Category: Tech Insight
Competition for cloud migration projects to intensify
The intensity of the competition between managed service providers vying to win cloud migration projects is about to increase by several notches. At an AWS Summits event in New York this week, Amazon Web Services rolled out a free AWS...
Tech Time Warp: The story behind five everyday tech terms
Given technology’s fast pace, it’s easy to forget someone in 1995 would look at you like you were from Mars if you mentioned your Bluetooth. Turns out the stories behind commonly used tech terms are fairly fascinating. For instance, thank...
Cloud 5: AWS chooses Kubernetes, Brazilian SaaS vendors
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...
Parity between private and public clouds is being achieved
There are many reasons why organizations opt for public clouds, but cost is becoming less of a factor. A new survey published by 451 Research on behalf of VMware shows that 41 percent of 150 IT decision-makers surveyed claimed to...
In latest volley in cloud wars, IBM sues to stop former exec from joining AWS
The cloud battles are beginning to get a little nastier, if that was even possible. First there were price wars where each company tried outdo the other with even cheaper offerings. This week it reached the personal level when IBM sued...
Budget allocations for digital business transformation reach into the millions
With all the hype about digital business transformation, many managed service providers have doubts about how much funding is really being allocated to these projects. Conducted by the market research firm Vanson Bourne on behalf of Couchbase, a new survey...
Cloud 5: Microsoft goes to Hollywood, BMW bets on the cloud
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...
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...
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...
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...
