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Global Cloud

Questioning cloud’s environmental impact

March 1, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

I recently participated in a documentary called “Clouded II: Does Cloud Cost the Earth?” Please watch it. It looks at the issues surrounding cloud computing, its consumption of power, and thus its potential impact on the planet. The documentary did […]


Service Models

‘Maverick’ SaaS spending by workers can waste millions: report

March 1, 2024

Via: CIO Dive

Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is projected to grow 20.4% to total $678.8 billion in 2024, up from $563.6 billion in 2023, according to Gartner. Vertice previously reported that almost three-quarters (73%) of SaaS vendors hiked prices in […]


Deployment Models, Public Cloud

Google Cloud adds vector support to all its database offerings

February 29, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

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 […]


Global Cloud

AI server market: cloud giants to command 60% demand in 2024

February 29, 2024

Via: Network World

Microsoft, Google, AWS, and Meta will collectively account for over 60% of global demand for high-end AI servers in 2024, according to a report from Trendforce. Microsoft will account for 20.2% of the demand, followed by Google at 16.6%, AWS […]


Global Cloud

Sustainability benefits of cloud computing data centers

February 29, 2024

Via: Computer Weekly

Data centers are significant drivers of growth in electricity demand. Cloud computing data centers are large facilities that need an incredible amount of electricity to run and maintain, but there are worldwide efforts to move to more sustainable energy. The […]


Global Cloud

Why cloud evolution needs a cohesive approach to succeed

February 28, 2024

Via: CIO

Many organisations in India are migrating to the cloud, and there is no shortage of cloud providers. But if you want cloud to revolutionise your business, it won’t help to get stuck with a basic cloud configuration that works by […]


Global Cloud

SolarWinds amps up observability software with AI

February 28, 2024

Via: Network World

SolarWinds added AI-based enhancements to its observability solutions that will enable IT teams to more easily monitor complex, distributed on-premises and cloud environments from anywhere. The upgrades promise to provide visibility into gaps created when workloads are moved from on-premises […]


Global Cloud

What’s going on with cloud finops?

February 27, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Hey, remember finops? Cost optimization? According to most surveys, it was a big deal in 2023, but you never would have known it, considering the amount of AI noise out there. The State of FinOps is an annual survey conducted […]


Global Cloud

CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

February 27, 2024

Via: CIO

After years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, […]


Global Cloud

Cloud providers should play by same rules as telcos, EU commissioner tells MWC

February 27, 2024

Via: Network World

Network cost sharing — or fair share, as network operators call it — is taking over the agenda of this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, used the event to detail […]


Cloud Security

Cloud intrusions spiked 75% in 2023, CrowdStrike says

February 26, 2024

Via: CIO Dive

Threat actors are taking advantage of inconsistent cloud security structures and “living in that uncertainty between the enterprise and the cloud,” Meyers said last week during a media briefing. Cybercriminals are using the cloud to deploy tooling, such as Microsoft […]


Global Cloud

Lambda raises $320 million for GPU cloud

February 26, 2024

Via: Network World

AI cloud service provider Lambda has scored a $320 million cash infusion to build out its GPU-based services, which provide AI training clusters made up of thousands of Nvidia accelerators. Lambda is the latest cloud company to offer GPU processing […]


Global Cloud

When cloud AI lands you in court

February 23, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

In a recent legal ruling against Air Canada in a small claims court, the airline lost because its AI-powered chatbot provided incorrect information about bereavement fares. The chatbot suggested that the passenger could retroactively apply for bereavement fares, despite the […]


Global Cloud

Cloud and AI apps take center stage in .NET 9

February 22, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Just three months into the tenure of .NET 8, it’s already time for Microsoft and the .NET Foundation to start laying out their plans for the next release, .NET 9, which is due to arrive in November with .NET Conf. […]


Deployment Models, Others

Top Cloud Cost Optimization Strategies for Multi-Cloud Environments

February 22, 2024

Via: Cloud Tweaks

The age-old saying “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” has found a new resonance in today’s cloud landscape. The cloud-centric world is shifting towards flexibility and choice. Businesses are increasingly opting for multi-cloud environments, leveraging the diverse strengths […]


Global Cloud

IT leaders are finding the right balance between on-premise and cloud

February 21, 2024

Via: Computer Weekly

A survey of 706 IT leaders conducted by Red Hat for its 2024 Global tech trends report has found that many organisations have figured out the mix between public and private cloud infrastructure. Compared with the previous year’s data, workload […]


Global Cloud

How to Develop a Learning Management System (LMS) from Scratch

February 21, 2024

Via: Cloud Tweaks

Discussions about e-learning projects continue unabated, especially as online education begins to supplant traditional courses, trainings and workshops. This shift includes a growing trend to build LMS from scratch . Distance learning offers two notable benefits: it’s generally more cost-effective […]


Global Cloud

Why enterprises neglect billions in cloud savings

February 21, 2024

Via: CIO Dive

Cloud’s power to digitally transform business comes with a major caveat: access to practically unlimited compute can be a budget buster. Despite a broad enterprise push to optimize spending and commitments from AWS and other major providers to help, cloud […]


Global Cloud

Making cloud infrastructure programmable for developers

February 20, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Most developers don’t use infrastructure as code (IaC), argues AWS tech lead Chris Munns. But to those top 10% to 15% of developers who do use modern development technologies such as IaC go the spoils. Even if the audience for […]


Deployment Models, Hybrid Cloud

Improving performance in hybrid cloud deployments

February 20, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

What we mean by “hybrid cloud” has always needed to be clarified for the cloud industry. Once defined as a private cloud paired with a public cloud, it’s now a catch-all for any system that’s not a public cloud working […]