Tag: public cloud

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 18, 2020

In his Third Law of Motion, Isaac Newton noted that “for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.” While the physics are quite different, you could say much the same today to characterize the relationship between the growing […]

September 17, 2020

Ask almost any CIO whether they would re-platform their business in the cloud, given the budget, time and technical resources, and the answer would unequivocally be yes. But standardizing on a cloud platform during a global pandemic adds an unexpected […]

August 26, 2020

Today, everyone uses the cloud. According to Flexera’s State of the Cloud 2020 Report, 98% of businesses are using at least one public or private cloud. The other 2% are fibbing or still running Windows XP. The No. 1 reason […]

August 25, 2020

The chart below depicts the number of applications migrated over time in blue, and the degree of difficulty of moving those applications in orange. This is a fictional collection of applications; however, the concept that difficulty increases the more you […]

August 11, 2020

As the coronavirus forced businesses to close in March, IHS Markit faced a difficult decision. The company, which provides data analytics services, had hoped to offload the bulk of its compute functions to the public cloud beginning in 2020, but […]

August 10, 2020

Misconfiguration, unauthorised access and account hijacking are the most pressing of a number of threats to public cloud environments, which are now reaching a level where security operations are finding it more and more of a challenge to keep up, […]

August 7, 2020

Considering that AI Workloads running in a public cloud – or a cloud-enabled datacenter – need comprehensive planning and in-depth analysis of cost structures, data and compute need to end up in a cost-optimized production environment. A post recently written […]

August 6, 2020

Oracle on Thursday announced it’s expanding the Oracle Cloud VMware Solution to all of Oracle’s public cloud regions, as well as Dedicated Region [email protected] deployments. The Oracle Cloud VMware Solution, first announced last September, effectively lets customers run the full […]

July 29, 2020

Organisations continue to leave assets deployed in the public cloud with services such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft routinely exposed and unprotected, with cloud estates now frequently breached through weak links such as neglected and unpatched internet-facing workloads, authentication issues […]