Tag: hybrid cloud

October 19, 2020

There’s little question that where it comes to cloud, for most organizations, multi-cloud is already reality. According to Flexera’s latest 2020 State of the Cloud report, 93% of enterprises respondents reported having multi-cloud strategies. It’s been well-covered in these pages […]

October 8, 2020

IBM doesn’t want any distractions on the road to becoming a prodigious hybrid-cloud player, and today it eliminated one of those diversions by spinning off the $19 billion Managed Infrastructure Services unit of its Global Technology Services division. The move […]

September 28, 2020

By now, the benefits of the cloud are well known: reduced costs, improved scalability, increased efficiency, and more agility. But not all enterprise applications, workloads, and data are suited for it. Compliance and security issues prevent moving some to the […]

September 28, 2020

To stay competitive in today’s data-driven world, small and midsize businesses (SMBs) increasingly need to use high performance computing (HPC) systems and artificial intelligence (AI) applications. That can be a problem for companies that struggle to find the budgets and […]

September 23, 2020

Cisco has further broadened the cloud-integration options available to its SD-WAN customers with new connectivity options to AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud services. With these additions, Cisco’s goal is to ensure cloud-destined traffic gets into the cloud network faster, improving […]

September 15, 2020

About two years ago I wrote a piece here on the concept of cloud bursting, where I pointed out a few realities: Private clouds are no longer a thing, considering the current state of private cloud systems compared to the […]

August 17, 2020

As enterprises race to adopt cloud technology, they also encounter a combination of new possible threats from the rapid and frequently unorganized deployment of different cloud-based technologies. Particular concerns surround the adoption of so-called hybrid cloud technologies, Sean Metcalf, founder […]

July 31, 2020

Arista has extended its connectivity software to better support edge networking with on-premises and hybrid-cloud resources. The extensions enhance Arista’s recently announced CloudEOS software, which is meant to simplify cloud networking and let customers build and deploy applications faster. In […]

July 13, 2020

The multicloud environment is becoming the standard for businesses, with 93% of organizations using this approach, according to a Flexera 2020 State of the Cloud report. The public cloud services used in the multicloud strategy are gaining in popularity, with […]

June 30, 2020

Cloud computing has changed how organizations consume and deploy IT solutions, especially those that are being relied upon for current remote work initiatives. As a result of this shift to the cloud, compute is rapidly evolving to a utility model […]