Category: Private Cloud

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 […]

July 9, 2018

Business pressures demand faster time to market. As a result, enterprises are adopting the latest application modernization solutions to increase productivity while also decreasing operational costs. According to a Research and Markets report, the application modernization services market size is […]

June 22, 2018

An important point is how the boardroom’s view of cloud computing has changed. For many organizations, the transition to the cloud became part of their digital transformation. While the boardroom executives may not understand all the technical details, they see […]

June 15, 2018

Yesterday I was critical of a report that Dr. Owen Rogers, noted cloud economist (yes, there is such a thing) and respected analyst at 451 Research came out with. A synopsis of my views is that Rogers made some findings […]

June 4, 2018

In the eternal words of Yogi Berra, “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” So how does this sage advice apply to the new world of application performance and hybrid IT? As the pace […]

June 4, 2018

In the spring of 2014, Jon Thomsen, the new CEO of Atmosera, a private equity-owned managed services provider (MSP), told the company’s board of directors that he wanted to go in a radical direction. For Atmosera, a channel partner amid […]

June 1, 2018

In addition to the short-term benefits of IBM Cloud Private for Data — a data management platform built on Kubernetes with support for Db2, MongoDB and Postgres databases — General Manager for IBM Analytics pointed to the long-term effects in […]

May 21, 2018

Forward-looking enterprises should be on the road to AI. Companies across the globe are looking to AI as a catalyst to transform their businesses and reinvent themselves as intelligent enterprises. To gain more insight around how companies are planning on […]

May 4, 2018

At the IBM Cloud Private Day event in Johannesburg, South Africa, last month, Soloman Barghouthi, a product manager for hybrid cloud, told ITWeb that IBM Cloud Private isn’t something leaders buy just because they have money to spend. “I’m buying […]

May 2, 2018

Amazon Web Services has announced that Oath, the former Yahoo, has selected AWS as its preferred public cloud provider. Sounds like another routine “win” announcement from a cloud vendor, doesn’t it? But this one is far from routine. Just last […]

May 1, 2018

If your team doesn’t know what to look for in a private cloud solution, you might end up picking a terrible choice for your organization. That one bad decision could put your business at a huge disadvantage for key IT […]

April 20, 2018

Given how much data we share every day, maintaining online privacy is not easy. On top of that, cybercriminals, corporations and governments are trying to strip away the little privacy that internet users have left. In 2018, this concern is […]

April 11, 2018

Enterprises are driving a golden age of business transformation, with cloud the connective tissue and AI the nerve center of this fundamental economic shift. In this transformation, many firms are taking a “hybrid” approach, using multiple providers and developing cognitive […]

February 7, 2018

In its latest Cisco Global Cloud Index (2016-2021), the networking giant predicts that by 2021, 94 percent of all workloads will run in some form of cloud environment and that dedicated servers will be a distinct minority. That 94 percent […]

January 24, 2018

Accelerite started shipping Tuesday its Rovius Cloud pre-installed on validated Dell hardware, the startup’s first integrated solution for private cloud deployment. The “lightweight OEM relationship with Dell” simplifies the acquisition process for customers looking to deploy a low-cost, easily scalable […]

December 28, 2017

A few years ago, the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) outlined the five stages of self-driving vehicles. In actuality, there are six levels, but the zero level is no automation, so we will ignore that. The idea behind the different phases […]

November 6, 2017

My article “Don’t waste your time with a hybrid cloud” has gotten many people seeing red, and I can understand why. Many enterprise IT shops, and most enterprise technology companies, have pledged allegiance to the hybrid cloud model. The intellectual […]