Category: Cloud Computing

June 18, 2018

The cloud journey is costing a bit more than organisations realise, according to new research from Rackspace. The findings appear in a new report, titled ‘Maintaining Momentum: Cloud Migration Learnings’. The study, conducted by Forrester and polling more than 300 […]

June 14, 2018

Nowadays, it is increasingly easier to lose one’s self in dashboards, visualisation tools, nice graphics, and all sorts of button-like approaches to cloud computing. Since the last decade, UX work has improved tenfold; nevertheless, there is a side that usually […]

June 14, 2018

IBM has launched 18 new availability zones for its cloud, introducing more datacentres to the UK, North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. The expansion will mean IBM Cloud operates in 78 locations, with the new datacentres opening in Germany, the UK, […]

June 13, 2018

Oracle on Wednesday debuted the latest generation of its autonomous platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings covering the areas of mobile, data integration and API. Earlier this year, Oracle announced availability of a number of platform services with built in automation, including Oracle […]

June 12, 2018

Huawei has launched a hybrid cloud service built for Azure Stack, Microsoft’s offering that brings Azure into customers’ datacentres as a private cloud. Built on Huawei’s FusionServer V5 servers and CloudEngine switches, Huawei said the tool will allow enterprises to […]

June 8, 2018

The U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee that oversees Pentagon spending doesn’t have confidence that the Defense Department can handle a multibillion cloud-computing contract based on existing plans, said the panel’s chairwoman, Kay Granger. Under their proposed spending bill, panel members […]

June 8, 2018

Google Cloud has announced the launch of sole-tenant nodes on Google Compute Engine – helping customers in various industries around compliance in the process. The new service, which is currently in beta availability, gives customers ownership of all VMs, hypervisor […]

June 7, 2018

They are two companies who have spent more time espousing the benefits of the mainframe than most – and now IBM and CA Technologies have forged a new partnership designed to make the technology more accessible in a cloud and […]

June 6, 2018

Cloud has firmly secured its place on IT professionals’ agenda, with 95% citing it as one of the top five most important IT strategies today, according to the SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2018: The Intersection of Hype and Performance. However, […]

June 5, 2018

Hybrid Cloud is a computing method which uses a mixture of on-premises, Private Cloud as well as third-party Public Cloud services with applications and systems running on both platforms. Businesses achieve greater flexibility and better data management by allowing workloads […]

June 5, 2018

Microsoft Azure is soon to offer virtual machines with 12TB of RAM for developers looking to run workloads that require lots of memory. The company made the announcement along with the launch of a number of other VM types that […]

June 1, 2018

Today, most companies are using continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) in one form or another – and this is of significance due to various reasons: It increases the quality of the code base and the testing of that code base […]

May 30, 2018

The Google Cloud Platform is a powerful tool that allows for the development of software that would otherwise be nearly impossible due to the cost prohibitive nature of the technology. The platform allows for development teams of limited size and […]

May 29, 2018

In the latest twist to the “data warehouse in a box” saga, IBM is taking the wraps off its Cloud Private for Data (a.k.a., ICP for Data) offering that it first announced back in March at Think. IBM promises in […]

May 24, 2018

Can orchestration be considered a better alternative to provisioning and configuration management, especially in the case of cloud-native applications? We can look at this from a variety of angles; comparing against data centre-oriented solutions; differentiating orchestration of infrastructure (in the […]

May 23, 2018

As businesses of every size push forward with cloud projects in 2018, the demand for cloud skills is accelerating. Public cloud adoption is expected to climb significantly and the IDC predict spending will reach £197 billion in just three years. […]

May 22, 2018

Amazon just made its entrance into the blockchain industry, and it’s opening the door with a platform that’s meant to make it easier for businesses and enterprises to implement the nascent technology. The web services monolith has partnered with the […]

May 18, 2018

The rise of Alibaba Cloud, to become a major player in cloud infrastructure, is a fascinating one. Between 2014 and 2016, Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) saw the top right box change not one iota. […]

May 17, 2018

Since virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and remote desktop session host (RDSH) technology has been available, vendors have offered on-premises solutions. Because these companies have made a name for themselves, most people familiar with the VDI space assume that the vendors […]

May 17, 2018

Today, the cloud is where everyone wants to be; there is no place like it, and nothing makes your clients happier. Okay, that may be a bit of a stretch – but it’s also fair to say that not everyone […]