Tag: cloud computing

April 6, 2021

I was listening to my podcast feed again this weekend, and beyond the true crime shows, I did listen to something more work related. The question asked on this episode was a profound one, not typically asked in the tech […]

April 6, 2021

Microsoft has revealed the root cause of the recent outage affecting Azure, which lasted about an hour and was due to a surge in Domain Name System (DNS) requests coupled with a code defect. Users were reporting that Azure Portal, […]

April 2, 2021

Industry clouds are a bundle of cloud services, tools, and applications that focus on the most important use cases in a specific industry. The most common industry clouds are designed for the retail, healthcare, government, and finance sectors. This might […]

March 30, 2021

You have to respect that ransomware attacks let you know you’ve been attacked. You’ll have an opportunity to defend yourself and batten down the hatches. However, a rising tide of cyberattacks is much more sneaky about things. Called “stealth hacking,” […]

March 30, 2021

You have to respect that ransomware attacks at least let you know you’ve been attacked. You’ll have an opportunity to defend yourself and batten down the hatches. However, a rising tide of cyberattacks is much more sneaky about things. Called […]

March 29, 2021

It wasn’t that long ago when edge computing was considered a futuristic, forward-looking concept that was interesting to contemplate — yet offered no real-world benefit to the enterprise. This is no longer the case. As end users access networked services […]

March 29, 2021

As organizations begin executing their plans for 2021, budgets will remain under intense scrutiny — and rightfully so. The tumult of 2020 has carried over into the new year and forced organizations to continue to justify every dollar they spend. […]

March 26, 2021

One company saw the promise of cloud computing early on, went all in, and continues to embrace bleeding-edge cloud technologies. Another stubbornly clings to existing mentalities, an on-prem virtualization-dominant model and, despite the potential cost savings and increased efficiencies, only […]

March 23, 2021

I’ve been predicting for ages that the desktop, especially Windows, is heading straight for the cloud. But, when you see an apple falling from a tree is it really a prediction? I still hear from people all the time about […]

March 23, 2021

Oh, what a cloud year 2020 was. Cloud spending grew by 37% in the first quarter of 2020 alone as many quickly understood that COVID-19 would leave them vulnerable if they were still using traditional data centers. Seeing a hockey […]