Recap of re:Invent: One of the last, if not the last technology conference for the year 2017 just recently came to a close. The Amazon AWS re:Invent Technology Conference was held from November 27th – December 1st in Las Vegas, Nevada and I wanted to share some of my key points that I have gathered about the conference.
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Some Thoughts on As-a-Service and Enterprise Software
When it comes to the cloud, anything and pretty much everything is being presented As-a-Service (aaS).
Layoffs at Citrix…What’s Next?
Over the past couple of days, various Citrix employees have been invited to meetings and conference calls wherein they’ve received layoff notifications. While the full extent of the layoffs is unknown, it appears that the Octoblu, ShareFile/Podio, XenMobile, and App Layering teams have been the most profoundly affected. Most concerning is that XenApp/XenDesktop, the cash cow …
The SUN has finally set
The rumors of its demise have been touted since the day that the evil giant Oracle gobbled them up. Sun Microsystems, the once giant of closed source UNIX is finally deceased, of course there is no official announcement of death from the keepers of McNealy’s dream, but dead they are. Just looking at the vacant …
Second-Quarter Cloud Vendor Highlights
The second quarter highlights based on the cloud vendors’ conference calls is now in, and all reports seem to indicate another strong and healthy quarter in the public cloud space. The companies that have reported in and are a part of this highlight are Amazon, Microsoft, Google, IBM, Oracle, and SAP. While the overall cloud marketplace with these vendors remains healthy and growing, there are a couple of areas within the marketplace to showcase.
Ravello Systems Returns to the Light
In May, I attended the first Ravello Systems Blogger Day in Redwood City, San Francisco. It was a great day of catching up with my friends at Ravello and talking to the other bloggers invited to the event. I did quite a bit of work with Ravello when it was a small startup with developers …