Author Archives: Charles King
IBM’s Smart CSL Buy
- Jul
- 19
Over the past three-plus decades, it is hard to think of a business computing-related technology that’s driven more fundamental value than virtualization, and it’s for a very simple reason: Since hardware evolves at a far faster pace than software, systems tend to deliver far more performance than needed, meaning they are drastically underutilized.
The Azure Tinge of Microsoft and Oracle’s Cloud Ambitions
- Jul
- 01
Technology vendor partnerships come in two general flavors: 1) strategically transformative relationships that aim to develop and deliver something essentially new; and 2) tactically accretive relationships that strengthen the partners’ individual efforts. The first sort typically occurs between companies whose products have little competitive overlap.