Microsoft cites enormous opportunity in hybrid cloud and managed services era  

published on 2017-04-08 by Admin

An ‘enormous’ opportunity is afoot for cloud companies as more organisations move towards implementing hybrid cloud and managed services, according to a new study from Microsoft.

The report – which was conducted in association with 451 Research and which comes in at a whopping 127 pages – polled more than 1700 respondents in 10 geographies, and found that almost two thirds (62%) of overall cloud and hosting infrastructure spend comes bundled with value-added services. When it came to managed infrastructure spending, just over half (54%) was on managed and security services, as opposed to 46% on the basic infrastructure.

Not entirely surprisingly given the sponsor of the study, Microsoft came out on top for public cloud providers as part of hybrid or multi-cloud environments. Azure was cited by 61% of respondents, ahead of Google (53%), AWS (46%), IBM SoftLayer (43%) and VMware (33%). Interestingly, 86% of those polled in MEA (Middle East and Africa) are Google houses – albeit with only 14 respondents.

For cloud deployment interoperability, the most popular option, cited by 64% of respondents, was an ‘on-premise private cloud with a hosted private cloud’. Expanding a little further, 57% opted for on-prem private cloud with public cloud, 55% with a hosted private cloud with public cloud, and 49% with two separate public cloud or IaaS platforms.

When it came to adoption drivers of hybrid and multi-cloud environments, flexibility and choice won out, cited by almost two thirds (64%) of overall respondents, ahead of extending IT’s resource capability for existing on-prem infrastructure (56%) and maximising return on existing on-prem investments (56%).

Naturally, Microsoft looks at the potential of the landscape and offers that it is ‘uniquely positioned’ to help customers with their critical managed service needs, as Aziz Benmalek, Microsoft VP of worldwide hosting and managed service providers put it in a blog post. Yet the stats show potential across the wider industry in general.

“More than ever before, customers are looking to a single trusted advisor to provide transformation-oriented managed services and hybrid implementation,” said Melanie Posey, 451 Research vice president. “Customers are looking to service providers to not only transform IT but also transform their entire business – to rewire the building and support new requirements, all while keeping the lights on.”

Adobe and Microsoft expand cloud partnership and launch joint solutions  

published on 2017-04-08 by Admin

Adobe and Microsoft have announced the first set of joint solutions to ?help enterprises transform their customer experiences, with Adobe's Experience Cloud combining alongside Microsoft Azure, Dynamics 365 and Power BI products.

Those with good memories will recall an announcement made last September which confirmed Azure would become the preferred cloud platform for Adobe's marketing, creative and document clouds, with Adobe's Marketing Cloud doing similarly for Dynamics 365 Enterprise, Microsoft's enterprise resource planning offering.

Adobe said this latest change builds on the previous partnership. Bringing together Adobe's and Microsoft's sales, marketing and customer intelligence solutions enables brands to better understand and engage with their customers across all touch points, said Abhay Parasnis, Adobe EVP and CTO.

What this means in terms of product is a combined Adobe Analytics and Microsoft Power BI for the enterprise audience, an integration between Adobe Campaign and Microsoft Dynamics 365 for marketing teams trying to create a single customer view, and the concisely named Adobe Experience Manager Sites Managed Service ? web content management, in other words ? available on Azure.

We believe the combined power of our technologies will allow enterprise businesses to harness their data in new ways, unlocking critical business insights and actionable intelligence, said Scott Guthrie, Microsoft EVP in a statement. Together, we are delivering compelling and personalised experiences that will drive brand loyalty and growth.

In addition, Adobe unveiled a series of enhancements to its Cloud Platform product, including a new common data language, XDM, quicker time to market for developers with Launch, and partner integrations with Acxiom, AppDynamics, MasterCard, and more.

The press release summed it up nicely. Advancements in cloud services have fundamentally altered the computing landscape. The next decade will bring even more disruptive changes in how brands create, immerse and engage their customers in their experiences, it offered. A modern experience platform that addresses these expectations needs to be designed with a common data language founded on content and data, an open ecosystem to enable others to build on and innovate, and intelligence at its core with AI, machine learning and deep learning.

Samsung Konfirmasi Akan Jual Galaxy Note 7 Refurbish, Ganti Nama Jadi Galaxy Note 7s?  

published on 2017-04-08 by Admin

Akhirnya kabar akan beredarnya Galaxy Note 7 refurbish atau rekondisi telah dikonfirmasi oleh Samsung. Mereka mengungkapkan, Galaxy Note 7 akan dijual di beberapa negara yang memungkinkan regulasi smartphone refurbish. Alhasil, tentu saja Amerika Serikat tidak termasuk negara yang dihampiri Galaxy Note 7 yang telah "clear" ini.

Kita patut berterimakasih pada para pegiat Greenpeace yang melakukan kampanye daur ulang untuk menyadarkan Samsung. Akhirnya, komponen seperti kamera dan semikonduktor dari Galaxy Note 7 yang ditarik dari pasaran. Beberapa sumber memberkirakan ada 3 juta unit Galaxy Note 7 yang masih bisa direkondisi. Samsung masih mengkaji regulasi peredaran ponsel refurbish ini di beberapa negara. Diperkirakan, kebanyakan akan dijual di negara berkembang seperti India dan Vietnam, semoga saja termasuk Indonesia. Jadi negara macam US dan UK sudah pasti tidak akan kebagian ponsel refurbish ini.

Samsung juga menungkapkan, model, harga, fitur dan nama dari Galaxy Note 7 refurbish bisa berubah. Beberapa bocoran mengungkapkan, fitur Galaxy Note 7 refurbish ini masih sama hanya saja dengan kapasitas baterai yang lebih kecil. Selain itu, beberapa sumber mengungkapkan nama ponsel ini akan berubah menjadi Galaxy Note 7s.