Category: Deployment Models

January 18, 2021

IBM has gone on a shopping spree of companies that manage cloud deployments that span across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The upshot here is that IBM is aiming to be the Switzerland of multicloud. With Red […]

January 15, 2021

Hybrid cloud environments are a common sight in today’s digital world. IBM’s Assembling Your Cloud Orchestra report found 85% of organizations already utilize a hybrid cloud and 98% anticipate having one in place within three years. This type of cloud […]

January 12, 2021

Now that Amazon Web Services has shut down Parler, will the social network rebuild elsewhere? Parler CEO John Matze says Parler will be back with “many competing for our business.” Don’t bet on it. There appears to be no major […]

January 5, 2021

As someone responsible for running a global consulting practice, other than running the business, there are two drivers: Is “cloud everywhere” real or hype for customers? What is the nature of cloud services that are sourced on-premises? The principle of […]

January 5, 2021

Australian-based not-for-profit organisation Northcott Disability Services may have been “paying good money” for its on-premise environment but according to the organisation’s CIO Paul Herbert, it was not doing its 184 worksites across Australia any favours. “The sites were unloved; a […]

December 29, 2020

Typical New Year’s resolutions focus on personal and professional development—ways to improve. Although I certainly have personal goals of no interest to anyone but myself, I also have some related to the cloud computing profession. I’ll share them in hopes […]

December 22, 2020

Multicloud should be easy, right? I mean, it’s just deploying and managing more than a single public cloud. This has unfortunately not been the case. As more enterprises deploy multicloud architectures, some avoidable mistakes are happening over and over again. […]

December 14, 2020

Companies have been moving data, applications, and development work to the cloud in greater numbers for the past several years — a trend that has seen a significant boost since the coronavirus pandemic triggered a rise in remote work and […]

December 11, 2020

This quarter, strong earnings results from public cloud companies were overshadowed by a seemingly endless IPO cycle. Another moment we somewhat missed over the last few weeks was the stock market pushing the value of public cloud companies to all-time […]

December 3, 2020

Today’s cloud services customers are looking beyond the basic benefits of the cloud, such as ease of scale and payment options. Now, they want the cloud to keep their business evolving and improve customer experience to help them compete. Amazon […]