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We have spent the past few weeks analyzing the history and more recent trends of IT. Our specific focus is to help IT leaders ride the 3rd platform wave –becoming a disruptive business growth engine rather than the road-block stopping progress. It doesn’t seem like December (still quite warm here in New York City) however the end of the year and holiday season has arrived. So now let’s take a look […]
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Back on October 22nd Netfast IT Business Review analyzed Amazon Web Services’ aggressive roll-out of new features at the re:Invent conference and their effect on the macro IT economy. Netfast believes Amazon’s disruptive innovation in the marketplace will set off an IT tsunami that has already killed the value-added reseller (VAR) and has the potential to put the old-guard OEMs (OGOs) themselves on death watch. As part of the conference Amazon announced a new […]
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The world of IT is migrating to the cloud. Global spending growing for years have finally hit an tipping point with Amazon Web Services becoming the dominant force following their 3rd quarter results. The cloud infrastructure market should approach $16.5 billion in 2015 spend making it the reality of IT rather than the hot buzz word of years past. Public cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services have created an tsunami which is […]
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As previously covered in this blog Amazon’s recent re:Invent conference was the coming out party announcing leaving little doubt that Amazon Web Services is the winner of the cloud war. The recent 3rd quarter earnings only backed this up showing strong revenue and profit growth in the past quarter. If you are not already convinced here are more reasons from our team why Amazon is the unstoppable force of the […]
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Our ongoing series “How to stay ahead in an world of disruptive innovation” will analyze the past 50 years of IT disruption and innovation as the history is the best indicator of how things will move in the future. Today’s part 1 analyzes how a Seattle Bookstore’s cloud washed away the human network. Part 1: Learn how to swim before the rain clouds wash you away….. “Innovation distinguishes between a leader […]
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Amazon’s 3rd quarter results show a shift to becoming a cloud company with a e-commerce business on the side. IT and Cloud Provider Giant Amazon (they also have an eCommerce site) recorded surprise profit for the second straight quarter with growth in Amazon Web Services leading the way. Company shares rose 11 percent on the news. Amazon has historically re-invested profits from its main consumer division into new business keeping profits relatively flat while innovating […]
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Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference puts the “IT giants” (and some small companies) on notice as HP shuts down their Helion Public Cloud…. HP announced this week that it was finally pulling the plug on the HP Helion public cloud service after close to a year of death row debate. This announcement occurred less than 2 weeks after the re:Invent conference hosted by Amazon Web Services. This year’s re:Invent took on a […]
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Amazon Web Services vs HP Helion Public cloud…game over… HP announced today that it will retire their public cloud platform known as Helion as of January, 2016. After a year of going back and forth on the decision to end-of-life their cloud platform HP has finally admitted they lost in the public cloud war to larger competitors such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. HP is giving customers until […]
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Customers have been asking what is the cloud broker and why do I need it? The following post will explain the role of the cloud broker and how it fits into the world of Cloud Managed Services. What is a Cloud Broker? Cloud brokers and Cloud Managed Services providers partner with companies such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google in order to provider cloud services. The primary value add […]
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Are you thinking of cloud migration, but have your doubts whether cloud security is adequate? You are not alone. Some small and mid-market businesses are hesitant to full embrace cloud migration, fearing that their business sensitive data might get breached when stored in the public cloud. But is the risk really that high or can it be managed? As statistics show, more than half of all enterprises and third of […]
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