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Server-side licensing leads to hike in public cloud prices

Changes made over the last year or so to protect open source revenue streams are starting to impact public cloud managed service costs. Server-side types of licensing are starting to hurt some public cloud customers, according to a new study looking at the move away from open source licensing. More than half of the IT … Read more

How cloud providers’ performance differs

The 2019 ThousandEyes Benchmark report shows that not all cloud providers are created equal across all regions. Not all public cloud service providers are the same when it comes to network performance. Each one’s connectivity approach varies, which causes geographical discrepancies in network performance and predictability. As businesses consider moving to the cloud, especially software-defined … Read more

Top cloud providers 2019: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud; IBM makes hybrid move; Salesforce dominates SaaS

The top cloud providers for 2019 have maintained their positions, but the themes, strategies, and approaches to the market are all in flux. The infrastructure-as-a-service wars have been largely decided, with the spoils going to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, but new technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning have … Read more