Tag: cloud services

July 29, 2019

The thirst for infrastructure as a service (IaaS) services continues to grow, but the industry has become dominated by major providers and this may hamper competition in the future. According to Gartner, the IaaS market grew by 31.3 percent in […]

June 26, 2019

Mist, now a Juniper Networks company, has rolled out an artificial-intelligence, cloud-based appliance and a WiFi 6 access point that together aim at helping users deploy smart, high-density wireless networks. Leading the rollout is the Mist Edge appliance that extends […]

June 19, 2019

McAfee has released a special edition of its Cloud and Risk Adoption Report revealing that 87 percent of companies experience business acceleration from the use of cloud services. The cybersecurity firm surveyed 1,000 enterprise organizations worldwide to compile the report […]

May 30, 2019

Over 2.3 billion files — including sensitive data like payroll information, credit card details, medical data and patents for intellectual property — are exposed publicly online, putting both people and organisations at risk of data theft, cyber crime, espionage and […]

May 21, 2019

Public cloud providers surprised a great deal of people when they came out with proprietary private clouds. (That’s where actual hardware and software support a subset of public cloud services.) I’m pretty sure they don’t like me to call them […]

May 16, 2019

In these days of cloud services and BYOD, you can’t always tell what you’re spending on IT by looking at purchasing agreements. You can start by asking your finance team, but if you’re a large company you don’t want to […]

April 15, 2019

Last week’s Google NEXT conference could be dubbed CEO Thomas Kurian’s coming out party. With the first major changing of the guard at the CEO suite, the baton has passed from Diane Greene, whose contribution could be summarized as the […]

March 27, 2019

Myths can be fun and entertaining when they involve the exploits of ancient gods and heroes. The amusement stops quickly, however, when a myth hampers IT or enterprise success. So it goes with the stubborn misconceptions that delay or prevent […]

March 19, 2019

A business doesn’t get to choose when disaster strikes. Whether it’s as mundane as a server outage or as serious as a fire, disasters always take us by surprise and leave us to deal with the consequences. However, that doesn’t […]

March 11, 2019

Companies recognize the strategic importance of adopting a cloud service model to transform their operations, but there still needs to be a focus on mitigating potential information risks with appropriate cloud security considerations, controls and requirements without compromising functionality, ease […]