Tag: cloud computing

March 24, 2023

Salespeople promise that migrations to the cloud will bring about greener pastures, with more money remaining in our pockets. It seems possible, so we make the switch and wait. Yet, months of waiting brings about more of the same. It […]

March 13, 2023

Multi-cloud and multi-region environments demand an easier environment for making changes. New approaches are emerging to reduce complexity and improve visibility. Over the past two decades, cloud computing has evolved from a method that utilized extra data center capacity to […]

March 9, 2023

People.ai, the enterprise revenue intelligence company, is announcing that it has recently achieved three new security certifications—ISO 27701:2019, ISO 27017:2015, and CSA STAR Certification—which represent the company’s dedication to data privacy and secure cloud computing environments. Citing a 2022 report […]

March 7, 2023

I guess I could place some stat here that shows multicloud is the large majority of public cloud deployments out there, but there are lots of other places to see that. We know it’s a common approach for enterprises to […]

February 27, 2023

Modernizing and streamlining company processes to efficiently operate in today’s hybrid world has become critical. With promises of increasing revenue, providing improved experiences, and bringing innovation, it is no wonder that the market for digital transformation (DT) is predicted to […]

February 21, 2023

Companies increasingly want to mature their Data Governance, the formal Data Management capabilities around its value as a service, in 2023. That way, organizations can respond to an uncertain business environment quickly and flexibly. While Kelle O’Neal, founder and CEO […]

February 20, 2023

In July 2021, joint research from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) and the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) found the area with the biggest shortfall in IT skills to be cloud computing security. The survey of 489 cyber security professionals revealed […]

January 30, 2023

Are you overthinking your cloud model? If so, you’re likely in need of a well-defined cloud strategy. Companies with a clear cloud strategy position themselves to achieve more from cloud computing than those without. A well-defined cloud strategy provides a […]

January 13, 2023

I’ve covered the lack of cloud ROI here a great deal, so I don’t want to continue to harp on it. Although the opinions vary greatly on the causes, a few things are clear to me. First, these are mostly […]

January 4, 2023

The rising popularity of cloud data architecture signals a central theme: Global businesses in the coming years will migrate their data center operations fully to the cloud, as it offers some inherent advantages over on-premise set-ups. Business survival in the […]

December 22, 2022

Here are five related predictions that we expect to come to fruition. 1. Deepening data divide will determine enterprise winners or losers While monetizing data insights has been an elusive goal for many organizations, the maturation of AI technologies is […]

December 13, 2022

The multicloud management market is expected to grow at a steady rate of about 25% during the forecast period (2022 to 2028), mainly due to the uncertainty of single cloud services, the rising need for high levels of governance and […]

December 9, 2022

Trend #1: As recession looms, companies will look to optimize infrastructure cost Whether North America is in recession or not, companies are actively cutting costs, and reducing IT infrastructure, which has always been an easy choice for CEOs. While compute […]

December 2, 2022

There seems to be a clear trend in the world of cloud computing to return to IT fundamentals—the core problems that IT was set up to solve, such as data management, security, operations, governance, and development. All these things have […]

November 18, 2022

A surplus of articles now forecast a cloud downturn or predict a cloud computing recession. See this one for an example. The number of reporters who reach out to me about this topic is also increasing, although I don’t comment […]

November 11, 2022

Observability is one of those concepts being tossed about these days in the tech press and at cloud computing conferences. Everyone has a definition of what it is and how it’s used. No two are the same. Observability seems to […]

November 8, 2022

Automation is not new, but its use in cloud computing is recent. The idea is to automate tasks that have been traditionally carried out by humans; for example, self-healing a saturated compute server by automatically restarting it on a cloud […]

November 1, 2022

Wasm may just be the most important emerging technology that you’ve never heard of. Ok, maybe you’ve heard of it. It’s important! Shorthand for WebAssembly language, Wasm was developed for the web. However, Wasm technology has expanded beyond the web […]

October 27, 2022

Companies plan to increase their spending on cloud infrastructure but may be slowing down on taking a “cloud-first” approach. These are two of the conclusions outlined in the Enterprise Strategy Group’s (ESG) “2022 Technology Spending Intentions Report.” According to ESG’s […]

October 25, 2022

The Cloud Security Alliance, in partnership with security company BigID, released the results of a survey of 1,500 IT and security professionals. They all weighed in on the state of cloud data security in 2022 and had some not-so-surprising data […]