Cloud partnerships go from important to critical in 2022 Ecosystems will become even more tailored to the attributes of cloud in 2022 The shift to partner-led growth is not a new trend, but we expect it to be further legitimized in 2022. Growth from indirect, partner-led revenue streams have been outpacing direct go-to-market efforts for […]
Microsoft announced its second largest acquisition in company history on April 12 with its intent to purchase Nuance Communications for $19.7 billion. Nuance’s presence in the healthcare vertical was touted as driving the move, but TBR believes much deeper and broader strategies were behind Microsoft’s decision. Buying Nuance gives Microsoft an opportunity, but not a […]
Cloud has been the cure for many pandemic-related business ailments The COVID-19 pandemic and its wide-ranging effects forced businesses to adjust in 2020 and now into 2021, but these changes will persist much longer than the pandemic. Most businesses made a wide range of changes to their IT strategies over the past year, but there […]
With a core portfolio of platform services, Aiven meets the needs of developers, partners and the cloud-native enterprise Aiven was founded in 2016 by a team of open-source and cloud experts based in Helsinki who sought to develop a data management platform that capitalizes on the needs of more mature customers who are increasingly […]
The journey to capitalize on the edge is rooted in deep telco experience, coupled with a passion for breaking boundaries A brief history lesson is important to understand how mimik came to be. It was during her tenure as CEO of Vodafone xone that mimik CEO and founder Fay Arjomandi realized the growing importance of […]
Since Arvind Krishna took the helm as CEO in April, IBM has engaged in a series of acquisitions and partnerships to support its transformative shift to fully embrace an open hybrid cloud strategy. The company is further solidifying the strategy with the announcement that IBM and Palantir are coming together in a partnership that combines […]
Certain uncertainty will accelerate cloud adoption in 2021 Despite living with the COVID-19 pandemic for most of 2020, so much remains uncertain. The timing and impact of a vaccine, whether or not there is additional government stimulus, and the changing economic environment will all have a profound impact on what occurs in 2021, and those […]
HPE’s VDI portfolio is not new but is increasingly valuable to its customers as remote work looks like a more permanent situation than initially anticipated As of April HPE had rolled out a series of VDI solutions that enable customers to adapt to the growing workforce and garnered a significant number of new customers. This […]
Cloud professional services market summary Market overview In the most recent iteration of TBR’s Cloud Professional Services Market Forecast, we projected the market would grow at an 11.7% CAGR between 2019 and 2024 as vendors balance the effects of COVID-19 with rapid growth in digital transformation. Opportunity for benchmarked vendors comes from the large number […]
Google Cloud and SAP are flagship examples of vendors building vertically oriented strategies with the introduction of industry cloud solutions Over the last year, as more organizations accelerated the migration to the cloud, it has become evident that a horizontal cloud does not always meet the specific needs of certain industries, especially highly regulated ones […]
