Market Data and Trends While popular and entrenched in some data centers, proprietary UNIX implementations (AIX, HP-UX, Oracle Solaris) continue to lose market share. IDC predicts that Linux will be one of only two operating systems left standing. (The other is Microsoft Windows.) Red Hat commands a 62 percent and growing share of the paid…
Features Deep Dive - ShareFile and XenMobile Connectors NetScaler Gateway is used to unify connections for XenMobile and ShareFile in the same way NetScaler ICA Proxy allows connections in to a XenApp or XenDesktop platform. Leveraging NetScaler provides access additional Enterprise-grade features including Load Balancing, High Availability and Global Server Load Balancing. XenMobile…
Every year Microsoft sponsors all kinds of research that it can use to improve and position its offerings, more importantly they also make most of this research available to the public either directly or through its partners. One of the reasons the Microsoft Cloud & Hosting Summit is so powerful is that Microsoft and 451 Research…
After three late nights tweeting on Australian time, we have the final keynotes of WPC16… (if you want to watch the keynotes yourself then they are available here https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/wpc/wpc-2016-vision-keynotes).* On previous days I have done a single all up summary, but today I’m going to break out Brad Smith as I feel it needs to stand…
Digital Transformation leads at WPC 2016 FY17 Ambitions The biggest thing I look for each year at World Partner Conference (WPC) is the clear partner oriented statement of where Microsoft will be focusing their effort in the coming FY. This is important because the internal scorecards/ metrics will have these as their foundation. If partners want…
This is what the Internet of Partners is all about. I’ll show my age here – I collect vinyl records. Whilst listening to Rick Wakeman’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth last week (it is an original pressing vinyl from the 1970s), the opening lyrics of Narration 6 ("Cumulus clouds formed heavily in…
(Stephen Parker, Senior Industry Evangelist, 1visionOT) It's only a few years since 'Cloud', 'Big Data' and 'Mobile' became the bright, shiny things. Now they're mainstream with most major technology vendors trumpeting their market leadership or targeted dominance in one area or another. Customers are now focusing their IT spend in these new area's, referred…
(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy, rhipe) Yesterday (2015-01-27) I listened to an IDC webinar covering their 2015 predictions across various areas for Asia Pacific (excluding Japan). At over 3 hours it was a long session but well worthwhile. You can find further details and the ability to register for the on-demand recording here (http://www.anz.idc.asia/events/view/?event_id=539&loc_id=1009) Key takeaways included:…
