Public Cloud Market Reaches $70B in 2015, Growth Spurred by 5 Industries, IDC...
The Public Cloud Computing Market will reach $70 billion, worldwide, in 2015, according to a new report released by the International Data Corporation (IDC) Tuesday. The report is just the latest in a...
View ArticleAre You Following These Six Cloud Influencers On Twitter?
A few months ago, we gave you a list of the top ten cloud computing twitter accounts to follow to turn your feed into a veritable treasure trove of insightful cloud news and information, and then a few...
View ArticleComparing the Cloud: Put the Top Ten PaaS Vendors Head-to-Head for a...
Over the past decade, enterprise IT has experienced an unprecedented growth in data and mobility that has left legacy on-premise solutions struggling to keep up. Many have turned to cloud computing...
View ArticleUpdated Cloud Glossary: New Terms Added, DevOps, Microservices, Big Data, and...
Cloud computing may be the fastest-growing segments in information technology today—Gartner predicts that IT spending on the cloud will increase 32.8 percent in the next year alone, and many of the...
View ArticleThe Top Cloud Conferences and Events for Fall 2015
Things move fast in the cloud. The market is growing at an astounding rate, but it’s also consolidating as the world’s leading tech firms lock into fierce competition. All the while, the technology is...
View ArticleContainer Control: Experts Weigh in on Docker’s Drawbacks
If you work IT and have a pulse, then you’ve heard the hype surrounding Docker and their Linux containers. Chances are you’re up to your ears in it. Lately, it seems like there’s a new article hyping...
View ArticleAs The Cloud Grows in Popularity, So Does its Technology Offerings
By Lisa Pope, Senior Vice President, Global Strategy and Sales, Infor CloudSuite Since 2013, analysts have anticipated the growing use of cloud computing to support IT and strategic business work...
View ArticleMaking the Cloud a Competitive Advantage
By Bill Shute, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer, Viewpointe Would you believe that the concept of cloud-based technology came from the idea of an “intergalactic computer network” introduced by...
View ArticleMirantis Lands $100M in Funding, Backing From Intel
Pure-play OpenStack vendor Mirantis has announced $100 million round of funding in an investment led by Intel Capital, which includes a partnership with Intel that the two companies hope will fuel...
View ArticleCosts Double When Breaches Affect Virtual Infrastructure, Kaspersky Says
The cost of a security breach could increase up to 130 percent higher when virtualized infrastructure is impacted, according to a new report from Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab. The...
View ArticleCloud Storage “Shadow IT” Causes Security Concerns, Report Says
Security concerns have over three-quarters of IT professionals worried about consumer-grade cloud-based file sync and share services, according to a new paper (sign-up required) from tech research firm...
View ArticlePreemptible VM Instances Now Generally Available for Google’s Compute Engine
As of yesterday, Google’s preemptible virtual machine (VM) instances for the search giant’s Compute Engine cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering are now generally available. Google...
View ArticleThe International State of the Cloud in 2015
Over the past decade, cloud computing has matured into one of the fastest growing segments of corporate IT spending—worldwide spending on Cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) will grow 32.8...
View ArticleChina’s Largest Internet Co. to Invest $1.57B in Cloud Computing
Tencent, one of China’s largest internet companies, announced Tuesday that it will invest 10 billion Yuan, or $1.57 billion USD in its cloud computing business over the course of the next ten years....
View ArticleHere’s What Experts Have to Say on the Business Impact of Cloud Computing
It’s no secret: Over the past five years, cloud computing has evolved into a major disruptive presence in IT. In 2015, 88 percent of organizations use some form of public cloud computing, while 63...
View ArticleMicrosoft Puffs Up Chest, Declares its Cloud “Biggest” in Geographic...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, in the cloud. In the public cloud market, size matters, and Microsoft Azure is the host with the most. Well, the most cloud regions, that is. With 19 cloud regions...
View ArticleThis Week in The Cloud: CloudFlare raises $110M; RedHat Claims $2B in Cloud...
Playing catch up? Here are these week’s top stories in the cloud: CloudFlare Raises $110 Million from Baidu, Google Capital, Microsoft, and Qualcomm Tuesday, September 22nd — Shortly after announcing...
View ArticleThe Updated Cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) Comparison Matrix, Now...
Solutions Review is happy to announce the first update to our Cloud Platforms-as-a-Service (PaaS) Comparison Matrix report! In this update, we’ve added two new PaaS solutions: ActiveState’s Stackato,...
View ArticleAchieving Hybrid Cloud Agility: 10 Best Practices
This 13-slide presentation outlines the 10 ways that organizations can achieve agility when protecting data via the hybrid cloud model. Courtesy of CommVault. “Hybrid clouds give IT the agility and...
View Article15 Figures That Show How AWS Dominates The Public Cloud Market
In April, nine years after launching Amazon Web Services (AWS), tech and eRetail giant Amazon finally revealed its earnings and the numbers were impressive, to say the least. Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s...
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