Having poor talent is worse than not having the talent at all, and too many enterprises lack both the skills and the talent for cloud security. A new report from McAfee highlights the skills gap when it comes to security in the cloud. The report reveals that one in four organizations using infrastructure as a service (IaaS) … Read more
The cloud-based service management company has extended its reach in IT asset management to help businesses optimise cloud subscriptions. ServiceNow has agreed to acquire software as a service (SaaS) management company VendorHawk to help businesses licence software more cost-effectively. According to ServiceNow, vast amounts of a company’s IT budget is being lost due to under-utilised software. … Read more
Observing the enterprise software market today is like observing a major relationship crisis where one side is failing to listen to the other. It appears that suppliers are unrelentingly pushing their customers to move to the cloud. Their customers want to move to the cloud too, but not to rip and replace their perfectly functioning back-office systems … Read more
Cisco HyperFlex 3.0 includes several new features that let businesses migrate to a hybrid, multi-cloud model and maintain visibility, application performance and scalability. It’s been a busy hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) week for Cisco. Yesterday it announced its intent to acquire secure HCI vendor, Skyport Systems. Today it announced HyperFlex 3.0, which is the biggest update Cisco … Read more
Google’s biggest strength is helping enterprises “run like Google”—something that even old-school companies have discovered they can now do. 2017 was a good year for Google Cloud Platform. But 2018 promises to be even better. Although Google still sits well behind Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure in cloud revenue, with just 2.3 percent market … Read more
As Cisco transitions from hardware to software, it’s rolling out a whole new line of products for IoT and cloud. As the preeminent networking company shapes its plans for 2018, analysts and users say Cisco is at somewhat of an inflection point, transitioning from a hardware-based company to an integrated hardware and software-focused one. In … Read more
