Nov 6, 2017Is IBM well positioned to win in Cloud ?I used to work for IBM few years ago when it sold the x86 business to Lenovo and wanted to get into Cloud. The rationale was that IBM wanted to jettison low margin hardware business in favor of high margin business. IBM acquired SoftLayer around the same time. IBM was…Cloud Computing3 min readCloud Computing3 min read
Oct 23, 2017Open Source — the new IT competitive strategyI was reading about Oracle’s recent announcement on Fn-An Open Source Serverless Functions Platform. This is the latest in the list of Open FaaS / Serverless platforms following OpenWhisk, Fission, IronFunctions, Gestalt, OpenLambda. …Open Source4 min readOpen Source4 min read
Oct 20, 2017Public Cloud-like experience is the keyIn addition to my Product and Marketing responsibilities, I also provide advisory assistance to our Ventures / Corporate Development teams when they assess startups for investment / alliances purposes. So I have had the opportunity to look at some interesting startups. In Silicon Valley, if you throw a stone in…Cloud Computing3 min readCloud Computing3 min read
Oct 10, 2017Enterprise IT moving to Managed Open CloudThroughout this year, I have met many customers from Small, Medium to Large Enterprises. It has been rather interesting to hear a common complaint — that the Enterprises adopted Public Cloud few years ago due to the allure of low entry costs and operational efficiencies, however they now see the…Cloud Computing3 min readCloud Computing3 min read