Buyer's Lens Weekly Update: Generational Performance Comparison: Microsoft Azure’s A-Series and D-Series

This Week In Buyer's Lens Tuesday, February 10

LATEST FROM THE GIGAOM RESEARCH TEAM The CMO is not replacing the CIO and here’s why Three years ago, Gartner predicted that by 2017, the CMO (chief marketing officer) would spend more on IT than the CIO. This one prediction spurned a number of follow-up predictions pointing toward the end of the CIO. The bottom line that everyone wants to know: Is […]   by Tim Crawford   February 9, 2015

FEATURED RESEARCH Generational Performance Comparison: Microsoft Azure’s A-Series and D-Series Cloud-infrastructure performance is a key consideration that can greatly impact quality of service the quality of service and total cost of ownership for IaaS providers. Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial   by Anne Qingyang Liu   February 6, 2015   Outlook: End-User Computing in 2015 Enterprise IT will face harsh realities around BYOD, Desktop as a Service will grow rapidly, and questions about Microsoft's future market share will abound.Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial   by Simon Bramfitt   January 12, 2015   Decoding disruption: 4 frameworks for understanding industry change True disruption doesn't mean merely competing. It means changing the structure of markets, the participants within them, and the balance of power. Subscriber content. Sign up for a free trial   by Haydn Shaughnessy   December 22, 2014

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