Category: Cloud Clients

May 8, 2023

Like most CIOs you’ve no doubt leaned on ROI, TCO and KPIs to measure the business value of your IT investments. Maybe you’ve even surpassed expectations in each of these yardsticks. Those Three Big Acronyms are still important for fine-tuning […]

April 14, 2023

As IT organizations attempt wide-scale cloud adoption, the importance of common best practices across applications and products is growing, sparking an exciting new conversation about platform teams and related disciplines like platform engineering. The problem statement driving the investment in […]

April 5, 2023

Whether it’s your computer, smartphone, or tablet, there’s a lot of personal information on devices you don’t want to lose. That’s why the best cloud services have become so popular in recent years. Today’s services are compatible with various devices […]

March 21, 2023

How are modern CIOs making an impact with multi-cloud? A recently released VMware report, “CIO Essential Guidance: Modernizing Applications in a Multi-Cloud World,” outlines these four key factors that influence success: Drive Developer Velocity The best applications are created by […]

March 17, 2023

Cloud-using industries such as banking, insurance, healthcare, and the public sector face additional challenges complying with laws and requirements within specific regions. This has increased the demand for sovereign clouds. This cloud architecture approach seems to fly under everyone’s radar; […]

March 14, 2023

Google announced a raft of new artificial intelligence-powered features for customers of its cloud-computing business, as the technology giant jostles for dominance in the burgeoning field with rivals such as Microsoft Corp. and startup OpenAI. As Silicon Valley buzzes about […]

March 8, 2023

In the wake of the December meltdown, Southwest CEO Bob Jordan defended the carrier’s technology while acknowledging that crew reassignment systems failed. He pledged $1.3 billion to IT and other operational upgrades this year, during a January earnings call. IT […]

February 21, 2023

It’s always healthy to take a critical view of any new technology or approach, and cloud finops (financial operations) is no different. As we’re learning about what finops does well, we’re also learning about what needs to be worked on. […]

February 20, 2023

IBM’s answer to the cost-effective supercomputer has already been up and running for several months now, but only recently has it disclosed any tangible information about its so-called Vela project. Turning to its blog(opens in new tab) to discuss details, […]

February 17, 2023

Aside from commercial real estate dealers, office equipment vendors were among the hardest hit by the massive office evacuation following the pandemic. But the death of the office was much exaggerated, say some affected CIOs, who point to an increasing […]

February 13, 2023

Porsche’s Formula E team takes cars to 16 races in a season, and has a 24-hour setup time for events held on city streets with a wide variety of conditions and potential changes to courses. During races, data is collected […]

February 9, 2023

Burdened by basements packed with legacy systems and risk averse top-floor executives, banks were initially slow to the cloud. The benefits of migration, demand for digital services and the emergence of industry-specific cloud solutions helped break down resistance, and federal […]

February 6, 2023

Oracle on Monday said it is planning to invest $1.5 billion in Saudi Arabia to bolster its cloud computing capacity in the Middle East. The planned investment, which is part of Oracle’s memorandum of understanding with Saudi Arabia Ministry of […]

February 3, 2023

The increasing amounts of data generated by today’s modern enterprise continues to challenge organizations as they look to extract valuable insights from that data. The inability to leverage all kinds of data and the amount of expertise required from data […]

January 26, 2023

It feels like just yesterday that we were promised that cloud servers cost just pennies. You could rent a rack with the spare change behind the sofa cushions and have money left for an ice cream sandwich. Those days are […]

December 16, 2022

With massive global and geopolitical changes and significant increases in data privacy laws and regulations, the focus on data sovereignty and protecting consumer value has never been higher. Safeguarding highly sensitive, proprietary data and workloads have become a top priority […]

December 8, 2022

The U.S. Department of Defense awarded major contracts for military cloud spending to AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle on Thursday as part of its Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability framework. The hybrid contracts carry a shared spending ceiling of $9 billion, […]

December 1, 2022

Security researchers recently probed IBM Cloud’s database-as-a-service infrastructure and found several security issues that granted them access to the internal server used to build database images for customer deployments. The demonstrated attack highlights some common security oversights that can lead […]

November 2, 2022

The air travel industry has dealt with significant change and uncertainty in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020, JetBlue Airways decided its competitive advantage depended on IT — in particular, on transforming its data stack to consolidate data […]

October 27, 2022

Apple is testing improvements to iCloud.com designed to make it easier to use — and has unveiled a new look and a few new tricks to reflect features recently introduced in its operating systems. iCloud services for the rest of […]