Tag: cloud vendors

July 3, 2023

Making the second iteration of your cloud security architecture perfect is child’s play. The real challenge is having an adequate first iteration. If the first is so-so, engineers will have to spend weeks readjusting their configurations or start the implementation […]

February 13, 2023

Businesses are becoming more inclined to choose multiple cloud vendors over opting for just one, new research has claimed. A survey from Oracle found 98% of enterprises use – or plan to use – multicloud. Two-thirds (67%) of the respondents […]

October 11, 2022

The cloud has become a vital part of many businesses, large and small. The promise of increased efficiency and agility has drawn organizations to the cloud, but with this move comes new security risks. With so many cloud security vendors […]

February 20, 2020

While many enterprise customers like their cloud products, there are often some general rumblings of frustration with their vendors. Regardless of how long they have been doing business together, the size of the organization or the size of their cloud […]

August 29, 2017

Cloud access security broker (CASB) Netskope has closed a $100 million funding round to bring its enterprise cloud security platform to more businesses, the company announced Tuesday. The oversubscribed Series E round was led by existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners […]

June 22, 2017

Building on the positive response to its Identity-based Security Operation Center (SOC) cloud services, Oracle today announced a series of developments that enhance the portfolio’s sophisticated machine learning, artificial intelligence and contextual awareness technologies. This includes introducing the new Adaptive […]

May 26, 2017

Rackspace has reached a deal to acquire consulting and managed cloud services company TriCore Solutions, adding its enterprise application management expertise and support, according to a Thursday announcement. Financial details of the deal, which is expected to close in June, were not disclosed. […]

May 25, 2017

In a space where shattering the status quo is the status quo, it takes a lot to stand out as a cloud startup in 2017. But with businesses of all sizes continuing to move more and more of their IT […]

March 31, 2017

In the first quarter of 2016 Amazon reported that revenue for its Web Services division grew 64% from the same period a year earlier. Salesforce.com reported a 33% increase in revenues compared to a year earlier. Meanwhile, global storage revenues […]

March 20, 2017

Forty-three percent of software vendors now receive half or more of their revenue from the perpetual license model of enterprise software vending, according to a report from Flexera Software. The report Software Licensing 2016: Seismic Shifts – Shaky Foundations, released […]

November 23, 2016

Larry Ellison has a message for Amazon Web Services: Oracle is going to give Amazon a run for its money in the cloud market. “Amazon’s lead is over,” he said during his keynote address at the OpenWorld conference in San […]

November 22, 2016

When whistleblower Edward Snowden shocked the world in 2013 by revealing that the NSA was allegedly siphoning data from U.S. internet companies, pundits proclaimed that winter was coming for American cloud vendors in Europe. Evidence now suggests those fears may […]

November 18, 2016

Businesses and organizations continue to move more of their IT processes to cloud-based systems. While that’s certainly boosting the fortunes of major IT vendors like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google and Oracle, it’s also creating opportunities for startups offering technology […]

September 26, 2016

Google’s cloud services will be used to test blockchain technologies for banks, an area where IBM, Microsoft and Amazon have been courting clients for the past year. Royal Bank of Scotland Group has employed Google servers in a trial of […]

June 30, 2016

In our digital age this fact holds true: innovation is the result of a collective effort; of enterprise-wide collaboration based on a full understanding of goals and context. The more easily a business can collaborate, the more likely it is […]

June 29, 2016

There’s a changing of the guard afoot in the storage industry, and it’s getting cloudy. Each quarter 451 Research Group surveys it members in its Voice of the Enterprise series. Late last year, the company’s research revealed a dramatic reshaping […]

June 27, 2016

Bitnami builds marketplaces that allow cloud vendors to offer the end-user application on top of their clouds. Bitnami is an application store for open source applications — for end users, what this means is that on the cloud platforms that […]

June 16, 2016

Recent Gartner data showed that traditional hardware vendors shipped fewer servers year-over-year in Q1 2016, while growing in market share. Chinese manufacturers Huawei and Inspur had less market share overall, but increased server shipments from Q1 2015 to Q1 2016 […]