Category: Private Cloud

June 18, 2019

Cloud computing has become the de facto platform for fueling digital transformations and modernizing IT portfolios. Companies are increasingly finding business agility or cost savings by renting software from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and […]

June 14, 2019

Traditional private clouds are on their way out. I’m talking about the open standards-based stuff that was huge a couple of years, but fell behind in features or functions compared to the public cloud providers. Other factors included complexity of […]

June 12, 2019

Apple has published an all-new version of its iCloud app for Windows users and the software is available for download from Microsoft’s App Store. What is Apple’s iCloud? iCloud is an essential component across Apple’s universe. You use it to […]

May 21, 2019

Informatica, the enterprise cloud data management company, is bolstering its partnership with Google Cloud. The stronger partnership includes plans to pursue joint sales and go-to-market opportunities, as well as connectivity to all of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)’s key data […]

May 21, 2019

Public cloud providers surprised a great deal of people when they came out with proprietary private clouds. (That’s where actual hardware and software support a subset of public cloud services.) I’m pretty sure they don’t like me to call them […]

May 20, 2019

There is one very significant, very often overlooked, difference between today’s cloud services market and yesterday’s PC software market: Software depended on a sales channel, comprised of independent organizations that ensured the availability of software packages through resellers. With the […]

May 20, 2019

Following Microsoft and Sony’s surprising announcement of a cloud gaming partnership last week, Bloomberg has a bit of behind-the-scenes analysis that uses unnamed insider sources to explain how the deal came about. Though Sony confirmed to Bloomberg that talks between […]

May 16, 2019

Germany is in the process of completely transforming its energy sector at a pace unmatched by other industrialized nations. Nuclear power is phasing out as renewables are gradually taking over, according to Deutsche Welle, Germany’s international broadcaster. The country’s politically […]

May 9, 2019

It has to be a bit depressing to be in the cloud infrastructure business if your name isn’t Amazon. Sure, there’s a huge, growing market, and the companies behind Amazon are growing even faster. Yet it seems no matter how […]

May 9, 2019

Google Cloud and SAP are teaming up under an effort called Embrace to offer joint customers more best practices and reference architectures to migrate workloads as well as extensions for C/4HANA. For Google Cloud, closer SAP ties may help it […]

May 1, 2019

Spending on cloud computing infrastructure continues to grow at a furious pace, but cloud vendors will have to work harder for their profits from now on. Global cloud infrastructure services market grew 42 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of […]

April 17, 2019

Thomas Kurian, the newly-minted CEO of Google Cloud, used the company’s Cloud Next conference last week to lay out his vision for the future of Google’s cloud computing platform. That vision involves, in part, a hiring spree to give businesses […]

April 16, 2019

Google on Tuesday announced GKE Advanced, a new service tier for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), its managed Kubernetes service. It includes advanced security features, enhanced usage reporting and support for serverless workloads via Cloud Run on GKE. Google introduced Cloud […]

April 15, 2019

Last week’s Google NEXT conference could be dubbed CEO Thomas Kurian’s coming out party. With the first major changing of the guard at the CEO suite, the baton has passed from Diane Greene, whose contribution could be summarized as the […]

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 […]