July 12, 2015
All leading technology companies have one thing in common: They don’t play by the rules; they make the rules. They create new growth markets, new product categories and new customer experiences. In other words, they lead. Following is the other guy’s job. It’s been a long time since that’s been true of Microsoft.
Cloud Computing: Microsoft Takes Aim at Google
Grazed from FoxNews. Author: Steve Tobak.
All leading technology companies have one thing in common: They don’t play by the rules; they make the rules. They create new growth markets, new product categories and new customer experiences. In other words, they lead. Following is the other guy’s job. It’s been a long time since that’s been true of Microsoft.For a good many years now – an eternity in tech time – the software giant has been chasing the likes of Apple, Google, Samsung, even struggling Sony in every hot market from mobile and search to the cloud and gaming. Windows and Office may be corporate mainstays, but Microsoft barely registers in the minds of consumers…
Last month, global software giant SAP SE announced that its Predictive Analytics Software has been upgraded to include integration for big data and Internet of Things (IoT) analytics. The stronger integration of SAP HANA analytics with IoT serves the increasing number of customers that apply analytics to the enormous amount of data generated in IoT applications. From an analytics standpoint, customers will now be able to gain insights into big data derived from IoT. On the other hand, IoT enterprises will be able to gain analytical insights that were insofar not available as easily.
Anyone who has ever met an Oracle ORCL 0.45% sales person knows from a high-pressure sale. For these people much of their rich compensation comes in bonuses earned when they hit particular quota numbers. So it’s not at all surprising that Oracle, now all-in on cloud computing, is telling its sales people to push cloud and structuring incentives so that cloud sales are richly rewarded while sales of traditional on-premises software licenses, not so much.
While the rest of the tech media marvelled at the world’s first seven nanometre chips unveiled by IBM earlier this week, the Armonk giant has quietly pushed out a couple of impressive cloud announcements alongside it. IBM – who, let us not forget, wants to be seen as a cloud-first organisation – has announced the availability of NVIDIA Tesla K80 dual-GPU accelerators on bare metal cloud servers. In other words, it provides supercomputing powers to the SoftLayer cloud without the need for companies to expand their existing infrastructure.
An alliance led by IBM Research (NYSE:IBM) today announced that it has produced the semiconductor industry’s first 7nm (nanometer) node test chips with functioning transistors. The breakthrough, accomplished in partnership with GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung at SUNY Polytechnic Institute’s Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (SUNY Poly CNSE), could result in the ability to place more than 20 billion tiny switches — transistors — on the fingernail-sized chips that power everything from smartphones to spacecraft.
Red Hat (RHT) launched its global Certified Cloud and Service Provider program this week, which replaces the company’s existing Certified Cloud Provider Program. The new program is designed to expand the company’s cloud ecosystem to provide support for additional distributors, managed service providers and partners selling hybrid cloud-centric services. Red Hat said the Certified Cloud and Service Provider program would allow cloud providers to grow their private cloud solutions with Linux-based infrastructure and platform as service solutions, according to the announcement.