Category: Private Cloud

November 4, 2020

Microsoft is gearing up to make System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) available in its cloud. That project, codenamed “Aquila,” according to several contacts of mine, should be entering private preview in the relatively near future. SCOM is Microsoft’s on-premises solution […]

August 14, 2020

Today’s definition of multicloud depends on who you ask. This is not a new trend. Whenever a new technology gets some hype, suddenly there is semantic confusion. My definition is a bit more holistic than most: Multicloud is a collection […]

May 15, 2020

VPCs (virtual private clouds) were really a marketing response by public cloud providers that found themselves competing with private clouds, such as OpenStack, years ago. Some enterprises did not relish the idea of placing their data on a public cloud, […]

April 27, 2020

Public sector organisations are increasingly making the jump to public cloud. But while this is a positive step in their journey towards modernising services, it also brings its challenges. Migration to the public cloud is by no means a new […]

April 9, 2020

MISTAKES TO AVOID WHEN CHOOSING A CLOUD According to Gartner, the worldwide public cloud services market is forecast to grow 17% in 2020 to total $266.4 billion, up from $227.8 billion in 2019. While the benefits are too compelling to […]

March 13, 2020

The running joke is that raspberry Pis are cheaper than an actual raspberry pie. Although I wouldn’t pay $50 to $100 for a pie to eat, the idea is to provide a very capable computer, with a small footprint, with […]

March 2, 2020

Microsoft is moving its Windows Server print functionality to Azure and christening the resulting product as its Universal Print Service. As of today, March 2, Universal Print is now in private preview and open to those who register for it. […]

December 18, 2019

Cloud computing gets divided into three types: public, private, and hybrid; the last being a mix between the first two types. While a public cloud connects to multiple users through the internet, a private cloud is restricted to only select […]

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 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 […]