HSBC names AWS a cloud provider amid broad cost cuts

The financial services company is investing in technology as it rationalizes its portfolio, including plans to cut 35,000 jobs. Last year, the company outlined plans to invest up to $17 billion in a five-year period. 

By Naomi Eide • July 15, 2020

Liberty Mutual centralizes technology, leans on serverless for engineering excellence

With lofty cloud adoption plans, organizations have to rethink how they administer technology and promote an environment of engineering excellence. 

By Naomi Eide • July 14, 2020

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Hybrid cloud

IT decision makers turn to hybrid cloud in search of security, flexibility and scale within enterprise infrastructure.

By CIO Dive staff

Why it's important to build cloud fluency in the enterprise

No matter what industry or type of business, cloud adoption requires that fundamental changes are discussed, considered and supported across the entire organization, both within IT and non-IT organizations.

By Maureen Lonergan • July 13, 2020

Everyone is struggling with cloud security

With rising complexity, 96% of organizations are concerned about their cloud security, a Sophos report found. Misconfigurations are at the heart of the trouble.

By Samantha Schwartz • July 10, 2020

The new cloud priorities of 2020

While a cloud-based future was already part of the technology trajectory, cloud emerged as a key differentiator as the outlook for the year soured. 

By Naomi Eide • July 6, 2020

NetApp investing in go-to-market engine despite uncertainty

The cloud data services company is reallocating its resources to bolster its sales ranks and grow market share. 

By Robert Freedman • July 2, 2020

3 technology cost management tips

Hope emerges but a recession requires eagle-eye audits and justification of technology use.

By Naomi Eide • June 10, 2020

Developers are working at 4 a.m. — what could go wrong?

Off-hour development could result in misconfigurations, especially if developers are trying to balance watching their children and constant instant messaging alerts.

By Samantha Schwartz • June 8, 2020

Cloud adoption accelerates as companies plan for 2nd coronavirus wave

The impacts of the coronavirus pandemic have a long tail, MariaDB found. While 99% of respondents report a current business impact from COVID-19, 84% expect effects to continue into next year.

By Naomi Eide • June 2, 2020

Capital One ordered to disclose third-party analysis of 2019 breach

The bank argued the business agreement with cybersecurity firm Mandiant made it a protected legal document.

By Samantha Schwartz • June 1, 2020

Guardian Life steers tech transformation with microservices

Moving off mainframes was not the priority — legacy modernization was a byproduct of larger business transformation goals. 

By Naomi Eide • May 28, 2020

Pre-pandemic IaaS priorities: Public cloud reigns, usage to grow

Reflection on 2020 will highlight how companies treated cloud portfolios and adoption. Current indicators do not tell whether optimistic portfolio intentions will play out. 

By Naomi Eide • May 26, 2020

Cloud market thrives, as if COVID-19 never happened

With large cash portfolios, all major providers are going to survive in a downturn, ISG's Steve Hall said. "I would love to give a contrarian view, but it's all upside."

By Naomi Eide • May 6, 2020

Malicious domains are floating around the cloud: Here's the threat to companies

More than 56,200 newly-registered domain names were hosted by AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Alibaba, according to research from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42.

By Samantha Schwartz • May 4, 2020

Gartner: Threats and opportunities facing cloud service providers during COVID-19

Tech leaders need a thorough understanding of the threats, opportunities and forthcoming events that will occur as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

By Sid Nag • May 4, 2020

The cloud bill comes due — even in a pandemic

The coronavirus presents a cloud cost puzzle: usage goes up, but costs need to come down. It's up to companies to work with providers to explore cost-saving options.

By Naomi Eide • April 29, 2020

Coca-Cola taps Microsoft for 5-year multicloud, software deal

The soft drink maker plans to use Microsoft technology to replace previously disparate and fragmented systems. 

By Roberto Torres • April 28, 2020

Oracle lands Zoom as cloud customer amid skyrocketing video demand

Zoom exceeded 300 million daily meeting participants this month. In December, the platform was only hosting 10 million daily participants. 

By Samantha Schwartz • April 28, 2020

How Microsoft is handling cloud capacity constraints

Driven by a surge in remote work from the coronavirus pandemic, Microsoft's service demand skyrocketed and availability waffled. 

By Samantha Schwartz • April 27, 2020

A 10-year, $10B cloud contract is at stake — was the process fair?

The Department of Defense's watchdog began investigating the JEDI cloud contract award process in June, and falls outside the ongoing legal battle over the award between Microsoft and AWS. 

By Naomi Eide • April 16, 2020

6 charts to understand the coronavirus impact on IT

COVID-19 is changing tech executives' assumptions about the future, their ability to access talent and supplies and spending priorities in key verticals.

By Roberto Torres • April 15, 2020

2 decades of cloud: Where it's been and where it's heading

As digital transformation accelerates, more applications are becoming cloud native, which presents a unique set of challenges that IT leaders need to address in the next phase of cloud adoption.

By Oussama El-Hilali • April 14, 2020

Yes, developers break cloud security rules. But do companies have adequate policies in place?

Even though developers are circumventing compliance policies, companies struggle with adopting guidelines altogether.

By Samantha Schwartz • April 9, 2020

Asleep at the cloud: A Microsoft Azure disruption changed who gets a wake-up call

Following service challenges last month, Microsoft Azure has updated communication protocols so that incident managers will now be paged when there's an issue. 

By Roberto Torres • April 9, 2020

IBM draws former Bank of America CTO to lead cloud

Under new CEO Arvind Krishna, IBM is outlining "strategic battles" focused on hybrid cloud and AI.

By Naomi Eide • April 7, 2020