Fueled by the growth in cloud spend, cloud waste will exceed $17.6 billion in 2020. Over 90% of organizations will use public cloud services this year. In fact, public cloud customers will spend more than $50 billion on Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from providers such as AWS, Azure and Google. This boom is, of […]
Ten Years Later — What Is Cloud Native?
Ever since the term cloud native made its debut in 2010, its usage has grown in popularity. Today cloud native is used as a qualifier for innovative, leading edge applications, platforms and systems or cloud-savvy organizations and processes. However, what is cloud native exactly? There are some definitions, there are many opinions, but first and […]
vArmour CEO: Cloud Security Needs Simplicity
Cloud computing promised cost savings and simplified IT management, among other things. In many ways, the cloud has lived up to its ideals, and in other ways, such as API security, shadow IT and the securing of clouds across hybrid environments, the cloud has proven challenging. To get a sense of how enterprises and security […]
The Definition of Faster in the Age of App Capital
Businesses want speed. One of the impacts of digital transformation—and the associated pressure to succeed in an app economy—is the desire to move at speed. Nearly half (48%) of organizations are driven by digital transformation to deploy faster according to our State of Application Services 2019. But it’s not all about deployment. It’s also about […]
IBM Doubles Down on Cloud, But Is Krishna an Interim CEO?
Big news from Big Blue yesterday: IBM CEO Ginni Rometty is stepping down after eight years at the helm. In her stead, IBM is doubling down on the cloud by appointing Arvind Krishna as CEO and member of the board. The real move to watch, though, is the appointment of Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat CEO, […]
SIOS Technology Automates Rebooting of AWS EC2 VM Instances
SIOS Technology Corp. this week launched SIOS AppKeeper, a tool that automatically reboots instances of EC2 virtual machines anytime they fail. Michael Bilancieri, senior vice president of products and marketing for SIOS, said SIOS AppKeeper is an extension of the work SIOS has historically done to enable servers and clusters to failover. However, many organizations […]
Opsani Applies AI to Rein in Cloud Costs
Opsani has added support for cloud computing environments to its namesake software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that leverages machine learning algorithms and other forms of artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize the IT environment. Company CEO Ross Schibler said Opsani AI not only proactively tunes resources such as CPU and memory, but it also can optimize middleware configuration […]
The Top Six Cloud Computing Trends of 2019
Cloud computing was one of the hottest topics in the technology and business media throughout 2019. This is no surprise as the cloud sector has been growing rapidly for the last few years. Synergy Research Group recently reported a 37% overall growth year-over-year in public cloud. They also note that it has taken just two […]
An Overview of Cloud Migration and Open Source
Most businesses are moving toward making their business processes more user-friendly, through digitization. This shift of business modernization comes with a heavy price for them in terms of money and in terms of time. It is going to take time and a great amount of investment in new innovative technologies. Cloud computing is the biggest […]
HPE Adds Control Plane to Greenlake Managed Service
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced today it has added a cloud platform to its managed Greenlake service, through which DevOps teams will be able to manage deployments of applications alongside HPE. Scott Yow, vice president and general manager for GreenLake Hybrid Cloud Software at HPE, said HPE Greenlake Central provides a control plane that makes it […]