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Cloud Clients

Spotify and Google Cloud expand tech partnership for AI-led user experience improvement push

November 16, 2023

Via: Computer Weekly

Music streaming service Spotify is digging deeper into the portfolio of its long-standing technology partner Google Cloud to explore how its artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning tools can help boost the experience for its 574 million-strong user base. Since […]


Deployment Models, Public Cloud

Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

November 8, 2023

Via: CIO

Today, many organizations are embracing the power of the public cloud by shifting their workloads to them. A recent study shows that 98% of IT leaders have adopted a public cloud infrastructure. Additionally, 58% of these organizations use between two […]


Deployment Models, Public Cloud

The impact of public cloud price hikes

November 7, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

The growth and success of cloud computing are undeniable. Also undeniable are concerns about increasing prices that have surfaced with this growth, especially as generative AI and associated development are on everyone’s to-do list. Price hikes are inevitable. Those that […]


Deployment Models, Public Cloud

Infrastructure teams need multi-cloud networking and security guardrails

October 25, 2023

Via: Network World

Public cloud migration long ago wrested control over digital infrastructure from network and security teams, but now is the time for those groups to retake the initiative. Cloud operations and DevOps groups will never cede ground, but they will welcome […]


Deployment Models, Public Cloud

Google Cloud fails to cash in on generative AI

October 25, 2023

Via: Computerworld

The explosive growth in the demand for generative AI has been a big revenue driver for public clouds. However, while some cloud players are reaping the benefits of user demand, Google Cloud seems to be failing to cash in on […]


Deployment Models, Public Cloud

Generative AI and migrations to the public cloud

October 13, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

I’m beginning to see articles about how generative AI technology can assist in cloud migration. We’ve already covered generative AI’s role in cloud architecture; this is really about better automating the migration of applications from enterprise data centers to public […]


Deployment Models, Public Cloud

Ofcom cloud report: What interventions could the CMA take against AWS and Microsoft?

October 6, 2023

Via: Computer Weekly

Ofcom’s year-long probe into the inner workings of the UK public cloud infrastructure market has concluded with an instruction from the communications regulator for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to investigate the sector further. Ofcom’s work uncovered three types […]


Deployment Models, Public Cloud

Threat Hunting in the Public Cloud: A Practical Guide

September 28, 2023

Via: Cloud Tweaks

Threat hunting is a proactive cybersecurity process where specialists, known as threat hunters, search through networks and datasets to identify threats that existing automated security solutions may have missed. It’s about thinking like the attacker, anticipating their moves and countering […]


Deployment Models, Public Cloud

Scottish government readies cloud platform to aid public sector take-up of AWS and Microsoft Azure

August 31, 2023

Via: Computer Weekly

The Scottish Government Digital Directorate is launching its Cloud Platform Service (CPS), which aims to make it easier for the public sector to procure Amazon and Microsoft public cloud services. Details about the CPS began emerging late last year with […]


Global Cloud

VMware Cloud gains faster ransomware recovery, expanded management capabilities

August 22, 2023

Via: Network World

VMware announced a raft of improvements to its VMware Cloud platform at this week’s VMware Explore conference in Las Vegas. Previously, VMware’s on-premises private cloud solution, VMware Cloud Foundation, and its public cloud offerings were managed separately. Now, enterprises will […]


Global Cloud

Annual public cloud revenue reaches half a trillion dollars

July 7, 2023

Via: Computerworld

Global revenue generated by public cloud services topped the $500 billion mark in 2022, according to new data released this week by research firm IDC. The actual figure was $545.8 billion, IDC’s research found, a sum that represents a 22.9% […]


Deployment Models, Public Cloud

Microsoft slammed for hitting European cloud users with ‘unfair, additional’ charges

June 23, 2023

Via: Computer Weekly

European enterprises and public sector organisations are spending billions of pounds extra each year for the privilege of running software they own in the Microsoft Azure public cloud, suggests research published by non-profit Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE). […]


Deployment Models, Public Cloud

Cloud computing is no longer a slam dunk

June 23, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

The Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Index (PPI) reported a 3.9% month-over-month decline in the cost of host computers and servers. Cloud services saw prices increase by 2.3%. This happened after the third quarter of 2022. The overall PPI […]


Cloud Clients

Cabinet Office updates decade-old public cloud-first mandate for central government

June 22, 2023

Via: Computer Weekly

The UK government’s public cloud-first policy has undergone its first major update in a decade, with the guidance now urging central government departments to “challenge themselves” to source services from a wider range of providers to prevent supplier lock-in. Introduced […]


Global Cloud

6 finops best practices to reduce cloud costs

June 12, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

Some devops teams wait to optimize their applications for cost considerations until reports and invoices show higher-than-expected charges, or when cloud costs scale faster than expected. Others carefully consider the cost to run and scale infrastructure during a project’s design […]


Deployment Models, Public Cloud

Disaster recovery in the cloud

May 30, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

It’s late on a Friday. You get a call from your CIO that data has been removed from XYZ public cloud server, and they need it back ASAP. It gets worse. First, there is no current backup copy of the […]


Deployment Models, Others

Amazing federated multicloud apps

May 26, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

These days I hear a lot about the goal to run federated applications across cloud providers. We want to build these multicloud applications for many reasons, including: To optimize the underlying cloud resources for the application components. For instance, a […]


Deployment Models, Public Cloud

Why It’s Time to Bring Your Public Clouds Down to Earth

May 24, 2023

Via: CIO

Like most IT leaders today, you find yourself grappling with a paradox. Your IT estate has the potential to afford developer teams more flexibility and agility to place workloads across on-premises systems, public and private clouds, colocation facilities and edge […]


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, Public Cloud

Oracle first to open a cloud region in Serbia

May 15, 2023

Via: CIO

Public cloud services provider Oracle on Monday said it will launch a new cloud region in Serbia, which will make it the first among rivals including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google and IBM, to offer a hyperscale data center […]