Category: Hybrid Cloud

March 28, 2022

Digital healthcare provider Babylon Health has added Google Cloud to the roster of suppliers that make up its hybrid cloud infrastructure estate to enable its business to globally scale with greater ease. The company, which was founded in 2013, works […]

March 24, 2022

IBM is launching a new service to help customers manage their data encryption keys in a hybrid cloud environment. Unified Key Orchestrator lets customers integrate all security key-management systems into one managed service that’s backed by Big Blue’s Hardware Security […]

March 16, 2022

Cisco and NetApp have upgraded their converged-infrastructure platform, FlexPod, to handle hybrid-cloud services. FlexPod–which Cisco and NetApp have been building since 2010 and has some 10,000 customers the vendors say–includes integrated Cisco UCS servers and networking gear and NetApp ONTAP […]

February 8, 2022

If you asked me five years ago if I thought hybrid cloud was a cop out – a misinformed strategy for businesses that weren’t ready to transform hard enough – I probably would have said yes. I saw the allure […]

February 3, 2022

Hybrid cloud is now the default infrastructure for most enterprises. In fact, 82 per cent now have a hybrid cloud strategy – with an average of 2.6 public and 2.7 private clouds per organisation. But a lot of this adoption […]

January 24, 2022

There is huge momentum in moving IT infrastructure to the public cloud. It enables IT departments to avoid the up-front costs of buying hardware and maintaining on-premise enterprise systems. In Forrester’s The future of enterprise data storage report, analysts discussed […]

December 8, 2021

While cloud companies such as AWS are offering enterprise customers new ways to get applications off the mainframe and into the cloud, IBM moved this week to keep them on the Big Iron. IBM rolled out a portal it calls […]

December 6, 2021

There has been a marked reversal of momentum in many aspects of the technologies we are using. Organisations used to use top-down development practices as the primary rationale for the platforms they adopted and the applications and services they developed. […]

December 3, 2021

Understanding the benefits of hybrid cloud is easy enough. Actually building a hybrid cloud environment can be more challenging. That’s not because there’s a shortage of hybrid cloud tools. On the contrary, there are a variety of platforms and frameworks […]

November 11, 2021

Despite all the promises of secure access service edge (SASE), some challenges lie ahead for organizations looking to adopt and implement SASE technologies and practices in a hybrid cloud environment. These include driving the required organizational change to make this […]

October 25, 2021

There are many compelling reasons why the hybrid cloud industry is forecasted to grow 17% in 2021. When you add a public cloud provider or another on-premises solution into your existing system, it expands the options you have available to […]

October 11, 2021

Organizations continue the aggressive movement of their operations to the cloud. According to Flexera’s 2021 State of the Cloud report, 80% of enterprises are utilizing a hybrid cloud strategy. Respondents to Flexera’s report estimate that 30% of their organizations’ cloud […]

October 5, 2021

VMware has introduced a barrage of new software and cloud services designed to simplify and speed up their customers’ journey to multi-cloud environments. As the company kicked off its virtual VMworld 2021 conference Tuesday, VMware announced new technology initiatives including […]

September 23, 2021

Nutanix is releasing enhancements to its AOS operating system and Era database-management service designed to make it easier for enterprises to manage data, workloads, and business-continuity security tools in hybrid cloud environments via software-defined networking capabilities AOS and Era are […]

September 2, 2021

The pivot of many enterprises toward hybrid cloud architectures has upended all corners of the colocation market. In an era when workloads routinely span public cloud environments and colocation facilities, colocation providers large and small face ever-increasing pressure to deliver […]

August 26, 2021

Choosing a cloud provider is complicated enough when you plan to run all of your workloads within a single public cloud: You have to compare the various features and pricing schedules that different cloud providers offer to determine the best […]

August 17, 2021

Recently the banking industry has faced questions about its use of cloud computing. There is concern that concentrating on a single cloud provider’s resources could leave that bank exposed if the cloud provider has a major outage or for some […]

August 16, 2021

Cloud is now viewed as a foundational technology model for digital transformation and unlocking its full potential will be a key to become a truly digital and future enterprise. By improving greater elasticity, improved scalability and access to on-demand IT […]

August 12, 2021

How can colocation providers remain competitive in a world where businesses increasingly expect the ability to integrate colocated infrastructure into hybrid cloud architectures? The answer, it turns out, varies widely from provider to provider. As we learned in a series […]

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 […]