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Tag: Cloud Strategy


Deployment Models, Hybrid Cloud

Hybrid makes a comeback as cloud strategies mature

March 25, 2024

Via: CIO Dive

Hybrid IT environments were an inherent symptom of initial migrations from on-prem data centers. But as companies push forward with cloud adoption, hybrid has become part of broader optimization strategies. “Enterprise workloads – including their applications and data – often […]


Global Cloud

Oracle cloud: Generating value with AI

February 13, 2024

Via: Computer Weekly

When Oracle first launched its cloud strategy in 2012, founder and CTO Larry Ellison talked about how few IT businesses “cross the chasm” to new technologies. The inference was that Oracle was bold and brave, prepared to embrace change quickly, […]


Global Cloud

The shifting winds of SAP’s cloud strategy

January 30, 2024

Via: Computer Weekly

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 […]


Deployment Models, Hybrid Cloud

IBM bolsters hybrid AI strategy, arms watsonx with governance solution

November 15, 2023

Via: CIO Dive

As government officials strain to head off AI abuses through executive orders and regulatory action, and researchers weigh the risks of broader societal impacts, technology vendors are looking to address more immediate, practical concerns. IBM is leaning on a multimodel […]


Global Cloud

10 cloud strategy questions every IT leader must answer

November 14, 2023

Via: CIO

It’s no longer a question of whether organizations are moving to the cloud but rather how well it’s going. Cloud isn’t that shiny new object in the distance, full of possibility. It’s come down to earth — sometimes with an […]


Global Cloud

Microsoft advances healthcare cloud strategy, brings generative AI to Mercy

September 27, 2023

Via: CIO Dive

Chatbots, administrative assistants and customer-facing automation are three of generative AI’s more immediate applications. Driving cloud business expansion is another clear consequence of the technology and its enterprise adoption. All of the major cloud providers, including Microsoft, AWS and Google […]


Global Cloud

Cloud strategy misalignment leads some workloads back on-prem

September 14, 2023

Via: CIO Dive

Cloud isn’t a panacea for all that ails IT. Scalable infrastructure, on-demand compute and a menu of additional tools and services stoked enterprise appetite for the technology. Most executives are pleased with the results. Indeed, 9 in 10 respondents said […]


Cloud Clients

What motivated Ericsson’s big push into the cloud

August 30, 2023

Via: CIO

When Mats Hultin, pictured, took over as group CIO at Ericsson four years ago, the company decided to review its large outsourcing contract. At the same time, the cloud team, led by cloud service VP Johan Sporre Lennberg, stressed for […]


Global Cloud

Is your cloud strategy working? Why multicloud by design is the way forward.

May 16, 2023

Via: CIO

With the rise of cloud computing, many organizations rapidly adopted public cloud services alongside cloud principles in dedicated IT environments, or private clouds, to accelerate innovation and meet business requirements. This led to the rise of multicloud: today, almost nine […]


Deployment Models, Hybrid Cloud

IBM pins hybrid cloud strategy to generative AI play

May 10, 2023

Via: CIO Dive

The new AI capabilities are part of a broader hybrid cloud strategy, which aims to help organizations integrate multicloud and on-prem ecosystems. The company remains committed to enterprise hybrid cloud solutions as its pathway to relevance in a market dominated […]


Deployment Models, Others

Multi-cloud is the future of enterprise

April 10, 2023

Via: CIO

Multi-cloud is the future of enterprise IT. The evidence is overwhelming. A recent report reveals that more than 80% of enterprises surveyed have a multi-cloud strategy and nearly that number (78%) already have workloads deployed in more than three public […]


Deployment Models, Public Cloud

Flexera’s Brian Adler on the State of the Cloud, 2023

April 6, 2023

Via: eWeek

I spoke with Brian Adler, Sr. Director, Cloud Market Strategy at Flexera, about this year’s State of the Cloud 2023 report, which provides a complete portrait of current cloud usage. Among the topics we covered: What was your single biggest […]


Global Cloud

MoD issues revised cloud strategy as it prepares to move top-secret data off-premise by 2025

February 8, 2023

Via: Computer Weekly

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is revising its cloud strategy and embarking on a push to ensure even its most highly classified forms of data are moved off-premise by 2025. The government department has issued a 39-page strategy document that […]


Deployment Models, Hybrid Cloud

IBM experiences growing pains as hybrid cloud strategy takes shape

January 31, 2023

Via: CIO Dive

Software and consulting accounted for nearly three-quarters of total revenue for the 100-year-old company, which for decades dominated the mainframe computing market. IBM rolled out its newest mainframe, the z16, in April, which helped boost z Systems revenue by 16% […]


Global Cloud

Top 10 cloud stories of 2022

December 21, 2022

Via: Computer Weekly

The past 12 months have seen the runners and riders of the cloud market rocked by economic uncertainty, which in some cases has led to some notably downbeat financial results being reported as enterprise users looked to scale back their […]


Global Cloud

Mapping a Cloud Strategy for 2023

November 4, 2022

Via: CIO

Developing a strategy for controlling hard-to-predict cloud costs, remains difficult, especially when considering the new decentralized model of procurement. Consider this: “Any person who can commit code to the cloud can commit your organization to spend,” said Jennifer Hays, senior […]


Editorial

Adopting a Hybrid Cloud Strategy: Biggest Advantages and Disadvantages

November 4, 2022

Via: Natalie Dunn

Today, information is the foundation of business success. However, the companies that can take advantage of this are facing a serious challenge. How do you store the vast amounts of data on which the future of your business depends? Should […]


Global Cloud

CIOs get strategic in the cloud: 4 success stories

October 19, 2022

Via: CIO

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 […]


Global Cloud

Study Finds Only 8% of Global Tech Workers Have Significant Cloud-Related Skills

September 20, 2022

Via: Cloud Tweaks

Pluralsight, the technology workforce development company, today released its 2022 State of Cloud Report, which compiles survey results from more than 1000 technologists and leaders in the United States, Europe, Australia, and India on the most current trends and challenges […]


Global Cloud

3 steps toward a sustainable cloud strategy

September 16, 2022

Via: CIO Dive

Environmental sustainability is becoming a top business priority, with a recent Gartner survey indicating that sustainability ranked among CEOs’ top 10 priorities for 2022. Organizations determined to reduce their environmental impact must focus on the sustainability of their IT initiatives, […]