Search Results for: cloud-services

  • How Accurate is Oracle's Mark Hurd?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Think of the staff time and maintenance fees companies must keep plowing into their on-premises systems as mounting interest on the tech debt—time and money that do nothing but keep companies at status quo.”
    All applications that are not ported to the cloud are legacy? The term legacy is used to describe an application they want to replace rather than accurately using the term. For example, SAP has referred to Oracle’s database as a legacy, even though SAP’s HANA database is inferior to the Oracle database.
    Shifting to Cloud Services is Critical?
    “It’s why the

  • Why SAP and Oracle Have Such Problem Building their Clouds

    ByPrimary Researcher

    Executive Summary

    Oracle and SAP have built virtually nothing in their cloud services.
    We cover why Oracle and SAP appear incapable of creating competitive clouds.

    Introduction
    While currently, both vendors cannot talk enough about the cloud, both vendors fought against the cloud for many years (and we have the evidence in this book). These vendors behaved this way as they knew that the cloud cut against their on-premises business model. Moreover, once they embraced the cloud (not that they wanted to, but Wall Street told them they did not have an alternative), their approach to the cloud has not …

  • Will Thomas Kurian Bring Oracle's Sales Sleaze to Google Cloud?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … call.
    Understanding corporate customers is precisely why Google hired Mr. Kurian, who spent two decades at longtime adversary and competitor Oracle Corp. , including running product development. Customers are happy with Google’s technology, he said, but not their lack of access to sales managers to cater to their needs—a basic business tactic.””
    Oracle is not an adversary of Google or any other cloud service providers because they have a nearly unmeasurable cloud services presence.
    Something left out of this observation on the part of the WSJ is how do Oracle customers feel about the Oracle Cloud, the division …

  • The Top 3 Things to Look for In a Cloud Service Provider

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … end up with less agility, less availability, and higher TCO.

    Let us move to the three primary selection criteria. 
    #1: Agility
    If a company moves to the cloud, they expect their business agility to increase and certainly not to decrease. We know a few customers who recently migrated to a cloud services provider in the US. Their support tickets are now measured in days instead of the hours it previously took their own internal IT staff after moving their applications.
    Why?
    Because problem tickets and change requests are handled internally on the provider side by multiple teams (product support and …

  • How Appealing is the Oracle Global Startup Ecosystem?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … pushing most aggressively, customers pay Oracle in advance for cloud services, which they may or may not fully utilize. Ask Oracle what happens to those services you don’t use.
    Those same terms mean if you over-utilize, you will incur a penalty – much like overage charges on a mobile phone plan with limited minutes. Rather than getting a volume discount, the more you use the software over your cap, the more you’re going to pay.
    You can pay more than what your contract appears to require. The rules on when discounts do and do not apply are …

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    Are SAP's Layoffs Due to an Impressive Transformation?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … Goerke said did not come true and were often misleading. Who attended a session with Goerke and said: “yes, I am getting the real story here.” The misinformation in this interview with Ray Wang comes fast and hard. Entirely left out of this discussion is how SAP is marking up cloud services between 3x and 10x. 

    Virtually nothing that Bernd Leukert said would happen came true. SAP has a distinct shortage of people in top positions who will tell the truth. If all the top people are good for repeating false information, it will be impossible for SAP to make …

  • Is SAP Really a Cloud Provider or Just a Cloud Buyer?

    ByPrimary Researcher

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    Conclusion
    SAP poses as a cloud provider, but they aren’t one. They are a cloud buyer.
    SAP feels they need to maintain the illusion of being a cloud provider because their cloud strategy for cloud services is to coerce (often through broadscale application discounts) customers to buy cloud services through them. This is so SAP can upcharge the cloud services providers, as we covered in How to Understand SAP’s Cloud Upcharge on AWS Storage.
    This is ultimately a short-term strategy. But to pull it off, SAP will continue to pose as a cloud services provider …

  • What Is Different About the Q1 2019 SAP and Oracle Layoffs?

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … UK, China, Ireland, Malaysia, France, and Vietnam. SAP’s engineering culture died this week.
    What is Oracle’s Plan After the Oracle Layoffs?
    At Oracle, the Oracle layoffs resulted in the restructuring, which covers two major organizational changes. The first is the significant downsizing of the Oracle cloud infrastructure group (OCI), and the second is merging advanced customer support (ACS) organization with Oracle managed cloud services (MCS) organization.
    According to our sources, OCI has been operating at a net loss for years. Both sales and renewals are commercially insignificant. The OCI downsizing and headcount reduction aim to reduce operating costs.

  • The Hidden Issue with the SD HANA Benchmarks

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … for ERP 6.0: (118 Benchmarks)

    Hardware Environment

    Bare Metal: (984 Benchmarks)
    Cloud: (44 Benchmarks)
    Virtualized: (36 Benchmarks)

    This means 92% of the benchmarks were run on bare metal and premises.
    Hardware Vendors
    The benchmarks used hardware from 28 different hardware vendors and AWS (not a hardware vendor but a cloud services provider that uses its own open specified hardware, as we covered in How the Open Compute Project Reduced the Power of Proprietary Vendors).
    The largest number of benchmarks per hardware vendor was as follows:

    Dell: (86 Benchmarks)
    Fujitsu (57 Benchmarks)
    Fujitsu Siemens (106 Benchmarks)
    Hitachi (49 Benchmarks)
    HP …

  • Brightwork Advisory Note: A Change in SAP Development Strategy

    ByPrimary Researcher

    … practically impossible to build services. Cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) are distributed, multi-tenant, loosely-coupled, API-driven, independently, and horizontally scaled. Monoliths are massive, centralized, single-tenant, tightly-integrated, vertically-scaled systems. SAP HANA and Leonardo are examples of how this monolithic development mindset handicapped SAP’s cloud transition.
    HANA was born as a specialized OLAP appliance. Later, the product included an OLTP database, an application development platform, and an application server supporting the world’s most sophisticated ERP application suite.

    Can you imagine the complexity of making the smallest development decisions for a product with this …