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Predicting Cloud Growth Rates for 2023

Tom Tunguz

Yesterday, Google & Amazon announced earnings which completes the picture. A year ago, AWS, GCP, & Azure averaged 44% annual growth. Google: [GCP] saw slower growth of consumption as customers optimized GCP costs.

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How Much Should You Expect Your Startup to Slow in 2022?

Tom Tunguz

GCP reported 37% growth & Microsoft 40%. GCP. -31%. AWS announced earnings earlier today and reported 33% growth. That concludes this quarter’s IaaS earnings scorecard reports & provides us a complete picture of the infrastructure buyer’s index.

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Google Cloud CTO: To win the enterprise, we need to cut the tech jargon

ITPro

CTO Brian Stevens says GCP needs to get better at talking about technology In-depth.

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Grey Skies in Cloud Earnings

Tom Tunguz

This week Microsoft, Google/ Alphabet, & Amazon reported their third quarter figures. Google Cloud Platform. GCP is more volatile, likely driven by the volatility of bigger deals closing on a smaller revenue base.

Cloud 212
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The Critical Question Facing Web3 Infrastructure Startups

Tom Tunguz

Perhaps this dynamic drives consolidation in the market, paralleling the web2 infrastructure hypermarts of AWS, GCP, and Azure. When I hosted this blog on Amazon Web Services, I used 5 products. I paid for them each in US dollars every month. One invoice. Suppose I wanted to rebuild my site on web3 using fully decentralized components. I would pay each product provider in their own token: one for storage, compute, caching/CDN, email subscription management, etc.

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BetterCloud Is Now Available on Google Cloud Marketplace

BetterCloud

However, as B2B e-commerce continues to boom amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Forrester now believes this could become reality as early as this year. This is just one of several reasons we are thrilled to announce that BetterCloud is now available on the Google Cloud Marketplace !

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Thanks to Unit, Everstage, Aiven, Zip, and Mission Cloud for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2022!

SaaStr

Everstage is a no-code commissions automation platform that removes recurring busywork for your Ops and Finance teams and provides a transparent and gamified incentives experience to your customer-facing teams.

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The Health of Cloud Spending in Mid-2022

Tom Tunguz

This week Microsoft, Google/ Alphabet, & Amazon report their figures. Today, Microsoft & Google revealed the health of their infrastructure business units. Google Cloud Platform. Here are some hypotheses: Google may have greater customer concentration in GCP than Azure. Google may have greater sector exposure to clients that are suffering through a recession: retail, ecommerce, & advertising-based businesses.

Cloud 159
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Thanks to Demandwell, DuploCloud, Prismatic, SafeBase, and WorkOS for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2023!

SaaStr

DuploCloud offers an end-to-end DevOps software platform for dev teams that don’t have dedicated DevOps engineers and augments those that do. Prismatic is the integration platform for B2B software companies.

Azure 204
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Thanks to ChartMogul, ChurnZero, Cledara, Secureframe, and Verdane for Sponsoring SaaStr Europa 2023!

SaaStr

ChartMogul is an analytics platform to help you run your subscription business. ChurnZero is the Customer Success platform and partner for growing SaaS and subscription businesses. At SaaStr, our partners are an integral part of our events.

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Thanks to Calendly, Drift, Reprise, Secureframe, and Shift Paradigm for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2022!

SaaStr

Calendly , a powerful yet simple automated scheduling platform, takes the work out of connecting with others so you can accomplish more. Reprise is the only complete demo creation platform that go-to-market teams turn to when they need to create live and guided demo experiences.

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Gartner: SaaS Spending Will Grow Another 40% in Next 2 Years Alone

SaaStr

In my 148 public SaaS companies (including most of the categories of this list but not AWS, Azure, GCP) the aggregate revenue is $185B. Just how fast is SaaS and Cloud growing? One thing we know — Fast. Still. Even now, at hundreds of billions in annual spend.

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Clouded Judgement 10.28.22

Clouded Judgement

Hyperscalers Report Quarterly Earnings This week we saw AWS (Amazon), GCP (Google) and Azure (Microsoft) report earnings. You could argue a shift to committed contracts gives them more stability, and a higher lifetime value of each customer.

Cloud 130
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[WEBINAR REPLAY] How to build a culture of security in your software development teams

Audacix

How to protect your cloud console with GCP/Azure/ AWS cloud console pentests. Building a culture of security in you software development teams is not an easy task, but its crucial if you want to minimise the chances of unforeseen cybersecurity disasters and unfortunate media appearances.

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5 Security Changes Your Company Needs to Make to Land Enterprise Deals from Secureframe

SaaStr

Some well-known providers of SSO include Google Cloud Identity for companies using GSuite, Azure Active Directory for companies using Office 365, and Okta if you’re a larger company with more complex needs. .

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

CloudGeometry

This is a not one-sided convenience to just make life easier for the technology side: it’s a delivery model that structures how resources within the SaaS platform serve your customers. 2020 left no doubt: the growth of cloud computing is firmly grounded in the SaaS business model.

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Cisco, Google reenergize multicloud/hybrid cloud joint development

IT World

Cisco and Google have expanded their joint cloud-development activities to help customers more easily build secure multicloud and hybrid applications everywhere from on-premises data centers to public clouds. The expansion centers around Google’s new open-source hybrid cloud package called Anthos, which was introduced at the company’s Google Next event this week. Anthos is based on – and supplants – the company's existing Google Cloud Service beta.

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Moving ChartMogul to AWS and Kubernetes

Chart Mogul

We could not secure additional resources on-demand, and executing simple tasks usually meant long planning and wasted resources. We researched the market and discovered many tradeoffs and advantages a new provider could bring to the table.

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The State of Cloud Marketplaces: A Look into the Data, Trends, and Findings for Software Sellers

OpenView Labs

It’s clear that buyers are racing to the Cloud Marketplace, like those offered by AWS, Azure, GCP, and IBM / Red Hat, and sellers are eager to tap into the Cloud budget to help their buyers get started fast or scale contracts fueled by cloud budget growth.

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Consumption-based pricing models: transition guidance for CFOs

OPEXEngine

For example, technology companies like AWS, GCP, and Snowflake offer no contracts for customers interested in using their self-service option or beta-testing the solution.

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The best SaaS apps have these 7 web application security controls

Audacix

Everything that you read here is relevant to you whether you host your own web applications or use a cloud platform like AWS. These massive cloud hosting platforms typically offer protections against large-scale DDOS attacks and the like.

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What Is FinOps and How Can It Help Businesses Scale Their Financial Processes

Baremetrics

With flexible payment plans and real-time adjustments to service provision available from most cloud platforms, the cloud is helping businesses of all kinds scale up or down as and when they need. Selecting your EDI platform is actually a very important decision from a FinOps perspective.

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PODCAST 78: What this Google Exec Wants You to Know About Success w/ Alison Wagonfeld of Google Cloud

Sales Hacker

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Alison Wagonfeld, CMO of Google Cloud. Google’s Marketing Message and stance on competitors. About Alison Wagonfeld and Google Cloud (01:52). GCP’s Marketing Message in Light of Direct Competition (20:30). Alison Wagonfeld is the Chief Marketing Officer for Google Cloud. Now, without further ado, my interview with Alison Wagonfeld, CMO of Google Cloud. About Alison Wagonfeld and Google Cloud.

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SaaSOps: A Practice to Discover, Manage & Secure Your SaaS Apps (Oktane20 Live Session Recap)

BetterCloud

We run Okta and most of our apps are run in AWS and GCP, so it wasn’t too difficult for us. BetterCloud Founder and CEO David Politis presented a breakout session during Oktane20 Live, Okta’s virtual identity conference.

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Google Cloud to offer VMware data-center tools natively

IT World

Google this week said it would for the first time natively support VMware workloads in its Cloud service, giving customers more options for deploying enterprise applications. The hybrid cloud service called Google Cloud VMware Solution by CloudSimple will use VMware software-defined data center (SDCC) technologies including VMware vSphere, NSX and vSAN software deployed on a platform administered by CloudSimple for GCP.

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Best Website Monitoring Services

Neil Patel

Did you know a 2017 Google study showed that just one second of delay in page loading can reduce your page views by 11% and bring down the conversion rate by 7%? Consider also that the Google algorithm ranks websites by load speed, among other metrics.

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IT Community Discussion Recap: IT Leaders Share How They’re Successfully Enabling Remote Workforces

BetterCloud

And several panelists noted the cost savings due to eliminating expenses such as food, travel, and employee events, which could be redirected to employee engagement or other resources. Farrell: We use VPN and require it for access to some things, such as things in GCP. Layton: If you don’t know what “Zero Trust” and “BeyondCorp” are, you should Google those terms today. Sometimes, it takes a community.

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Cisco, Google reenergize multi-cloud/hybrid cloud joint development work

IT World

Cisco and Google have expanded their joint cloud development activities to help customers more easily build secure multicloud and hybrid applications everywhere from on-premises data centers to public clouds. The expansion centers around Google’s new open-source hybrid cloud package called Anthos, which was introduced at the company’s Google Next event this week. Anthos is based on – and supplants – the company's existing Google Cloud Service beta.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

Knowing when it’s time to become a platform is a delicate thing, as Mike Kreaden , Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, discovered. Making the jump to becoming a platform requires humility. And I remember Marc [Benioff] interviewing me, like he did every employee, and painting the vision for what the platform would be. And you helped the company transition to becoming a platform rather than just a product company. How to know when to become a platform.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So our initial bet was performance could make a big difference. It was one server running on like one provider, and it was on one side kind of risky because one big hardware failure of could cause us a lot of trouble. It was at a moment where it could have hurt the company like a big failure, a big hardware failure could have hurt us in term of trust. It can be your factor 10, like on performance for us, but it could also be a negative decision.

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