It’s not a simple job figuring out how IBM will play in the mobile cloud space. The intentions are there; the money is there; the software talent is there. But it’s not yet clear how the company intends to develop a strategy for t...
Google is the inscrutable company with a penchant for forays into disciplines seemingly unrelated to its primary Internet search business. To cast some light on this inscrutable company, we reduce its business strategy to a simple...
Box has been very vocal in proclaiming that the convergence of cloud and mobile will dominate the future. COO Dan Levin stated in July 2013 that this convergence (the mobile cloud) will create over “1 billion new IT workers” and c...
That there is polarization of views about Apple’s future is an understatement. One view is that this is a hardware company that rises or falls on the niftiness of its latest hardware wrinkles. Our view, however, is quite different...
SAP is a company moving from a leading core enterprise software business to a planned, strongly cloud-oriented model. We spoke with Adam Stein, senior director of mobile marketing about SAP’s initiatives and their attitude towards...
In addition to the large global commercial forces driving mobile clouds there are almost weekly developments in new areas fundamentally linked to the mobile cloud sector. One such development is “Deep Learning,” which embraces the...
The MIT Review’s selection of “10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2013” included Deep Learning and as a segue to another current area of mobile cloud excitement: big data from cheap phones. The title: “Big Data From Cheap Phones” wou...
There is a clear short term rationale for VMware’s $1.5 billion purchase of AirWatch but there is also a long term challenge. We praise this move by VMware, which follows on our recent interview and strategic commentary (12/5/13) ...
When the news first broke on the addition of the M7 co-processor to the CPU assets of Apple’s 5s and iPad Air this past fall, the buzz was about how this highly derated, i.e. 145 MHz, low power processor would be used for processi...
VMware’s CEO, Pat Gelsinger, has stated that his company is “uniquely positioned to help our customers transform to the mobile cloud era of computing.” VMware’s view of the scope of mobile cloud computing encompasses everything “f...
