Category: Deployment Models

May 15, 2023

Public cloud services provider Oracle on Monday said it will launch a new cloud region in Serbia, which will make it the first among rivals including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and IBM, to offer a hyperscale data center […]

May 15, 2023

Widespread adoption of cloud-based collaboration platforms often leads to a “multicloud by default” approach without a clear strategy to support workload needs. Sound familiar? Today many organizations are reexamining their cloud usage and, importantly, the costs associated with it. Nearly […]

May 12, 2023

These days, to serve the backbone corporate needs for more than 100,000 employees globally means betting big on the cloud. That’s what James Hannah, SVP and global CIO of General Dynamics Information Technology, has done in support of the Reston, […]

May 10, 2023

The new AI capabilities are part of a broader hybrid cloud strategy, which aims to help organizations integrate multicloud and on-prem ecosystems. The company remains committed to enterprise hybrid cloud solutions as its pathway to relevance in a market dominated […]

April 24, 2023

Six out of ten organizations today are using a mix of infrastructures, including private cloud, public cloud, multi-cloud, on-premises, and hosted data centers, according to the 5th Annual Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Index. Managing applications and data, especially when they’re moving […]

April 21, 2023

The major cloud providers generally support on-premise workloads, with some offering IT admins a way to manage multiple public clouds from one place, but IT leaders say that it is hard to have a single view of the whole cloud […]

April 20, 2023

When we think of digital transformation, perhaps no other technology comes to mind as quickly as the cloud. Many businesses have, in some form or another, been migrating their operations to the cloud for years now. But that doesn’t mean […]

April 20, 2023

AI has been integral to IBM’s identity since supercomputer Deep Blue beat grandmaster Garry Kasparov in a legendary 1997 chess match. Hybrid cloud is a newer addition to the tech company’s portfolio. Together, they represent the path forward for the […]

April 19, 2023

Global end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 21.7% to total $597.3 billion in 2023, up from $491 billion in 2022, according to analyst firm Gartner. While all segments of the cloud market are expected to see […]

April 11, 2023

Public cloud computing is arguably one of the most transformative business technologies of the past decade. However, hyperscale public cloud platforms are seldom sufficient for supporting all computing needs for enterprises and other large organizations. Plus, using such services can […]

April 11, 2023

Credit reporting bureau Experian is undergoing a multi-year digital transformation project that has seen it name Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider partner. The project will see Experian take a cloud-first approach to modernising its IT infrastructure […]

April 10, 2023

Multi-cloud is the future of enterprise IT. The evidence is overwhelming. A recent report reveals that more than 80% of enterprises surveyed have a multi-cloud strategy and nearly that number (78%) already have workloads deployed in more than three public […]

April 10, 2023

Managing identities and their access permissions is becoming more complicated. Digital sprawl has led to an explosion in permissions across multicloud environments, and consistent oversight is lacking. As many as 99% of cloud permissions are going unused, and this represents […]

April 6, 2023

A senior Microsoft executive has laid out why benchmarking cloud PCs is an incredibly tricky process that, in many cases, just isn’t possible. In a recent blog post(opens in new tab), Microsoft Windows 365 Cloud PC and Azure Virtual Desktop […]

April 6, 2023

I spoke with Brian Adler, Sr. Director, Cloud Market Strategy at Flexera, about this year’s State of the Cloud 2023 report, which provides a complete portrait of current cloud usage. Among the topics we covered: What was your single biggest […]

April 4, 2023

Oracle on Tuesday said it is planning to add a second cloud region in Singapore to meet the growing demand for cloud services across Southeast Asia. “Our upcoming second cloud region in Singapore will help meet the tremendous upsurge in […]

March 31, 2023

AMD CIO Hasmukh Ranjan sits at the cloud’s crossroads. As a chipmaker, AMD is a vital supplier for the public cloud’s compute engine, and among Ranjan’s key remits is to support the engineering of semiconductors that power the cloud. But […]

March 24, 2023

Hearing everyone’s opinion of the cost-efficiency and value of multicloud deployments is fun. Most people don’t get it right—more from misperceptions and groupthink than anything else. I’m sorry to be the guy who comes along and crushes these myths, but […]

March 23, 2023

Enterprise networking and application security company F5 is rolling out two new features to help businesses simplify different management tasks for today’s complex, multicloud environments. The core problem with multicloud is heightened complexity and its associated costs in management headaches […]

March 13, 2023

What does Identity and Access Management (IAM) for/in IT departments have in common with the song “All I Want For Christmas Is You” in shopping centers in December? Well, both are an integral part of the experience and you only […]