Month: August 2017

Microsoft still has a long way to go to catch AWS

Microsoft still has a long way to go to catch AWS

Microsoft is considered a cloud success story, as well it should, given its numbers in the most recent quarterly earnings report, but dollars don’t tell the whole story in the cloud market. It’s a big market, and revenue depends on...

/ August 3, 2017
chief data officer
Rise of the chief data officer should benefit MSPs

Rise of the chief data officer should benefit MSPs

There’s been talk lately about data becoming “the new oil” because it’s the most valuable commodity an organization can possess. The challenge is that just like oil most data only becomes truly valuable once it gets refined. A new report...

/ August 3, 2017
Backup and recovery safety net
New survey shows it’s time to put backup and recovery to the test

New survey shows it’s time to put backup and recovery to the test

For as long as anybody remembers, backup and recovery has been the number one application workload type predicted to move into the cloud. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a survey conducted by Barracuda Networks finds that just over...

/ August 1, 2017