News Code Defect Crashed Azure Cloud Services By David Ramel 04/08/2021 Apparently even the best programmers make mistakes. Microsoft this week attributed an April 1 Azure cloud services crash to a code defect. The outage didn’t last long, as services such as Dynamics 365 and Xbox Live generally came back online within an hour of […]
Windows Server 2022 Is Coming!
News Windows Server 2022 Is Coming! The big theme of Windows Server 2022 is security — primarily bringing the concept of Secure Core from Windows client to the server world with Secure Core Servers. By Paul Schnackenburg 04/06/2021 The next version of Windows Server will be known as 2022 and it’s in public preview since […]
AWS Slips a Bit in Cloud AI Developer Services Report
News AWS Slips a Bit in Cloud AI Developer Services Report By David Ramel 03/15/2021 Last year Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the clear leader in research firm Gartner’s annual report on Cloud AI Developer Services. This year, not so much. Certainly AWS is still in the “Leaders” section of the research firm’s Magic Quadrant […]
AWS Slips a Bit in Cloud AI Developer Services Report
News AWS Slips a Bit in Cloud AI Developer Services Report By David Ramel 03/15/2021 Last year Amazon Web Services (AWS) was the clear leader in research firm Gartner’s annual report on Cloud AI Developer Services. This year, not so much. Certainly AWS is still in the “Leaders” section of the research firm’s Magic Quadrant […]
Report: Azure Closes on AWS in Hybrid, Multicloud World
News Report: Azure Closes on AWS in Hybrid, Multicloud World By David Ramel 03/10/2021 Flexera is out with its annual State of the Cloud report, finding Microsoft’s Azure platform is closing in on perennial leader Amazon Web Services (AWS) in a cloudscape dominated by hybrid and multicloud implementations. The report is based on a survey […]
Report: Azure Closes on AWS in Hybrid, Multicloud World
News Report: Azure Closes on AWS in Hybrid, Multicloud World By David Ramel 03/10/2021 Flexera is out with its annual State of the Cloud report, finding Microsoft’s Azure platform is closing in on perennial leader Amazon Web Services (AWS) in a cloudscape dominated by hybrid and multicloud implementations. The report is based on a survey […]
IT Trends: Cloud Computing Tops Investments for First Time in 10+ Years
News IT Trends: Cloud Computing Tops Investments for First Time in 10+ Years By David Ramel 02/12/2021 The Society for Information Management (SIM) released an IT trends study that shows in 2020 cloud computing was the top organizational investment for the first time in more than 10 years, usurping perennial leader “Analytics, Business Intelligence and […]
Cloud Data Expert: You Need to ‘Get Smart’ and Do the Work
News Cloud Data Expert: You Need to ‘Get Smart’ and Do the Work By David Ramel 02/10/2021 Cloud computing platforms have all kinds of tools, gauges, monitors, triggers, reports, safeguards, configurations and so on to manage and protect enterprise data, but it amounts to naught if IT pros don’t do the work and educate themselves […]
Research Shows Cloud Giants Lead Huge Database Exodus from On-Premises
News Research Shows Cloud Giants Lead Huge Database Exodus from On-Premises By David Ramel 12/08/2020 The usual cast of cloud giants tops the list of cloud database management systems in a new report from research firm Gartner, which is charting a rapid shift to the cloud. In fact, two of the firm’s strategic assumptions framing […]
AWS Advances Containers on Four Fronts
News AWS Advances Containers on Four Fronts By David Ramel 12/03/2020 Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced four new advances for containers on its cloud computing platform during this week’s re:Invent conference. The cloud giant is expanding the reach of its container and Kubernetes services to on-premises installations while also automating container and serverless application development/ […]