You can find Preview of Azure PowerShell in PowerShell gallery now. Later on an MSI or WebPI installer version of the preview will be added. The present 0.9.8 version will become 1.0 in due course and the preview is only for testing, not really for production.
The hottest cloud-based marketing startups of 2015
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- Apttus, Booker, Lattice Engines, Segment and Tubular Labs are the five hottest cloud-based marketing startups of 2015.
- 13 of the hottest 34 cloud-based marketing startups are from the Bay Area, followed by Los Angeles with 3, and Bangalore and New York, both with 2.
- 14 are in Pre Series A, 7 in A-Stage, 5 in B-Stage and 3 in C-Stage funding rounds.
These and other insights are from a quick analysis completed using Mattermark Pro, in response to reader requests for more research on marketing startups.
Mattermark uses a combination of artificial intelligence and data quality analysis to provide insights into over one million private companies, over 470,000 with employee data, and over 100,000 funding events. In the interest of full disclosure I’m not today and have never done any consulting work of any kind with Mattermark.
Finding the hottest cloud-based marketing startups
To find the hottest cloud-based marketing startups, an initial query requesting startups competing in the cloud computing and marketing industries was completed. Next, advanced query tools in Mattermark Pro were used to filter out all startups that had exited as indicated by their stage status in Mattermark’s data. This filtered out startups who had been acquired, completed an IPO or had exited through other means. The table below is the result of an analysis completed today with Mattermark data. You can download the table here in Microsoft Excel format.
The Mattermark Growth Score shown in the table below and downloadable Excel file is a measure of how quickly a company is gaining traction at a given point in time. It incorporates the Mindshare Score (web traffic, social traction) as well as business growth metrics (e.g. employee count over time, funding).
The underlying assumption is that companies who see growth across these signals are shipping product and talking to customers, and are more likely to continue to grow as a result. This score is not meant to provide guidance on which startup to invest in. Rather it’s a measure of momentum across the metrics and KPIs that Mattermark measures.
The History of Microsoft Office (Infographic)
Just like Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office has evolved significantly over the years. From the introduction of powerhouse applications like Excel, Word and PowerPoint; to the rise and fall of Clippy, Office has changed a lot. Even so, it’s remained the stalwart solution for work and productivity—whether you’re on a PC, or a Mac. (Thanks, Parallels […]
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Oracle unveils Intel big data partnership while attacking IBM and SAP
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The Oracle OpenWorld 2015 event, which kicked off yesterday in San Francisco, had what one would expect from such a conference; product and integration announcements, alongside a smattering of competitor bashing.
First off, the announcements. Oracle unveiled the Exa Your Power Program, a system which enables customers to migrate off IBM Power systems to Oracle Engineered Systems through Intel technology. The program, which is jointly funded by both Oracle and Intel, offers customers a free proof of concept migration for sample databases, customised reports documenting the migration process and a ‘comprehensive’ roadmap for companies looking to modernise their database environments.
The software giant also announced a record number of partners are adopting Oracle’s cloud technologies, while announcing a new cloud program with Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). New designations within OPN will first appear on February 1, while a new entry point into the OPN program, the Cloud Registered level, will require no initial investment from organisation looking to grow their business with Oracle’s cloud.
In the keynote speech on Sunday night, Oracle chief technology officer Larry Ellison argued “it seems like early days” for cloud businesses, and added SAP and IBM were no longer on the company’s competitive radar.
“In this new world of cloud computing, everything has changed – almost all of our competitors are new,” he told delegates, adding: “We now compete with Salesforce.com and a new company called Workday. Those are the companies we see most frequently when we are selling applications in the marketplace, and we virtually never, ever see SAP.
“This is a stunning change,” added Ellison. “The largest application company in the world is still SAP, but we never see them in the cloud. We sell a lot of applications in the cloud, but we compete with Salesforce, and Workday, and not SAP.”
IBM was equally dismissed as “nowhere in the cloud”, but Ellison admitted he had respect for how Microsoft has turned around its fortunes. “Microsoft is the only one of our traditional competitors that has crossed the chasm, and is now competing aggressively in the cloud business at all three layers,” the Oracle CTO explained.
Those three layers are, of course, the software and application side, the infrastructure, and the platform layer. “Here’s the irony of it all,” Ellison told the audience. “We went into the SaaS business, and…that required us to be in the platform business. We went into the platform business, and came to understand we had to be in the infrastructure as a service business. That’s how we got to where we are today.”
Regular readers of this publication will recall Oracle’s various attempts to bolster its cloud focus, particularly this time last year when the company was hoovering up executives, from SAP head of cloud Shawn Price to former Google App Engine mastermind Peter Magnusson. Yet IBM and SAP may rankle at the criticism from Ellison; both companies will arguably say their cloud operations are succeeding as well as, if not better, than Oracle’s.
Movel’s Inerview on Wearables | @ThingsExpo #IoT#M2M #Wearables
Wearables and the Internet of Things (IoT) are two of the most-rapidly growing segments in today’s mobile space. There’s a good reason for this. Smartphones and apps for smartphones have become mainstream and increasingly, businesses and investors are looking for fresh ways to create value. Having developed award-winning IoT products, I recently sat down with Washington, DC-based IT research firm Clutch to share Movel ‘s insights and expertise about the design and development process for wearables.
Microsoft and Dell Pair Up
Less than two weeks after it announced a $67 billion bid to buy and privatize EMC, Dell has announced plans to develop a new hybrid cloud solution with Microsoft. The hybrid cloud aims to help customers with the difficulties that accompany the cloud. In addition, Dell announced a payment solution to help dissolve risks associated with cloud adoption. Dells extensive research into the hybrid cloud sector has convinced the company that this route will be successful.
Jim Ganthier, vice president and general manager of engineered solutions and cloud at Dell, has stated, “The challenges most customers face on their cloud journey are clear. They tell us it’s too complex, the cost-risk is too high, and control isn’t transparent.”
Dell has announced Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft, The new system is built around the new Microsoft Cloud Platform System Standard that was discussed by Dell and Microsoft CEO’s Michael Dell and Satya Nadella, respectively. According to the two companies, the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft is an industry first; the new system delivers automated deployment and maintenance capabilities; a payment solution to reduce customer investment risk; and hybrid cloud governance, control, and policy-based automation for Microsoft Azure along with other cloud environments. Scott Guthrie, executive vice president for cloud and enterprise at Microsoft, stated,” “Customers want to simplify and accelerate their journey to the cloud.”
The solution is set to contain an on premise private cloud as well as the ability to build and provision workload templates. It will also organize business services of a multitude of cloud environments through integration with the Dell Cloud Manager. The solution also offers unified private-with-public cloud management and consumption control across Windows Azure Pack, Azure and other cloud services.
In addition to Dell Hybrid Cloud System, Dell Cloud Flex Pay is also being offered. This new program allows users to utilize the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft with payment flexibility that entails cost savings without requirement of long term commitment.
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Tune into the Cloud – Ghost Town | @CloudExpo #AWS #SaaS #BigData
For many IT managers, this is still a bit of a shock. Sure, most companies stopped a long time ago featuring their data center on a raised floor behind glass, right next to their reception area, but for many IT professionals a trip to the company data center still feels a little bit like coming home. I can still remember the disappointment of the IT operations manager of a financial institution located right in the heart of Amsterdam, when his brand new mainframe was delivered. That the new system only occupied barely half of the available floor space, was not what got him. It was the fact that the new million dollar plus system no longer came with enterprise-grade tokenring, but instead was fitted with literally the same Ethernet card as his just – in the context of an employee PC project – delivered home PC.
Angular, TypeScript, SystemJS, and Browser Cache | @ThingsExpo @YFain
I was writing a small app in Angular 2 in TypeScript with the on-the-fly transpiling by SystemJS.
I needed to implement a router that would switch between the Home and ProductDetail views in a single page app.
The root component had two links and was supposed to render either Home or ProductDetail components depending on which link the user clicks. Angular 2 offers a pretty elegant syntax for this:
Guide: Protect Your Cloud Apps | @CloudExpo @CloudRaxak #Microservices
Cloud computing delivers on-demand IT resources that provide businesses flexibility. The challenge is the cost and complexity of cloud security compliance (PCI, HIPAA, FFIEC). Raxak Protect automated cloud security enables cloud apps to be deployed quickly and cost-effectively. Get the guide to decreasing your security costs up to 50% through automated cloud security.
The Four Stages of Cloud Competence | @CloudExpo #IoT #Microservices
In the 1970s, a psychologist named Noel Burch created a learning model to describe how humans go through four stages of learning when introduced to a new skill.
This model is known as “The Four Stages of Competence”. In my latest post on Forbes I use this model to describe how organizations traverse the learning process as they start adopting the cloud.