Category: Tech Insight
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...
Little reliance on cloud marketplaces to acquire services
Most managed services providers also resell products, so how end customers acquire software still matters in the age of the cloud. In theory, most customers are downloading software from cloud marketplaces that the major public cloud providers have opened. But,...
Smart cars require smarter cities, and the cloud should have a big role
There have been lots of stories in the last year about the move to edge computing. The argument goes that with something like an autonomous vehicle, you can’t afford the latency to go to the cloud to get an answer...
Tech Time Warp: Happy birthday to Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the mouse
Born Jan. 30, 1925, Douglas Engelbart isn’t a household name for most people, but we all know—and many of us can’t live without—his most famous invention: the computer mouse. The Portland, Oregon, native served as a Navy radar technician in...
Cloud 5: UK hospitals can use public cloud, the impact of a cloud outage
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 finally returns to positive revenue driven by cloud biz
For 22 quarters or 5.5 long years, IBM reported negative revenue growth, but last week the company finally announced a positive quarter. Revenue increased to $22.54 billion — and that beat analysts’ estimates. A good portion of that could be attributed...
Battle for control of the public cloud intensifies
The fight for control over application workloads moving into the public cloud is starting to resemble a knock-down drag-out brawl. The catalyst for this conflict is the accelerated rate at which application workloads are moving into public clouds. A new...
Cloud 5: Apple boosts data center spending, Hyperscale causing memory shortage
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...
