Category: Deployment Models

July 23, 2024

Hybrid multicloud storage is intended to create the best of all worlds. By mixing on-premise technology with multiple public cloud resources, enterprises hope to optimise the attributes of each with regard to pricing, capacity, performance, features, security and resilience. The […]

July 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services has been seriously bolstering its network to handle the increased demands associated with its AI-based applications and services. In a recent blog post, Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of infrastructure services at AWS, offered a glimpse into what […]

June 19, 2024

HPE has made a series of announcements designed to tackle the mounting pressures associated with artificial intelligence, including the launch of a new private cloud. In collaboration with Nvidia, HPE hopes to accelerate the adoption of generative AI across industries […]

June 17, 2024

Cloud security strikes fear into the heart of CISOs and risk practitioners alike. For years there were alarmist warnings “the cloud is just someone else’s computer”, “once it’s in the cloud it’s no longer yours”, “you don’t know where your […]

May 23, 2024

Operational complexity, integration challenges, governance blind spots, and skills gaps are just a few of the issues that can hamper multicloud network management. Gaining firm control over a multicloud network environment can deliver performance, efficiency, and security gains – but […]

May 14, 2024

As most IT people know, GPUs are in high demand and are critical for running and training generative AI models. The alternative cloud sector, also known as microclouds, is experiencing a significant surge. Businesses such as CoreWeave, Lambda Labs, Voltage […]

May 6, 2024

After underperforming the market for most of the past decade, IBM is seeing its strategy of acquiring companies to build a broad, multicloud platform start to pay real dividends. On March 12, IBM stock hit an all-time-high share price of […]

May 1, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has seen a rebound in its year-over-year revenue growth rate, which the firm is attributing to enterprises completing their post-pandemic cloud cost optimisation efforts. The company’s first quarter results, which cover the three months to 31 […]

April 24, 2024

IBM today said it will buy multicloud infrastructure automation company HashiCorp for $6.4 billion. Once the deal closes, which is expected by the end of 2024, IBM plans to further integrate Hashicorp’s automation technology into its Red Hat, watsonx, data […]

April 16, 2024

Open-source database provider Qdrant has made available Qdrant Hybrid Cloud, a dedicated vector database to be offered in a managed hybrid cloud model. Qdrant, the open-source foundation of both Qdrant Cloud and Qdrant Hybrid Cloud, is a vector similarity search […]

April 8, 2024

Alibaba faces an uphill battle globally. Mainland China’s largest hyperscaler has a commanding 39% share of its $9.7 billion domestic public cloud market but has struggled to gain traction in other regions, according to John Dinsdale, chief analyst and research […]

March 25, 2024

Hybrid IT environments were an inherent symptom of initial migrations from on-prem data centers. But as companies push forward with cloud adoption, hybrid has become part of broader optimization strategies. “Enterprise workloads – including their applications and data – often […]

March 21, 2024

Pradeep Vincent is the chief technical architect and senior vice-president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). His role involves internal engineering of all the services in OCI. At Oracle Cloud World in London earlier this month, Vincent talked about the work […]

March 15, 2024

Public cloud providers are often loathed for charging data transfer or “egress fees” for removing data from a specific cloud provider. If you move data out of a cloud provider, there’s a cost; for instance, you move inventory data from […]

March 12, 2024

Enterprise cost scrutiny tends to follow fast on the heels of spending spikes. In cloud, a migration boom coupled with economic uncertainty drove organizations to clear a path to optimization through a tangle of thorny billing practices and overgrown systems. […]

March 11, 2024

With hybrid cloud no longer merely a stop along the way to full-fledged public cloud, tackling management complexity is essential. Cost is among the considerations IT leaders take into account when assessing whether to deploy workloads on the public cloud […]

March 8, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of IaaS cloud computing, public cloud providers are increasingly reaching feature and function parity. This means they are beginning to look alike. Before you keyboard warriors remind me that some obscure feature in the object […]

February 29, 2024

Google Cloud on Thursday said it is adding vector support and integrating LangChain with all of its database offerings in an effort to outdo rival cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Oracle. Cloud service providers […]

February 22, 2024

The age-old saying “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” has found a new resonance in today’s cloud landscape. The cloud-centric world is shifting towards flexibility and choice. Businesses are increasingly opting for multi-cloud environments, leveraging the diverse strengths […]

February 20, 2024

What we mean by “hybrid cloud” has always needed to be clarified for the cloud industry. Once defined as a private cloud paired with a public cloud, it’s now a catch-all for any system that’s not a public cloud working […]