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Dell APEX portfolio advancements help customers strengthen multicloud strategies

Duncan MacRae — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 09:19:00 +0000

Dell Technologies has unveiled new Dell APEX offerings across cloud platforms, public cloud storage software, client devices and compute. These additions to its as-a-Service and multicloud portfolio spanning data centre to public cloud and client devices could help businesses operate and innovate faster through improved management and mobility of their applications and data wherever they... Read more »

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Alibaba Cloud launches ModelScope platform

Duncan MacRae — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 12:59:03 +0000

Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, started its recent annual Apsara Conference by announcing the launch of ModelScope. This is an open-source Model-as-a-Service (MaaS) platform that comes with hundreds of AI models, including large pre-trained models for global developers and researchers. During its flagship conference, the cloud provider also introduced... Read more »

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Platform engineering brings self-service centre stage

Brad Parks — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 06:50:00 +0000

Platform engineering defined Platform engineering is the practice of building and operating a common platform for internal development teams to share and use for accelerating software releases. In practice, there are slightly different views of platform engineering. But a common theme does emerge: Platform engineering bridges the gap between software and hardware (i.e. between Dev and... Read more »

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5 minutes with Or Lenchner, CEO at Bright Data

Duncan MacRae — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 08:11:00 +0000

What is Bright Data? In a nutshell, Bright Data is a web data platform that innovates solutions to make public web data accessible to all. Founded in 2014, we’re an international company with a team of more than 350 employees. We’ve recently expanded with the opening of three new offices in New York City, San... Read more »

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Three ways cloud is improving customer experience

Chad Reed — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 11:41:47 +0000

Cloud computing involves internet usage to offer services, tools, and applications, such as databases, networking, servers, and software. The cloud rose to popularity in the mid-2000s and was embraced by many businesses as it diminished traditional computer-related troubles, such as the need to buy expensive hardware or software resources. Almost two decades later, its popularity... Read more »

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Ridge is bringing full public cloud capabilities to local data centres

Fin Strathern — Fri, 09 Jul 2021 10:26:30 +0000

For years, data centres and managed service providers have provided customers with the most up-to-date capabilities and services. But the shift from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings has put hyperscalers in the driver’s seat of the cloud computing market. They offer the managed services that are the building... Read more »

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Gartner sees surge in public cloud spend as CIOs shed migration inhibitions

James Bourne — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 11:37:07 +0000

Global end user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow to $332 billion in 2021 at a yearly growth of 23.1%, according to the latest figures from Gartner. Software as a service (SaaS) continues to be the largest bucket, representing almost 37% of total spend in 2021. Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) represents... Read more »

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Accenture: How to get cloud migration right in the rush for digital transformation

Emma Roscow — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:39:22 +0000

Cloud technology was a vital lifeline for organisations disrupted by Covid-19. For many it was all that kept the lights on, allowing them to quickly build and scale their remote services and operations. Accenture’s recent Technology Vision 2021 report found that 82% of organisations are ramping up their use of cloud in a direct response... Read more »

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How cloud-native technologies are a springboard to innovation and business transformation

Yangqing Jia — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 11:37:40 +0000

Opinion Businesses agility, performance and flexibility are more necessary now than ever before — especially in these adverse, pandemic, times — in order to remain competitive and stay on course for growth. In order to remain dynamic and relevant, business transformation requires the implementation of increasingly complex and advanced applications that are able to adapt... Read more »

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Why building your own AIOps platform is a bad idea

Ciaran Byrne — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 13:48:57 +0000

In the wake of the economic downturn brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, investments in digital business transformation have accelerated. The applications that drive those processes are not only highly distributed, they also operate at a level of scale that no IT team can manage using legacy approaches to managing IT. It can take weeks... Read more »

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