Tag: cloud computing

November 28, 2022

Looking for hosting solutions, you’ve definitely come across VPS and dedicated server hosting many times. But in recent years the probability of coming across some other hosting services, namely cloud hosting and bare metal hosting has grown exponentially. If you […]

November 28, 2022

Pity the tech company that tries to put out news this week, particularly on Tuesday, when AWS re:Invent kicks off. Trying to compete with AWS during its big conference is absolutely futile given the barrage of launches and updates the […]

November 28, 2022

The cloud offers many benefits to a company’s modern application development process. One of the most significant benefits is the ability to automate critical actions that traditionally have required manual steps. Automation is perhaps the single most significant advantage of […]

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 22, 2022

The vast amount of data that companies manage comes in many forms, including structured and unstructured. To be effective, enterprises must be able to view all of their data in one place, in real time. They must also be able […]

November 22, 2022

The days before Thanksgiving I get pitches from PR firms wanting to tell me their clients’ predictions for next year. I’m always taken aback by some of the naivete I still see out there, even after 15 years of cloud […]

November 22, 2022

Every enterprise needs a data strategy that clearly defines the technologies, processes, people, and rules needed to safely and securely manage its information assets and practices. As with just about everything in IT, a data strategy must evolve over time […]

November 21, 2022

Originally an online CD store, CD Baby now primarily deals in “music as a service,” serving 700,000 independent music artists by managing the distribution of over 10 million unique tracks through download platforms and streaming services such as Spotify. In […]

November 21, 2022

The history of agile methodologies has its roots in collocating multidisciplinary teams, managing sprints with stickies on whiteboards, and opting for self-organizing dialogues over rigid practices. Agile coaches shaped these best practices, though many large enterprises have long histories of […]

November 18, 2022

A surplus of articles now forecast a cloud downturn or predict a cloud computing recession. See this one for an example. The number of reporters who reach out to me about this topic is also increasing, although I don’t comment […]

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 15, 2022

Deploying mission-critical applications on Google Cloud can yield immediate benefits in terms of performance and total cost of ownership (TCO). That’s why Google Cloud is partnering with Intel to help our mutual customers optimize their most demanding workloads on Intel-based […]

November 14, 2022

The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has moved to assure the public sector IT buying community that the apparent removal of the supplier transparency function from the newly launched G-Cloud 13 framework is temporary and will be restored by mid-December. The […]

November 14, 2022

With the global economy in meltdown, you might think it’s time to hunker down with your private data center, bringing workloads back from the cloud (“repatriation”) to save money. You’ve heard the marketing spiel: Cloud is great but it’s even […]

November 14, 2022

Adobe has launched its Black Friday 2022 deal for the Creative Cloud All Apps bundle, which gives you its full suite of apps, including Photoshop, Lightroom, and many others, for over 40% off in the first year. While November 25 […]

November 11, 2022

Observability is one of those concepts being tossed about these days in the tech press and at cloud computing conferences. Everyone has a definition of what it is and how it’s used. No two are the same. Observability seems to […]

November 11, 2022

Both the movie and the music industry are fighting hard against piracy lately. However, while in the past ISPs and the best VPN providers were their main target, DNS services have now been dragged into court on copyright infringement grounds. […]

November 11, 2022

Three years ago, Red Hat decided it was time to modernize. The company had only recently been acquired by IBM in a $34 billion deal that closed in July 2019. The industry leader in open source enterprise software was emerging […]

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 […]

November 10, 2022

Data may be the substance fueling the latest gold rush, but it’s far more ephemeral — and harder to protect — than your average precious metal. Most companies take measures to protect against breaches and plan for rapid recovery. But […]