Tag: data centers

May 26, 2021

Using public cloud infrastructure has gotten more expensive, and most IT departments are running hybrid cloud architectures, combining on-premises data centers with public clouds to meet their computing needs. Those are some of the key findings from a recent survey […]

March 17, 2021

In an effort to hold itself accountable to its sustainability goals, Google has developed a new publicly-available metric that provides an indication of exactly how clean the company’s cloud regions are around the world. Called the carbon-free energy percentage (CFE%), […]

May 28, 2020

During the early days of the coronavirus outbreak many wondered if the internet would end up going down due to the dramatic increase in traffic from remote working, distance learning and people keeping themselves occupied while stuck at home. In […]

February 3, 2020

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Oracle Corp (ORCL.N) said on Monday it had added new cloud computing data centers in five countries and aims to have them in 36 locations by the end of 2020, as it races with Amazon.com (AMZN.O) […]

August 27, 2019

Many organizations are turning to the public cloud, taking advantage of the speed it enables developers to deploy applications in their organizations. According to IDG in their 2018 Cloud Computing Survey, 73% of organizations have at least one application, or […]

April 23, 2019

Oracle was founded in 1977. While it’s not exactly IBM or GE, both of which date back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries respectively, it is old enough to be experiencing a fair bit of disruption in its […]

January 4, 2019

IT loves its enterprise data centers. Who can blame IT? Data centers are LED light works of modern art these days. Indeed, I like visiting data centers just to enjoy how they are designed and watch the lights blink. The […]

December 13, 2018

Over 8,000 people are at KubeCon in Seattle. Every major tech company and businesses I’ve never even heard of are here and trumpeting their Kubenetes distros — about 80 of them. IBM recently bought Red Hat for a cool $34-billion. […]

December 12, 2018

A supercomputer is any mechanism whose performance capability, either by design or by default, enables it to compete — effectively or otherwise — in the market for functionality and information. There have been times throughout history where handfuls of spare […]

December 11, 2018

Elastifile has been shipping their Cloud File System for over two years. But this morning they’re announcing, in conjunction with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), that they are now fully integrated with GCP. “Fully integrated” means: The UI, deployment, and monitoring […]

November 16, 2018

IBM is rolling out a series of technologies and services designed to speed up cloud migrations and hybrid deployments. The move is part of a larger effort by IBM to manage multi-cloud deployments that may hop between public clouds as […]

November 13, 2018

The combination of big data and (relatively) cheap cloud storage has led to an explosion in efforts to make stored files findable. Google has Cloud Search, Elastic recently scored a $4B IPO, and other startups like Coveo and butter.ai are […]

November 7, 2018

Here is little question that cloud has become one of the front burner issues for IT. According to Ovum’s latest industry insights, almost half of respondents are reporting running at least some workloads in the cloud, For instance, for big […]

November 1, 2018

We’ll see more big cloud deals next year. Here’s why: The big enterprise tech companies are losing market share to the cloud, so they are looking to buy back the market share they are losing. Indeed, cloud computing is eroding […]

October 15, 2018

Adobe unveiled a bevy of updates to its Creative Cloud in a bid to save creative pros time and clicks via artificial intelligence and machine learning, set the stage for new mediums and span multiple screens to make Apple’s iPad […]

October 5, 2018

Signs abound that IoT involvement and immersion continue to grow in the channel. Take CompTIA’s recently released 7th State of the Channel Study, for example. This year, CompTIA research found that nearly half of all channel companies (48 percent) are […]

June 20, 2018

HPE DISCOVER — With Wednesday’s launch of the the Edgeline edge-to-cloud family of products, companies will be able to run unmodified enterprise-class applications in their hybrid cloud environments at the edge, in data centers and in the cloud. So says […]

May 31, 2018

Green House Data leadership have had a strategic vision for the company since its inception in 2007. The provider of cloud, colocation, hybrid IT and managed services grew from a single location in the middle of the country, expanding to […]

April 25, 2018

Despite a selloff in technology shares, Pivotal Software’s IPO late last week couldn’t have come at a better time for proponents of Cloud Foundry, the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) technology and ecosystem the company seeded by contributing its base IP to the […]

September 1, 2017

Cloud-native architectures will become the default option for customer-facing applications by 2020, according to a new study from IT consultancy Capgemini, Cloud Native Comes of Age. However, that move is predicated on whether the business leaders will allow it. Capgemini […]