cloud computing
Top cloud challenges: Security, compliance, and cost control
A new Fugue survey, fielded to over 300 IT operations professionals, executives, and developers, found that most respondents believe that the cloud is not living up to …
Organizations still unclear on cloud security responsibility
Vanson Bourne surveyed 1,300 IT decision makers from organizations using public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa …
Intelligence data, security credentials found exposed in the Amazon cloud
A data cache containing highly sensitive US military data has inadvertently been exposed online, UpGuard cyber risk analyst Chris Vickery has discovered last week. After …
Cloud IT infrastructure spend grew to $32.6 billion in 2016
According to IDC, vendor revenue from sales of infrastructure products (server, storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud IT, including public and private cloud, grew by 9.2% …
Extensive shift to hybrid infrastructure services is underway
The growth of cloud and industrialized services and the decline of traditional data center outsourcing (DCO) indicate a massive shift toward hybrid infrastructure services, …
Public cloud services spending to reach $122.5 billion in 2017
Worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure will reach $122.5 billion in 2017, an increase of 24.4% over 2016. Over the 2015-2020 forecast period, overall …
Key cloud adoption trends and challenges for government entities
Cloud computing has become a trending topic for federal CIOs in the last few years, according to Netwrix. In response to the Obama administration’s cloud-first …
Public cloud services market to grow to $208.6 billion in 2016
The worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 17.2 percent in 2016 to total $208.6 billion, up from $178 billion in 2015, according to Gartner, Inc. The …
There’s a way to use encrypted data without knowing what it holds
Microsoft researchers have devised a way for third parties to make use the vast amount of encrypted data stored in the cloud by companies and individuals, without them …
Security still the biggest challenge in cloud management
CIOs are the C-suite executives most intensively advocating and driving migration of their organizations’ IT resources to the cloud. A new Unisys study indicates that …
Four IT trends CIOs need to know about
CIOs looking for a benchmark to gauge IT success can depend on user experience metrics to provide the answer. In each of today’s “third platform” …
Business and IT decision makers are aligned on key IT trends
Business decision makers’ (BDMs) and IT decision makers’ (ITDMs) understanding of current IT trends are much closer than they are generally perceived to be, according to a new …