Tag: cloud services

April 28, 2023

Cloud computing has enabled businesses to focus on their core competencies and scale up their operations without worrying about the IT infrastructure. That’s pretty much the same take we had many years ago. Now that cloud computing is already more […]

April 28, 2023

Simply put, and despite claims customers may hear and/or see in this infant market, the reality is that there is no one-size-fits-all definition to “data sovereignty”, and the true source of the definition to “data sovereignty” as applicable to any […]

April 26, 2023

Cloud continued to drive revenue for Microsoft, even as generative AI advances did more to boost the company’s profile during the first three months of the year. Overall revenues grew by 7% year over year. Microsoft’s reported only modest year-over-year […]

April 19, 2023

Global end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 21.7% to total $597.3 billion in 2023, up from $491 billion in 2022, according to analyst firm Gartner. While all segments of the cloud market are expected to see […]

April 10, 2023

Deciding to repatriate your cloud workload back on-prem can feel like a defeat. Typically, businesses undertake repatriation because running workloads in the cloud turned out not to deliver the performance, cost or security results they were hoping for – so […]

April 6, 2023

Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s cloud services could face a full-blown antitrust probe in the UK after the country’s digital regulator said the firms may be abusing their market power to thwart fair competition. Ofcom said Wednesday it had found […]

April 4, 2023

Oracle on Tuesday said it is planning to add a second cloud region in Singapore to meet the growing demand for cloud services across Southeast Asia. “Our upcoming second cloud region in Singapore will help meet the tremendous upsurge in […]

March 28, 2023

Remember cloud washing from a few years ago? This term refers to the practice of companies representing their products and services as cloud-based when they are not truly cloud-based. In other words, cloud washing was, and still is, a marketing […]

March 24, 2023

Hearing everyone’s opinion of the cost-efficiency and value of multicloud deployments is fun. Most people don’t get it right—more from misperceptions and groupthink than anything else. I’m sorry to be the guy who comes along and crushes these myths, but […]

March 23, 2023

Enterprise networking and application security company F5 is rolling out two new features to help businesses simplify different management tasks for today’s complex, multicloud environments. The core problem with multicloud is heightened complexity and its associated costs in management headaches […]

March 13, 2023

86% of businesses say it’s important for their company to develop and produce new software fast to win market share and beat the competition, Harvard Business Review reveals. Yet, just 10% of businesses they’re successful at doing so. In particular, […]

March 7, 2023

Businesses are struggling to manage their hybrid cloud environments, as public cloud services remain largely proprietary and do not always provide the flexility they have on-premises. Enterprises are benefitting from public clouds while keeping some workloads on-premises, but connecting these […]

March 3, 2023

I’m noticing a pattern in my work with young and old cloud architects. Well-known cloud scaling techniques used years ago are rarely used today. Yes, I understand why, being it’s 2023 and not 1993, but cloud architect silverbacks still know […]

February 17, 2023

As macroeconomic uncertainty continues to slow enterprise spending on public cloud services, Google Cloud is offering a new type of contract, dubbed Flex Agreements, to incentivize enterprises to move workloads to its data centers. As the name suggests, Flex Agreements […]

February 16, 2023

Multiple Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) outages have hit users around the world this week, and coming after interruptions in Microsoft’s cloud services last month, are a reminder of the importance of site engineering for systems administrators whose businesses rely on […]

February 13, 2023

SAP recently marked its two-year anniversary of RISE with SAP, SAP’s comprehensive solution of products and services to help customers successfully move to the cloud. So far, more than 2,500 customers have put their trust in SAP and its partners […]

February 7, 2023

New research has revealed that cloud spending continued to grow throughout 2022 in spite of the growing economic pressures affecting companies around the world. In its latest analysis, Synergy Research Group(opens in new tab) found the cloud market seems to […]

January 31, 2023

A hybrid cloud is a computing platform built from both private and public cloud components. A public cloud is what usually comes to mind when we talk about cloud computing: storage and compute resources offered by a vendor to customers […]

January 25, 2023

Microsoft on Tuesday said it expects the growth across its cloud business to temper down through 2023 as enterprises brace for economic headwinds. The Windows-maker reported 29% growth in total cloud revenue to $21.5 billion for the second quarter of […]

January 25, 2023

Already a leader in Malaysia’s burgeoning cloud services and solutions sector when it was acquired by Time dotCom, one of the region’s largest fixed-line communications companies in 2021, AVM Cloud recently became one of the select group of providers who […]