Just Like Kodak, Blackberry and Nokia, companies like Hp, Dell, IBM and the likes might die a natural death if they don't change strategy.

Cloud offerings are really taking over.

likeme:
Just Like Kodak, Blackberry and Nokia, companies like Hp, Dell, IBM and the likes might die a natural death if they don't change strategy.

Cloud offerings are really taking over.

Everyone in the IT industry is well aware of how rapid technology changes and will most likely be ready for any change no matter how drastic it is.
In my opinion, as long as the cloud exists, these companies will continue to bloom. Most of them even have ties with the major public cloud providers, this is because of the services they provide aside selling hardware. IBM is also a public cloud provider.

The private cloud space is still very much alive and these companies are seriously exploiting it. They sell hardware (compute, network, storage) and cloud management solutions to enterprises who still have a need for private cloud. Mind you, this is only a fraction of what they do.

HP recently restructured, bought simplivity and nimble storage, probably because they also want a share of the hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) market. They're also a major contributor to the Openstack project, even though they recently sold that division. Their enterprise division also merged with another company to form a much bigger IT service company, dxc technology.

Dell acquired EMC, so they also own VMware and other companies under EMC.

IBM acquired Softlayer which isn't doing that bad. They also have bluemix, their PaaS offering and have also invested heavily in big data, machine learning, IoT and AI with IBM Watson.

Hope you're beginning to see the trend?

These are companies who live by the mantra "Innovate or die"

Tunee:


Everyone in the IT industry is well aware of how rapid technology changes and will most likely be ready for any change no matter how drastic it is.
In my opinion, as long as the cloud exists, these companies will continue to bloom. Most of them even have ties with the major public cloud providers, this is because of the services they provide aside selling hardware. IBM is also a public cloud provider.

The private cloud space is still very much alive and these companies are seriously exploiting it. They sell hardware (compute, network, storage) and cloud management solutions to enterprises who still have a need for private cloud. Mind you, this is only a fraction of what they do.

HP recently restructured, bought simplivity and nimble storage, probably because they also want a share of the hyper converged infrastructure (HCI) market. They're also a major contributor to the Openstack project, even though they recently sold that division. Their enterprise division also merged with another company to form a much bigger IT service company, dxc technology.

Dell acquired EMC, so they also own VMware and other companies under EMC.

IBM acquired Softlayer which isn't doing that bad. They also have bluemix, their PaaS offering and have also invested heavily in big data, machine learning, IoT and AI with IBM Watson.

Hope you're beginning to see the trend?

These are companies who live by the mantra "Innovate or die"

They seem to have changed strategy and position themselves for the trend in the industry.

Hello everyone I am fresh graduate. I have got an interest in cloud computing as it is the next big thing in the IT industry.I just need someone here to lead and guide in building my career in cloud computing.Your wealth of knowledge and resources will be much appreciated. Skwalker5 likeme Tunee

You can go and start with AWS on youtube.

Hello guys!
It's good to breeze in here again.

Well, I have been getting my hands dirty with Mikrotik.

likeme:
You can go and start with AWS on youtube.

I think I am interested in becoming a Microsoft Azure Pro. @Skywalker5 How do I get started?

Just started Azure and O365 training, already have done CCIE (r&s) training, took the exams too, passed written..., done MCSA server 12, passed the exams, done AWS, yet to take the exams.
And i must say, if system admins don't update their knowledge to cloud computing, they might be out of jobs in a couple of years.
Cloud is the future!

routik:
Hello guys!
I think I am interested in becoming a Microsoft Azure Pro. @Skywalker5 How do I get started?

You can start from here https://mva.microsoft.com/ but my advise is to start with Microsoft server 2012 or 2016.Once you understand that, you can move to Azure

wayaa007:
Just started Azure and O365 training, already have done CCIE (r&s) training, took the exams too, passed written..., done MCSA server 12, passed the exams, done AWS, yet to take the exams.
And i must say, if system admins don't update their knowledge to cloud computing, they might be out of jobs in a couple of years.
Cloud is the future!

They will be out of jobs. Cloud ti take over.

I'm going to write AWS Certified solution Architect Associate and Pro before the end of July. I am also learning python and Linux.

Skywalker5:


You can start from here https://mva.microsoft.com/ but my advise is to start with Microsoft server 2012 or 2016.Once you understand that, you can move to Azure

Okay. Thanks.

wonlasewonimi:


They will be out of jobs. Cloud ti take over.

I'm going to write AWS Certified solution Architect Associate and Pro before the end of July. I am also learning python and Linux.

How many companies in Nigeria do you think are using cloud amazon aws? lol im not sure yet. But it is far growing in the UK and the rate of skilled AWS engineers for IT contractors is from 400 pounds/Day average ! But Nigeria , no , we are dealing with recession lol

Mellorix:


How many companies in Nigeria do you think are using cloud amazon aws? lol im not sure yet. But it is far growing in the UK and the rate of skilled AWS engineers for IT contractors is from 400 pounds/Day average ! But Nigeria , no , we are dealing with recession lol

Not really recession, coz in a recession, companies look to cut costs, cloud services cut costs.
i feel it's just lack of awareness

wayaa007:


Not really recession, coz in a recession, companies look to cut costs, cloud services cut costs.
i feel it's just lack of awareness

Cloud wont really cut cost in Nigeria if you analyse it very well. Nigeria is just too cheap!

Mellorix:


Cloud wont really cut cost in Nigeria if you analyse it very well. Nigeria is just too cheap!

Cheap?

wayaa007:


Cheap?

low in price, especially in relation to similar items or services

Guys! whats happening in the IT Market!! what have you guys been up to ? I think we should form a whats app group! I can create one then you guys can drop number and i add .

Devops , Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) , Software as a Service, IoT, Data Science, Serveless computing, Blockchain Technology all continues to grow.

likeme:
Devops , Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) , Software as a Service, IoT, Data Science, Serveless computing, Blockchain Technology all continues to grow.

Add Virtualization also.