Category: Deployment Models

December 5, 2019

Genuine digital transformation requires cloud modernization strategies that involve and affect people, processes and technology. In part one of this two-part series, I focused on cloud-based technologies that enable organizations to modernize infrastructures, platforms and applications. This time around, I’ll […]

December 4, 2019

Looking to further nudge the data-center crowd into the cloud world, Amazon Web Services announced the availability of its long-awaited Outposts hybrid-cloud service this week. Outposts delivers on-premises hardware and services that enables AWS cloud services inside enterprise data centers. […]

December 3, 2019

Let’s face it. We’re painting ourselves into a corner given the number of special-purpose, cloud-native databases we’re placing into production. This without regard to how we should be using those databases in ways that allow for easy access and understanding […]

November 25, 2019

IBM (NYSE:IBM), also referred to as Big Blue, has struggled with revenue growth for more than five years. In Oct. 2018, IBM announced its acquisition of Red Hat for $34 billion — IBM’s largest acquisition in its 108-year history. And […]

November 20, 2019

IBM is taking aim at the challenging concept of securely locking-down company applications and data spread across multiple private and public clouds and on-premises locations. IBM is addressing this challenge with its Cloud Pak for Security, which features open-source technology […]

November 20, 2019

Today’s hybrid multicloud reality can be a double-edged sword. While the transformation can increase speed, scale and flexibility, it can also limit your view of performance and security within containers. In fact, an IBM and McKinsey research report notes that […]

November 19, 2019

Salesforce and AWS announced an expansion of their on-going partnership that actually goes back to a $400 million 2016 infrastructure services agreement, and expanded last year to include data integration between the two companies. This year, Salesforce announced it will […]

November 15, 2019

Salesforce’s MuleSoft unit said it will enable its Anypoint platform to run on Google Cloud Platform so joint customers can connect services like BigQuery to enterprise applications more easily. MuleSoft is used to manage business applications and connect them within […]

November 14, 2019

Europe’s largest enterprise software company SAP said that they are migrating its customers away from software run on their own premises and into its cloud offerings by 2021. Speaking to TechRadar Middle East in an exclusive chat, Zakaria Haltout, managing […]

November 13, 2019

It is not easy measuring public cloud performance. I know. I’ve benchmarked clouds. So much depends on exactly which cloud configuration you use and your workloads; it’s hard to make objective judgments. But, ThousandEyes, a cloud analysis company, in its […]