News IT Trends: Cloud Computing Tops Investments for First Time in 10+ Years By David Ramel 02/12/2021 The Society for Information Management (SIM) released an IT trends study that shows in 2020 cloud computing was the top organizational investment for the first time in more than 10 years, usurping perennial leader “Analytics, Business Intelligence and […]

News Cloud Data Expert: You Need to ‘Get Smart’ and Do the Work By David Ramel 02/10/2021 Cloud computing platforms have all kinds of tools, gauges, monitors, triggers, reports, safeguards, configurations and so on to manage and protect enterprise data, but it amounts to naught if IT pros don’t do the work and educate themselves […]

News Research Shows Cloud Giants Lead Huge Database Exodus from On-Premises By David Ramel 12/08/2020 The usual cast of cloud giants tops the list of cloud database management systems in a new report from research firm Gartner, which is charting a rapid shift to the cloud. In fact, two of the firm’s strategic assumptions framing […]

News AWS Advances Containers on Four Fronts By David Ramel 12/03/2020 Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced four new advances for containers on its cloud computing platform during this week’s re:Invent conference. The cloud giant is expanding the reach of its container and Kubernetes services to on-premises installations while also automating container and serverless application development/ […]

News Research Reveals What’s Hindering Hybrid Cloud Adoption By David Ramel 12/01/2020 For the third year in a row, research commissioned by Nutanix indicates the hybrid model is preferred by enterprises for cloud computing. However, adoption of hybrid — a mix of both public and private cloud platforms — remains relatively flat. Nutanix commissioned research […]

News VMware Blockchain Debuts By David Ramel 11/20/2020 VMware this week introduced a new blockchain offering, originally announced as a beta in 2018. VMware Blockchain is now commercially available, designed to help organizations build business networks and deploy business-critical decentralized applications. Decentralization is key to blockchain, a fairly new, complicated and multi-use technology that leverages […]

News COVID-19 Fuels Cloud Computing Spending Boom By David Ramel 11/17/2020 One of the few bright spots in the enterprise IT space recently has been cloud computing, which has seen increased spending since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic that, among other things, caused a massive shift to work-from-home schemes across the country. According to […]

News VMware Updates Virtual Cloud for ‘Modern Network Framework’ By David Ramel 11/16/2020 VMware announced updates to its Virtual Cloud Network, which it said embodies the idea of a “Modern Network framework” for the “new normal” of cloud and datacenter networking. The company’s Virtual Cloud Network addresses the changing nature of work and the changing […]

News BT Unveils New Cloud Network Services, Starting with VMware SD-WAN By David Ramel 11/12/2020 British telco and networking provider BT announced new cloud-optimized managed networking services that leverage software-defined networking (SDN), with the first such offering based on VMware SD-WAN. Along with the SDN movement’s tenets of generic hardware and multiple software-based approaches, BT […]

News Report: SD-WAN Evolves from DIY to Businesswide Fabric from Partners By David Ramel 11/09/2020 Analyst firm Forrester Research is out with a new report on the software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) movement, which it says has evolved from an early do-it-yourself (DIY) approach to one that enlists industry service providers as partners for businesswide fabric […]