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AWS: A Temperate Zone Among A Global Climate Of Other Clouds
August 14, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan
It might feel like Amazon Web Services has a monopoly on the cloud, but it does not. As it turns out, AWS does not even come close to having a monopoly, which means having somewhere north of 80 percent of the revenue and probably damned near all of the profits in any given market according to our definition.
Synergy Research has just put out its latest quarterly report on cloud revenues by vendor, and AWS is amazingly consistent over the past six years with about a third of revenues across the hundreds of suppliers of infrastructure services, platform services, and …
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Why IBM i Remote Managed Services Is The Future Of IT Support
June 26, 2023 Christine McDowell
Struggling to manage and safeguard your IBM i systems? Do you find yourself dealing with retiring and limited IBM i resources and unable to support growing business demands? Well, you are not alone.
According to a recent Fresche survey, more than 70 percent of organizations that rely on IBM i are dealing with resource retirement and IT backlog — with many administrators unable to even take a vacation. IT leaders shared that they are single threaded with limited abilities to keep up and no time to innovate.
These sentiments were echoed at this year’s POWERUp 2023 conference in Colorado where …
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Cloud Infrastructure Spending Growing, But More Slowly
May 10, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan
When you look at financials, you need to think quarterly year on year to get a sense of growth over the annual and often seasonal business cycles that drive the economy. And then you also need to think sequentially so you can see when something that is growing on its own momentum, as cloud computing has been doing for the better part of a decade, shifts to a more seasonal flow.
With the latest market figures released from hyperscaler and cloud watcher Synergy Research, whose chief analyst and managing director is John Dinsdale, dices and slices the public view of …
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The Big Spending On IT Security Is Only Going To Get Bigger
March 29, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan
Sometimes, numbers seem so big that they are almost meaningless. Depending on how you cut it, there is more than $3.4 trillion to more than $4.5 trillion in global spending on IT hardware, software, and services – not counting the payrolls for the for all of the combine IT departments of the corporate world plus all of those programmers and site recovery engineers who work at the hyperscalers and cloud builders. These are very big numbers indeed, even without those tens of millions of people on the payroll, who by our very rough estimation might account for somewhere around the …
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We Know Security Is A Concern, But What Is Actually Going On?
March 6, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan
It is an uncomfortable truth that security is a very high concern among IBM i shops – and consistently has polled as the most important concern for the past several years – but that concern does not always translate into dedicating more resources to security tools or the expertise of others with managed services who can help.
It is one thing to know that security is top of mind, but it is another thing entirely to have a sense of the relative prevalence of different kinds of attacks and the actions of hackers in the wake of a successful attack. …
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It Is Time To Have A Group Chat About AI
January 23, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan
The first rule of any technology is that is can be used for good or evil, but generally it is used for something vaguely in between. The second rule, rarely used, is that some technologies need to be tightly controlled because of the global-scale damage they can cause. Nuclear fission and nuclear fusion come immediately to mind. And so does the special branch of machine learning called deep learning, which most people call AI training these days.
I can’t remember precisely when I first started writing about AI training and the neural networks and frameworks underneath them, but I wrote …
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The Rich Parfait That Is Cloud Spending
November 9, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan
Most IBM i shops are so used to having an integrated system that runs their mission critical systems of record and some of their systems of engagement and Web infrastructure workloads, too, that they may forget that the rest of the world does not always experience their IT in this relatively monolithic way.
The top 50,000 or so organizations in the world tend to take a best-of-breed approach to every application and its underlying layers of infrastructure, so they have a hodge-podge of stuff. The next million or so organizations have to be more conservative and keep the infrastructure diversity …
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Readiness Assessment Accelerates Moving IBM i Workloads To The Cloud
November 7, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan
There are on the order of 120,000 unique IBM i customers in the world, and the one thing they all have in common is that they are absolutely – each and every one of them – unique. There are no two customers alike because they have lots of homegrown code, or a mix of their own code and that of an ISV, or maybe they have a heavily customized stack from an ISV.
We defy you to find one customer – even one – that is running any software from a third party as it is, out of the shrink …
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The Cloud’s Future Is So Bright, So Why Are You So Glum?
August 17, 2022 Alex Woodie
It’s tough not to be excited about the cloud, that amalgamation of servers that Gartner says will account for half of enterprise IT spending by 2025. The cloud is where the action is; it’s where everyone is headed. So what’s holding you back? The cloud, it turns out, is not so rosy for those without a clear path to get there.
We’re in the steep part of the public cloud’s growth phase at the moment, thanks in part to COVID-19, which turbo-charged digital transformation projects, Gartner declared in a report earlier this year. The cloud’s growth comes at the …
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Systems Of Record On Premises, Systems Of Engagement In The Cloud
April 18, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan
It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words. I guess it all depends on the words, and the picture. But sometimes, when you see a bit of market data that displays an industry trend, it nails exactly what the anecdotal evidence suggests is going on in the real world. It saves a lot of words in that regard, particularly if you are looking for some kind of confirmation that your own strategy is one that is prevailing out there in the IT market at large.
So it was with a chart that we came across recently in …
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