Category: Public Cloud

January 3, 2023

Here’s a topic we don’t discuss as much as we should: public cloud repatriation. Many regard repatriating data and applications back to enterprise data centers from a public cloud provider as an admission that someone made a big mistake moving […]

December 28, 2022

Immutable backups sound like a niche nerd topic, but somehow CEOs, boards of directors, and risk and audit specialists suddenly get interested. They are nervous – but why? What is the threat, and how do immutable backups help? And how […]

December 16, 2022

Sustainability and cloud computing go hand in hand. Cloud computing’s ability to share resources naturally leads to more efficient use of those resources. This sharing model gives cloud computing its ability to provide sustainability in the wide, but we must […]

December 6, 2022

IBM isn’t one of the big players in the pure cloud market, but the tech company wants to make a name for itself in hybrid cloud by targeting industry-specific solutions. Apart from mainframe domination, IBM has a history leveraging its […]

November 7, 2022

After a flurry of conferences, announcements, and events in the tech industry last month, it’s clear cloud providers experienced exponential growth in the last few years in AI and cloud capabilities. Based on Data Center Knowledge’s review of recent announcements […]

October 31, 2022

Gartner is warning that inflationary pressure could negatively affect its worldwide spending on public cloud services forecast, which presently suggests spending in this area is set to grow by more than 20% in 2023. The IT market watcher said global […]

October 31, 2022

Even as enterprises attempt to tackle economic headwinds with budget cutbacks, a research report from market research firm Gartner showed that end-user public cloud spending is expected to grow in 2023. The report, which covers categories such as infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), […]

October 7, 2022

Most businesses have many reasons for shifting to the cloud. The most common is to save money. Sadly, it happens pretty rarely, at least in the short term. Instead, as The Wall Street Journal recently reported, company executives say their […]

September 26, 2022

The pandemic accelerated the digitalization of day-to-day business operations, ushering in a new era of tech-dependence, particularly around cloud migration. Now, companies of all sizes are racing to update their infrastructure, data, and critical applications to the cloud. With spending […]

September 9, 2022

Throughout my career as a practitioner and teacher of cloud architecture and general enterprise architecture, I’ve focused on the distinction between logical and physical architectures. It’s no secret what they comprise: A logical architecture is a structure of technology concepts […]

August 18, 2022

Wider economic pessimism may finally be impacting the cloud computing market after revenue growth at all the major cloud providers slowed down in Q2 2022. Amazon Web Services (AWS) posted sales of $19.7 billion for its second quarter, up 33% […]

August 10, 2022

Data intelligence company BigID announced this week at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas that it has rolled out new features for its privacy and data protection platform, allowing users to programmatically restrict access to sensitive cloud-based information when […]

July 26, 2022

The PGA of America is building a world-class resort with multiple golf courses and retail shops near Dallas, due to be complete next year. That’s just one major drive under way by the nonprofit golf association, which is also delivering […]

July 13, 2022

Interest in adopting sovereign cloud services for regulatory compliance and data control reasons looks set to soar among enterprises in the coming years, suggests data from the Capgemini Research Institute. According to the Institute’s The journey to cloud sovereignty: Assessing […]

July 13, 2022

Delta Airlines has signed a multi-year with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that will see the carrier draw on the public cloud giant’s technologies to revamp the end-to-end travel experience for its passengers. In line with this, Delta said it will […]

July 12, 2022

Last year’s sequence of Big Tech outages offered a glimpse of the Internet apocalypse – a sneak preview of a Mad Max planet where cloud-dependent economies have toppled and the cash in your pocket is only good for wiping your […]

July 11, 2022

Multicloud usage is apparently here to stay, according to research from Virtana which found that over three-quarters (78%) of organizations have deployed workloads in more than three public clouds. The growth of multicloud is only set to continue, with over […]

July 8, 2022

I made this prediction in 2020, and here we are. Spending on public cloud services is about to hit another milestone as business customers spent $18.3 billion on cloud computing in the first quarter of 2022, up 17.2% year over […]

June 14, 2022

Switching to public cloud services is now a necessary strategy for most organizations’ long-term growth plans. But how do they adapt and expand their cybersecurity capabilities to protect their assets, data, and customers within their cloud environment? Traditional security measures […]

May 11, 2022

With more enterprises shifting their data from legacy to open-source databases in the cloud, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is offering a PostgreSQL-compatible, fully managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS), dubbed AlloyDB, now in public preview and intended to take on the likes of […]