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Google is the latest cloud service provider to rally behind containers, an emerging type of virtualization technology that adherents claim can streamline the process of running workloads in the cloud. Google is now offering a…
IBM is beefing up its offerings in software-defined storage, which promises to let IT departments better deal with large amounts of storage by uncoupling the management software from its underlying hardware. The company has expanded two…
Hybrid cloud is IT’s flavor of the year. The C-level executives in Avanade’s global Hybrid Cloud studyare particularly optimistic: 75 percent believe it should be the main area of focus for their company this year;…
In my last column, I made the point that viewing cloud computing as merely providing greater agility – that is, faster access to computing resources – fails to grasp the full potential it provides. What…
Yester-year there were only a few unicorns in the world of startups. This week though, the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones VenturSource identified 115 companies with valuations north of $1 billion, which are referred…
Mobility, cloud and big data all promise to help enterprises increase efficiency and productivity, improve decision-making and lower costs. The laudable goal is to make your business more competitive, but for your IT, legal and…
Tweet Jack Welch, the long-time and legendary CEO of GE, once famously advised, “Change before you have to.” For Offis CEO Chy Chuawiwat, Welch’s axiom struck a chord. Offis, an Australia-based managed services provider (MSP),…
People who operate clouds — you can call yourselves “cloud ops” — understand that the work is harder than you were originally told. There are many systems and subsystems to consider, including storage, database, and…
Ubiquitous public cloud services are making stronger strides into the world of business technology, and enterprises are increasingly looking to cloud services to help them succeed. Cloud services stretch across the business value chain, including…
My colleague Henry Baltazar and I have been watching the development of new systems and storage technology for years now, and each of us has been trumpeting in our own way the future potential of…