Microsoft and Partners Bring More Hyperconverged Hybrid Cloud Options to Azure

When it comes to cloud computing, there’s little doubt that we’re in a hybrid world. In fact, that point comes through loud and clear in two different studies published this year by TECHnalysis Research. Both the Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Strategies in the Enterprise report and recently published Pandemic-Based IT Priority Shifts report highlight the high … Continue reading Microsoft and Partners Bring More Hyperconverged Hybrid Cloud Options to Azure

Podcast: Google Cloud Next, G Suite, IT Priority Study, Twitter Hack

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell analyzing the announcements from Google’s Cloud Next event, including new offerings for GCP and G Suite, discussing a new study on IT prioritization changes from the pandemic, and chatting on the big Twitter hack.

COVID-19 Hastens Some Industries Shift to Cloud

There is nothing like a crisis to make people and organizations shift their mindsets on cloud-based technologies from “that’s interesting, but we’d never do it” to “how fast can we turn it on?” Bob O’Donnell’s recent column talked about this shift as it relates to cloud-based apps and devices, and today I’d like to talk … Continue reading COVID-19 Hastens Some Industries Shift to Cloud

New Workplace Realities Highlight Opportunity for Cloud-Based Apps and Devices

One of the numerous interesting outcomes of our new work realities is that many tech-related ideas introduced over the past few years are getting a fresh look. In particular, products and services based on concepts that seemed sound in theory but ran into what I’ll call “negative inertia”—that is, a huge, seemingly immovable installed base … Continue reading New Workplace Realities Highlight Opportunity for Cloud-Based Apps and Devices

Google Anthos Extending Cloud Reach with Cisco, Amazon and Microsoft Connections

While it always sounds nice to talk about complete solutions that a single company can offer, in today’s reality of multi-vendor IT environments, it’s often better if everyone can play together. The strategy team over at Google Cloud seems to be particularly conscious of this principle lately and are working to extend the reach of … Continue reading Google Anthos Extending Cloud Reach with Cisco, Amazon and Microsoft Connections

Niantic Buys 6D.AI as Battle to Own the AR Cloud Begins

This week a small startup that few people outside the augmented reality (AR) industry have heard about called 6D.AI was acquired by Niantic, one of the few AR-focused companies most people do know (thanks to its hit game Pokémon Go). So why is Niantic’s acquisition of 6D.AI important? Because it could represent the opening shot … Continue reading Niantic Buys 6D.AI as Battle to Own the AR Cloud Begins

Microsoft 365 Shift Demonstrates Evolution of Cloud-Based Services

If there’s one piece of software that has held up remarkably well over several decades, it’s Microsoft’s Office suite of productivity apps. From business to personal life, the applications in Office have proven their value time and time again to people all over the world. Perhaps because of that, Microsoft has used Office as a … Continue reading Microsoft 365 Shift Demonstrates Evolution of Cloud-Based Services

Podcast: Nvidia Cloud Gaming, Microsoft Reorg, China Android Store, Curated Content, Diversity

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell discussing the newly announced GeForce Now cloud-based gaming service from Nvidia, analyzing the reorganization at Microsoft that combines the Windows client and Surface teams, examining the potential impact of a proposed Android store alternative from major Chinese smartphone makers, and chatting about curated reading lists … Continue reading Podcast: Nvidia Cloud Gaming, Microsoft Reorg, China Android Store, Curated Content, Diversity

Nvidia Opens Next Chapter of Cloud Gaming

It’s not often you find something that people do just for fun to be tremendously impactful from both a revenue and technology perspective, but that’s exactly the case for the many options that people are going to have for playing games over the internet. In fact, cloud-based gaming is expected to be one of the … Continue reading Nvidia Opens Next Chapter of Cloud Gaming

Cloud Workload Variations Highlight Diversity of Cloud Computing

One of the biggest misconceptions about cloud computing is that companies pick a single cloud computing platform and then stick with it for all their cloud computing efforts. As new research from TECHnalysis Research points out, today’s businesses are using a multiplicity of cloud providers and cloud types, and are putting different workloads in different … Continue reading Cloud Workload Variations Highlight Diversity of Cloud Computing

Cloud Study, Microsoft Edge Browser, Google Cookies, NBC Peacock

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell discussing the results of a new study on hybrid and multi-cloud computing, analyzing the impact of the official launch of Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge Browser as well as Google’s plan to remove cookies from Chrome, and chatting about the launch of the NBC Universal/Comcast streaming service … Continue reading Cloud Study, Microsoft Edge Browser, Google Cookies, NBC Peacock

New Research Shows It’s a Hybrid and Multi-Cloud World

At this point, virtually anyone who follows the tech industry in even the most casual way has probably heard, not only about the influence of cloud computing, but also the impact of what is commonly called “multi-cloud.” What many don’t know, however, is the specifics of how much companies are using these cloud computing resources, … Continue reading New Research Shows It’s a Hybrid and Multi-Cloud World

Amazon’s Graviton2 CPU Highlights Arm Presence in Cloud Compute

Long-time semiconductor industry followers may recall that Arm, the chip IP company that completely dominates the smartphone market, has talked about making an impact on the enterprise and cloud computing markets for a very long time. Several years back, in fact, they made bold predictions about taking 20-25% of the server market. Despite a number … Continue reading Amazon’s Graviton2 CPU Highlights Arm Presence in Cloud Compute

AT&T and Microsoft Partnership on Network Edge Compute Highlights Future of Cloud and 5G

It’s hard enough keeping track and making sense of one technology megatrend at a time, but when you start trying to co-mingle two or even three of them together, well, generally speaking, all bets are off. Yet despite that seemingly unscalable challenge (and the buzzword bingo bonanza it implies), that’s exactly what the latest extension … Continue reading AT&T and Microsoft Partnership on Network Edge Compute Highlights Future of Cloud and 5G

Podcast: AT&T and Verizon 5G, Google Cloud Next, HPE Container Platform, Earbuds, Apple, Tesla

This week’s Techpinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell discussing the new 5G offerings from AT&T and Verizon, announcements from Google’s latest event covering GCP, GSuite and more, the launch of HPE’s Open Container Platform, and commenting on earbud news from Microsoft and Apple, the Tim Cook Austin factory visit, and the launch of … Continue reading Podcast: AT&T and Verizon 5G, Google Cloud Next, HPE Container Platform, Earbuds, Apple, Tesla

Dell Technologies Brings Cloud Business Models “on Prem”

There have been some very interesting shifts and evolutions happening in the enterprise computing world over the last several years. It all started, of course, with the explosion of interest in cloud-based computing, as pioneered by Amazon’s Web Services (AWS) and then quickly followed by Microsoft’s Azure, IBM’s Cloud, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and many … Continue reading Dell Technologies Brings Cloud Business Models “on Prem”

Cloud Adoption and What It Says about Enterprise Investment

Earlier this week, I attended Google Cloud’s Anthos Day in New York. After launching Anthos in the spring at Google Next, Google shared its progress, both on customers and partners’ acquisition as well as launched a new part of the platform that aims at making apps management in a hybrid cloud environment as simple as … Continue reading Cloud Adoption and What It Says about Enterprise Investment

IBM Leveraging Red Hat for Hybrid Multi Cloud Strategy

While it’s easy to think that moving software to the cloud is old news, the reality in most businesses these days is very different. Only a tiny fraction of the applications that companies rely on to run their day-to-day operations operate in the cloud or have even been modernized to a cloud-native format. In fact, … Continue reading IBM Leveraging Red Hat for Hybrid Multi Cloud Strategy

HPE and Google Cloud Expand Hybrid Options

The range of choices that enterprises have when it comes to both locations and methods for running applications and other critical workloads continues to expand at a dizzying rate. From public cloud service providers like Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure, to on-premise private cloud data centers, as well as traditional legacy applications, to containerized, orchestrated … Continue reading HPE and Google Cloud Expand Hybrid Options

Dell Technologies Pushes Toward Hybrid Cloud

Everyone knows that cloud computing has been the most important development in the enterprise IT world for many years now, but what isn’t as well-known is that the move to the cloud hasn’t been as fast as many predicted. In fact, I’ve seen estimates that suggest only 20% of the applications and workloads running in … Continue reading Dell Technologies Pushes Toward Hybrid Cloud

Podcast: Google Cloud Next, Qualcomm AI Day

This week’s Tech.pinions podcast features Carolina Milanesi and Bob O’Donnell analyzing the Google Cloud Next event, including the company’s announcements around its Anthos multi-cloud offering, their AI-focused additions to GSuite, and the software-based, FIDO-enabled privacy key coming to Android smartphones, and discussing the data center and smartphone-focused AI announcements from Qualcomm. If you happen to … Continue reading Podcast: Google Cloud Next, Qualcomm AI Day

Google Embraces Multi-Cloud Strategy With Anthos

Let’s be honest. It’s not the easiest spot to be in. A fairly distant third place in terms of market share with some serious overhanging concerns regarding trust and privacy. Yet, that’s exactly where Google Cloud Platform (GCP) stands in relation to Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure as they launch their 2019 Cloud Next event … Continue reading Google Embraces Multi-Cloud Strategy With Anthos

Podcast: Intel Data-Centric Event, Cloud-Based Gaming

This week’s Tech.pinions podcast features Ben Bajarin and Bob O’Donnell analyzing this week’s data center-focused Intel launch event, with a discussion on both their new products as well as what it says about the current state of data center, and chatting about new gaming research and the strong opportunity for multi-platform gaming services. If you … Continue reading Podcast: Intel Data-Centric Event, Cloud-Based Gaming

Cloud-Streamed Gaming: More Questions Than Answers

Gaming is an ultra-hot topic in the world of tech right now, made clear by recent big announcements from both Google (Stadia) and Apple (Apple Arcade). Gaming has been one of the bright spots for a challenged PC market, with PC gamers willing to refresh hardware more often than other consumers and to spend more … Continue reading Cloud-Streamed Gaming: More Questions Than Answers

Gaming Looks to Shift to the Clouds

The gaming market is one of, if not the market segment that is seeing some of the biggest overall changes. From a segment viewpoint, gaming is one of the hottest categories around in both software and hardware. It is easily the biggest bright spot from a hardware standpoint with gaming hardware and accessory companies seeing … Continue reading Gaming Looks to Shift to the Clouds