Category: Private Cloud

October 11, 2023

SAP is doubling the time between major releases of S/4HANA Cloud private edition from one year to two — at the same time promising to release new feature packs every six months or so to keep up the pace of […]

September 29, 2023

Following updates to iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, it’s now iCloud’s turn as Apple is redesigning the website as well as introducing a variety of new features. It’s not a complete overhaul for iCloud mind you, as the quick-glance widgets from […]

September 12, 2023

I’ve been keeping up with private clouds. I’m not doing too much private cloud work, but I am writing and designing courses on the topic. As you may recall, not long ago private clouds were the primary focus for most […]

February 23, 2023

As of April 11, 2023, Microsoft will stop supporting Office 2013. The decision to end support for Office 2013 should come as no surprise. Over the past several years, Microsoft has been slowly ending support for its one-time purchase products […]

January 31, 2023

Red Hat and Oracle announced jointly Tuesday that they have partnered to bring Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, broadening Oracle’s available public cloud options and creating a measure of détente between two long-standing competitors. The announcement […]

December 20, 2022

HPE has announced new features for its GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise, including Kubernetes support and workload-optimized instances. HPE launched GreenLake for Private Cloud Enterprise in June. It’s an automated private cloud offering for enterprises looking to deploy both traditional […]

December 1, 2022

Eufy’s claims to keep “privacy in your own hands” have been rendered null, after a researcher caught the security camera company uploading local-only footage to the cloud without user authorization or knowledge. To top it all off, users have also […]

June 28, 2022

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise knows it is complex, time-consuming and costly for enterprises to build and operate their own private clouds. So the company is launching a new service to do it for them. At its HPE Discover conference in Las Vegas […]

June 2, 2022

Cisco and Kyndryl have partnered to help enterprise customers implement a broad range of technologies from private 5G to data-center gear to edge devices. Under the partnership the companies will also provide software-defined networking (SDN), and secure multi-network wide area […]

May 20, 2022

The iCloud login process provides plenty of value without requiring a great deal of thought. Here’s what do need to know about iCloud login and how to get the most from it. What is iCloud login? First, a swift recap […]

May 12, 2022

Private clouds make efficient use of storage, compute, and memory resources, can provide faster response times for enterprise applications, and help comply with regulations about where data is stored. What is a private cloud? The concept of a private cloud […]

January 31, 2022

There’s a new pragmatism in cloud land. Gone are the days when the former CEO of AWS, Andy Jassy, called private cloud “archaic” and dismissed it as “not real” cloud. More recently, AWS has introduced a bevy of new ways […]

July 30, 2021

People are rushing to go to cloud, and understandably so. But what is it that you really want from cloud? And can you get those benefits yourself, on premises? To answer that, let’s take a look at the advantages of […]

February 15, 2021

IBM has launched the Power Private Cloud (PPC) Rack solution, a converged infrastructure product that migrates on-premises apps running on its POWER9/AIX systems to the cloud. The solution consists of three POWER System S922 servers with 20 CPU cores, 256GB […]

February 9, 2021

Cloud computing has become the preferred model for modernizing IT portfolios, with CIOs claiming that migrating applications to a combination of public and private clouds affords them greater business agility. And during the pandemic the increased consumption of cloud services […]

December 11, 2020

This quarter, strong earnings results from public cloud companies were overshadowed by a seemingly endless IPO cycle. Another moment we somewhat missed over the last few weeks was the stock market pushing the value of public cloud companies to all-time […]

November 4, 2020

Microsoft is gearing up to make System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) available in its cloud. That project, codenamed “Aquila,” according to several contacts of mine, should be entering private preview in the relatively near future. SCOM is Microsoft’s on-premises solution […]

August 14, 2020

Today’s definition of multicloud depends on who you ask. This is not a new trend. Whenever a new technology gets some hype, suddenly there is semantic confusion. My definition is a bit more holistic than most: Multicloud is a collection […]

May 15, 2020

VPCs (virtual private clouds) were really a marketing response by public cloud providers that found themselves competing with private clouds, such as OpenStack, years ago. Some enterprises did not relish the idea of placing their data on a public cloud, […]

April 27, 2020

Public sector organisations are increasingly making the jump to public cloud. But while this is a positive step in their journey towards modernising services, it also brings its challenges. Migration to the public cloud is by no means a new […]