Tag: cloud
Cloud spending recovers in the third quarter
Spending on cloud infrastructure returned to its previous rates after what appears to be a momentary period of indigestion. International Data Corp. (IDC) estimates spending on dedicated and shared cloud computing environments increased 6.6 percent year-over-year to $18.6 billion in...
MSPs need to monitor changing attitudes toward cloud service providers
A survey of 1,000 IT leaders suggests that going into 2022 managed service providers (MSPs) will soon find themselves caught between their loyalty to the major cloud service providers and end customers that believe they are being overcharged for services...
Rate at which applications shift to the cloud accelerates
A survey of 2,834 subscribers to the Programming and Infrastructure & Ops newsletters published by O’Reilly Media finds that nearly half of respondents plan to migrate 50 percent or more of their workloads to the cloud in the coming year....
Cloud war accelerates as cloud providers battle for share
Cloud infrastructure services spending increased 36 percent to $47 billion in the second quarter with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) now accounting for 61 percent of total spend among all cloud providers, according to a...
Next wave of COVID-19 fallout for MSPs starts to arrive
The COVID-19 pandemic is yet another classic example of an ill-wind that ultimately threw a lot of good in the general direction of managed service providers (MSPs). Naturally, the MSP community as a whole wishes it never happened, but like...
MSPs must watch where the cloud pendulum is swinging
It should come as no surprise to managed service providers (MSPs) that consumption of cloud infrastructure increased considerably in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, a 41 percent increase in spending on a base of $45.7 billion...
How to optimize your clients’ cloud operations
There’s a fine line between cloud spend and cloud sprawl. Most companies today are using cloud technologies to power their most important products and services – communications and collaboration. However, it’s easy to cross the line from spending smartly on...
Ask an MSP Expert: Overcoming human error to secure the cloud
Data breaches in the cloud are becoming more common, impacting industry giants and small players alike, and MSPs now have to dig deeper to prevent them.
Cloud skills gap widens as demand for expertise skyrockets
A State of Cloud Learning report published by A Cloud Guru, a provider of training services, suggests the rate at which organizations want to move application workloads to the cloud is exceeding the abilities of their internal IT teams. More...
Second half of 2020 looks cloudier for MSPs
Now that managed service providers (MSPs) have weathered the initial economic storm brought on by the downturn in the global economy caused by COVID-19, many MSP leaders are wondering what’s next. There’s no doubt in the first half of the...
