Category : CloudTech

Packet and Wasabi join hands to offer better cloud services than AWS

Cloud and edge computing infrastructure provider Packet, and hot cloud storage firm Wasabi, have joined hands to integrate their respective platforms to offer their customers cloud computing and storage services for less compared to Amazon Web Servic...

Mind the backup gap: Protecting born in the cloud data in Office 365

Applications such as Exchange, Sharepoint and OneDrive are the oil that keeps the wheels of commerce turning. Adoption of Office 365 is growing at such a rate that even Microsoft has been taken by surprise. The company estimates that during FY2019 it...

Plenty of investment is taking place in machine learning – but the skills gap isn’t going away

If you thought the cloud skills gap was bad, then it’s only going to get worse as more emerging technologies mature. According to a new report from Cloudera, more than half of the 200 European IT managers surveyed said they were reticent at ado...

Exploring the 2019 cloud computing jobs market: Salaries, locations, and the best companies to work for

$146,350 is the median salary for cloud computing professionals in 2018 There are 50,248 cloud computing positions available in the U.S. today available from 3,701 employers and 101,913 open positions worldwide today Oracle, Deloitte and Amazon& hav...

Docker and Microsoft team up in initiative for greater container control

Docker has its DockerCon event in Barcelona this week while Microsoft is running its online Connect() conference &- and the two have combined on a new product which aims to help empower developers working in container environments. The product, known...

How the ‘severe’ cloud skills gap will impact on company culture

Another day, another story focused around cloud skillsets &- or lack of them. A new survey from artificial intelligence platform provider OpsRamp has found the vast majority of respondents continue to struggle finding& the right talent for cloud envi...

Why 86% of enterprises are increasing their IoT spending in 2019

Enterprises increased their investments in IoT by 4% in 2018 over 2017, spending an average of $4.6m& this year. 38% of enterprises have company-wide IoT deployments in production today. 84% of enterprises expect to complete their IoT implementation...

Exploring the evolution of Kubernetes to manage diverse IT workloads

Kubernetes started in 2014. For next two years, the adoption of Kubernetes as container orchestration engine was slow but steady, as compared to its counterparts &- Amazon ECS, Apache Mesos, Docker Swarm, GCE et al.& After 2016, Kubernetes started cr...

How IT services are adapting to ongoing digital transformation

As CIOs and CTOs shift their focus to digital transformation projects and the launch of new digital business offerings, demand for traditional IT services has evolved. Worldwide revenues for IT services and business services totaled $506 billion in t...

Predicting the future of digital marketplaces: AI, personalisation, and the latest cloud platforms

The U.S. B2B eCommerce market is predicted to be worth $1.2T by 2022 according to& Forrester. 75% of marketing executives say that reaching customers where they prefer to buy is the leading benefit a company gains from selling through an e-commerce...

The CRM applications which will matter most in 2019 – with AI at the forefront of change

According to recent research by Gartner, Marketing analytics continues to be hot for marketing leaders, who now see it as a key business requirement and a source of competitive differentiation Artificial intelligence (AI) and predictive technologies...

Why cloud infrastructure is an increasingly exclusive club – with only a few having the cash to get in

The figures keep going up and up for the hyperscalers &- as new data from Synergy Research shows another new record for hyperscale operator capex in Q318. Hyperscaler capex was at more than $26 billion for the most recent quarter, with spending for t...

Diane Greene to step down as Google Cloud CEO: Analysing the past three years – and the future

Analysis Diane Greene is to step down as Google Cloud’s CEO after three years, the company has announced &- with former Oracle executive Thomas Kurian to take over the reins. Kurian, whose more than 20-year stint at Oracle culminated in leading...