Cloud 5: Microsoft’s cloud profits, IDC cloud prediction
Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...
IBM is still struggling to find success in the cloud
IBM’s filed its Q2 2017 earnings report this week, which was never a pretty sight in recent years, and sure enough the company suffered through its 21st straight quarter of declining revenue. It’s an astonishing streak. If IBM were a...
The cloud data center building boom
Seems like every week, we have a major cloud vendor opening up a new data center or a new region (cluster of data centers) somewhere in the world. Just last week, Apple opened one in China and announced they would...
Dyn DDoS attack false fodder for anti-cloud crowd
There’s no doubt that you heard about, and were probably affected by the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on domain registrar Dyn last week. It was a devastating attack that took down services like Spotify and Netflix along with...
Delta’s data center trouble illustrates the problem with a single point of failure
No doubt you’ve probably heard about Delta’s no good, horrible, very bad week. It began early Monday morning when a power failure at its Atlanta data center led to an outage of epic proportion, causing a domino effect in which all its...
On the occasion of Office 365’s fifth birthday
Microsoft Office 365 had a momentous birthday this week, turning five years old. It’s easy to forget at this point, but under Steve Ballmer, Microsoft was lukewarm on the cloud. It was only when Satya Nadella took the reigns that...
Salesforce was never about no software
There’s a famous logo that has permeated Salesforce’s marketing messages for years. It’s a red slash over the words “Software” to symbolize “no software.” The truth, though, is that Salesforce has never been about eliminating software; it was about changing the...
