Hybrid cloud

The Decoder Ring For VMware’s Multi-Cloud Offerings And Offers ‘As A Service’

By / Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Hybrid cloud, Research / April 29, 2021

I have written on many occasions that hybrid cloud, the combination of private (either on-premises or hosted in a colocation facility) and public cloud infrastructure, is here to stay.  VMware wants to be the vendor that supplies you with the software that enables developers to build and deploy applications to any cloud and I believe will be one of the …

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The “Edge-To- Cloud” Race Heats Up With IBM Cloud Satellite

By / Cloud infrastructure, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Hybrid cloud, Research / March 28, 2021

Five years ago, the industry was debating whether the hybrid cloud was real or not. I was an early hybrid cloud supporter the past decade, but I rode the wrong platform horse, OpenStack. For mass deployment across different verticals and sophistication levels, OpenStack was not robust enough, and required a lot of work to stand …

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IBM Smoothing The Road To Hybrid Cloud With Expanded Red Hat Capabilities On IBM Power Systems

By / Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Hybrid cloud, Research / March 11, 2021

Today, IBM announced a new array of products and services to help enterprises manage the hybrid cloud, modernize existing applications and build new cloud-native applications.  This article will highlight what I think are the most exciting elements of this announcement enterprises can use whether the company is already on the hybrid journey with IBM or …

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The Unsung Application Heroes Of AWS Come Through During COVID-19 Crisis

By / Hybrid cloud, Research / April 23, 2020

Amazon’s AWS is the most popular enterprise cloud infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering in the world, boasting millions of cloud customers. While it’s known all over for its IaaS and PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) solutions, less of a spotlight is dedicated to its applications which it has been adding over the past few years.   Three of its popular apps, …

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Cybersecurity Issues? Amazon Detective Is On The Case

By / Cybersecurity, Hybrid cloud / April 20, 2020

With millions of cloud customers, Amazon’s AWS is the most popular enterprise cloud infrastructure as a services company on the planet. With that much data on its hands, though, comes a great responsibility to ensure cybersecurity at all costs. To Amazon’s credit, it has not shied away from this responsibility. A big part of ensuring …

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Six Questions To Ask When Evaluating Hybrid Cloud Solutions

By / Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Hybrid cloud, Research / March 6, 2020

Hybrid cloud is hot right now. Nearly every IT organization claims to have a solution deployed, but very few actually do. Instead, they have a private cloud with some level of integration with multiple cloud instances. In the next few articles, we will attempt to spell out what makes a hybrid cloud environment hybrid, and …

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