This Week in The Cloud: 9/27 -10/02
Playing catch up? Here are these week’s top stories in the cloud: A Roundup of Cloud Computing Forecasts and Market Estimates, Q3 Update, 2015 Sunday, September 27th – This quarterly roundup of cloud...
View ArticleAmazon Web Service to Add New Business Intelligence Analytics Service
By Tim King According to the Wall Street Journal, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud-computing arm of the e-Retail giant will announce their entrance into the packed data analytics market later this...
View ArticleHow to Make Your Move into the Cloud with Confidence, a Cloud Spectator...
Choosing a cloud provider is a critically important task for any enterprise looking to modernize its IT, but it’s also an extremely difficult, time-consuming, and sometimes costly task. In this...
View ArticleGartner: 95 Percent of Future Cloud Security Failures Will Be the Customer’s...
Even as enterprise adoption of public cloud services hits record numbers, security concerns remain the most common excuse for avoiding the use of public cloud services. And now, renowned enterprise...
View ArticleThis Week in the Cloud: AWS re:Invent, Google Makes Moves, EU Safe Harbor Ruling
Lots of goings on ‘in the cloud’ this week, from the endless releases, partnerships, and announcements at Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference, to Google’s responses, to the EU’s monumental safe...
View ArticleDell to Acquire EMC, Majority Stake in VMware in Biggest Tech Deal Ever
Former consumer hardware heavyweight Dell has acquired cloud computing, storage and security powerhouse EMC corp. in a deal that is being hailed as the biggest tech deal of all time. On Monday morning,...
View ArticleIdentity Management in Amazon Web Services: 11 Best Practices
With 30% of the global public cloud computing market share, e-Retail giant Amazon.com’s cloud computing branch, Amazon Web Services, is the most dominant cloud service provider on the planet, and as...
View ArticleShots Fired: Google Offers Apps for Work Free to Customers Under Contract...
Just when you thought the cloud wars might be quieting down as margins thin, Google fires off a new salvo of unorthodox price cuts on the Software as a Service (SaaS) front. In an effort to win more...
View ArticleThis Week in the Cloud: AWS Posts Big Numbers, HP Bows Out, Chinese Race to...
Lots of goings on ‘in the cloud’ this week—HP bowed out of the public cloud market, AWS announced another quarter of increasing profits, Chinese tech giant Huawei announced intentions to pour $1b into...
View ArticleVideo: CEOs Discuss Ecosystem Collaboration in the Cloud Era
In 2015, Enterprise adoption of public and hybrid cloud services is growing faster than ever, but as Larry Ellison recently said, in many ways cloud computing is still “in its infancy.” So where does...
View ArticleCan’t Miss Cloud Conferences and Events for Q4 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 ArticleDealing with Docker: 9 Resources for Learning Linux Containers
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 ArticleLimit your Vulnerability: Four Common Cloud Security Issues
By Ajit Singh, Lepide Software Security is one of the biggest concerns that CIOs fance in the modern enterprise environment. Modern enterprise IT is transforming rapidly, and new technologies such as...
View Article11 Cloud Companies Featured on CRN’s 2015 Emerging Vendors List
Computer Reseller News Magazine, more commonly known as CRN, has released the latest iteration of its yearly CRN Emerging Vendors Report. The Report is a list of more than 180 companies which CRN...
View ArticleKeeping up with AWS: 5 Great Presentations from re:Invent 2015
When it comes to cloud computing, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the biggest game in town. With 30% of global revenue, (that’s $5.16 billion for 2014), it should come as no surprise that AWS often leads...
View ArticleNew Docker Universal Control Plane Runs Dockerized Apps On-Premise
Docker, the company responsible for the recent explosion of interest Linux containers, came down from the clouds yesterday with the announcement of new software that will allow big companies to run and...
View ArticleKey Takeaways From Gartner’s 2015 Cloud IaaS Critical Capabilities Report
Enterprise Technology analysis and research firm Gartner, Inc. has released its latest Critical Capabilities Report for Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). In the 2015 version of their...
View ArticlePredictions 2016: ITOM Experiences Rebirth in the Cloud
by Jim Frey, Kentik The cloud has had a massive impact on many sectors of IT, but IT Operations Management (ITOM) has always been a lagging outlier, resisting the sea-change affecting modern IT. With...
View Article2016 Predictions: More Dev than Ops for the Fortune 1000
By Joan Wrabetz, CTO of QualiSystems In 2016, DevOps will continue to drive new development and testing models, but it is not clear if it will influence production deployment and operations yet. We at...
View ArticlePredictions 2016: Hybrid Cloud as an Operating Standard
Contributed by Dave Zabrowski, Cloud Cruiser We can predict, based on past experience, that increased cloud use will bring many benefits to the enterprise in terms of agility, responsiveness, and...
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