Tag: public cloud

October 24, 2018

You might have heard that multicloud is the future of IT. It would be more accurate to say it’s the present of IT. According to Rightscale, more than 80 percent of enterprises already have a multicloud strategy. But what is […]

September 25, 2018

I gave a cloud computing talk in a rural Midwest town a few years ago. I went on and on about the benefits of using the cloud. During my talk, I noticed a lot of folded arms and concerned faces. […]

September 21, 2018

John just finished the first wave on cloud workload migrations for his company. With a solid 500 applications and related data sets migrated to a public cloud, he now has a good understanding of what the costs are after these […]

September 11, 2018

CIOs are increasingly assured that a cloud-first strategy is the way to go. Analyst firm Gartner says global spending on public cloud services will grow 21.4 percent through 2018 to total $186.4 billion, up from $153.5 billion in 2017. So, […]

August 1, 2018

If you had asked me, a year or so ago, which of the three largest public cloud vendors was most likely to offer a compelling hybrid cloud offering, I would have said Microsoft without a doubt. After all, AWS is […]

July 31, 2018

It’s 2:00 a.m. A pager goes off in a suburban home. A bleary-eyed woman makes her way to a terminal hooked up to a 1200-baud modem. She works until 6:00 a.m. to fix the system problem remotely, this time just […]

July 24, 2018

Multicloud is mostly about operational changes. Making distributed pools of resources behave as one cohesive infrastructure requires over-the-top orchestration and automation, end-to-end across the entire enterprise network from the data centre and public cloud to the cloud on-ramps in the […]

July 23, 2018

Google has announced the second of two partnerships that will allow it to offer the financial services industry and others a cloud-based platform on which they can develop and run blockchain-based applications. In a blog post ahead of its Google […]

June 21, 2018

They are waking up–day after day–to the sobering realisation that they can’t manage what they can’t see. And visibility rapidly decreases with cloud migration and hybrid-cloud applications spanning legacy, private and public cloud infrastructure. At a time when businesses are […]

June 11, 2018

CIOs and data center managers who run large hybrid clouds worldwide have a good chance of hearing IBM knock on their doors in the next few months. That’s because IBM is expanding its global data center footprint, opening 18 new […]