Tag: public cloud

July 22, 2021

Increasingly, businesses want to move to hybrid cloud architectures that combine private or colocation data centers with the public cloud. They recognize the potential for gaining agility and saving money, but many aren’t sure where to start. Evoque, the colocation […]

July 19, 2021

As technology increasingly takes the driver’s seat in delivering value for enterprises across industries, technology leaders themselves are increasingly being held accountable for areas previously outside of their scope. With global data center electricity consumption estimated to be nearly equivalent […]

July 16, 2021

It’s Monday morning and you get an irate call from the CFO. A public cloud bill just came in and it’s three times higher than last month. The overage is not in the budget and just what do you suggest […]

July 12, 2021

The shift to the cloud was already well under way but has been expedited for many companies because of the pandemic. The spike in cloud adoption also caused a spike in worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services, which is […]

July 12, 2021

Dropbox saved nearly $75 million by repatriating workloads from the public cloud and building its own tech infrastructure, the company detailed in its S-1. That such a large company would move largely off public cloud, where startups often begin and […]

July 6, 2021

In a study by Devo Technology, a cloud-native logging and security analytics company, as many as 81% of organizations revealed that COVID-19 had accelerated their cloud timelines. “Across these companies, there was a 200% jump in organizations planning to move […]

July 2, 2021

I was impressed by this CIO article about 10 dark secrets of cloud by Peter Wayner (CIO is also part of IDG). You should read it for a few reasons. First, it’s not often that the press discusses the downsides […]

June 28, 2021

The slide in AWS’s market share over time signals the maturity of the cloud market. But even amid this decline — AWS held 49.4% of the market share in 2017 — the company remains by far the dominant provider. But […]

June 22, 2021

Garter predicts worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services will jump from $242.6B in 2019 to $692.1B in 2025. Not only that, but spending on SaaS cloud services is predicted to attain 19.3% growth between 2021 and 2022. COVID-19 created […]

June 21, 2021

Configuring connectivity between colocated infrastructure and public clouds is not usually a trivial affair. But Cologix wants to make it essentially as easy as installing an app within an app store. Delivering a real-time, user-friendly solution to setting up connectivity […]