Insight Type: Market Coverage

Cisco was able to deliver on its Q2 guidance beating both revenue and earnings despite a number of tough economic factors related to China and Brexit.
Still upset over losing the Department of Defense JEDI contract, Amazon’s AWS seeks to President Trump and six other government workers regarding the selection of Microsoft for the DoD cloud services contract. Will questioning the government about this decision make any difference?
As experiential retailer b8ta opens its first international store, the retail-as-a-service provider continues to blaze new trails in the retail industry, at a time when that is some much-needed change. Describing themselves as “the next generation of retail” and focusing not only on discovery, but also on the building of infrastructure and tools to power that next generation of retail, I continue to watch what the b8ta team is doing with interest.
Nokia announced the launch of its Network Operations Master to provide CSPs with highly automated and scalable software for managing their 5G networks. This is key, as CSPs will require an intelligent management system as 5G adds new layers of technical complexity. Here is a closer look at Nokia’s Network Operations Master, along with my thoughts on why this is not only important, but also what Nokia should do moving forward to further differentiate its Network Operations Master offering.
2019 Saw Microsoft make the biggest leap in IaaS, while AWS saw a small market share decline despite big growth. Diving into the Canalys 2019 IaaS Report.
NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW launched this week, the company’s much-anticipated subscription-based game streaming service. Here’s a look at how it stacks up against competitors Google Stadia and Sony PlayStation, as well as what I think is ahead for these brands in game streaming service offerings.
After much debate, the French Consumer Fraud Group has fined Apple 25 million euros for throttling its iPhones. Small fine, but a big step for consumers.
Ribbon’s EdgeMarc 6000 smartens the operator and enterprise edge and boosts Ribbon’s overall competitiveness. Ribbons’ edge portfolio puts increased pressure on SBC platform rivals such as Cisco, Oracle, Metaswitch, Huawei, and Ericsson to show their ability to diversify their portfolios to meet the intelligent edge demands of customers in both the operator and enterprise spaces.
Qualcomm announced its Q1 earnings hitting on both revenue and earnings as 5G positions the company for positive results moving forward into 2020.
HPE continues its cloud native expansion acquiring Scytale, a company that focuses on application to application identity management.
Alphabet’s fiscal Q4 and year-end 2019 results show strong growth under competitive pressure. As the company attempts to diversify beyond its consumer focus into enterprise opportunities, Google’s cloud business and the continued courting of enterprise cloud customers may become a crucial failsafe for the company. More on that here.

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