Cloud
Supply Chain Platforms Need A Disruption
Supply chains have become so complex and tangled that the traditional way of navigating everything from suppliers, inventory, transportation and analytics has been upended. …
Cloud
Cloud
AWS EC2 Pioneer on Early Days, Next Wave
Dave Brown remembers when Amazon executives would pop into the small EC2 office in Cape Town, populated by the entire team of fourteen, and tell them they would be working for a billion-dollar business one day. …
Cloud
NSA Makes Another Cloud Jump with $2 Billion HPE Deal
Perhaps the National Security Agency (NSA) in the U.S. is over procuring and maintaining some of its on-prem supercomputers. …
AI
The Challenge – And Opportunity – Of Being A Niche AI Cloud
In this era of hyperscaler and cloud builder titans, their seven of whom account for about half of the IT infrastructure bought in the world, it is important to remember the importance of niches and the vital role that other makers of systems, other sellers of systems, and other renters of systems all play in the IT ecosystem. …
Cloud
Spending On Cloud Outposts Is Climbing The Hockey Stick
We read a lot of market data here at The Next Platform, and we do our share of prognosticating and do even more riffing off the prognostications of others. …
Cloud
The Future IBM We Will Probably Never See
Let’s get one thing straight right off the bat. If someone has been named president of International Business Machines Corporation, it means they are the heir apparent and future chief executive officer of what used to be the world’s largest IT supplier. …
Cloud
Cloud Is The Dominant Platform Consumption Model – So What?
If The Next Platform is about anything, it is about chronicling the tectonic changes that affect the IT landscape. …
Cloud
The Many Other High Costs Cloud Users Pay
Isn’t it funny how the same hyperscalers who are maniacal about building everything themselves – and who are making a fortune selling access to their infrastructure as cloud services – want you to use their Seriously Hard Information Technology and stop using your own? …
Cloud
HPE Builds Lighthouse Platform On GreenLake Services
The hybrid cloud is convincing established players that they need to play on both sides of the net, in the cloud (as well as the edge) and on premises. …
Cloud
Google Does The Server Math With Tau Cloud Instances
In a world where Moore’s Law is slowing and hardware has to be increasingly co-designed with the system software stack and the applications that run above it, the matrix of possible combinations of hardware is getting wider and deeper. …