Tag: cloud

December 11, 2018

Elastifile has been shipping their Cloud File System for over two years. But this morning they’re announcing, in conjunction with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), that they are now fully integrated with GCP. “Fully integrated” means: The UI, deployment, and monitoring […]

December 6, 2018

On September 4, 2018, a cooling problem in a data center created an outage for Microsoft Azure cloud that impacted companies across the south central United States. “Azure was down for most of one business day,” said one IT professional. […]

November 29, 2018

The march toward the cloud for data and services has many companies rethinking their approach to cyber security. Do they need a cloud security strategy? What is different about a cloud security strategy? Recent surveys have shed light on how […]

November 26, 2018

If you’re a small VAR targeting SMBs with a networking-as-a-service offering, you’ll likely be selling to end users with a limited understanding of the technology involved. You will need to speak in terms that make business sense to that customer. […]

November 20, 2018

The act of securing units of IT on the cloud is a great example of the tyranny of choice. We all like to think we get the best solution for our organisation, one that will reduce our business risk, be […]

November 19, 2018

It can be hard to keep up when your business is growing quickly. And when we say keep up, we mean with everything: new vendor relationships, product and service enhancements, an increased number of customer issues, new hires, C-suite requests […]

November 16, 2018

Among these organisations moving to the cloud, many are turning to major cloud hosting providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), that offer software-, platform- and infrastructure-as-a-service. After disrupting the IT market with their […]

November 15, 2018

Since 2013, the government has had a very clear statement that any new IT project should consider a cloud-first approach, above all other solutions, as part of its Cloud First policy.Despite this, a recent Eduserv report suggests progress towards a […]

November 13, 2018

The combination of big data and (relatively) cheap cloud storage has led to an explosion in efforts to make stored files findable. Google has Cloud Search, Elastic recently scored a $4B IPO, and other startups like Coveo and butter.ai are […]

November 9, 2018

I’m often taken aback by the number of mistakes IT made with on-premises traditional systems that it’s now replicating in the cloud. If you have a cruddy applications design or overall architecture and relocate it the cloud, you end up […]