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Apple – Cloud Expansion, But Still Sub-Scale to the Other Four US Hyperscalers
Apple’s Cloud business remains locked between business models. Apple monetizes the Cloud portion via hardware sales with little direct revenue coming from Cloud services. While Apple announced a significant networking advancement with Nokia’s new data center switches, a substantial step in the right direction, we have yet to see a… Read More »Blog
Microsoft – Different Clouds to Different People
The only negative in Microsoft’s earnings in 2Q20 was Bing, expected based on consumer behavior trends. Azure continues to grow robustly as the company experiences supply constraints, just like everyone else in 2Q20. Over the next 4-6 quarters, we expect Project Jedi, the DoD’s Cloud project awarded in 2019 to… Read More »Blog
Facebook – Robust Search and Social Revenue Growth Counter trend to Overall Market
Facebook revenue grew robustly in 2Q20, and its CAPEX guidance remained consistent for 2020 compared to previous revisions in the last two quarterly results. Facebook’s results were counter trend to our expectations that many advertisers would pull back spending do to COVID-19 based on lack of supply (no need to… Read More »Blog
Google – Revenue Down Y/Y in Search While IaaS Shows Robust Growth
Google, the largest US Hyperscaler by revenue, reported Search and Social results that declined Y/Y for the first time while IaaS revenue grew nearly $1B Y/Y. We were a little surprised at Facebook’s robust growth compared to Google’s. Google’s results were in line with our overall expectations for Search and… Read More »Blog
Cloud Revenue Differs Greatly Between Search and IaaS as 2Q20 results Affirm 650 Group Forecast Projections
Over the next five days, we will highlight each of the US Hyperscalers and the results they had during 1H20 and 2Q20. Today we will start with the overall trends in the market. US Hyperscaler revenue grew 20% in 2Q20 compared to a year ago, setting a new record. US trade… Read More »Blog
And then there were 10 (RAN VEndors)
Before the consolidation in the Mobile Radio Access Network (MRAN) market that occurred in the past decade during Huawei’s ascendancy, there were a dozen major RAN vendors. They included Motorola, Lucent, Alcatel, Siemens, Nokia, Ericsson, NEC, Fujitsu, Samsung, Nortel, Huawei and ZTE, and they hailed from the US, France, Germany,… Read More »Blog