Category: Deployment Models

May 30, 2023

It’s late on a Friday. You get a call from your CIO that data has been removed from XYZ public cloud server, and they need it back ASAP. It gets worse. First, there is no current backup copy of the […]

May 26, 2023

These days I hear a lot about the goal to run federated applications across cloud providers. We want to build these multicloud applications for many reasons, including: To optimize the underlying cloud resources for the application components. For instance, a […]

May 24, 2023

Like most IT leaders today, you find yourself grappling with a paradox. Your IT estate has the potential to afford developer teams more flexibility and agility to place workloads across on-premises systems, public and private clouds, colocation facilities and edge […]

May 23, 2023

A 2022 survey of innovation and business strategy conducted by the International Monetary Fund found that 40% of innovation-oriented companies (SMBs to large enterprises) reduce costs as a result of new product innovations which, on average, account for 20% of […]

May 18, 2023

IBM is developing a SaaS package to help enterprises securely network heterogenous environments, including edge, on-prem and multicloud resources. The IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh is a SaaS service that implements a virtualized Layer 3-7 environment to rapidly enable secure connectivity […]

May 18, 2023

Last week IBM held its annual Think event in Orlando, FL. The venue was near “Islands of Adventure,” which I felt was an interesting backdrop as corporate IT has become just that: a bunch of islands of adventure. Between generative […]

May 15, 2023

Public cloud services provider Oracle on Monday said it will launch a new cloud region in Serbia, which will make it the first among rivals including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and IBM, to offer a hyperscale data center […]

May 15, 2023

Widespread adoption of cloud-based collaboration platforms often leads to a “multicloud by default” approach without a clear strategy to support workload needs. Sound familiar? Today many organizations are reexamining their cloud usage and, importantly, the costs associated with it. Nearly […]

May 12, 2023

These days, to serve the backbone corporate needs for more than 100,000 employees globally means betting big on the cloud. That’s what James Hannah, SVP and global CIO of General Dynamics Information Technology, has done in support of the Reston, […]

May 10, 2023

The new AI capabilities are part of a broader hybrid cloud strategy, which aims to help organizations integrate multicloud and on-prem ecosystems. The company remains committed to enterprise hybrid cloud solutions as its pathway to relevance in a market dominated […]

April 24, 2023

Six out of ten organizations today are using a mix of infrastructures, including private cloud, public cloud, multi-cloud, on-premises, and hosted data centers, according to the 5th Annual Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index. Managing applications and data, especially when they’re moving […]

April 21, 2023

The major cloud providers generally support on-premise workloads, with some offering IT admins a way to manage multiple public clouds from one place, but IT leaders say that it is hard to have a single view of the whole cloud […]

April 20, 2023

When we think of digital transformation, perhaps no other technology comes to mind as quickly as the cloud. Many businesses have, in some form or another, been migrating their operations to the cloud for years now. But that doesn’t mean […]

April 20, 2023

AI has been integral to IBM’s identity since supercomputer Deep Blue beat grandmaster Garry Kasparov in a legendary 1997 chess match. Hybrid cloud is a newer addition to the tech company’s portfolio. Together, they represent the path forward for the […]

April 19, 2023

Global end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 21.7% to total $597.3 billion in 2023, up from $491 billion in 2022, according to analyst firm Gartner. While all segments of the cloud market are expected to see […]

April 11, 2023

Public cloud computing is arguably one of the most transformative business technologies of the past decade. However, hyperscale public cloud platforms are seldom sufficient for supporting all computing needs for enterprises and other large organizations. Plus, using such services can […]

April 11, 2023

Credit reporting bureau Experian is undergoing a multi-year digital transformation project that has seen it name Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider partner. The project will see Experian take a cloud-first approach to modernising its IT infrastructure […]

April 10, 2023

Multi-cloud is the future of enterprise IT. The evidence is overwhelming. A recent report reveals that more than 80% of enterprises surveyed have a multi-cloud strategy and nearly that number (78%) already have workloads deployed in more than three public […]

April 10, 2023

Managing identities and their access permissions is becoming more complicated. Digital sprawl has led to an explosion in permissions across multicloud environments, and consistent oversight is lacking. As many as 99% of cloud permissions are going unused, and this represents […]

April 6, 2023

A senior Microsoft executive has laid out why benchmarking cloud PCs is an incredibly tricky process that, in many cases, just isn’t possible. In a recent blog post(opens in new tab), Microsoft Windows 365 Cloud PC and Azure Virtual Desktop […]