Tag: cloud

MSPs can create value amid growing cloud costs

MSPs can create value amid growing cloud costs

A survey of 100 vice presidents from organizations with more than 1,000 employees suggests a need for increased visibility into cloud spending. This has become a major opportunity for managed service providers (MSPs) that have cloud expertise. Conducted by Vega...

/ May 11, 2023
Will ‘cloud repatriation’ hurt you?

Will ‘cloud repatriation’ hurt you?

Reports are starting to emerge that some organisations are bringing workloads from the cloud back to owned datacentres as the benefits of cloud computing they had hoped for have not been achieved. Many MSPs operate on a cloud basis –...

/ February 15, 2023
MSPs can capitalize on rising cloud costs

MSPs can capitalize on rising cloud costs

A survey of 326 IT executives conducted by the market research firm Omdia on behalf of Canonical, finds only 6 percent are relying on a managed service provider (MSP) to manage cloud infrastructure. However, the same survey also finds that...

/ January 23, 2023
Cloud security will finally be in the spotlight for 2023

Cloud security will finally be in the spotlight for 2023

After more than a decade of varying levels of irrational exuberance in terms of deploying application workloads in the cloud, there is now a greater appreciation for cloud security. In fact, a survey of 350 IT leaders from large enterprises...

/ December 20, 2022
MSPs need to focus on cloud services that matter most

MSPs need to focus on cloud services that matter most

There’s no doubt that cloud computing services can be overwhelming to navigate, but a new survey suggests that the actual number of services regularly used by organizations is rather narrow. Civo, a provider of cloud services, recently surveyed IT leaders...

/ October 6, 2022
Cloud-native security is becoming a bigger concern

Cloud-native security is becoming a bigger concern

For some time now, containers as a new type of software artifact that are foundational to cloud-native applications have been appearing more frequently in production environments. Initially, most of those applications were built by sophisticated developers but as the value...

/ September 29, 2022 / 7 Comments
To tackle the data breach epidemic, we need to get the basics right

To tackle the data breach epidemic, we need to get the basics right

A lot is said in security circles about cyber hygiene. It can amount to different things depending on which vendor or security practitioner you’re talking to. But a common thread is getting the basics right — whether it’s via user...

/ August 22, 2022 / 5 Comments
Confidential computing starts to gain traction in the cloud

Confidential computing starts to gain traction in the cloud

A survey of 452 IT and security professionals conducted by the Cloud Service Alliance (CSA) finds more than a quarter of organizations (27 percent) surveyed are already using confidential computing platforms to better protect data, with another 55 percent planning...

/ August 4, 2022 / 6 Comments
Alternate cloud service providers are on the rise

Alternate cloud service providers are on the rise

A much larger percentage of IT organizations appear to be less committed to the top three cloud service providers as it becomes more apparent that the compute and storage platforms being delivered have become commodities. A survey of 458 development...

/ July 6, 2022
Cloud skills crisis creates major opportunity for MSPs

Cloud skills crisis creates major opportunity for MSPs

A survey of 610 IT business leaders in North America and Europe conducted by IDC on behalf of Cloudreach, an arm of Atos that focuses on cloud services and Amazon Web Services (AWS), finds 70 percent of respondents view their...

/ March 25, 2022