Tag: Cloud

Europeans wasting cash on cloud

Posted on September 26, 2019 by - News

European enterprises are spending £29.48 million on cloud services, and 42  per cent say the cloud has been critical to digital innovation initiatives in the last two years, but a big chunk of this cash is wasted.

According to the 2019, European Insight Intelligent Technology  Index  30  percent  (£8.8 million) of this cloud spend is on services that are not used.

Respondents identified the following top three challenges for managing cloud spend: determining best-fit workloads for public, private and hybrid cloud (44  percent ); planning and allocating budget for cloud consumption (39  percent ); and lack of visibility of used services at the cost centre, workload and application level (36  percent ). Based on these numbers, wasted spending is likely to be even higher, as organisations struggle to optimise their cloud investment.

AWS growth slows

Posted on July 29, 2019 by - News

Amazon’s cloudy business seems to have skipped a beat as the outfit fell short of what the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street predicted.

The retail giant’s net sales increased 20 percent year on year to $63.4 billion for the three months ending 30 June 2019.

The revenue figure beat market expectations, but its growth figure fell short of what analysts had predicted.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), its cloud business, generated revenue of $8.3 billion in the quarter, up 37per cent on the same period last year, but falling slightly short of analyst expectations.

Gartner roasts big cloud

Posted on July 25, 2019 by - News

Analyst outfit Gartner has waded into the Big Public Cloud providers saying that they have reliability issues and poor services.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud remain in the Leaders segment, while Oracle, Alibaba and IBM retain their positions in the Niche Players quadrant. However, AWS, Microsoft and Google were blasted by Big G.

IT infrastructure revenues rising

Posted on June 24, 2019 by - News

Beancounters at IDC have added up some numbers and concluded that while IT infrastructure spending is slowing actual revenue is rising.

Non-cloud infrastructure sales are continuing to decline and any money being spent is going on servers, storage products and Ethernet switches for hosted environments.

However prominent hardware vendors and their channel partners will get to see cloud infrastructure revenues continue to increase and it is predicting that while total spending on cloud IT infrastructure by 4.5 per cent this year in response to slow growth in the market, somehow vendors will keep coining it in.

Juniper named as BT cloud supplier

Posted on June 3, 2019 by - News

Juniper Networks has been chosen by British Telecommunications (BT) to deliver its Network Cloud infrastructure initiative. This deployment will pave the way for BT’s Network Cloud roll-out – and also enable a more flexible, virtualised network infrastructure that can deliver the technology requirements of various lines of business for BT from a single platform.

Avaya releases new cloud product

Posted on May 30, 2019 by - News, Products

Avaya introduced its new cloud-native, Unified-Communications-as-a-Service product to its partners.

The system runs on the Google Cloud Platform.

Initially available in 24 markets globally, this new offer enables Avaya partners to move SMBs more effectively to Google Cloud communications.

Cloudy security baffles customers

Posted on May 27, 2019 by - News

Customers are finding it tricky to match in-house resources with cloud security issues, according to new research from Claranet.

Claranet said that there has been a skills shortage on the security side of things more than half of UK firms do not have the in-house ability to protect data in the cloud.

Sky is the limit for public cloud

Posted on April 5, 2019 by - News

The public cloud services market is set to see massive growth as a third of organisations now see cloud investments as a critical priority, according to a report from the Gartner beancounters.

Big G predicts that more than 30 percent of technology firms’ new software investments will move from cloud-first to cloud-only by the end of 2019.

Advanced creates partner workplace

Posted on March 19, 2019 by - News

Advanced has unveiled its new cloud-based platform – MyWorkplace – what it claims to be a unified cloud ecosystem which will help to create a marketplace for its partners.

The big idea is to deliver interoperability between its systems, which will include an open API platform for partners.

Customers fear cloud lock-in

Posted on February 22, 2019 by - News

A report from Fujitsu suggests that punters fear that they will be locked into their cloud contracts and never escape.

Fujitsu’s report “Where is Hybrid Heading?” claims that users are concerned that as they move deeper into a hybrid and multi-cloud world, they will get trapped working with just a handful of vendors.

Cloud migration is a priority for most companies

Posted on February 14, 2019 by - News

Cloud migration will be a priority investment for 70 percent of business leaders over the next year.

Beancounters at research outfit KCOM have added up some numbers and asked 250 C-level decision makers across several industries, including healthcare, government, and retail what they were thinking about.

About half of respondents said that their top priority in the next year will be digital transformation.

Google promises more channel investment

Posted on February 6, 2019 by - News

Google has said that it will invest more in its channel ecosystem to boost its public cloud.

The outfit made the statement after publishing that it made more than 23 per cent more during the year ended December and banked  $136.8 billion.

Revenue for Google Cloud Platform is mentioned in the figures under “other revenues” segment along with its Play app store and hardware units. Sales for this group of products was up 31 per cent to $6.49 billion.

Is Microsoft losing the cloud wars?

Posted on February 1, 2019 by - News

While the software king of the known universe, Microsoft still reigns. Its results show a double digit rise in revenue but there was some concern on Wall Street about the state of Azure.

The vendor’s share price fell more than four percent in after-hours trading, with sales slightly below expectations. Revenue for the three months ending 31 December increased 12 percent to $10.3 billion.

Microsoft did not mention its Azure revenue numbers, but offers a year-on-year growth figure. In this quarter sales rose 76 per ent, continuing a long-running trend of high double-digit growth.

But if you look at the numbers for last year this number is well behind the 98 percent growth it scored in the second quarter.

Silver Peak expands cloud partner ecosystem

Posted on January 23, 2019 by - News

SD-WAN outfit Silver Peak has announced that the business-driven Unity EdgeConnect platform is now fully certified for deployment in the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace.

This means that geographically distributed enterprises can now execute multi-cloud strategies with the same network and application availability and resiliency they’ve come to expect from their EdgeConnect branch site deployments.

Oracle wants fewer and better cloud partners

Posted on January 18, 2019 by - News

Oracle will be going through its cloud partner friends list and culling those who it does not think are up to snuff.

Javier Torres, VP of EMEA channels said that the switch to cloud-based services would eventually result in “fewer and better” partners specialising in Oracle’s cloud services.

Speaking to the assembled throngs at an Oracle OpenWorld event in London, Torres said that although this may look like a threat to partners’ current business models, they should view it as an opening to win more business.