Microsoft is changing itself from the tried and true model of selling software product licenses, to a cloud company. While, this is a significant change in delivery for Microsoft, it is very clear that the company is committed to the existing channel strategy including single and two tier distribution. It is doubling down on this commitment with a new Cloud Service Provider (CSP) program that includes clear definitions and requirements for each segment and, additional channel categories. Microsoft hopes to attract new partners while helping existing partners make the business transformation to cloud.
Microsoft is joining a relatively crowded community of software companies also moving to a cloud model. As the market changes and evolves, many partners in Microsoft’s ecosystem are caught in the middle as the market and customers switch to cloud. By ripping off the band-aid rather than prolonging the transformation to cloud services, Microsoft and its partners will ultimately become more competitive and better positioned to meet customers’ emerging needs.
Security is not a standalone function. Neuralytix believes that data security cannot be application based. The only way forward must be data centric security.
The IBM cloud strategy hinges on the ability to deliver a wide spectrum of cloud and non-cloud platforms and software. Deploying and managing applications and components into this complex an environment represents a challenge for DevOps teams. To address this complexity, IBM has embraced open systems such as Cloud Foundry and Open Stack. To further help manage these multifaceted hybrid systems, IBM plans to introduce a hybrid cloud controller product that will assist in management, governance, and automation of operational elements of these environments.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is already a scalable, available Linux distribution that is widely used for both enterprise and cloud computing. This year’s Red Hat Summit in Boston showed that Red Hat is building a wider ecosystem, leveraging RHEL and Red Hat middleware to expand its presence in the broader world of hybrid computing – linking enterprise datacenters with cloud datacenters – and providing tools and platforms for end-to-end workloads spanning public, private and hybrid clouds.
