Cloud infrastructure

Tanium Selects Oracle Cloud As A Partner For Its As-A-Service Offering

By / Cloud infrastructure, Enterprise SaaS, Research / May 10, 2021

Today, Oracle announced with Tanium that it had selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as part of its multi-cloud approach to delivering its SaaS platform, Tanium-as-a-Service (TaaS).  Tanium is in the business of providing endpoint management and security, trusted by many large enterprises worldwide. Moor Insights & Strategy recently published a research paper discussing the importance of endpoint management and security when work …

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The “Edge-To- Cloud” Race Heats Up With IBM Cloud Satellite

By / Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Hybrid cloud, Research / March 28, 2021

Five years ago, the industry was debating whether the hybrid cloud was real or not. I was an early hybrid cloud supporter the past decade, but I rode the wrong platform horse, OpenStack. For mass deployment across different verticals and sophistication levels, OpenStack was not robust enough, and required a lot of work to stand …

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Oracle Is Now Bringing The Cloud To The Enterprise Edge

By / Cloud infrastructure, Research / February 23, 2021

Today, Oracle announced Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure to deliver core infrastructure services to remote locations. The initial release will be available to government customers with general availability to all verticals around the middle of the year.  In this article, I will describe the infrastructure and use cases, the consumption model, and finally, explain why I …

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Is Growing Up And Gaining Customers

By / Cloud infrastructure, Research / January 15, 2021

When you think of cloud providers, Oracle is probably not the first company that comes to mind. I must admit I was a skeptic of Oracle Cloud V1.0, but with Oracle’s second-generation cloud, announced at Oracle OpenWorld back in 2018, I see many improvements that deserve a closer look.  Oracle has been on a bit …

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IBM Scores Major Energy Win With Schlumberger

By / Cloud infrastructure, Research / September 28, 2020

IBM has been hard at work the last 9 months with many announcements pertaining to the advancement of the company’s innovative hybrid cloud strategy. It is apparent that new IBM CEO Arvind Krishna and President Jim Whitehurst are operating at a new level I have never seen at IBM.  A few months ago, it was …

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Six Five Live Ep 38- Chips in the Desert

By / Client Computing, Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter, Enterprise Networking, Enterprise SaaS, Foundry and fab, Hybrid Convertible, Personal Computer, Personal Computing, Podcast, Research, Semiconductor, Tablet / May 18, 2020

Leading global tech analysts Patrick Moorhead (Moor Insights & Strategy) and Daniel Newman (Futurum Research) are front and center on The Six Five analyzing the tech industry’s biggest news each and every week and also conducting interviews with tech industry “insiders” on a regular basis. The Six Five represents six (6) handpicked topics that will …

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The Top Five AWS Re:Invent 2019 Announcements That Impact Your Enterprise Today

By / Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Hybrid cloud, Research / December 16, 2019

Last week, I had the pleasure of attending Amazon.com AWS’s re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Re:Invent is AWS’s once a year mega-event where it announces new services and holds 2,500 educational sessions for builders, CIOs, channel and ecosystem partners, customers, and of course, industry analysts like me. It’s a large event at 65,000 attendees but …

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Dell Technologies Expands Service Offerings At Its 2019 Summit

By / Cloud infrastructure, Datacenter, Research / December 2, 2019

This week I, and many of the Moor Insights & Strategy team, attended Dell’s annual Technologies Summit in my home base of Austin, TX. With Dell’s wide-ranging family of companies, there’s always a little something for everyone at these events. Here is my coverage from 2017.The emphasis this year was services, a new automated infrastructure platform, and 2030 …

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Lenovo Moves The Datacenter Ball Forward At NYC Transform Event

By / Big Data and Storage, Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter, Enterprise Networking, Server / July 14, 2017

Lenovo held their Transform event in NYC This past week I attended the Lenovo Transform event in New York City. During the opening keynote, I literally had a front row to some big Lenovo enterprise announcements. The overarching narrative of the day was that Lenovo wants to move from being a PC company to being a …

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Microsoft Inspire 2017: Already Making Partner Progress With Cloud-Native Products And Services

By / Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter, Hybrid cloud, Private cloud, Public cloud / July 27, 2017

This week Microsoft held its premier annual partner event, called Inspire, in Washington D.C. Inspire is an opportunity for the company to demonstrate its current business trajectory, make its case to partners to grow business with them and is frequently the launch place for new Microsoft products and services. Partners have more enterprise vendor choices …

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Intel’s New Xeon Scalable Processors Are Its Broadest Datacenter And Carrier Play Yet

By / Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, CPU GPU DSP FPGA, Datacenter, Semiconductor, Server / July 27, 2017

Intel is a giant in the in the server chip space commanding 99% market share, and in compute for the data plane of datacenter storage and networking, 50 to 75% share. This may lead some to believe the company’s datacenter growth prospects are dim. Not so fast. First off, cloud, HPC and AI are growing …

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Cisco Live Day 3: Leaning Into Security

By / Big Data and Storage, Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter, Enterprise Networking, Server / July 18, 2017

Wednesday’s keynote opened with a dramatized video of a police interrogation Today I’ll be wrapping up my analysis of Cisco Live 2017, which I attended this week in Las Vegas. I’ve been busy this week, publishing recaps of both Day 1, and Day 2—today we’ll finish out with Day 3’s security keynote. Many know Cisco …

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Cisco Live Day 2: All About Deeper Tech And A Glimpse Into Cisco’s Future

By / Big Data and Storage, Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter, Enterprise Networking, Server / July 14, 2017

I’ve been attending Cisco Live this week in Las Vegas—yesterday I published my recap of Day 1’s  opening keynote. On Day 1 we heard more from CEO Chuck Robbins about Cisco Systems’ intent-based network, and Robbins’ overall vision for the company—it was a great kickoff to the event. Today,I’ll be recapping the Technology Vision Keynote …

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Cisco Live Day 1: All In On The Network Intuitive

By / Big Data and Storage, Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter, Enterprise Networking, Server / July 14, 2017

Cisco’s Chuck Robbins presents at Cisco Live 2017 It’s been a busy few weeks for us analysts, with HPE Discover, the AMD EPYC launch, and Lenovo Transform held last week. No rest for the weary though—this week I’m attending Cisco Live in Las Vegas. Cisco Live is the networking powerhouse’s premier annual event (this year …

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RESEARCH PAPER: Scaling Up To Digital Transformation

By / Big Data and Storage, Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter, Enterprise Networking, Research, Research Papers, Server / May 1, 2020

Changing business cycles are driving more uncertainty as IT grapples with digital transformation and infrastructure modernization—keeping companies relevant by building an IT infrastructure for today, which is also adaptable for the future. But existing infrastructures cannot respond well to changes in the environment, scaling poorly to meet new challenges with resources that may not be …

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HPE Goes Big With New Gen10 Servers

By / Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter, Server / July 8, 2017

HPE Gen10 Family Last week, I attended HPE Discover in Las Vegas and I wrote a pretty lengthy column recapping the main keynote and themes of the show (which you can read here), but today I wanted to go ahead and recap the Gen10 Breakout Session which gave the best overview of the launch. I …

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HPE Discover 2017 Analyst Coverage

By / Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter, Hybrid cloud, Internet of Things IoT, Private cloud, Public cloud, Research, Research Papers, Server / May 1, 2020

Moor Insights & Strategy analyst have been busy diving deep into a few areas of HPE’s strategies and new offerings, including hybrid IT, security, composable infrastructure, and IoT. You can find these below. 1/ Forbes: HPE Raises The Infrastructure Security Bar With New Gen 10 Platform (June 5, 2017) The advent of IoT, hybrid IT, and …

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RESEARCH PAPER: Hybrid IT Helps Businesses Navigate Through Digital Transformation

By / Big Data and Storage, Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Containers, Datacenter, Enterprise Networking, Hybrid cloud, Private cloud, Public cloud, Research, Research Papers, Server / May 1, 2020

In this era of digital disruption, businesses must be more agile to capture opportunities. Many viewed cloud computing technology as the way to do this, promising to address agility, scalability, and cost. But in moving to the cloud, many found that its security, compliance, and performance did not fully meet their needs. Additionally, previous common …

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RESEARCH PAPER: HPE Locks Down Server Security

By / Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, CPU GPU DSP FPGA, Datacenter, Research, Research Papers, Semiconductor, Server / May 1, 2020

Security is a looming issue for businesses. The threat landscape is increasing, and attacks are becoming more sophisticated. Emerging technologies like IoT, mobility, and hybrid IT environments now open new business opportunity, but they also introduce new risk. Protecting servers at the software level is no longer enough. Businesses need to reach down into the …

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RESEARCH PAPER: HPE Synergy Helps Simplify Hybrid IT

By / Big Data and Storage, Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter, Enterprise Networking, Hybrid cloud, Research, Research Papers, Server / May 1, 2020

IT is undergoing a significant transformation as businesses look to streamline costs and roll out a new class of cloud-based applications driven by a changing digital economy accelerated by mobility, IoT, and AI. The IT infrastructure as we know it today is not well equipped to improve on the cost structure for traditional workloads nor …

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