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

Why Linux containers are a CIO's best friend

Linux containers are, by their nature, agile. This is key to effectively maneuvering through and rising above any challenges — or opportunities — that come a business's way.

By Brian Gracely • April 7, 2020

Azure tops AWS as preferred IaaS and PaaS vendor, Morgan Stanley says

CIOs are rethinking spending, prioritizing technology that can enable and secure remote work. This is where Microsoft has the advantage.

By Naomi Eide • April 3, 2020

Microsoft cloud use spikes 775%, testing capacity during coronavirus

While demand has not caused any significant service disruptions, deployments in taxed regions fell below a 99.99% success rate, Microsoft said.

By Naomi Eide • March 30, 2020

Understanding Google Cloud's recent service hiccups

The interconnectedness of the internet could spell trouble for the new normal, as one service's outage can lead to another site or platform going offline.

By Roberto Torres • March 27, 2020

Complications of guaranteeing uptime during a pandemic

Historical data is used for predictive analytics in the cloud, however, the coronavirus pandemic is challenging its reliability. 

By Samantha Schwartz • March 17, 2020

Pentagon has until August to reconsider cloud contract award to Microsoft

Technical aspects of the Pentagon's 10-year, $10 billion JEDI cloud contract award are under scrutiny.

By Naomi Eide • Updated April 20, 2020

A third of companies fail to turn cloud adoption into more effectiveness

Failing to connect cloud migration to business strategy makes it harder for companies to reap the full value of the technology. 

By Roberto Torres • March 5, 2020

Walmart outlines cloud strategy to investors

With the hybrid architecture, Walmart can move workloads between the private and public cloud, making use of flex capacity when necessary. 

By Naomi Eide • Feb. 28, 2020

Google Cloud's latest purchase targets customers who want to keep mainframes and have the cloud too

Central to Google Cloud's interest in Cornerstone Technology? The healthcare and financial services companies still running mainframes.

By Naomi Eide • Feb. 20, 2020

Report: Amazon, Google, Microsoft competing for Deutsche Bank's tech overhaul

The project comes amid a massive restructuring. The German lender expects to invest $14.2 billion in tech through 2022.

By Dan Ennis • Feb. 13, 2020

The other clouds

The $50 billion IaaS market prioritizes the hyperscalers at the very top, neglecting the providers at the bottom, the unnamed others offering alternative cloud solutions.

By Naomi Eide • Feb. 13, 2020

Judge hits pause on Microsoft's Pentagon cloud contract

In a motion made public this week, Amazon Web Services said the selection of Microsoft for the contract was "arbitrary, capricious, and prejudicial."

By Naomi Eide • Feb. 13, 2020