Microsoft rolls out new Dynamics 365 apps powered by AI and mixed reality
Microsoft is powering its Dynamics 365 with new artificial intelligence and mixed reality applications. Dynamics 365, released around a couple of years ago, helps organizations tear down the traditional silos of customer relationship manage...
Global public cloud services market to total $206.2 billion by 2019: Gartner
Revenues of public cloud services worldwide will reach $206.2 billion by the end of 2019, up 17.3% from $175.8 billion in 2018, according to Gartner’s latest forecast. In 2017, the market was valued at $145.3 billion, which is expected to grow 21% this year. I...
Amazon dominated IaaS public cloud services market in 2017, while Azure witnessed highest growth: Gartner
Global infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market reached $23.5 billion in 2017, up 29.5% from 2016, according to tech analyst firm Gartner. Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to dominate the worldwide IaaS market with more than $12 billion revenue, accounting...
Salesforce brings Einstein Bots to its Service Cloud platform
Salesforce is making it easier for companies to automate routine service requests by bringing the Einstein Bots to its Service Cloud platform. Built on Salesforce Customer Success Platform, the Service Cloud provides companies a 360-degree view of their custom...
Companies settling on multi-platform cloud solutions for digital business transformation: Cloud Foundry Report
A recent survey of 600 IT decision makers by Cloud Foundry finds that companies are preferring multiple cloud-native technologies to digitally transform their businesses. Basically, around 40% of respondents were deploying a combination of platform-as-a-servic...
Global server market revenue surges 33.4% in 1Q18: Gartner
The global server market continues its growth with server revenue increasing 33.4% and shipments growing 17.3% YoY in the first quarter of 2018, according to Gartner. The growth of server market is driven by increased investment in hyperscale and data centers ...
Indian organizations increasingly shifting from traditional to augmented analytics tools: Gartner
As more organizations shift from traditional analytics projects to augmented analytics tools, the revenue of analytics and business intelligence (BI) software market in India is expected to reach $304 million in 2018, reported Gartner. This is an increase of 1...
Global application infrastructure and middleware market touched $28 billion in 2017. Expected to grow even faster in 2018: Gartner
Global application infrastructure and middleware (AIM) market reached $28.5 billion, growing 12.1% from 2016, according to market research firm Gartner. The growth of AIM market has been driven by increased adoption of digital technology trends like migration ...
Microsoft introduces new set of requirements for Microsoft Tier-1 CSP partners focused on billing and performance
“Forty-seven percent of CEOs said they are being challenged by the board of directors to make progress in digital business, and this enterprise-wide focus on digital is also being felt by CIOs across industries,” said Jan-Martin Lowendahl, research vice presid...
Over half of organizations have now deployed Office 365, while G Suite adoption seems to have slowed to a halt: Bitglass report
The usage of Office 365 among organizations globally has reached over 56% in 2018, up from 34% in 2016, whereas the usage of G Suite remained steady at 25%, according to Cloud Adoption 2018 War report by Bitglass. Bitglass, the Silicon Valley-based Next-Gen CA...
C3 IoT and Intel join hands on new AI and IoT platform
C3 IoT, a digital transformation software provider, has joined hands with Intel on an artificial intelligence (AI) and internet of things (IoT) partnership. The companies together aim to provide on-premise, hybrid and edge-based AI and IoT applications to larg...
Oracle extends its autonomous cloud portfolio with new AI-based services
After launching the Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud in March, Oracle has now extended its autonomous capabilities with general availability of new PaaS services. The company launched Oracle Autonomous Analytics Cloud, Oracle Autonomous Integration Cloud, and O...
Avaya empowers SMEs with hybrid cloud services in New Zealand
Avaya, the California-based business communications company, announced the availability of its SaaS-based hybrid cloud services in the New Zealand region. The services under the banner ‘Powered by Avaya’ will enable medium-sized businesses to easily and flexib...
