Wasting Money on Public Cloud Storage
A Cohesity survey found that 47% of IT executives are worried about blowing their organization’s IT budget on unnecessary storage.
Tag: Cloud
Monitoring Concerns Hamper Hybrid, Multicloud Deployments
Misconfiguration of the cloud platform is cited most often as the biggest security threat in public clouds,
Control Cloud Costs with Organizational Alignment, Not Just Software
Finance can get a better view of spending if it works closer with IT, but for now only 28 percent of respondents collaborate across both IT and Finance.
China Uses Open Source to Deliver Cloud Services
With Kubecon China in the books, we have more proof that Chinese companies are a strong second to the United States in open source cloud computing.
IBM’s Red Hat Buy Aims to Bring the ‘Hybrid Cloud’ to the Enterprise
“Hybrid cloud” has already reached its peak in the hype cycle, with “multicloud” being a more popular term these days. A RightScale survey in February showed that Hybrid Cloud was dropped from 58 percent to 51 percent as the dominant strategy. In a different survey from Virtustream, 86 percent said they are using a multicloud strategy.
On-Prem Orgs Trail Cloud Counterparts in Tech Adoption
Public cloud providers will continue to lead, but the market will support organizations that maintain their own private clouds or on-premises data centers, running applications to whatever is the best execution environment for a given workload.
Co-Location Not Hurt by the Public Cloud Boom
Some large customers looking for improved latency may start to demand that their cloud services be hosted in the same facilities as their co-located IT infrastructure equipment.
Private Cloud and PaaS, Run for the Hills
The headline is a bit sarcastic, but the concern is real. If you use containers, then you’re likely to believe container orchestrators are a viable alternative to your current private cloud or PaaS platform. According to a survey of container users (by 451 Research, on behalf of CoreOS), 80 […]
Multiple Flavors of Multi-cloud
Hybrid cloud may mean a lot of things, but what does it mean for interoperability? Only 15 percent expect to primarily use hybrid cloud, according to a survey earlier this year by 451 Research and Microsoft. Another 25 percent plan to be able to migrate workloads or data between […]
Announcements of Private Cloud’s Death Are Premature
Several studies that show large drops in “private cloud” deal with preferences for future cloud development and not the actual percentage of current workloads being managed. Our analysis shows that adoption of private clouds has actually increased.
Contrarian Look at Software Spending
Over the past months, we’ve seen several blogs saying “cloud is eating software” instead of “software is eating the world.” There’s now data to back up that claim. Looking at the 2017 SIM IT Trends Study, software as a percentage of the entire IT budget may have peaked at […]
What We Know about Cloud Market Share
AWS has the most customers. Microsoft’s Azure and Rackspace show surprising strength per data sourced from HG Data.