EMC owns roughly 80…
View ArticleGigaom: Salesforce pushes Heroku into big biz with full Java stack support
Heroku is morphing from what was a Ruby-focused PaaS for web developers to a fully Java-supportive PaaS for big business. At least that's what Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff hopes as he…
View ArticleResearch: Which PaaS players are positioned to win and why?
The PaaS market is a slow grower, but it's shaping up to be a battle between a few giants. This report explains the trends driving the PaaS market and which companies…
View ArticleGigaom: Red Hat wants more competition
Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens sees it as a 'personal disappointment' that there aren't more companies lining up to follow his firm's highly lucrative open source subscription path. Red Hat doesn't…
View ArticleResearch: How fourth-quarter 2012 will affect IT spending in 2013
Worldwide IT spending finished out 2012 with a growth rate of 3.8 percent over 2011, the lowest growth rate since 2009. Fourth-quarter 2012 earnings reports and guidance were notable in their…
View ArticleResearch: Amazon Cuts EC2 Price ahead of Azure VM’s General Availability
It’s that time of the year where Microsoft makes a set of announcements related to the Windows Azure platform. But with all the new players in the IaaS space, the company…
View ArticleGigaom: Killer cloud: report says Amazon Web Services threatens all IT...
New Morgan Stanley research expects AWS to hit $24 billion in revenue by 2022 and to put the hurt on legacy IT providers in the process. Amazon(s amzn) Web Services faces…
View ArticleGigaom: Can free Red Hat on AWS make it the de facto Linux for the cloud, too?
Red Hat Enterprise Linux gets a free tier of its own on Amazon Web Services, perhaps in a bid to unseat Ubuntu which runs more than half of all EC2 instances…
View ArticleGigaom: Windows Azure and new Oracle DB up in a tree
Microsoft Windows Azure relies heaviily on SQL Azure, but it looks like another surprising database (from a rival) is about to enter the big Azure tent. Sometimes it helps just to…
View ArticleResearch: IT spending update, fourth quarter 2012
IT spending grew 3.6 percent between 2011 and 2012. Many factors have driven this demand for IT products and services. However, relentless global economic weakness and uncertainty have resulted in a…
View ArticleResearch: The second wave of IT disruption: back office in the cloud
IT professionals inside the enterprise are driving a second wave of cloud-based IT disruption and displacement, which is aimed at the private branch exchange (PBX), the call center, and other core…
View ArticleGigaom: Demystifying 4 myths around PaaS
One of the problems with the term "Platform as a Service" is that it means different things to different people. Here we sort through some of the myths surrounding it. The…
View ArticleResearch: OpenStack travels far and fast
Two prominent announcements of support for OpenStack this week reflect the technology’s growing importance. Oracle has become a sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation, and Dell has expanded its...
View ArticleGigaom: Slap fight in Node.js land
Two key contributors to the popular server-side language are disagreeing publicly over the use of gender-specific pronouns in the project. Isn't life supposed to be all copacetic and cooperative in the…
View ArticleResearch: Microsoft Windows Azure: strengths and weaknesses
Windows Azure is emerging as a credible cloud platform for both startups and enterprises. Here is our analysis of the key factors that turned its fate around, and what it must…
View ArticleGigaom: Examining the latest OpenStack spat
The week in cloud: Where are you going to go for your OpenStack drivers? Seriously -- I'm asking ... So what's the real deal with OpenStack driver compatibility efforts? Last week,…
View ArticleResearch: Sector RoadMap: Platform as a Service (PaaS) in 2014
It is time to re-evaluate the PaaS market in light of it's increased meshing with the IaaS space and the entry of new players. In October of 2012 we provided a…
View ArticleGigaom: Why Microsoft should just pack it in and buy Red Hat
Sure it would make for strange bedfellows, but Microsoft needs Red Hat Enterprise Linux and an acquisition would signify a bold move by new CEO Satya Nadella. Over the past 40…
View ArticleGigaom: Last week on Research: Our review of PaaS for 2014, security, and more
For a deeper dive into the topics and technologies covered on Gigaom, check out the latest in-depth analyses on Gigaom Research. This week we published our 2014 Sector Roadmap on Platform…
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