Category: Cloud

May 15, 2017

Change is the air – not just capital C Change, such as the parade of global elections, but also the everyday decisions that people make – taking a new job or moving to another city. With technology speeding ahead, it’s […]

May 5, 2017

Controlling and keeping abreast of your finances means you have to be watching your numbers, but that does not necessarily mean you have to stay on-premises. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) in the cloud offers several key advantages. You can’t argue […]

May 3, 2017

If you want to stop someone from driving a car, you can take away the keys. Quick, easy and effective. Alternatively, removing the wheels and engine will work, too. A container is an OS extension that takes away keys, leaving […]

May 1, 2017

In the business intelligence (BI) and corporate performance management (CPM) realm, it may feel like technology is constantly moving at speed of light and other times, it may feel like everything has gone into turbo mode almost instantly. Technology innovation […]

May 1, 2017

There’s a cloud option out there for almost every IT workload, but a survey from the Uptime Institute indicates that about two-thirds of enterprise computing is still done in company-owned data centers. The study, which polled more than 1,000 IT […]

April 28, 2017

It was not a big announcement from Google this week, but in a way it could be seen as a symbolic one. In a blog post, Google announced new functionality that will allow its Cloud Endpoints API (Application Programming Interface) […]

April 26, 2017

SnapLogic wants to make it easier for users of its enterprise software integration platform to connect components of their business systems. The company has unveiled a new feature that uses machine learning to suggest what users may want to do. The idea […]

April 25, 2017

One of the most common use cases for public IaaS cloud computing is storage and that’s for good reason: Instead of buying hardware and managing it, users simply upload data to the cloud and pay for how much they put […]

April 21, 2017

Cloud PLM adoption is on the top of minds for software vendors and PLM researchers. Catch up on the topic earlier in my blog – Thoughts about PLM and cloud adoption 2017 and CAD and PLM cloud surveys. According to […]

April 19, 2017

Mistakes can be costly. They also can be so painful they keep you from venturing any further ahead. Of course, that’s true with almost anything tech-related, but IT managers will tell you that there are some common, and potentially damaging, […]

April 13, 2017

IT professionals who want help getting a handle on a potential cloud migration have a new tool from Microsoft. The company is offering a Cloud Migration Assessment service that walks customers through an evaluation of the resources they currently use, […]

April 12, 2017

In the 18 months since the company split from its sister consumer business, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has been in an almost constant state of refining its strategy. The company backed out of the public cloud market; sold off its Enterprise […]

April 11, 2017

Microsoft has for decades owned the intersection of collaboration, productivity and communication. However, as these services shifted to the cloud, it opened pathways for greater competition and flexibility in how organizations deployed applications for their workforce. Through G Suite, Google […]

April 11, 2017

Enterprises are finding all sorts of reasons to moved their data and business processes to the cloud. Capital One Financial Corp., for instance, is using the cloud as it advances from a financial services provider to a tech company with […]

April 7, 2017

When oncologists at Carolinas HealthCare System go before a tumor board review to discuss patient cases, they are looking for feedback on treatment plans and clinical trials. During their presentations, the doctors show their peers genetic data, pathology reports, lab […]

April 6, 2017

‘Cloud’ is such a marketing buzzword that it can obscure the type of infrastructure you’ll get with a new ERP system. Here’s a primer on the different types of cloud computing. One difficulty of planning to move your ERP to […]

April 5, 2017

DigitalOcean’s cloud platform became more useful to developers running production applications on Tuesday with the addition of monitoring capabilities for its virtual machines. Customers will be able to set alerts on the performance of their VMs, so that they’re notified […]

March 29, 2017

Managing clouds can be a challenge given that virtual machines and storage are running in two different environments simultaneously. A crowded industry of cloud management platforms (CMP) has emerged to help. Gartner Research Director Mindy Cancila says the CMP market […]

March 24, 2017

The gap between the cloud infrastructure industry’s biggest and smallest players is widening, with Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft now controlling more than half of the market. That is according to Synergy Research Group’s latest cloud infrastructure services market share […]

March 20, 2017

Well, it’s 2016, and a few years ago Gartner reported that “By 2016, poor return on equity will drive more than 60 percent of banks worldwide to process the majority of their transactions in the cloud.” Enterprises across all sectors […]