A new study has shown that while many enterprises are able to keep public cloud costs under control, spending can quickly escalate. Many organisations are migrating applications back from the public cloud to on-premise datacentres, a study from Vanson Bourne for Nutanix’s Enterprise Cloud Index 2019 report has found. According to the survey of 2,650 IT decision-makers, … Read more
Cloud uptime is critical today, but vendor-provided data can be confusing. Here’s an analysis of how AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure compare. The cloud is not just important; it’s mission-critical for many companies. More and more IT and business leaders I talk to look at public cloud as a core component of their digital … Read more
Demand for Microsoft’s cloud offerings spiked again during the firm’s third quarter, reports Redmond. Microsoft’s commercial cloud revenues jumped 41% year on year, hitting $9.6bn (£7.65bn) in the firm’s third quarter – which closed on 31 March 2019 – reflecting strong demand for its cloud offerings from around the business world, in what is now becoming a … Read more
The unveiling of Google Cloud’s Anthos multi-cloud management tool dominated many of the discussions at the firm’s annual developer conference in San Francisco, amid claims that it could change the face of enterprise IT for decades to come. A noticeable difference in how Google positions its public cloud proposition – compared with Amazon Web Services … Read more
Cloud consumption is growing rapidly, but tracking spending can be a bear. Enter FinOps, a financial discipline and tech solution intended to optimize how enterprise spend on cloud. Won over by the promise to drive business agility while reducing costs, CIOs are migrating to the cloud en masse. But renting cloud services creates new problems, … Read more
New research from Advanced reveals 88% of firms say cloud providers need to do more to build confidence. There are still many businesses out there still not utilising the cloud – according to Advanced, it’s 24% – suggesting there is a job for technology providers to do in reassuring businesses on the benefits of the … Read more
By 2022, over $1.3tn will be spent on cloud computing and related services globally, and IT leaders will need to figure out how to manage it all. The latest forecast from analyst Gartner predicts that more than $1.3tn in IT spending will be directly or indirectly affected by the shift to cloud by 2022. According to Gartner, 28% of … Read more
As IT departments prepare their 2019 budgets, we assess how to avoid paying too much for cloud services. Infrastructure-, platform- and software-as-a-service (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) free business users from the constraints of IT, but without suitable oversight, costs can quickly get out of control. As initial costs are relatively low, business managers can sometimes … Read more
Cisco says integration of its network, device and cloud security platforms with Duo Security’s zero-trust authentication and access products will let customers quickly secure users to any application on any networked device. Cisco today laid out $2.35 billion in cash and stock for network- identity, authentication and security company Duo. According to Cisco, Duo helps protect … Read more
Google and Cisco setting stage for Kubernetes hybrid cloud push. The joint Google and Cisco Kubernetes platform for enterprise customers should appear before the end of the year, and things are getting warm between the two companies ahead of that highly anticipated release. Cisco and Google last October teamed up to develop a Kubernetes hybrid-cloud … Read more
