Second Quarter Cloud Insights: If I had to choose a few keywords to give insight into how the second quarter in the cloud space has shaped up, they would be demand, serverless and API. The outlook of the cloud industry, namely Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), appear to be improving with around a fifty percent year over year growth so far 2017. Compare that to the prior quarter of around forty-five percent with international demand and the implementation of corporate “cloud-first” initiatives driven by the company C-Level executives.
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Atlantis Sinks: Is This the End of the HCI Bubble?
Is this the end of the HCI Bubble?
There Will Not Be Just a Few Clouds!
When many think cloud, they think Amazon AWS. Some even think Microsoft Azure. However, there is a growing trend to want more out of a cloud than those clouds can deliver—well, deliver at a cost people can afford. I am not talking about “white glove” treatment, or any other approach that wins smaller clouds business, …
Microsoft Acquires Cloudyn
On Friday, Microsoft announced its intention to acquire Cloudyn, an Israeli company that focuses on the business aspects of cloud-based operations. How does this impact cloud strategy overall, and what are the downstream benefits to virtualization partner Citrix?
Like Cloud and Virtualization, Serverless Computing Is Still Someone Else’s Computer
Today, serverless is all the rage. In the beginning, we had the server. Then along came virtualization, and things were good. We saved money. We could purchase less tin but run more servers. We could easily see the benefits of moving in that direction: lower power requirements, less hardware needing cooling down in our computer …
Educate, Upgrade, Patch, or Else..
I had a debate with a fellow technologist at Dell EMC World this year about whether the cloud is more secure than any given data center not used by a cloud provider. The argument put forth was that cloud service providers often have better security controls in place, they can auto-patch systems, etc. All in …