Tag: cloud computing

February 2, 2024

AWS focused on helping customers optimize cloud spend last year to mitigate the impact of a slowing economy. Cloud revenue growth, which grew 29% year over year in 2022, experienced a corresponding drop. A more favorable macro outlook coupled with […]

February 1, 2024

One of the great advantages of using the public cloud is the ability to deploy applications and services at scale. But scale has a flip side, as working with dozens or hundreds of servers imposes new constraints on systems administration. […]

February 1, 2024

One of the great advantages of using the public cloud is the ability to deploy applications and services at scale. But scale has a flip side, as working with dozens or hundreds of servers imposes new constraints on systems administration. […]

January 31, 2024

Adopting cloud computing is no longer just an option, but a critical element for staying relevant and competitive in today’s fast-paced business environment. Cloud computing holds a bucket load of benefits, with scalability, flexibility, and efficiency being some of the […]

January 31, 2024

Cisco and Hitachi Vantara have unveiled the first fruits of their partnership, signed last year, that aims to bring managed as-a-service offerings to enterprise customers with hybrid cloud environments. The joint offering, Hitachi EverFlex with Cisco Powered Hybrid Cloud, includes […]

January 31, 2024

As an industry underpinned by innovation, the technology sector can be its own worst enemy when it comes to skills. Cloud technologies are evolving more rapidly than previous generations, but workers aren’t being trained or upskilled quickly enough to meet […]

January 31, 2024

The impact the democratisation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is having on global demand for colocation capacity will force datacentre operators to rethink how they build and run their facilities. That’s according to a 24-page report by commercial real estate […]

January 31, 2024

With the ever-increasing investments in Azure, many organizations struggle to keep control over their Azure spending, which results in higher bills at the end of the month. To operate cost-effectively, organizations should set up processes to monitor their billing data. […]

January 31, 2024

San Francisco-based Zilliz has released a new version of its database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering, Zilliz Cloud. The company claims the new version offers better performance while reducing cost of ownership compared to its previous version. Zilliz Cloud is built atop the […]

January 31, 2024

The trajectory of cloud and AI are tightly intertwined, with each technology driving growth in the other. “Being in the cloud has been very helpful to build AI,” Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella said, “but now AI is redefining […]

January 31, 2024

Microsoft and Google, who saw cloud revenue slow in recent quarters, are reporting a resurgence of growth due to the proliferation of generative AI (genAI). Both companies on Tuesday reported revenue numbers for the final quarter of 2023. “Google Cloud […]

January 30, 2024

I’ve been asked if generative AI systems are always slow. Of course, I reply, “Slow, as compared to what?” The response I always get is funny. “Slower than we thought it would be.” And the circle continues. Performance is often […]

January 30, 2024

SAP’s strategy to prioritise its RISE cloud customers for the latest innovations, was met with widespread confusion and frustration. It represented a departure from the expectations of a loyal user base that had invested heavily in SAP’s on-premises solutions. The […]

January 30, 2024

Oracle’s annual flagship event, CloudWorld Tour returned to the UAE for the second consecutive year to share the company’s latest AI innovations to power UAE’s Digital Economy and its regional plans. The company that just turned 35 years old in […]

January 30, 2024

As SAP shifted from a licensed on-prem software delivery model to SaaS, some customers balked at the cost, complexity and potential business continuity risks associated with ERP systems modernization. “We had a lot of customers that were faced with a […]

January 29, 2024

Amid the war for global dominance in the AI era, the US administration is considering making it mandatory for prominent global cloud services providers — such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft — to reveal details about the customers developing AI […]

January 29, 2024

In August 2023, a small group of Google development and UX leads bewailed the difficulty of setting up a development environment for multiplatform and full-stack apps, and offered their take on an experimental prototype intended to solve the issues. Difficulty […]

January 29, 2024

Cloud migration is central to Southwest’s modernization effort, according to Jordan. “A lot of what you gain is reliability,” he said, pointing to failover and support systems. “The shift to the cloud is as much a resiliency effort and a […]

January 26, 2024

SAP has put the spotlight on its artificial intelligence (AI) plans in its latest results, but persuading customers to move to the cloud is still the most important part of its strategy. SAP said the full-year revenue stood at €31bn, […]

January 25, 2024

For a growing number of organisations, the default option for new IT projects is the cloud and cloud storage, with even the more cautious businesses have adopted “cloud-first” or “cloud-preferred” strategies. That’s because startups and fast-growing firms can build infrastructure […]