2021 was a pivotal year in the DBMS market, as a I wrote in that year’s version of this analysis. Gartner has now published its revenue estimates for 2022, and the growth trends I discussed then have continued. DBMS market revenues passed $90B, an increase of over $11B over 2021. That is a significant decelerationContinue reading “DBMS 2022 Revenue Up 14%”
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The Era of Microsoft on Windows-Only Is Over – OMG
Written by Donald Feinberg and Merv Adrian On 25-Sep-2017 at Ignite, Microsoft announced general availability of SQL Server 2017, now supporting both Windows and Linux platforms, as well as support for containers. It can now book revenue for a product already widely used by early release customers. What does this imply for the $34.4 billion database management system (DBMS) Market? Over theContinue reading “The Era of Microsoft on Windows-Only Is Over – OMG”
IBM Ends Hadoop Distribution, Hortonworks Expands Hybrid Open Source
IBM has followed Intel and EMC/Pivotal in abandoning efforts to make a business of Hadoop distributions, and followed Microsoft in making Hortonworks its supplying partner. At the former Hadoop Summit, now called Dataworks (itself a sign of the shift from Hadoop-centric positioning), IBM announced it will discontinue its IBM Open Platform/BigInsights offering, and will insteadContinue reading “IBM Ends Hadoop Distribution, Hortonworks Expands Hybrid Open Source”
Hadoop Commercial Support Component Tracker – March 2017
Stack expansion has ground to a halt. The last time an Apache project was added to the list of those most supported by leading Hadoop distribution vendors was July 2016, when Kafka joined the other 14 then commonly included. Since then, no broad support for new projects has emerged. The only project that does seem successfulContinue reading “Hadoop Commercial Support Component Tracker – March 2017”
More Microsoft Offerings in Magic Quadrant Listing
In Q3 2016, three additional Microsoft offerings were covered in Magic Quadrant reports: Disaster Recovery as a Service, Application Delivery Controllers and Application Release Automation. –more–
Microsoft Magic Quadrant Sees Two Promotions, One Addition
As of July 13, Microsoft is featured in 41 current Gartner Magic Quadrants. 16 have been updated this year; they are shown in bold in the figure. One has been added: Disaster Recovery as a Service enters in the Visionary quadrant. Two improved their positions: Mobile Application Development Platforms moved from Challenger to Leader, and Identity and AccessContinue reading “Microsoft Magic Quadrant Sees Two Promotions, One Addition”
Microsoft’s Magic Quadrant Positioning Was Unchanged in Q1
As of April 29, Microsoft is featured in 40 current Gartner Magic Quadrants. 8 have been updated this year; they are shown in bold in the figure. In quarterly updates throughout the year, this series of posts will track changed positions, updated MQs and new MQs as they appear. Gartner clients can read about these offerings in depthContinue reading “Microsoft’s Magic Quadrant Positioning Was Unchanged in Q1”
Hadoop Apache Project Commercial Support Tracker April 2016
There are now 19 commonly supported projects: Avro, Flume and Solr join the group supported by all 5 distributors and other changes appear as well. For this version of the tracker (last updated in December), I’ve made one sizable change: Pivotal has been dropped as a “leading distributor,” dropping the number to five. Pivotal relies on Hortonworks’ distro (asContinue reading “Hadoop Apache Project Commercial Support Tracker April 2016”
Microsoft in 40 Gartner Magic Quadrants, January 2016
As of January 29, Microsoft is featured in 40 Gartner Magic Quadrants published or updated within the past 12 months. In quarterly updates throughout the year, this series of posts will track changed positions, updated MQs and new MQs as they appear. Gartner clients can read about these offerings in depth in the reports and inContinue reading “Microsoft in 40 Gartner Magic Quadrants, January 2016”
Microsoft MQ Updates – Results are Mixed
Each quarter, I update my quarterly map of the several dozen Gartner Magic Quadrants that feature Microsoft offerings. Previous posts include December 2014’s Microsoft’s Product Positions – Positive Progress, March’s Microsoft in MQs – March On, and July’s Microsoft in MQs – June is Bustin’ Out. This post follows the end of a fiscal year with quarterly revenue of $19.90 billion forContinue reading “Microsoft MQ Updates – Results are Mixed”