This is going to come as a real shock to some readers, but Oracle is not, in fact, a public service organization and the statements it makes under a cloak of “public interest” are more than likely to have…

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Literally, since cloud computing was invented, and despite what vendors such as Hewlett Packard, IBM, and Oracle might have told you back in the day, one vendor was generally accepted as the biggest and most innovative provider. That vendor…

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Khash Sajadi is CEO of Cloud66, a company that has been doing container management since… well since long before Kubernetes was even a glimmer in the eyes of its creators. I first met Khash five years ago or so…

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If you had asked me, a year or so ago, which of the three largest public cloud vendors was most likely to offer a compelling hybrid cloud offering, I would have said Microsoft without a doubt. After all, AWS…

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One of the highlights for me at the recent Google Cloud NEXT conference was a chat I had with Will Grannis who heads up the Google Cloud Office of the CTO (OCTO). OCTO did not exist only a couple…

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It’s the week that Google holds its NEXT conference. NEXT is the chance for Google to show off its Cloud Platform and, with it, further their ambitions to more evenly compete with the two public cloud vendors of scale,…

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I’ve long waxed lyrical about Rubrik, the early(ish) stage storage data management company that looks set to be a highly disruptive force in the broader storage world. Unlike more traditional storage vendors such as EMC and NetApp, Rubrik is…

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AllCloud has, for the past 10 years, been in the business of helping large organizations move to the cloud. They play at both the infrastructure and the application levels having partnerships with cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud,…

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ProsperWorks is a San Francisco-based vendor of CRM software. As such it competes with another company you might have heard of, one that is also based in San Francisco, Salesforce. But ProsperWorks has a point of differentiation, it is…

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Oh, the sweet irony. Seven years ago, Microsoft’s then CEO, Steve Ballmer (he of the “iPhone, it’s just a toy” and “I LOVE LOVE LOVE this company infamy) ousted Bob Muglia, then president of the company’s server and tools…

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