Tag: cloud services

January 23, 2023

The exponential growth of electricity consumption, with its ever-rising prices, and the challenges posed by the Russian-Ukrainian conflict are just two of the factors accelerating the transition to green data centers. Cloud computing, streaming, and AI-powered apps are driving demand […]

January 18, 2023

Microsoft has fixed vulnerabilities in four separate services of its Azure cloud platform, two of which could have allowed attackers to perform a server-side request forgery (SSRF) attack — and thus potentially execute remote code execution — even without authentication […]

January 5, 2023

A South Africa-based threat actor known as Automated Libra has been observed adopting increasingly sophisticated techniques to conduct a widespread freejacking campaign against various public cloud services. Freejacking is the act of using free or time-limited access to public cloud […]

December 23, 2022

Let me know if this sounds familiar. Your organization started with a data center, an actual building. Then you added a few satellite installations, either as server racks, co-lo, or additional physical data centers. Then management did a reorg and, […]

December 21, 2022

In the last few weeks, the IT industry has seen some very interesting activity from global hyperscale cloud providers surrounding their cloud sovereignty ambitions, and their scrutiny by the regulators covering some basics compliance requirements, like the European Union’s (EU) […]

December 16, 2022

With massive global and geopolitical changes and significant increases in data privacy laws and regulations, the focus on data sovereignty and protecting consumer value has never been higher. Safeguarding highly sensitive, proprietary data and workloads have become a top priority […]

December 13, 2022

The multicloud management market is expected to grow at a steady rate of about 25% during the forecast period (2022 to 2028), mainly due to the uncertainty of single cloud services, the rising need for high levels of governance and […]

December 13, 2022

Oracle on Monday said it will continue to invest $2.4 billion per quarter in its cloud business, which accelerated 48% in the second quarter, helping the company revenue grow 25% year-on-year, without accounting for currency fluctuations. Cloud services as a […]

December 6, 2022

IBM isn’t one of the big players in the pure cloud market, but the tech company wants to make a name for itself in hybrid cloud by targeting industry-specific solutions. Apart from mainframe domination, IBM has a history leveraging its […]

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 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 10, 2022

New research from Gartner shows that IT spending in EMEA is set to see a 3.7%, year- over-year increase in 2023, rising to $1.3 trillion. While companies are often hesitant to sign new contracts or commit to long-term spending initiatives […]

October 31, 2022

Gartner is warning that inflationary pressure could negatively affect its worldwide spending on public cloud services forecast, which presently suggests spending in this area is set to grow by more than 20% in 2023. The IT market watcher said global […]

October 31, 2022

Inflation will help push cloud spend upward in 2023, according to a Gartner report released on Monday. Spending on public cloud is expected to hit $591 billion next year, up 20.7% from this year’s $490 billion, Gartner forecasted. The drive […]

October 27, 2022

Apple is testing improvements to iCloud.com designed to make it easier to use — and has unveiled a new look and a few new tricks to reflect features recently introduced in its operating systems. iCloud services for the rest of […]

October 26, 2022

More than half of Microsoft’s $50.1 billion in revenues ($25.7 billion) for Q1 FY’23 came from the “Microsoft Cloud.” But Wall Street wasn’t happy with Azure’s 35 percent growth, year-over-year for the quarter, nor for projections that Azure revenues will […]

October 19, 2022

Enterprise CIOs are gobbling up a vast buffet of advanced cloud services in the post-pandemic era. In the aftermath of that unprecedented time, the cloud has evolved from a single-purpose compute and storage IaaS that saved business from global collapse […]

October 18, 2022

Oracle is giving cloud control to its partners and customers with the launch of Oracle Alloy, an infrastructure platform that lets organizations build and deploy custom cloud services using their own hardware and data centers. The Alloy platform is built […]

October 18, 2022

The expansion of remote work and the massive growth in usage of cloud-based applications have stressed existing infrastructure and put a keen focus on the performance of everyone’s network environment. Research shows that organizations from nearly every industry are looking […]

October 13, 2022

I recently wrote in CloudTweaks about how cloud is forcing CIOs to work more closely with their C-suite colleagues to sell the benefits and its role as a business driver – and in particular with CFOs. However, it’s possible that […]