Category: Service Models

March 28, 2023

Remember cloud washing from a few years ago? This term refers to the practice of companies representing their products and services as cloud-based when they are not truly cloud-based. In other words, cloud washing was, and still is, a marketing […]

March 24, 2023

Anxious to meet international standards, satisfy investors, and profit from a growing array of sustainable products, financial services firms are intensifying their focus on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals. While the incentives for ESG are compelling, managing programs and […]

March 23, 2023

David Heinemeier Hansson, co-owner and CTO at SaaS vendor 37signals, is quitting the cloud and wants everyone to know about it. In a series of blog posts, Hansson has challenged the cloud business model, rebutted assumptions associated with cloud computing, […]

March 16, 2023

KPN, the largest infrastructure provider in the Netherlands, offers a high-performance fixed-line and mobile network in addition to enterprise-class IT infrastructure and a wide range of cloud offerings, including Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Security-as-a-Service. Drawing on its extensive track record of […]

March 13, 2023

86% of businesses say it’s important for their company to develop and produce new software fast to win market share and beat the competition, Harvard Business Review reveals. Yet, just 10% of businesses they’re successful at doing so. In particular, […]

February 27, 2023

Like it or not, 98% of IaaS and PaaS users are already in a multicloud environment, but their strategies for dealing with it vary. A new study looks at how CIOs are facing up to the challenge. Italian insurer Reale […]

February 24, 2023

Buzzwords drive the IT industry—always have and always will. This holds true whether you deal with structured programming, object-oriented programming, client/server, distributed objects, enterprise application integration, data warehousing, and service-oriented architecture. Now it’s cloud computing with all its related buzzwords. […]

February 20, 2023

Salesforce skills are among the most sought-after in the IT industry and demand is soaring. The most performant CRM system today, Salesforce is a core technology for digital business, and its associated applications and ecosystem help make it in a […]

February 17, 2023

As macroeconomic uncertainty continues to slow enterprise spending on public cloud services, Google Cloud is offering a new type of contract, dubbed Flex Agreements, to incentivize enterprises to move workloads to its data centers. As the name suggests, Flex Agreements […]

February 13, 2023

Backup specialist Hycu has launched R-Cloud, a backup development environment to provide a universal data protection platform for as-a-service applications that run in the cloud. “SaaS [software as a service] represents 70% on average of software used in the enterprise,” […]

February 3, 2023

Devops or devsecops (I’ll use devops for this post) is more than just a fast way to build and deploy software within the cloud and on traditional systems. It’s now a solid standard, with best practices, processes, and widely accepted […]

January 19, 2023

By 2024, 88% of enterprises will use two or more infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers, according to research by EMA, which believes that network infrastructure and operations teams must take a leadership role in defining network architecture that ensures […]

January 11, 2023

SaaS tools and platforms sit at the core of enterprise technology aspirations, driving results with flexibility and agility. But their usage is not immune to the broader economic or business trends at play. As last year wrapped up, more than […]

December 7, 2022

Businesses and government organizations have realized that 100% cloud sovereignty is necessary. What is 100% cloud sovereignty? Why can you ignore it when moving to the cloud? This post uncovers the aspects of sovereign cloud and how businesses can ensure […]

November 23, 2022

Remember when cloud computing was supposed to make the lives of IT pros easier? When PaaS and IaaS would free IT teams of the burden of physical infrastructure management, and SaaS would make it easy to deliver applications to any […]

November 23, 2022

As the impacts of record-setting inflation cause businesses to have lower spending power, CIOs have to do more with less. On top of that, many companies struggle to control app redundancy, unnecessary spending and complexity from the expansion of enterprise […]

November 22, 2022

Using feature flags and other runtime configuration types is a fast-evolving technology segment. Adjusting your software behavior with a minor configuration update instead of deploying code lets teams move faster and more safely. Furthermore, releasing a feature using a feature […]

November 17, 2022

When businesses look at technology options, they can choose between cloud-based services or Software as a Service (SaaS) for their needs. These two related solutions are similar but offer plenty of benefits for business leaders. Selecting the right technology means […]

November 10, 2022

Earlier this year, when Akamai bought infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud platform provider Linode for about $900 million, it wasn’t clear how Akamai’s content delivery network (CDN) and security services would work well with Linode’s developer-friendly, Linux-based, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud. Now, we […]

October 24, 2022

If your goals are high-velocity software development and frequent delivery of working builds to production, you need to automate at least part of the testing and delivery process. Ideally, that means implementing CI/CD pipelines for your projects, along with test […]