Tag: cloud infrastructure

March 25, 2023

Hearing everyone’s opinion of the cost-efficiency and value of multicloud deployments is fun. Most people don’t get it right—more from misperceptions and groupthink than anything else. I’m sorry to be the guy who comes along and crushes these myths, but […]

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 23, 2023

Staying in control and securing your data has never been more important! As data privacy regulations continue to evolve, businesses have had to adapt how and where they store data. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been the […]

March 20, 2023

Amazon will fire about 9,000 more workers from several business units, including AWS, in the coming weeks, according to a statement released today by company CEO Andy Jassy. The announcement comes two months after Amazon unveiled plans to lay off […]

March 15, 2023

Oracle is extending its MyLearn program, offered via the company’s University portal, to cover its NetSuite midmarket ERP products. Like the Oracle University version of MyLearn, NetSuite’s MyLearn program — which offers courses on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and SaaS […]

March 14, 2023

Google announced a raft of new artificial intelligence-powered features for customers of its cloud-computing business, as the technology giant jostles for dominance in the burgeoning field with rivals such as Microsoft Corp. and startup OpenAI. As Silicon Valley buzzes about […]

March 14, 2023

There’s a rumbling in the cloud as network professionals increasingly seek to reclaim what they believe is their rightful place in the enterprise management hierarchy. Network knowledge is now widespread within many other IT disciplines. “This means it’s now sometimes […]

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, […]

March 8, 2023

In the wake of the December meltdown, Southwest CEO Bob Jordan defended the carrier’s technology while acknowledging that crew reassignment systems failed. He pledged $1.3 billion to IT and other operational upgrades this year, during a January earnings call. IT […]

March 7, 2023

I guess I could place some stat here that shows multicloud is the large majority of public cloud deployments out there, but there are lots of other places to see that. We know it’s a common approach for enterprises to […]

March 7, 2023

Businesses are struggling to manage their hybrid cloud environments, as public cloud services remain largely proprietary and do not always provide the flexility they have on-premises. Enterprises are benefitting from public clouds while keeping some workloads on-premises, but connecting these […]

March 6, 2023

When you store and deliver data at Shutterstock’s scale, the flexibility and elasticity of the cloud is a huge win, freeing you from the burden of costly, high-maintenance data centers. But for the New York-based provider of stock photography, footage, […]

March 6, 2023

Organizations of all sizes are currently navigating their plans to avoid the recent surge in cyber-attacks and data breaches and preparing for unforeseen setbacks. Building a sensible backup and recovery strategy needs to be a top priority in the current […]

March 3, 2023

I’m noticing a pattern in my work with young and old cloud architects. Well-known cloud scaling techniques used years ago are rarely used today. Yes, I understand why, being it’s 2023 and not 1993, but cloud architect silverbacks still know […]

March 3, 2023

Layoffs in big tech have not yet translated to an oversupply of technologists, as in-demand open roles continue to outnumber workers available to fill them. “Even though we’ve seen a ton of tech layoffs, in the hundreds of thousands in […]

March 1, 2023

Most IT leaders have assets moved to the cloud to achieve some combination of better, faster, or cheaper compute and storage services. They also expect to benefit from the expertise of cloud providers—expertise that isn’t easy for companies to develop […]

February 28, 2023

The unthinkable became common: cloud outages. A cloud outage means essential services such as storage, compute capacity, or middleware are unavailable in one cloud data center or an entire region. With backend and business applications in the cloud nowadays, such […]

February 28, 2023

Back in the days when I was working with “supercomputers,” it was clear to me that these beasts capable of producing high MIPS (million instructions per second) were far too expensive for smaller businesses. Only enterprises that could foot the […]

February 27, 2023

We’ve entered another year where current economic conditions are pressuring organizations to do more with less, all while still executing against digital transformation imperatives to keep the business running and competitive. To understand how organizations may be approaching their cloud […]

February 27, 2023

The power of the cloud offers two distinct paths for organizations: They can choose to simply move part of their application and data estate to the cloud or undertake an organizational reinvention more broadly through the cloud. The former entails […]