Category: Private Cloud

February 5, 2019

Software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) and public cloud IaaS services both offer powerful benefits to virtually any business. Many of these same businesses, however, are missing out on an incredible opportunity by either accessing the internet using SD-WAN technology or using public […]

February 4, 2019

Microsoft is to use mapping and traffic data from navigation company TomTom across a number of its services including Azure and Bing Maps. TomTom’s data will power mapping services across Microsoft applications, including Bing, Cortana and Windows under an expanded […]

February 1, 2019

While it appears that overall economic activity could be slowing down, one area that continues to soar is the cloud business. Just this week, Amazon and Microsoft reported their cloud numbers as part of their overall earnings reports. While Microsoft’s […]

January 23, 2019

In the era of digital transformation, businesses have realised that for data to be useful it has to be accessible and this has helped spur cloud adoption. In the West, Amazon, Microsoft and Google have a tight grip on the […]

January 21, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer the next big thing. It’s a present reality of IT, and it’s only becoming more important. In a recent study by MIT Sloan Management Review, 91 percent of business leaders said they expected AI […]

December 20, 2018

Anyone working in the cloud today knows that it is about more than just selection a cloud or managed services provider and working with them to transform their IT to a cloud model. A complete cloud implementation involves a number […]

December 11, 2018

No matter if you’re looking at Microsoft’s Azure Stack, Amazon Web Services’s Outpost, or Google’s Kubernetes Engine (GKE) on premises, that emerging pattern is the same: placing an on-premises version of a pubic cloud’s cloud services that runs on hardware […]

December 4, 2018

Microsoft and Docker today announced a new joint open-source project, the Cloud Native Application Bundle (CNAB), that aims to make the lifecycle management of cloud-native applications easier. At its core, the CNAB is nothing but a specification that allows developers […]

September 27, 2018

Organizations seeking to employ a multi-cloud strategy must demand strategic flexibility from their infrastructure. Why? Because the platform choices organizations make today will determine their agility, economics and competitiveness for the next five to 10 years. It is essential to […]

September 10, 2018

With more than 150,000 customers in 150 countries around the world, Rackspace has a front row seat to the unprecedented and accelerating change facing companies of all sizes, with all the opportunities and threats that change represents. Driven by the […]