The cloud computing marketplace has come of age, and the market is booming. As I discussed in my last article, Cloud is no longer a business strategy. It is just something we do. Further proof is demonstrated by Amazon Web Services (AWS) reporting huge Q2 numbers of $2.9B in revenue, up by more than $1B from the same time in 2015. Microsoft Corporation reported its “intelligent cloud” segment was up 7%, totaling $6.7B, and their public cloud offering Azure was up by 102% year-on-year. Finally, Oracle Corporation announced the acquisition of born-in-the cloud ERP vendor NetSuite for $9.3B. I believe Oracle had to step-up or get left behind in the cloud market, especially after several false starts and missteps from an execution perspective. OpenStack continues to evolve as a leading cloud platform deployed across many large enterprises worldwide; dozens of service providers like Canonical’s Ubuntu, Dell, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel, Rackspace Hosting, Red Hat and others are driving innovation and leadership.

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Everything we do has changed because of mobile, and employee and customer expectations have undergone a similar shift because of mobile’s wide adoption and use.

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Trina Solar , China’s largest solar panel manufacturer, announced on Monday that it had entered into a definitive agreement to go private via a $1.1 billion all-cash transaction that would see its founding Chairman and a consortium of investors take over the company. The deal, which is expected to close in Q1 2017, was first proposed in December 2015. We believe that going private would allow Trina’s management more headroom to formulate a long-term strategy amid increasing industry headwinds, while giving shareholders a sizable premium over the firm’s current stock price.  See Our Complete Analysis For Solar Stocks Trina Solar| First Solar | SunPower

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By Kai Goerlich, Idea Director, Thought Leadership, SAP

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DigitalOcean is on a mission to be the default choice for developers, and so far it seems to be working.

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Since selling ZICO Coconut Water to Coca-Cola, Mark Rampolla’s been helping food entrepreneurs. Now he’s raised a new $40 million fund, Powerplant Ventures, to invest in plant-based technologies alongside the founders of the Veggie Grill, what they call the first plant-focused firm of its kind.

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