Public Cloud stories

35% of respondents in a survey of 150 global IT professionals preferred hybrid, followed by private cloud at 24%, public cloud at 16%, and multi-cloud at 9%.>>

Despite the overall growth in the market, not all managed services grew as much as others — IaaS and PaaS services in particular grew much faster.>>

First for Azure, NVMesh expands public cloud capabilities and in doing so aims to address performance challenges organisations face while transitioning IO-intensive workloads to public clouds.>>

Oracle has announced the integration of ServiceNow into its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.>>

Despite the accelerated adoption of cloud services, there was a lack of clarity and confidence regarding the protection and recovery of data stored in public clouds.>>

Telco Systems CEO Ariel Efrati says that the telecommunications market is discovering the ‘beauty’ of public cloud.>>

“As organisations continue to radically transform their infrastructures and rely more on the public cloud, they are uncovering new connectivity and security challenges.">>

Meanwhile, investments in traditional, non-cloud, IT infrastructure declined -8.3% year over year in 3Q20.>>

Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 18.4% in 2021 to total $304.9 billion.>>

If data scientists can access high-quality data more easily, then organisations can make more informed data-driven decisions and respond to threats and opportunities. >>

Utilising multiple cloud platforms offers Australian organisations a compelling set of benefits, writes ManageEngine product consultant Monisha Ravi.>>

“CIOs are striving to adapt to changing conditions to compose the future business - this requires the organisational plasticity to form and reform dynamically. Gartner’s top strategic technology trends for 2021 enable that plasticity.”>>

Governments and agencies need to continue to assess the way they operate so they can be best positioned to deliver services in the new world in which they now have to operate.>>

"Enterprises talked about cloud journeys of up to ten years. Now they are looking to complete the shift in less than half that time.">>

Techday caught up with Barracuda RVP of public cloud & strategic alliances Chris Hill to discuss why SD-WAN is fast becoming the launch pad into the cloud.>>

The sector will see its revenues grow from US$243 billion in 2019 to $258 billion this year, according to new research from Gartner.>>

Leaders from NZ's biggest distributor offer resellers and MSPs advice on how to move forward in a post-COVID world, and explains how Ingram can help. >>

The company’s public cloud-based version of its eSIM Remote Subscription Platform will initially run on Google Cloud.>>

Cloud Pathfinder for IBM Cloud facilitates connections to on-ramp providers that offer IBM Cloud Direct Link Services to customers.>>

It will also focus on building ‘the next-generation data centers’, with the goal to bolster digital transformation both when the world eventually emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic. >>

Last month, Barracuda released a report outlining the security barriers organisations must overcome to adopt the public cloud, as studies reveal that security was the top concern for such organisations.>>

After AWS and Azure, Alibaba Cloud is the third biggest public cloud provider in the market and is showing no sign of slowing down. >>

Of those respondents from Singapore, 96% say security concerns are holding back their organisation’s move to public cloud – a figure that is much higher than the global average of 70%.>>

"While adoption rates for public cloud continue to grow, security is still the leading roadblock for Australian organisations.">>