Cisco, VMware, HPE and others tap into new Google Cloud Athos cloud technology. Cisco and Google have expanded their joint cloud-development activities to help customers more easily build secure multicloud and hybrid applications everywhere from on-premises data centers to public clouds. The expansion centers around Google’s new open-source hybrid cloud package called Anthos, which was … 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
We look at the various factors businesses should consider when looking to solve their cloud management problems. The hybrid cloud management (HCM) market has long been stagnant – but recently, that’s all changed. Companies are starting to solve cloud management challenges, and more than half of infrastructure decision makers at enterprises that have implemented the cloud are … Read more
We look at why hybrid cloud can create a tricky infrastructure to manage. It is a universally accepted axiom that the world is moving towards cloud. Even the most hardened skeptics have been converted and are taking their first steps on a cloud journey. The figures back this up. IDC has reported that quarterly spending on … Read more
As businesses increasingly adopt cloud-first strategies, how can they ensure their security is up to scratch? Modern businesses continue to invest more heavily in the cloud than ever before. Global enterprise spending on cloud services is projected to grow by 17.3% in 2019 to total $206.2bn, up from $175.8bn in 2018, according to analyst Gartner. While the cloud … Read more
Cisco finds Kubernetes, legacy application integration and edge computing technologies are among cloud growth showgrounds. Kubernetes, legacy application integration and edge computing technologies are but a few of the technologies Cisco sees as having some of the greatest impact on cloud computing in 2019. Cisco aggressively ramped up its own cloud presence in 2018 with all manner of … Read more
Spending on enterprise software, particularly cloud services and applications, is expected to grow faster than any other category of IT this year, fueling an overall increase in global spending on technology. If you have any doubts that digital transformation is top of mind for IT executives, just take a look at what they’re buying. Spending on enterprise … Read more
Technology leaders weigh in on where IT spend will shift, with many companies focusing on infrastructure, security, and user experience. The majority of IT leaders expect their 2019 IT budgets to increase or remain unchanged, driven largely by the need to upgrade aging infrastructure, accelerate a shift to the cloud or improve the employee experience … 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
