Category: Cloud Clients

April 12, 2024

The UK government’s G-Cloud purchasing agreement was hailed – from the time of its launch in spring 2012 – as a model for how all government departments would buy their IT. G-Cloud contracts were initially capped at 12 months in […]

April 12, 2024

“The cloud has tremendous business value!” That’s the battle cry chanted by cloud providers and their allies at every cloud computing conference. You will never hear me say that “the cloud” is always the right solution or, for that matter, […]

April 9, 2024

Teradata is partnering with Anaconda to add packages of popular programming languages Python and R to its multi-cloud analytics platform offering, VantageCloud Lake. The partnership will see Teradata integrate the packages from Anaconda’s repository into its self-service data analytics offering, […]

April 3, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released a new managed version of its Thinkbox Deadline 10 offering, Deadline Cloud. Deadline Cloud, which has been made generally available, is designed for render management tasks for teams creating computer-generated 2D or 3D graphics, […]

March 26, 2024

Years ago, I found myself sitting in a conference room dealing with a question that I’ve gotten thousands of times in my career: Was the technology I was representing, which I created as the CTO of an enterprise technology company […]

March 26, 2024

AWS loosened its cloud discount pricing restrictions, offering customers who purchase cloud discount Savings Plans a seven-day window to apply for credits and refunds, the company said Monday. The move will provide customers who previously had no way to back […]

March 18, 2024

Microsoft will stop providing cloud services to users in Russia later this weeks as part of the sanctions package imposed on the country by its Western peers. The company has set up a dedicated Telegram channel to support its clients, […]

March 14, 2024

Microsoft has announced that Azure customers can now transfer their data to other cloud providers or on-premises data centers via the internet free of charge, following similar moves by Amazon and Google. “We support customer choice, including the choice to […]

March 6, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has decided to waive data transfer fees for enterprise customers moving their business to another cloud provider. Google made a similar announcement in January. “Starting today, we’re waiving data transfer out to the internet (DTO) charges […]

March 4, 2024

What Is Azure Cost Management? Azure cost management refers to the practices and processes that organizations implement to monitor, manage, and optimize their cloud spending on the Azure platform. This involves a systematic approach to understanding and controlling the costs […]

February 1, 2024

One of the great advantages of using the public cloud is the ability to deploy applications and services at scale. But scale has a flip side, as working with dozens or hundreds of servers imposes new constraints on systems administration. […]

January 29, 2024

Cloud migration is central to Southwest’s modernization effort, according to Jordan. “A lot of what you gain is reliability,” he said, pointing to failover and support systems. “The shift to the cloud is as much a resiliency effort and a […]

January 11, 2024

Cloud-based documentation tools are software platforms that are hosted in the cloud, allowing users to create, manage, and store documents online. These tools are designed to facilitate collaboration, document management, and information sharing, often in a team or organizational setting. […]

December 26, 2023

Most security issues in the cloud can be traced back to someone doing something stupid. Sorry to be that blunt, but I don’t see ingenious hackers out there. I do see misconfigured cloud resources, such as storage and databases, that […]

December 20, 2023

The cloud is key to enterprise IT, supporting customer-facing applications and the tools employees need for their daily work. But agility and scalability gains can lead to eye-watering bills from providers. More than half of companies say they’ve faced higher […]

December 14, 2023

As cloud became the go-to technology for enterprise modernization, organizations have wrestled with billing complexity, cost overruns, skills gaps and other adoption hurdles. But poor alignment between business and IT goals leads to most post-migration woes. “The problem with cloud […]

December 11, 2023

Though cloud cost control emerged as an enterprise priority this year, most cloud customers did not associate lower price-per-unit or purchasing convenience with their primary provider. Instead, Forrester research finds, companies valued public cloud providers for the security and compliance, […]

December 5, 2023

In the last two years, Arvest Bank partnered with Google Cloud to kickstart a multiyear digital transformation, launched its first cloud-native payments processing platform and bolstered its tech leadership with three key appointments. The bank recruited Chief Transformation and Operations […]

November 22, 2023

NHS England has set its sights on growing the number of users who rely on its FutureNHS cloud-based collaboration platform from just over 310,000 today to 600,000 by 2025. The growth projection follows NHS England’s renewal of its hosting and […]

November 17, 2023

For IHG Hotels and Resorts, the cloud provides just the right accommodation for business success. “First and foremost we see our journey to the cloud as the most extremely important part of both our technology and commercial strategies,” says George […]