Category: Service Models

April 25, 2024

Buzz is building around the idea that it’s time to claw back our cloud services and once more rebuild the company data center. Repatriation. It’s the act of moving work out of cloud and back to on-premises or self-managed hardware. […]

April 23, 2024

As I’ve been saying for the past year or so, cloud conferences have become generative AI conferences, as have data center conferences, databases conferences, and you name it. It’s clearly more than just a trend—it’s a game-changing push. But we’ve […]

April 22, 2024

Most applications are built to rely on the cloud. However, many organizations are beginning to realize that cloud dependency has drawbacks. The challenges of cloud over-dependency are most apparent in industries such as aviation, quick-service restaurants, e-commerce, and healthcare, where […]

April 19, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has slowly and silently phased out its Snowmobile service—an offering launched at its annual AWS re:Invent conference in 2016 to help enterprises move data from their on-premises servers to the cloud provider’s data centers to accelerate […]

April 19, 2024

In the world of data protection, the cloud has emerged as a popular destination for backups. The appeal is obvious: Offload the complexities and costs of backup infrastructure to a provider, and rest easy knowing your data is safe in […]

April 15, 2024

Lapses in wired connectivity result in significant downtime, but barriers to adoption keep businesses from relying on 5G to solve their connectivity concerns. Wired network connectivity isn’t as reliable as U.S. businesses need, according to a recent survey, which shows […]

April 15, 2024

Tools that manage changes to source code, programs, documents, or other collections of information are known by a variety of names: version control, revision control, source control, or source code management are all common descriptors. Regardless of what we call […]

April 11, 2024

In a cloud market dominated by three vendors, once cloud-denier Oracle is making a push for enterprise share gains, announcing expanded offerings and customer wins across the globe, including Japan, Mexico, and the Middle East. But with Amazon Web Services […]

April 9, 2024

Google Cloud is adding capabilities driven by its proprietary large language model, Gemini to its database offerings, which include Bigtable, Spanner, Memorystore for Redis, Firestore, CloudSQL for MySQL, and AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, the company announced at its annual Next conference. […]

April 5, 2024

Microsoft has updated its Azure AI Search service to increase storage capacity and vector index size at no additional cost, a move it said will make it more economical for enterprises to run generative AI-based applications. Formerly known as Azure […]

April 4, 2024

Once you get past the chatbot hype, it’s clear that generative AI is a useful tool, providing a way of navigating applications and services using natural language. By tying our large language models (LLMs) to specific data sources, we can […]

April 4, 2024

Banking CIOs have changed their view of the cloud. Rather than seeking cost savings, executives are turning to cloud for flexibility, scalability and AI capabilities, according to the report. But technical debt is complicating adoption initiatives. “Unfortunately, many of the […]

April 3, 2024

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a critical assessment of Microsoft’s security protocols in the wake of the summer 2023 Exchange Online breach, concluding that security failures within Microsoft created the conditions that allowed Chinese state-backed hacking […]

April 3, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released a new managed version of its Thinkbox Deadline 10 offering, Deadline Cloud. Deadline Cloud, which has been made generally available, is designed for render management tasks for teams creating computer-generated 2D or 3D graphics, […]

April 3, 2024

Nextcloud has announced a collaboration with a number of major European players in the cloud storage industry to leverage access to their upcoming on-premise ‘artificial intelligence (AI) as a service’ features, promising GDPR compliance in a cottage industry fraught with […]

March 25, 2024

The benefits of developing software in the cloud include increased flexibility and reliability, greater efficiency, and reduced costs. But cloud-based development also presents a host of challenges. Knowing what to watch out for is the first step to protecting your […]

March 21, 2024

According to an exclusive VentureBeat report, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Accenture, and AI startup Anthropic are forming a partnership aimed at facilitating the responsible integration of custom AI models. Together, the three companies hope to target some of the most […]

March 20, 2024

AI Era: Key Trends In Cloud FinOps Cloud FinOps goes beyond simply saving money on cloud costs; it’s a comprehensive strategy to unlock the full business value of cloud operations. It fosters financial accountability for cloud spending across all organizational […]

March 20, 2024

Google plans to build a new $1 billion data center in Kansas City, Missouri, marking the company’s first data center in the state. The facility is expected to support up to 1,300 jobs and contribute to the region’s workforce and […]

March 12, 2024

IBM is expanding its portfolio of sustainability offerings with new services that promise to help customers reduce data-center energy consumption and securely dispose of old gear and redundant data. IBM’s Technology Lifecycle Services group has added three new services to […]