Category: Cloud

May 8, 2018

In the space of less than a week in late April, two events made one thing very clear about Microsoft: The company is now pursuing a cloud-first strategy, with Windows taking a back seat. And that will continue as far […]

May 7, 2018

Mesosphere has raised $125 million in a fourth round of funding for its hybrid cloud platform and announced it has nearly tripled its revenues in the past year. T. Rowe Price Associates and Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT) led the round, […]

May 3, 2018

As a sole collection point for all an organisation’s data from multiple sources, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution acts as a single source of truth – eliminating data duplication, enhancing data integrity, and enabling users to drive growth, manage […]

May 1, 2018

Disasters can occur with no notice, and when they strike the potential loss for a business could compromise their entire operation. A 2014 Gartner study indicates that without a proper disaster recovery plan, businesses can lose thousands of dollars, typically […]

April 24, 2018

IT executives know that the cloud is changing everything, but they might forget that they have to update their disaster recovery plan accordingly. It began as a 30-minute meeting that was intended to revisit a DR plan I had helped […]

April 17, 2018

San Francisco-based Scality today announced that it has raised $60 million in venture capital, bringing its total raised to $152 million. The company sells software to manage and protect data for companies using one or more cloud systems. The distributed […]

April 13, 2018

Ask a group of IT leaders to define what a hybrid cloud is, and their answers are likely to be as diverse as the companies they work for. Once a black-and-white definition describing organizations with a mix of apps that […]

April 5, 2018

In today’s digital age, cyber threats and cyber attacks have become very common with the rise in ransomware attacks. These virtual attacks hold the system files or data for a ransom, resulting in data breaches and system downtimes. It is […]

April 4, 2018

One of the major choices facing any company evaluating ERP software is what type of deployment model you will choose. Will you rely on a traditional on-premises, remotely hosted or cloud-based implementation? What is the difference between the three and […]

March 30, 2018

After reading through Cisco’s newly released Global Cloud Index (GCI), I was reminded of the old Bruce Barton saying: “When you are through changing, you are through.” In many ways, cloud computing is soon to reach its peak in terms […]

February 14, 2018

Microsoft announced today that it’s ditching many of its massive giveaways of cloud credits in exchange for helping startups sell their products through the company’s sales team, in partnership with accelerators and venture capitalists around the globe. It’s part of […]

February 12, 2018

Google’s Cloud Tensor Processing Units are now available in public beta for anyone to try, providing customers of the tech titan’s cloud platform with specialized hardware that massively accelerates the training and execution of AI models. The Cloud TPUs, which […]

February 5, 2018

Rental businesses no longer need to rely on legacy systems to run their business management needs. Together, Rental 360 from NexVue and Acumatica’s modern cloud ERP system deliver the most effective cloud and mobile technology available today. With NexVue’s Rental […]

February 2, 2018

When enterprises started moving workloads and applications to the public cloud, it made sense to adapt existing networking technologies to the new domain. But while compute and storage have successfully become ‘cloud-like,’ networking hasn’t. Cloud networking solutions being offered by […]

February 1, 2018

For the third straight year, IT organizations are keeping tight control over their IT budgets, but not because of economic uncertainty. Instead, the hesitancy to spend is because of the transition to the cloud. That’s the findings from IT market […]

January 24, 2018

Sage Intacct, the innovation and customer satisfaction leader in cloud financial management solutions, today announced that Quaero, a software-as-a-service Customer Data Platform (CDP) provider, selected Sage Intacct for more nimble financial processes. By adopting Sage Intacct, Quaero is enabled to track costs […]

January 23, 2018

Enterprises are subscribing to more SaaS services than ever, with considerable procurement happening at the departmental level. Specialized SaaS providers target problems that those departments want solved quickly. Because SaaS software tends to be easy to set up and use, […]

January 22, 2018

We are constantly questioned about why businesses should migrate or make the move to Dynamics 365 Enterprise for Operations and Finance in the Microsoft Azure Cloud rather than purchasing the software out-right and hosting in-house or through another hosting provider.  […]

January 8, 2018

For many businesses, cloud solutions such as Software-as-a-Service have significantly increased efficiency and lowered CAPEX costs. But companies truly seeking results from cloud technology often miss the big picture precisely because they’re too focused on lowering costs. Embracing cloud is a […]

December 28, 2017

The recent AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas was all about the cloud, but another hot technology also played a leading role: the Internet of Things. In multiple keynotes, top Amazon Web Services (AWS) executives, including CEO Andy Jassy and […]