Tag: Cloud Models

May 17, 2017

There are some fresh public cloud offerings on the horizon for SAP database customers, thanks to Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. Both companies have announced new infrastructure services for the HANA database software aimed at giving customers tons of […]

May 16, 2017

It wasn’t long ago that Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the de facto choice in every public cloud conversation. No matter your market or the size of your business, if your IT team was talking about capturing better economics in […]

May 16, 2017

Have you heard the fairy tale that application performance on the cloud is automatically optimized, without any effort from developers or administrators? Too many people believe it’s reality, and not a fairy tale. Read More on InfoWorld Cloud Computing

May 16, 2017

In the last decade, cloud services have grown increasingly popular and have become more readily available and affordable. Public cloud offerings, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), now provide ‘pay-as-you-use’ platforms that can be spun up quickly and easily. Cloud […]

May 9, 2017

Rackspace® today announced from the OpenStack Summit in Boston that it has collaborated with Dell EMC to deliver OpenStack®private clouds with leading compute and storage solutions from Dell® EMC®. This offer combines Rackspace operational expertise with Dell EMC compute and […]

May 8, 2017

I do think the shift to cloud is helping. We have data that shows our customers who use cloud actually grow faster in total with us than ones who don’t. The promise of cloud accelerates the Unix-to-Linux migration as people […]

May 8, 2017

“Multicloud” means that you use multiple public cloud providers, such as Google and Amazon Web Services, AWS and Microsoft, or all three—you get the idea. Although this seems to provide the best flexibility, there are trade-offs to consider. The drawbacks […]

May 5, 2017

Most enterprises across the globe are currently at some stage of the digital transformation journey, and there is no doubt that cloud is a key driving factor. No sector is immune to the impact of digital transformation, particularly as the […]

May 2, 2017

By now we all (should) know the benefits of serverless computing in the public cloud. InfoWorld’s Eric Knorr provides a good summary of serverless computing’s advantages, so I won’t go into the details here. What’s most interesting is that as Amazon […]

May 1, 2017

Less than one-fifth of enterprise IT assets are in the cloud, but it looks like more are on the way. One-third of data-center professionals and IT practitioners plan to deploy workloads in the cloud in the next year, according to […]

April 28, 2017

I’ve heard many times that if you’re not making mistakes, you’re not making progress. If that’s true, we’re seeing a lot of progress made this year in cloud migrations! Here are the three errors that I see enterprises repeatedly committing. […]

April 26, 2017

If you follow the Gartner Magic Quadrant for infrastructure as a service (IaaS) closely each year you would have noticed that in the 2016 edition, no new vendors were added, while five vendors were removed. According to Gartner, market consolidation […]

April 24, 2017

A funny thing happened on the way to the hybrid cloud: Building the infrastructure was a pain in the neck. That’s what enterprise IT people in the Open Networking User Group have discovered Last year, public cloud providers persuaded C-level […]

April 24, 2017

As far as many gamers are concerned, the future of video games lies in two main areas: the cloud and virtual reality. Each entity is poised to influence the gaming industry on its own, and in the not-so-distant future they […]

April 19, 2017

If you want proof that what I’ve been advising for years is true, check out this research on cloud computing from The Register: Planning pays off when it comes to cloud migration and deployments. The Register found that most companies don’t […]

April 19, 2017

Executives at some companies may have a vision of moving their business entirely to the public cloud. But the reality is that most will need a hybrid cloud approach to reach their business goals. The hybrid cloud model uses a […]

April 13, 2017

Odds are you’ve got a hybrid cloud strategy and have already started implementing this approach. That’s just one of the findings in our brand-new 2017 State of Hybrid Cloud research study that digs deeper into the numbers behind hybrid cloud […]

April 12, 2017

The speed at which the enterprise has transitioned from a “cloud-never” to a “cloud-first” posture is astounding. The fear, uncertainty and doubt that gripped the industry when the public cloud was new and exotic has been replaced by a mindset […]

April 12, 2017

Deciding whether and how to use cloud computing is a complex, and made all the more complicated by the overwhelming number of vendors and products. What’s more, hybrid and multicloud approaches blur the lines between the cloud and on-premise deployment […]

April 3, 2017

We still see software licenses that are not cloud-friendly and compliance and governance restrictions in some sectors and/or geographies continue to preclude 100 percent cloud infrastructure. Equally, there are many legacy applications that have performance or availability characteristics that just […]