Tag: cloud service

July 11, 2024

Microsoft has reportedly agreed to pay $22 million to settle an antitrust complaint with a group representing cloud computing companies in Europe. This move avoids a potential larger fine from the European Commission, according to Reuters. A complaint was filed […]

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 […]

February 29, 2024

Google Cloud on Thursday said it is adding vector support and integrating LangChain with all of its database offerings in an effort to outdo rival cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Oracle. Cloud service providers […]

January 11, 2024

In a dramatic shift following Broadcom’s $61 billion acquisition of VMware in November 2023, the virtualization giant’s partner programs look to be undergoing a major shakeup that could affect many of its Cloud Service Providers (CSPs). The acquisition, which finally […]

December 18, 2023

The big cloud service providers are moving into AI – and this has some folks sounding the alarm. The narrative is that when businesses embrace the AI capabilities of AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, they are handing over even […]

December 15, 2023

Generative AI is pushing some critical decisions and doing so very fast. Every organization faces the crucial decision of whether to build a custom generative AI platform internally or buy a prepackaged solution from an AI vendor, generally delivered as […]

December 12, 2023

Revenue for public cloud services for companies such as Microsoft, AWS, and Google increased 19% year over year in the first half of 2023 on the back of the increased adoption of AI and organizations’ persistent interest in moving more […]

December 7, 2023

IBM has delivered a SaaS package it has been developing to help enterprises connect and secure multicloud resources. The service, IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh, implements a virtualized networking environment to rapidly enable secure connectivity between users, applications, and data distributed […]

December 5, 2023

Reporters often call me about whatever newfangled buzzword is out there and what it means to the typical enterprise. Recently, I’ve been questioned about the fediverse. The fediverse is a decentralized social network of independent servers that can communicate with […]

October 19, 2023

Object storage specialist Scality has become the first supplier to gain integration with VMware’s Cloud Director via OSIS (Object Storage Interoperability Service). VMware Cloud Director provides deployment and management for cloud service providers and the move will allow Scality to […]

June 21, 2023

Oracle isn’t the only cloud service provider working toward data sovereignty solutions. Microsoft is making progress on an industry vertical for government and public sector customers it hopes to deploy later this year, and Google Cloud introduced a digital sovereignty […]

June 20, 2023

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is launching an AI supercomputer cloud service that will enable organizations of all sizes to pursue AI projects without the cost and complexity of having to buy, install, and manage AI-specific hardware themselves. At its HPE Discover […]

April 13, 2023

Cerbos has announced a new control plane for its open-source permission and authorization software delivered via cloud hosting, which it will call Cerbos Cloud, designed to “streamline the development, testing and distribution of authorization policies.” Currently available in private beta […]

April 4, 2023

There are many ways to save money in the cloud, from rightsizing resources to renegotiating cloud service contracts. When implemented properly, all of these measures will reduce cloud spending to some degree. However, some cloud savings strategies tend to yield […]

March 21, 2023

Nvidia has partnered with Oracle Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and others to make its AI supercomputers available as a cloud service. The company’s new offering, called Nvidia DGX Cloud, will enable enterprises to use a web browser to immediately […]

February 15, 2023

I recently wrote an opinion piece on the most important reason you should be using Linux at home. In the end, it’s all about keeping your data safe from third-party services and the ability to expand the applications, services, and […]

November 8, 2022

Equinix and VMware today announced plans for VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal, a new offering that will enable enterprises to use VMware’s software environment as a cloud service on Equinix’s bare-metal cloud. Executives from both companies said they are building […]

September 16, 2022

Environmental sustainability is becoming a top business priority, with a recent Gartner survey indicating that sustainability ranked among CEOs’ top 10 priorities for 2022. Organizations determined to reduce their environmental impact must focus on the sustainability of their IT initiatives, […]

September 6, 2022

Enterprise blockchain may still be in experimental mode, but it may soon change the way applications and systems are designed, moving from an architecture maintained by individual organizations to architectures in which applications and data are shared and secured across […]

August 31, 2022

The first thing to know about managed cloud services? It would certainly help to define the term as a starting point. At some point in the not-so-distant past, a “cloud managed service” probably referred to something straightforward like paying a […]