Category: Service Models

April 24, 2023

Vendors of all stripes—network hardware vendors, telcos, hyperscalers, and a new generation of cloud-based upstarts—are jumping on the network-as-a-service (NaaS) bandwagon, so it can be confusing to sort out who is offering what.Even the definition of NaaS is somewhat fluid. […]

April 21, 2023

IBM has announced the full availability of its LinuxONE bare metal servers under an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) model, available to rent in the cloud. With more and more businesses going hybrid (IBM reckons almost nine in 10 infrastructure decision makers have […]

April 19, 2023

The quest for scalable, enterprise-grade generative AI is just one force driving growth in cloud spending. Demand for Web3 and immersive capabilities are also on the enterprise agenda, according to Nag. “Providers are facing demands to redesign SaaS offerings for […]

April 17, 2023

Eindhoven-based Copaco is well-known for the cloud services and solutions it offers for managed service providers – including managed security service providers – independent software vendors and systems integrators throughout Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Delivered from the company’s highly […]

April 12, 2023

What is the cost of being late to market? What is the impact of being unable to respond to unforeseen changes in the business environment like those experienced in 2020? Loss of customers, loss of market share, and loss of […]

March 29, 2023

In this era of Cutting Edge Technology and the internet, ‘Cloud’ is no longer considered the buzzword nowadays, as it’s found everywhere and across industries, whether it be Automation, Manufacturing, Banking, Education, Health, Hospitality, or Enterprise. Almost all vertical businesses […]

March 29, 2023

Over the past few years, more organizations have gone all in with migrations to the public cloud. But for some “without a concrete strategy, it has led to some obvious challenges with respect to measuring the real value from their […]

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 […]