Tag: IT management

February 21, 2024

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 […]

October 20, 2022

SolarWinds, the maker of a well-known and widely used suite of IT management software products, announced this week that it’s expanding to the cloud, with the release of Observability, a cloud-native, SaaS-based IT management service that is also available for […]

October 19, 2022

MinIO Inc., creators of the MinIO Multi-Cloud Object Storage suite, recently announced a deeper strategic collaboration with Intel to deliver superior performance across mission critical workloads, creating optimized infrastructure options for customers. MinIO is a high-performance, Kubernetes-native, S3-compatible object store. […]

April 13, 2022

IT costs are complex and difficult to figure out. First consider traditional IT, better known as on-premises. On one hand you have the cost of the hardware, the software, and the data center space. We all know that’s just the […]

July 16, 2021

It’s Monday morning and you get an irate call from the CFO. A public cloud bill just came in and it’s three times higher than last month. The overage is not in the budget and just what do you suggest […]

August 28, 2017

Guess what? It’s not CIO or other leaders who are calling in the cloud consultants these days. It’s the CFOs who are picking up the phone. That’s logical if you think about it. CFOs are charged with keeping the company […]

August 28, 2017

With more than 35 years of health IT experience, UC Irvine Health CIO Chuck Podesta has witnessed the dramatic evolution of IT as well as the impact that technology has had in transforming medical operations and patient care. That said, […]

April 11, 2017

How we do IT is changing. As it changes, we need to alter the way we think about IT. I like to call that new thinking as having a “cloud brain.” So what the hell is a “cloud brain?” Read […]

March 10, 2017

It’s the dog days of summer, yet I see many cloud projects racing forward. Though it’s vacation time, cloud projects are as plentiful as bad Hawaiian shirts on any beach in the United States. I’ve heard you can learn more […]

November 15, 2016

The Amazon Web Services CloudTrail services let AWS customers track API calls, as well as send log files to AWS S3 storage. The service can track the identity of the API users, time of call, and source IP address. This […]

May 23, 2016

SAP and Microsoft announced that they are now buddies, working together to better integrate their cloud services. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivered the news in person on stage at SAP’s annual conference. Under the new relationship, Microsoft will deliver broad […]

April 22, 2016

Public cloud services that can allocate applications and services to users through a cloud broker. These brokerage systems sit between the consumers of cloud services and the services themselves. Brokers can gather data about the cloud service — including cost, […]

April 12, 2016

Gartner says worldwide IT spending will total $3.5 trillion this year, a 0.5 percent decline from 2015. It won’t get better over the next few years, with Gartner predicting that global IT spending will rise only 2 to 3 percent […]

March 1, 2016

People who define new cloud platforms in enterprises often do only half the work. What do they miss? They consistently overlook these three areas: Governance, both at the resource levels (such as storage and compute) and at the service level […]

February 23, 2016

Cloud and devops are joined at the hip. Indeed, enterprise development shops that use the cloud and devops are knocking it out of the park, delivering huge value. However, other enterprises are struggling when they don’t need to. To take […]