Category: Public Cloud

May 10, 2022

If you know much about the cloud computing market, you know that Amazon Web Services, or AWS, is its leading player. Although AWS doesn’t control quite as much cloud market share as it once did, it’s still well ahead of […]

May 10, 2022

What is the true value of cloud computing for your business? We thought it was easy to define, once upon a time, but we were very wrong. In those days we thought cloud computing would lower IT operational costs and […]

May 9, 2022

Google Cloud is reportedly in the process of forming a team aimed at building services for developers looking to create blockchain applications and other Web3 tools. According to an email from VP, GM and head of platform at Google Cloud, […]

May 5, 2022

Businesses are investing substantial funds and efforts into migrating workloads from on-premises infrastructure to public clouds, in part motivated by the hypothesis that, once cloud-based, those workloads will be relatively easy to move from one cloud provider to another. Unfortunately, […]

May 4, 2022

Digital transformation, or DX, is driving enterprises worldwide to adapt their network and security strategies. Two key trends in particular have accelerated due to the pandemic: the adoption of cloud infrastructures, and the growth of a distributed workforce. Together, these […]

May 4, 2022

Whether a company utilizes a private, hybrid or public cloud infrastructure or offers cloud services to others, it is critical that each cloud instance and service be isolated to help minimize the risk of data compromise. In a traditional network, […]

May 2, 2022

The explosion of non-human identities in public cloud deployments has decision makers turning to new identity and access management tools to keep their environments secure, according to a new study performed by Forrester Consulting for Sonrai Security and Amazon Web […]

April 29, 2022

It’s no surprise that the top tech companies are also the top cloud companies. It’s also no surprise that these top tech companies are making big investments in green energy. Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are now the three largest buyers […]

April 29, 2022

Amazon’s fast-growing cloud division couldn’t help its parent company avoid posting its first quarterly loss since 2015. Amazon Web Services saw revenue grow by 37% to $18.4 billion for the first quarter of 2022. That amounted to an operating profit […]

April 27, 2022

Microsoft posted strong results across the board for its third quarter of 2022, with total revenue increasing by 18% year-over-year to $49.4 billion, thanks in large part to continued growth of its cloud products. Net income for the quarter was […]

April 20, 2022

Businesses’ growing desire for more and more public cloud services is showing no signs of slowing down, according to the latest figures from Gartner. The analyst house predicted global public cloud spending will rise 20.4% in 2022 to a total […]

April 19, 2022

The amount of money end-users across the globe spend on public cloud services is expected to continue to soar on a year-by-year basis, according to Gartner’s latest forecast data. The IT analyst house predicts that spending on public cloud services […]

April 18, 2022

Everyone knows the pain that follows after your CFO takes a look at the cloud computing bill. The products and services are priced in fractions of a cent, but somehow those fractions all add up. The good news is that […]

March 28, 2022

Public cloud providers are quickly becoming the biggest buyers of data center infrastructure equipment, as purchasing of hardware and software both rebounded sharply in 2021, according to a recent report by Synergy Research Group. Overall spending grew by roughly 10% […]

March 24, 2022

Google Cloud customers will now be able to suspend their virtual machines (VMs) when not in use which will help lower their cloud spending. The software giant’s cloud computing division has announced that its new Suspend/Resume feature for VMs is […]

March 23, 2022

Cisco has added new features to its core cloud and computing packages to better manage and support distributed applications. The enhancements affect Cisco’s Intersight cloud management system, UCS X-Series server and HyperFlex hyperconverged system. The idea is to provide tools […]

February 14, 2022

IBM is planning to offer its experimental cloud-based mainframe application development and testing platform as a commercial service. Called Wazi as-a-Service (Wazi aaS), it delivers z/OS-based virtual server instances using IBM Cloud’s logically isolated Virtual Private Cloud infrastructure. IBM says […]

February 11, 2022

Review the lists of the top edge computing companies and you will notice most major public cloud computing providers on that list. And yet the ink is barely dry on tech press articles that pitted edge against cloud, predicting that […]

February 8, 2022

Azure Storage is a set of cloud storage services provided by Microsoft as part of the Azure public cloud. It offers highly scalable object storage, file systems as a service, virtual disk storage, and specialized storage for messaging data and […]

February 4, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) chalked up the biggest year-on-year revenue gain in its history during the fourth quarter of 2021, with the Covid-19 pandemic continuing to fuel demand for its public cloud offerings. The final quarter of 2021 saw Amazon.com’s […]