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New cloud Magic Quadrant warns Azure, AWS, gives qualified praise to Oracle

Microsoft has been warned that “Google and Oracle… will likely match and even exceed Azure’s capabilities on some dimensions in time” in Gartner’s 2022 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services.” AWS, meanwhile, “AWS often optimizes for the short term when dealing with customers.. This, along with...

The Stack November 01, 2022

Why composable ERP strategies change everything

Why composable ERP strategies change everything

Composable ERP means interacting with more vendors as you adopt best-of-breed applications. Support needs to change

Emmanuelle Hose October 31, 2022

AWS customers stamp on the brakes, eye contract renegotiations

AWS customers stamp on the brakes, eye contract renegotiations

AWS customers are prioritising cutting their bills, Amazon executives confirmed on a Q3 earnings call – with growth falling back to a “mid-20%” rate towards the end of the quarter. That’s down from 37% in Q1. That figure has “ informed how we're thinking about the guidance ranges” heading...

The Stack October 28, 2022

Women leaders are quitting at a record pace: What can enterprises do?

Here are some straightforward steps organisations could take...

The Stack October 27, 2022

UKCloud liquidation: Arguably became inevitable when AWS won the spooks

UKCloud liquidation: Arguably became inevitable when AWS won the spooks

The "vast majority" of government customers using UKCloud services have "already moved" onto alternatives a Cabinet Office spokesperson said as the homegrown cloud services company went into liquidation. "Those who remain on UKCloud will find alternative arrangements as soon as possible... "We do not...

Eliot Beer October 27, 2022

SAP touts imminent arrival of new "out of the box" automation tools

SAP is gearing up to launch a new business process automation (BPA) layer “delivered by SAP out-of-the-box” in the wake of its 2021 acquisition of process mining company Signavio, CEO Christian Klein says. Speaking on an earnings call as the German ERP heavyweight reported cloud revenue growth of 25% and...

The Stack October 26, 2022

Extra $800m energy costs zap Microsoft earnings forecasts

Extra $800m energy costs zap Microsoft earnings forecasts

Rising energy costs will sting Microsoft for $800 million this financial year according to the firm, as it saw slightly slower growth of its Azure cloud business in its Q1 results. In its earnings call CFO Amy Hood noted Microsoft's energy costs will escalate throughout the year, saying...

Eliot Beer October 26, 2022