Category: Cloud Computing

May 16, 2018

Verizon is moving to Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred public cloud provider – migrating more than 1,000 business critical applications and backend systems in the process. The announcement, made by AWS, notes that Verizon first started working with […]

May 15, 2018

It’s become clear that the future will be driven almost entirely by data, as our reliance on modern technology grows. Huge stores of data are building up, which means we need a place that is reliable and responsive to store […]

May 15, 2018

Google’s focus on the enterprise side of cloud has been strong in recent months – but it has by no means neglected the consumer arena either with a new storage plan and price cuts to match. The company has announced […]

May 14, 2018

The financial sector, while forging ahead in other areas of digital transformation, has been relatively slow to adopt the cloud and there has been good reason for it: banks have to deal with highly sensitive data and sharing data storage […]

May 14, 2018

Google is set to acquire enterprise cloud migration provider Velostrata, citing the Israel-based company’s ‘technical strength’ as key alongside potential capabilities for their customers around advanced data analytics and machine learning. Velostrata’s primary goal is to speed up enterprise’s cloud […]

May 11, 2018

It will come as no surprise to those of you already leveraging cloud services that Forrester Research predicted that in 2018, cloud computing will become a must-have business technology. The scalability, agility and cost model allow IT teams to redirect […]

May 10, 2018

When the moment comes that you decide it’s time to move your business to the cloud: rejoice! As my favorite Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi once said, “You’ve just taken your first step into a larger world.” Your deciding factor to […]

May 9, 2018

IBM and Red Hat Inc. today announced a major expansion to their long-standing relationship, which will enable IBM and Red Hat customers to benefit from the combined power of both companies’ technologies in private and public clouds. The agreement builds […]

May 8, 2018

If anyone was in any doubt that multi-cloud was heading for the mainstream, recent research by 451 will have quashed it. Of the 800 businesses across the globe that responded to the latest Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud, Hosting and […]

May 8, 2018

Microsoft yesterday set out to open up its cloud platform to developers hoping to build AI applications, revealing a host of machine learning initiatives at its annual Build conference. Redmond wants its Azure cloud to be the backbone of developers’ […]

May 7, 2018

Mesosphere, the hybrid cloud platform company, today announced a funding round of $125 million co-led by funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. and Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) with participation from ZWC Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) […]

May 4, 2018

Microsoft Azure, like many other cloud service providers, have built their billing and subscription models on a pay-per-use basis, i.e., if you use one hour of CPU time you pay for the hour you have consumed. No more, no less. […]

May 2, 2018

IDC has revealed that only 10% of European businesses are ready to implement multi-cloud infrastructure, with the majority of businesses sticking to one cloud vendor. In fact, the company’s report revealed that 80% of businesses are stuck between a hybrid […]

May 1, 2018

With the new year behind us, businesses are finalising their investment strategies for the year ahead, including confirming their IT spend. As is always the case at this time of year, we can expect both businesses and the channel to […]

April 30, 2018

Nutanix Inc. planned to release a public cloud offering to rival market leader Amazon Web Services in the second half of 2018. But engineering challenges have put the launch timing in doubt. Chief Executive Officer Dheeraj Pandey has found that […]

April 27, 2018

Microsoft’s expanding cloud services were a key driving force behind its healthy 2018 fiscal year third-quarter earnings, with year-on-year profit growing 35% to hit $7.4 billion. Figures from the first three months of 2018 show Microsoft’s flagship cloud computing service […]

April 27, 2018

For decades we have feared the cloud. During my time working counterintelligence for the FBI, we feared the Internet so much that agency computers functioned solely on an isolated intranet connected via hard cables. It’s no wonder to me that […]

April 26, 2018

Data is the single most important asset of your business. Unfortunately, for most businesses, it’s only when their data is breached, lost, or unavailable is when they wake up to the value of data. Data can be lost by numerous […]

April 25, 2018

Around the globe, CIOs and CTOs continue to transition to a hybrid multi-cloud service delivery model, supported by on- and off-premises IT infrastructure. Meanwhile, the worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 21.4 percent in 2018 to reach […]

April 24, 2018

What is the state of cloud analytics today? New research from Teradata argues that while most organisations want to run all of their analytics in the cloud by 2023, the journey is taking longer than anticipated. The findings, which appear […]