Category: Deployment Models

July 27, 2021

I don’t normally go to the Wall Street Journal for the cloud news, but this headline caught my eye: “Battle for the Cloud, Once Amazon vs. Microsoft, Now Has Many Fronts. Customers increasingly sign with multiple vendors to lower costs […]

July 22, 2021

Increasingly, businesses want to move to hybrid cloud architectures that combine private or colocation data centers with the public cloud. They recognize the potential for gaining agility and saving money, but many aren’t sure where to start. Evoque, the colocation […]

July 21, 2021

OK, let’s say you’re a CIO who’s promoted hybrid cloud computing in your company. Then along came all these news stories that call into question the whole notion of cloud economies. Do you send some covert IT team to block […]

July 19, 2021

As technology increasingly takes the driver’s seat in delivering value for enterprises across industries, technology leaders themselves are increasingly being held accountable for areas previously outside of their scope. With global data center electricity consumption estimated to be nearly equivalent […]

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 […]

July 7, 2021

IBM Research on Wednesday unveiled CodeFlare, a new framework for integrating and scaling big data and AIworkflows in a hybrid cloud environment. The open-source framework aims to help developers cut back the time they spend creating pipelines to train and […]

July 2, 2021

I was impressed by this CIO article about 10 dark secrets of cloud by Peter Wayner (CIO is also part of IDG). You should read it for a few reasons. First, it’s not often that the press discusses the downsides […]

June 30, 2021

In 2020 lots of workloads shifted to the cloud due to the pandemic, but that doesn’t mean that figuring out how to migrate those workloads got any easier. Device42, a startup that helps companies understand their infrastructure, has a new […]

June 28, 2021

IBM has landed hybrid cloud deals with Verizon and Telefonica as it aims to build out 5G and edge networks. In addition, Big Blue launched IBM Cloud Pak for Network Automation for enterprises looking to deploy 5G networks. IBM has […]

June 28, 2021

The slide in AWS’s market share over time signals the maturity of the cloud market. But even amid this decline — AWS held 49.4% of the market share in 2017 — the company remains by far the dominant provider. But […]