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Need to take the emotion out of tech evaluation and M&A? Here’s how

James Bourne — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 16:44:06 +0000

In the US, tech mergers and acquisitions remain the most active M&A sector in terms of both value and volume; in the first half of this year, $415.4 billion changed hands in almost 1,300 overall deals, according to White & Case’s M&A Explorer. Perhaps your company’s technology acquisition is not quite at the financial level... Read more »

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Why it’s time to ‘embrace the discomfort’ with cloud vendor lock-in

James Bourne — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 14:53:47 +0000

Vendor lock-in, alongside security, are issues that have pervaded IT and software procurement, whether computing has been centralized or not. In the era of the cloud, with benefits ranging from scalability to speed, the hoped-for panacea has turned out to be less than expected. For a while, the vendors and analysts thought they’d cracked it... Read more »

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IDC predicts cloud infrastructure spending this year will hit $90.2B

Ryan Daws — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 15:59:56 +0000

IDC forecasts that cloud infrastructure spending will exceed $90 billion in 2022. In Q1 2022, IDC found that spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments – including dedicated and shared environments – increased 17.2 percent year-over-year to $18.3 billion. The firm’s analysts note the strong growth is despite “tight supply of some... Read more »

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Workday enters multi-year partnership with Google Cloud

Fin Strathern — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:27:16 +0000

Enterprise management vendor Workday has partnered with Google Cloud to accelerate digital transformation for businesses around the world. Through the partnership, Google Cloud will help businesses across core industries such as retail and healthcare to run Workday enterprise applications for finance, HR, and planning. Chano Fernandez, co-CEO and co-founder at Workday, said: “The combination of... Read more »

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