Category: Private 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 […]

April 9, 2020

MISTAKES TO AVOID WHEN CHOOSING A CLOUD According to Gartner, the worldwide public cloud services market is forecast to grow 17% in 2020 to total $266.4 billion, up from $227.8 billion in 2019. While the benefits are too compelling to […]

March 13, 2020

The running joke is that raspberry Pis are cheaper than an actual raspberry pie. Although I wouldn’t pay $50 to $100 for a pie to eat, the idea is to provide a very capable computer, with a small footprint, with […]

March 2, 2020

Microsoft is moving its Windows Server print functionality to Azure and christening the resulting product as its Universal Print Service. As of today, March 2, Universal Print is now in private preview and open to those who register for it. […]

December 18, 2019

Cloud computing gets divided into three types: public, private, and hybrid; the last being a mix between the first two types. While a public cloud connects to multiple users through the internet, a private cloud is restricted to only select […]

December 3, 2019

Let’s face it. We’re painting ourselves into a corner given the number of special-purpose, cloud-native databases we’re placing into production. This without regard to how we should be using those databases in ways that allow for easy access and understanding […]

November 19, 2019

Salesforce and AWS announced an expansion of their on-going partnership that actually goes back to a $400 million 2016 infrastructure services agreement, and expanded last year to include data integration between the two companies. This year, Salesforce announced it will […]

November 15, 2019

Salesforce’s MuleSoft unit said it will enable its Anypoint platform to run on Google Cloud Platform so joint customers can connect services like BigQuery to enterprise applications more easily. MuleSoft is used to manage business applications and connect them within […]

October 25, 2019

Amazon Web Services is ramping its sales and marketing investments amid signs that the battle with Microsoft Azure is accelerating. The big question is whether the laws of large numbers is catching up to both cloud titans in terms of […]

October 7, 2019

I had a really big document retrieval challenge this month. Fortunately, Google Drive came to my rescue. Here’s the full story. One of the things that’s become apparent to me as I continue my journey in #adulting is that it’s […]

September 4, 2019

Network segmentation is a concept that dates back to the start of enterprise IT systems. The simplest demonstration of this is separating application and infrastructure components with a firewall. This concept is now a routine part of building data centers […]

July 30, 2019

Google this week said it would for the first time natively support VMware workloads in its Cloud service, giving customers more options for deploying enterprise applications. The hybrid cloud service called Google Cloud VMware Solution by CloudSimple will use VMware […]

July 26, 2019

Google and AWS have revealed huge growth again in their cloud platforms. In the latest financial reports for both companies, Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS) were highlighted as major money-spinners. AWS, which retained its position as the world’s […]

July 23, 2019

For these reasons we see many organisations choosing a path to drive a ’cloud first’ strategy and in particular the use of one or more public clouds, known as ‘multi-cloud’. However, whilst public cloud may deliver these objectives there are […]

July 12, 2019

Devops in the cloud is all the rage. Take the speed and always-improving processes and toolchains of devops, add hugely scalable and self-configuring public cloud endpoints, and the end result is pretty much zero latency between the need to build […]

July 10, 2019

Google is one of the biggest cloud storage providers in the world. With more than 2.5 billion active Android devices, the advertising and search giant has to allocate potentially up to 20 Exabytes (assuming a ratio of two devices per […]

July 9, 2019

Cloud-automation platform vendor ServiceNow is planning to make its full software-as-a-service platform available on Microsoft’s Azure in addition to its own private cloud. The July 9 announcement is an expansion of an alliance between the two companies originally announced last […]

June 27, 2019

Google Cloud today announced that Chronicle, the enterprise security company Google’s parent company Alphabet incubated under its X “moonshot factory,” is moving to Google Cloud and becoming part of Google’s security portfolio. Chronicle officially launched out of X in January […]

June 25, 2019

So many great business ideas fail at the moment when strategy must turn to execution. Even the best laid plans often come to nothing, drowned under a tidal wave of events that force you to act and make bad decisions […]

June 24, 2019

Google Cloud said it has integrated Kaggle with its BigQuery, enterprise data warehouse. Kaggle, which was acquired by Google in March 2017, specializes in Jupyter notebooks used by data scientists. The integration allows BigQuery customers use fast SQL queries, train […]