Category: Tech Insight
Cloud 5: Walmart builds a cloud and cloud bills could increase
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...
Research Suggests Many Services Providers Already on Brink of Extinction
Most IT services providers are at various points along a IT transformation journey that is being driven by demand for more agility. Today a customer can fire up a virtual machine in a few minutes, but it can still take...
Oracle plans to build a dozen data centers in massive cloud expansion
Never let it be said that Oracle chairman Larry Ellison does anything halfway. It took him some time to embrace the cloud, but now that he has, he’s put the considerable financial weight of his company behind the idea. This...
Tech Time Warp: Garry Kasparov’s Rage Against the Machine
The precarious relationship between man and machine has always preoccupied the technologically minded. Computer genius Alan Turing was asking “Can machines think?” as early as 1950. Few of us, though, have devoted as much time to the question—or been as...
Cloud 5: Microsoft’s free OneDrive gambit, everyone loves Kubernetes
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...
Forecast sees massive reduction of traditional data centers by 2021
Cisco made a brazen prediction in its Global Cloud Index report this month. The company forecast that by 2021, just three years from now, only 6 percent of workloads would be processed in what they called traditional data centers. That means...
Modernization of healthcare IT creates major MSP opportunity
There’s not a lot of specifics available yet in terms of how a new alliance between Amazon, JP Morgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway will lead to reduce healthcare costs for their employees. The assumption is that all three companies will...
Fast and furious advances in AI are now coming to MSPs
Today, most IT workers can be forgiven for assuming that the complexity of the tasks involved means it’s unlikely advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are likely to impact them any time soon. But as managed service providers (MSPs) continue to...
Tech Time Warp: First published reference to vaporware
In Texas, they call it “all hat, no cattle.” In Silicon Valley, they call it vaporware, and the first use of the term was in a Feb. 3, 1986, Time Magazine article by Philip Elmer-DeWitt about the delayed release of...
Cloud 5: Google reveals its cloud revenue, SAP makes big cloud bet
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...
