Cloud

Amazon, Azure and Google capture 65% of cloud infrastructure spending, with Amazon receiving almost one pound in two spent with the big three cloud providers.

If you're looking to level-up your software firm by offering SaaS, good hosting is vital to delivering the level of availability your customers expect. 

The big clouds (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud) are fantastic, but they're not the best choice for typical independent software vendors.

On April 11th 2023, Microsoft support for Exchange Server 2013 ends.

Microsoft will no longer provide security fixes for vulnerabilities discovered after that date, leaving Exchange Server 2013 instances vulnerable to security breaches.

In addition, Microsoft won't fix other Exchange 2013 bugs or provide related technical support.

Steve Brazier, President and CEO of tech market analysis firm Canalys, has warned that public cloud prices are set to rise. 

Speaking at the Canalys Channel Form EMEA 2022 in late October 2022, Brazier said...

Intel has said it expects the number of transistors on chip 'packages' to rise from 100 billion to 1 trillion by 2030.

A trillion might catch the headlines but it's the ten-fold increase in processing power that should catch your eye.

It's tempting to assume that if you go to the big public clouds, you're going to benefit from the latest hardware, but that's not necessarily the case.

The biggest public cloud providers are trying to use their older hardware for longer than before.

Many people assume that dedicated private clouds are more secure than virtual private clouds hosted on public clouds.  All else being equal, that should be correct as dedicated clouds are protected against the largely theoretical risk of co-tenants breaking through the logical partitioning keeping tenants apart on multi-tenanted hosting platforms.

Mobile, tablet and server processors are getting faster and cheaper to run. In June 2022, Samsung has started mass-producing 3nm chips with 23% better performance than 5nm chips, drawing 45% less power and requiring 16% less space.

If your next server or storage device is hosted at your office, you'll be in the minority, according to the market research firm IDC.

In Q4 2021, more money was spent on cloud infrastructure ($21.1bn) than on non-cloud infrastructure ($17.2bn).

The figures come from IDC's report "Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Infrastructure Tracker: Buyer and Cloud Deployment."

Cloud migration is one of the biggest trends in business today, with organizations of all sizes and types migrating their operations to the cloud at an unprecedented and rapidly accelerating rate.

With benefits such as cost savings, added value, increased security, flexibility and scalability, it’s no wonder that businesses are migrating in such great numbers.

The use of cloud computing in the workplace might, for most people, conjure up images of bustling, high-tech inner-city offices or colleagues in disparate locations collaborating seamlessly on the same project.

If you’re considering a cloud-based infrastructure for your business, you might have heard about private cloud and be wondering whether it’s the solution for you. Before you make that decision, it is, of course, important to know what “private cloud” means.

The coronavirus crisis has prompted companies to resort to remote working on a scale that has likely never been seen before. Across the world, businesses are grappling with the issues raised by their entire workforce going remote.

When it comes to choosing cloud solutions for a business or organisation, it can be tempting to pick and choose different aspects from different types of solutions to create a system that has the best combination of features.