Best Cloud IT Certifications For 2016

IT pros with solid cloud computing skills continue to be in high demand as more companies adopt cloud technologies. With new credentials being added each year, how do you choose…

Cloud Forecast: Where It’s Been and Where It’s Heading

As we enter 2016, we can expect cloud providers to place a stronger emphasis on cloud security. Malicious attackers are becoming more sophisticated and finding new ways to target enterprise…

Nutanix Scales Hyperconvergence in a Private Cloud

While hyperconvergence inside the data center is all the rage these days, Nutanix wants to remind IT organizations that it is really only a means to achieving a true private…

With ECS, EMC Offers an Alternative to Cloud Storage

Even in an era of budget cuts and triumphant cloud, companies will continue to invest in infrastructure on site. Although public cloud-based solutions provide both more flexibility and more choices,…

Apple’s CloudKit is the MBaaS Answer to AWS and Azure Cloud Services

Among the flurry of news announced during theWWDC event by Apple as part of its annual developer conference, there were over a very interesting announcement made by Apple in the…

Latest cloud infrastructure research shows yet more AWS dominance

This is not the most surprising news you will hear today: a note published by Synergy Research argues Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) domination of the cloud infrastructure market continues. The…

Why company culture is key to cloud success

If you ask any successful company for the key to their success, or ask any employee why they are happy in a position, the answer is almost always “the people”.…

Looking Back at Top Cloud Computing Stories and Trends of 2014

Is it realistic now to run in the cloud all applications required by a business? Most cloud computing providers use of cloud computing elements in a hybrid combination of public…

IBM Big Bets on Software-Defined Storage and Hybrid Cloud

Gartner says that 70% of existing storage solutions will be available as software only in 2019. And in 2020, about 70 to 80% of unstructured data will be positioned in…

Why 2016 needs to be the year of granularity for cloud

A recent business conversation led to the establishment of the fact that the data centre business is becoming more cutthroat than ever. Price wars, advanced offerings, upsells and what not…