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The highlight of tech events this year was certainly AWS re:Invent. The conference was buzzing and so is the aftermath of it. There were strong reactions in the community about AWS strategy of commercializing over opensource software. In this piece, I will break down all the things you need to know about events that took place, services/products that were launched and how they will impact your business. AWS 2.0 – Partnerships and Channel Extension Keynotes by  Andy Jassy  and  Werner Vogels  is a clear evidence that AWS is going after enterprises and invested a lot into building enterprise grade hardware and partnerships. Amazon is getting serious about hybrid cloud. Evidence? It’s partnership with VMware. “A way to provide AWS services, like compute, like storage, on-premises but in a way that really seamlessly and constantly interacts with the rest of my applications and services in AWS” – Jassy  A product called AWS Outposts is the re...

By the end of this year, spending on IT infrastructure products to be deployed in cloud environments will be $37.1 billion, International Data Corporation predicts. According to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly  Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker , released this month, enterprise spending on  Cloud Services  will increase about 15 percent over last year. Public cloud infrastructure makes up the largest piece of the pie, with spending in that arena expected to be $23.3 billion, a nearly 19 percent increase. One of the main reasons behind the exponential growth of Cloud market is association of Cloud with Hadoop. There have been hot discussions about running Hadoop in Cloud environments, while Amazon’s Elastic MapReduce continued with enhancements with its base platform, Azure too came with HDInsights’ improvizations. Increasing awareness about Hadoop in Cloud also bought some limelight to the projects like Apache Whirr and Netflix’s Genie. Recent announcements at the Hadoo...