Tag: cloud computing

July 5, 2024

The landscape of cloud computing is changing significantly as enterprises question the value of public cloud solutions. This shift marks a departure from previous years when the public cloud was widely regarded as the panacea for all technology and infrastructure needs. […]

July 1, 2024

Who is responsible for security in the public cloud? This is a question businesses need to consider as they increasingly deploy more workloads and use cloud-based IT infrastructure, platform services and applications. In Gartner’s How to make integrated IaaS and […]

June 11, 2024

As with most endeavours, incorporating security into the process as early as possible is essential when building or migrating to technologies such as the cloud. Whether you are beginning your journey of migrating key services to the cloud or launching a […]

June 7, 2024

Organizations increasingly rely on cloud services to improve operations and promote innovation. This spike in use has increased cyberattacks targeting cloud settings, emphasizing the necessity for strong cloud security. Recent incidents demonstrate the issue’s severity. In April, AT&T announced that […]

May 21, 2024

It’s Monday. You come into the office only to be met with a dozen emails from your system development teammates requesting to speak with you right away. It seems that the generative AI-enabled inventory management system you launched a week […]

April 9, 2024

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors have gained significant traction recently. Giving yourself a ranking to prove your worth as a good citizen of the planet seems like a great idea. These tools are worth looking at, but the reality […]

March 8, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of IaaS cloud computing, public cloud providers are increasingly reaching feature and function parity. This means they are beginning to look alike. Before you keyboard warriors remind me that some obscure feature in the object […]

February 20, 2024

Most developers don’t use infrastructure as code (IaC), argues AWS tech lead Chris Munns. But to those top 10% to 15% of developers who do use modern development technologies such as IaC go the spoils. Even if the audience for […]

February 12, 2024

From the get-go, the cloud promised to help companies scale up their architectures in seconds, run their applications faster, never turn away a transaction, and save money through economies of scale. How could any CIO or application manager resist the […]

December 28, 2023

In 2024, the IT landscape will continue to shift and evolve. Driven by the relentless advancement of cloud computing and the growing demand for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, the next year will be marked by several trends that will become […]

December 1, 2023

Okay, I’m going to geek out for this one. The start of my cloud computing career was not using cloud computing services, it was building them. This meant setting up a service that could do complex things, handle many service […]

October 17, 2023

Guess what? Cloud computing conferences are now generative AI conferences. How did that happen? It’s a simple matter of cloud providers seeing generative AI as the best way to sell more cloud services, and they are not wrong. As businesses […]

September 15, 2023

One of the most common questions I get is not, “Which cloud is best?” It’s, “How do I improve my cloud computing career growth?” First, let’s focus on what not to do. Don’t spend too much on executive MBA programs […]

August 25, 2023

In today’s world, a single-environment approach to IT is no longer supporting the needs of modern businesses. According to my company’s fifth annual Enterprise Cloud Index (ECI), organizations today, and moving forward, are apt to use more than one infrastructure […]

July 27, 2023

As businesses try to optimize their costs during economic downturns, ramping up cloud spend can be a pain point. Efforts to alleviate this – from, say, moving workloads to a cost-effective environment/on-prem or re-architecting to save costs – become difficult, […]

July 18, 2023

Value refers to the worth or usefulness that something holds for individuals or organizations. It is subjective and can vary from person to person, or business to business, or from one context to another. Value can be seen as the […]

June 28, 2023

In the data economy, data is king. Today, any business – small, medium, or large – thrives on its data assets. The recent trend of offering data-driven insights as a service has opened up a profitable revenue channel for businesses. […]

June 6, 2023

The concept of cloud optimization is emerging out of the concerns that many businesses are not getting the value out of cloud computing they expected. Simply put, companies are discovering that their existing cloud-hosted systems need to undergo “optimization.” This […]

June 2, 2023

Even though many IT budgets are down, and belt tightening seems to be the clear trend, next year many enterprises are preparing for a rush to generative AI that they are not ready to pay for. It’s time to start […]

June 2, 2023

If your enterprise is about to undertake a digital transformation (Dx) project, you should understand that these initiatives require a focus on more than the technology itself. To succeed with a digital transformation strategy, the business must focus on business […]