Companies need multiple clouds to address tech needs, Forrester says

No single cloud can address every need of a company, making hybrid clouds the only complete solution.

By Samantha Schwartz • June 26, 2018

As businesses look toward the cloud, IT leaders need to 'socialize change'

Technology leaders have to help lead their organizations toward a new mindset that prioritizes new technology adoption and change.

By Naomi Eide • June 25, 2018

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Digital transformation goes beyond technology — if companies want to engage in a new era of technology, they must rethink how work is done too.

By CIO Dive staff

AWS takes home gold in IaaS, PaaS worldwide

With the exception of the APAC region, Microsoft swept all No. 2 spots while Google took home No. 3 rankings in worldwide and regional leadership.

By Alex Hickey • June 22, 2018

Amazon Web Services names 2018 'City on a Cloud' winners

Besides just achieving greater exposure for AWS, the competition incentivized entrepreneurs to use tools they already have to foster innovation.

By Katie Pyzyk • Updated June 21, 2018

Oracle releases map to monitor internet outages

The visualization tool will augment an organization's network or security operations center and track country statistics and traffic shifts. 

By Samantha Schwartz • June 19, 2018

Cloud modernization is confusing, but 'lift and extend' could help

If the cloud migration process is not clearly communicated to business stakeholders, it halts every other hope for digitizing infrastructure.

By Samantha Schwartz • June 7, 2018

With GitHub buy, Microsoft accesses — and matures — software development community

Looking to scale and move further into the enterprise, GitHub had the choice to go public and scale through acquisitions or search for buyers.

By Naomi Eide • Updated Oct. 26, 2018

Top 5 misconceptions about the 2nd decade of cloud computing

There are still many misconceptions about the cloud, and the surest way to correct them is to vet them against the new reality of modern computing.

By Kash Iftikhar • June 4, 2018

Bezos doesn't want AWS customers to feel 'trapped'

The company was a founding name in cloud vendors, leading many organizations that adopted the cloud early to rely heavily on AWS's ecosystem. But the rise of the multi-cloud era could change that. 

By Samantha Schwartz • June 4, 2018

How to get MTTR down to zero

Automated tools to reduce Mean Time to Remediation can make cloud infrastructure "self-healing," said Josh Stella, CEO and co-founder of Fugue.

By Samantha Schwartz • June 1, 2018

Big steps since 2017, but plenty of improvements left for top cloud vendors

Here's what Gartner had to say about the six vendors that made the cut for the 2018 Infrastructure as a Service Magic Quadrant. 

By Alex Hickey • May 31, 2018

Gartner drops 8 IaaS vendors off Magic Quadrant in favor of broader market players

While AWS, Microsoft and Google still lead, there were two notable differences from last year: only six vendors made the cut and market boundaries shifted to reflect more opportunities for vendors.

By Alex Hickey • May 30, 2018

G Suite for the early adopters, Office 365 for the established

With the exception of Google's G suite, adoption of cloud apps from Microsoft, Slack, Box and Salesforce increased as businesses grew their workforce. 

By Alex Hickey • May 30, 2018

Google and AWS lead in cloud native security

Security and risk professionals are increasingly reliant on the security capabilities built into public cloud offerings, believing it offers better security and price compared to what in-house teams could do on-premise. 

By Alex Hickey • May 24, 2018

Want to explore AI and blockchain? Better be on the cloud

AI surpassed cloud interest in late 2016, but cybersecurity and the IoT have yet to catch up.

By Samantha Schwartz • May 23, 2018

Microsoft remains top file sharing service, outranking Google Drive, Dropbox

Even with an increase in the adoption of file sharing tools, shadow IT persists, particularly with the unauthorized adoption of Dropbox. 

By Samantha Schwartz • May 21, 2018

Going serverless? Prepare for a shake-up in security

A serverless environment means "moving parts" and organizations can "quickly lose control" when DevOps teams are tasked with engaging with a cloud, according to Gadi Naor, CTO of Alcide.

By Samantha Schwartz • May 18, 2018

Oracle releasing 'Internet Weather Map' for when the cloud gets gloomy

The company's cloud users can access the map for overseeing and analyzing activities and "paths" on the internet.

By Samantha Schwartz • May 18, 2018

Cloud-embedded data analytics mission critical for businesses

A shift to predictive analytics is providing companies with a more competitive edge, but organizations don't have the talent required to use advanced tools.

By Samantha Schwartz • May 17, 2018

3 lessons from Talend Connect to drive technology innovation

With good data, AI and cloud, companies can build out the scalability, agility and compute power for continued digital transformation.

By Alex Hickey • May 15, 2018

Talend CIO: IT leaders need to buy for the future, not just for today

Eric Johnson and Talend are doubling down on hybrid cloud, multicloud, containerization and serverless computing to usher customers into the future. 

By Alex Hickey • May 11, 2018

Moving to the McCloud: How McDonald's pulled off a digital transformation

Every Big Mac, french fry and nugget is feeding a massive data platform, and the fast food company is using cloud and ETL to make sense of it.

By Alex Hickey • May 10, 2018

Will confidential computing incentivize companies to move more sensitive data to the cloud?

Google launched an open-source framework to develop applications in trusted execution environments, a new level of security for sensitive workloads and information.

By Alex Hickey • May 3, 2018

AWS, Python, Java top list of in-demand cloud skills

The top 10 skills demonstrate high demand for engineers familiar with the top IaaS providers and automation, containerization and cloud management.

By Alex Hickey • May 3, 2018

How corporate cultures stack up in cloud companies

More companies with distributed workforces are overcoming culture and employee satisfaction challenges, topping lists of best companies to work for.

By Alex Hickey • May 2, 2018