Tag: cloud market

July 8, 2024

The cloud holds a large – and growing – percentage of enterprise data. While much of this growth comes from unstructured information, such as documents and media files, enterprises also still depend on structured data, stored in databases. The global […]

December 19, 2023

Frost & Sullivan, a global research and consulting firm, recently released the Emerging Asia-Pacific Hybrid Cloud Market Report 2022 report. The report provides a comprehensive assessment of how the emerging hybrid cloud market developed and how market share was distributed […]

October 27, 2023

Large revenue gains translate to incrementally smaller slices of the total as markets mature and the overall size of the pie grows. But generative AI may rewrite the equation, as customers turn to hyperscaler marketplaces to access the technology. “As […]

October 18, 2023

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provided some further details on the initial scope of its anti-trust investigation into the UK cloud services market, in the wake of Ofcom’s concerns about the stronghold Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft […]

October 17, 2023

The cloud market has been a picture of maturity of late. The pecking order for cloud infrastructure has been relatively stable, with AWS at around 33% market share, Microsoft Azure second at 22%, and Google Cloud a distant third at […]

October 6, 2023

Ofcom’s year-long probe into the inner workings of the UK public cloud infrastructure market has concluded with an instruction from the communications regulator for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to investigate the sector further. Ofcom’s work uncovered three types […]

October 5, 2023

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is set to launch an investigation into the country’s cloud computing market, after a new report from the communications regulator uncovered a number of market features that it said could limit competition among […]

September 8, 2023

The rush to cloud delivered efficiency gains, unlocked new technological capabilities and, in many cases, ballooned IT spending. As tech leaders grapple with controlling cloud cost, the mainframe, the legacy workhorse of the enterprise tech stack, remains an attractive option […]

August 8, 2023

Despite obvious economic challenges, new Synergy Research Group figures show a positively upward trend in the amounts being spent by enterprises on their cloud infrastructure services. As of the second quarter of 2023, enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services was […]

August 7, 2023

A slowdown in new workload migrations spurred by economic unease and a desire to optimize existing deployments flattened cloud’s growth curve over the last nine months, freezing the balance of power among hyperscalers. “For a strategically vital market that has […]

July 10, 2023

UK communications regulator Ofcom has published an interim report that proposes the cloud infrastructure market be referred to the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) due to concerns around a decline in competition. The report said that existing cloud customers […]

July 7, 2023

Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are calling on communications regulator Ofcom to hold off on getting the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to probe the UK cloud infrastructure services market for proof of anti-competitive behaviour, it has emerged. Ofcom […]

June 21, 2023

Google is a junior member of the hyperscaler club. The tech giant’s 10% share of the $63 billion global cloud market trails that of Microsoft and AWS, at 23% and 32% respectively, according to Synergy Research Group’s April report on […]

May 5, 2023

Cloud remains the dominant force in enterprise modernization, as companies seek to leverage big data, reduce technical debt and deploy best-in-class software solutions across business functions. With digital transformation on most enterprise agendas, cloud markets followed historic trends and outperformed […]

May 2, 2023

This article tells me what I already understand: Use of cloud services, including compute and storage, is about to inflect upwards, perhaps more than we’ve seen since cloud computing became a thing.Reporter after reporter has been calling me over the […]

April 25, 2023

Google Cloud has been inching toward profitability even as growth slowed in the global cloud market over the last year. For the final three months of 2022, Google Cloud suffered losses of $480 million, which nearly cut by half the […]

April 6, 2023

I spoke with Brian Adler, Sr. Director, Cloud Market Strategy at Flexera, about this year’s State of the Cloud 2023 report, which provides a complete portrait of current cloud usage. Among the topics we covered: What was your single biggest […]

April 6, 2023

Market consolidation among the hyperscalers has raised concerns over cost, competition and security among cloud users and government regulators. AWS and Microsoft command a combined 60% to 70% of the U.K. market, Ofcom said, citing its analysis of data it […]

March 22, 2023

Cloud business practices are on the radar of federal authorities, fueled by market consolidation among the three largest public cloud infrastructure providers, AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. The three biggest providers, or hyperscalers, own two-thirds of the global cloud […]

January 4, 2023

IBM, competing with behemoths in the pure cloud market, has major aspirations in hybrid cloud solutions. Partner Plus aims to solidify the company’s position in the massive hybrid multicloud and AI markets, according to Woolley. The new program gives partners […]