March 1, 2024
Via: InfoWorldI recently participated in a documentary called “Clouded II: Does Cloud Cost the Earth?” Please watch it. It looks at the issues surrounding cloud computing, its consumption of power, and thus its potential impact on the planet. The documentary did […]
March 1, 2024
Via: CIO DiveWorldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is projected to grow 20.4% to total $678.8 billion in 2024, up from $563.6 billion in 2023, according to Gartner. Vertice previously reported that almost three-quarters (73%) of SaaS vendors hiked prices in […]
Deployment Models, Public Cloud
February 29, 2024
Via: InfoWorldGoogle Cloud on Thursday said it is adding vector support and integrating LangChain with all of its database offerings in an effort to outdo rival cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Oracle. Cloud service providers […]
February 29, 2024
Via: Computer WeeklyData centers are significant drivers of growth in electricity demand. Cloud computing data centers are large facilities that need an incredible amount of electricity to run and maintain, but there are worldwide efforts to move to more sustainable energy. The […]
February 27, 2024
Via: InfoWorldHey, remember finops? Cost optimization? According to most surveys, it was a big deal in 2023, but you never would have known it, considering the amount of AI noise out there. The State of FinOps is an annual survey conducted […]
February 27, 2024
Via: CIOAfter years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, […]
February 26, 2024
Via: CIO DiveThreat actors are taking advantage of inconsistent cloud security structures and “living in that uncertainty between the enterprise and the cloud,” Meyers said last week during a media briefing. Cybercriminals are using the cloud to deploy tooling, such as Microsoft […]
February 26, 2024
Via: Network WorldAI cloud service provider Lambda has scored a $320 million cash infusion to build out its GPU-based services, which provide AI training clusters made up of thousands of Nvidia accelerators. Lambda is the latest cloud company to offer GPU processing […]
February 23, 2024
Via: CIO DiveFinOps emerged in response to a critical mass of alarming cloud bills, as enterprises struggled to tie escalating costs to projected efficiency gains, product development and revenue. Practitioners initially focused on equipping engineering teams with tools to curb usage and […]
February 21, 2024
Via: Computer WeeklyA survey of 706 IT leaders conducted by Red Hat for its 2024 Global tech trends report has found that many organisations have figured out the mix between public and private cloud infrastructure. Compared with the previous year’s data, workload […]
February 21, 2024
Via: Cloud TweaksDiscussions about e-learning projects continue unabated, especially as online education begins to supplant traditional courses, trainings and workshops. This shift includes a growing trend to build LMS from scratch . Distance learning offers two notable benefits: it’s generally more cost-effective […]
February 21, 2024
Via: CIO DiveCloud’s power to digitally transform business comes with a major caveat: access to practically unlimited compute can be a budget buster. Despite a broad enterprise push to optimize spending and commitments from AWS and other major providers to help, cloud […]
February 20, 2024
Via: Network WorldIBM is offering a new service that uses DNS to help enterprise customers more effectively load balance highly distributed application and multicloud workloads. The IBM NS1 Connect Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) service ties together the company’s NS1 DNS technology […]
February 20, 2024
Via: InfoWorldMost developers don’t use infrastructure as code (IaC), argues AWS tech lead Chris Munns. But to those top 10% to 15% of developers who do use modern development technologies such as IaC go the spoils. Even if the audience for […]
Deployment Models, Hybrid Cloud
February 20, 2024
Via: InfoWorldWhat we mean by “hybrid cloud” has always needed to be clarified for the cloud industry. Once defined as a private cloud paired with a public cloud, it’s now a catch-all for any system that’s not a public cloud working […]
February 15, 2024
Via: CSO OnlineCloud data security and compliance provider, BigID, has announced adding an access governance capability to its existing offerings to help hunt down exposed sensitive data and overprivileged user accounts. The capability is targeted at helping organizations improve security posture, mitigate […]
February 14, 2024
Via: Network WorldInfoblox is rolling out an AI-based package to bolster its domain name system (DNS) protection portfolio and boost security for widely disbursed, DNS-networked enterprise resources. SOC Insights is a cloud-based expansion of the vendor’s current BloxOne DNS Threat Defense package. […]
February 14, 2024
Via: InfoWorldPython is often described as an easy language—both easy to learn and easy to use. Python makes it easy to develop powerful software for an enormous variety of applications. But it can be as difficult to get started with Python […]
February 14, 2024
Via: CSO OnlineStriking a balance between sufficient visibility into cloud computing environments and the potential for an overdose of false positives and duplicate alerts is the key challenge facing cloud security professionals, according to the State of Security Remediation report from the […]
February 13, 2024
Via: CIO DiveDelivering an integrated IT experience wherever you do business around the world – especially after the release of ChatGPT – means more than simply setting up a few servers outside your borders and offering extended help desk hours for employees. […]