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AWS shakes up the private cloud infrastructure market with Outposts

Outposts enable AWS to meet clients’ demand for private cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled at re:Invent in Las Vegas its new Outposts on-premises cloud infrastructure, which will enable AWS to become the sole cloud infrastructure provider for its clients. The underlying Outposts infrastructure closely resembles AWS’ public cloud data center infrastructure. Since the infrastructure […]

Digital and Compaq: A cautionary tale for IBM and Red Hat

Big mergers bring big risks: Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation, a tragicomedy Compaq proved in the early 1980s you could buy non-IBM hardware and not get fired in the process by creating a portable PC that could be lugged around by weightlifters. Ultimately, Compaq struggled trying to move up the stack into the peer-to-peer networking […]

2019 Data Center Predictions: The pendulum swings as customer demands reshape how infrastructure vendors do business

The cycle of complexity is back as infrastructure vendor portfolio transformations make digitization achievable Moore’s law economics has reached a point where compute no longer constrains IT automation. Due to the miniaturization of electronics, distributed computing is taking place at the microprocessor board level, as evidenced by the rise of graphics processing units (GPUs) and […]

Is 5G business growing beyond a marketing tool for telecoms?

TBR’s telecom predictions for 2019 indicate that 5G will enable Industry 4.0, which will spur revenue generation opportunities for service providers that provide the connectivity layer and value-added services to businesses — in the long run.

IoT is getting a lot easier

While it is too early to say that the Internet of Things (IoT) market is fully mature, it is maturing. The first three years of the IoT era were filled with extravagant claims, inadequate products and services, and a chaotic partner ecosystem. Starting in 2018 and accelerating throughout 2019 and 2020, more customers will come […]

Top 5 IT firms hired over 37,000 people in Q2, the highest since Sept 2015

“Bozhidar Hristov, senior analyst at Technology Business Research, US, told the daily that cyclical changes – driven by rising attrition, demand for professionals with skills in new technologies that can not only execute on traditional outsourcing projects but can also drive design-led opportunities – are compelling Indian vendors to hire again.”

Customers care less, vendors buy more, and both sides become more intelligent

An exclusive review of TBR’s 2019 Cloud Predictions The entire cloud market is becoming more defined, consolidated and focused on the business value being delivered. This increasing maturity is prompting acquisitions by leading vendors, which will intensify in 2019. Not only are big purchases being integrated, but more large purchases will be announced in the […]

The pendulum swings: Customer demands reshape how infrastructure vendors do business

Insights from TBR’s 2019 Data Center Predictions The data center remains an evolving pillar of the enterprise ecosystem. Emerging technologies such as 5G, NVMe, quantum computing and blockchain are reshaping how these technologies work together, while rapidly rising demand for the cloud is causing data center vendors to rethink strategies such as go to market […]

Enabling stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem to navigate the path to value-based care

An exclusive review of TBR’s Healthcare IT Services Benchmark Growth in the global healthcare IT services (HITS) market is accelerating as health IT investment converges around value, patient-centrism and innovative, next-generation healthcare technologies. The environment strongly favoring HITS vendors with the most ubiquitous and comprehensively integrated suites of legacy and emerging health IT solutions. Join […]

5G will be an evolution, not a revolution

Insights from TBR’s 2019 Telecom Predictions Communication service providers (CSPs) are focusing on network transformation, which is a key component of their broader digital transformations. CSPs will leverage 5G and other next-generation technologies, such as virtualization, artificial intelligence and automation, as part of their network transformations to reduce costs and build a foundation that can […]