Google makes accessible cloud, AI capabilities for hybrid environments

Intelligent communication and productivity tools, security controls and services, and data analysis tools rounded out Google Cloud Next announcements. 

By Alex Hickey • July 27, 2018

Target taps Google Cloud as vendor refuses to be 'distant third' behind AWS, Microsoft

Target isn't the only retailer getting its cloud from an Amazon Web Services rival. Recently, Walmart chose Azure as its primary cloud provider. 

By Samantha Schwartz • July 25, 2018

Explore the Trendline➔

Hybrid cloud

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

By CIO Dive staff

To the channel: Google Cloud looks to partnerships to boost adoption

The company is turning to consulting firms like Accenture, Deloitte and KPMG to increase its product implementation across companies. 

By Samantha Schwartz • July 24, 2018

Multicloud solutions dominate cloud strategy

Only 4% of companies are dedicating a multicloud strategy to developing applications with components deployed on multiple clouds.

By Samantha Schwartz • July 18, 2018

Microsoft and Walmart sign 5-year, full-suite cloud deal

Walmart will migrate hundreds of applications, including the Walmart and Sam's Club websites, to cloud native architectures on Azure and roll out Microsoft 365 to employees in phases.

By Alex Hickey • July 17, 2018

Salesforce grows marketing footprint with Datorama acquisition

The marketing intelligence and analytics platform will bolster Salesforce's data integration and AI capabilities — areas set for improvement for 2018. 

By Alex Hickey • July 17, 2018

Microsoft Azure bolsters customer base with Campbell Soup, GE

Azure covers more regions globally than any other cloud provider, and both companies are relying on its scope. 

By Samantha Schwartz • July 17, 2018

Security, SaaS, cloud lead IT investment

After 10 years of top rankings, Microsoft was again identified as the most strategic vendor, according to a Goldman Sachs survey.

By Alex Hickey • July 10, 2018

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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