Spending on cloud services is about to hit another key tipping point, as business customers spent $18.3 billion on cloud computing and storage infrastructure in the first quarter (Q1) of 2022, up 17.2% year over year.
The total includes budgets on shared and dedicated infrastructure. A major driver of growth was spending on shared cloud infrastructure, which made
For big businesses, Microsoft has become the cloud-computing provider of choice. Many of these companies, however, still use Oracle databases to run core parts of their business.
The two tech giants have already seized on that overlap, creating an interconnect that offers direct network connectivity between Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud. They’re taking the partnership one step further now, building
A few years ago, I pointed out that multicloud is really not about the public clouds it’s built on. What I did not do is attempt to name it in an effort to claim myself as the creator of a new buzzword.
Not that I won’t pat myself on the back in all my narcissistic glory. Indeed, I’ve created buzzwords
European firms are reaching a new scale of public cloud usage, with 92% of companies in the UK, France and Germany saying they have adopted cloud computing, with 78% reporting they use a hybrid cloud, and 75% using multiple public clouds mostly on US-made technology, according to research by analyst firm Forrester.
“After a slow start,
AWS has detailed how its cloud-computing infrastructure supported Amazon’s huge Prime Day sales event.
Amazon’s Prime Day 2022 on July 12 was its biggest since kicking off the event in 2015. This year, Prime subscribers bought more than 300 million items worldwide during the event. Customers were purchasing items at a rate of 100,000 per minute worldwide, and at 60,000
John Sherman, the Defense Department’s chief information officer, recently explained to members of Congress that when it comes to the Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability (JWCC) contract, the department needs to “move with a sense of urgency” while also taking the time to “get this right.”
The JWCC is the department’s largest commercial cloud venture to date and is led by
This commentary was written by Shipwell CEO and co-founder Greg Price. The views expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of FreightWaves or its affiliates.
By Greg Price
Mobile devices are so commonplace in the personal and professional worlds of today that it can sometimes be hard to imagine making it through
[Shenzhen, China, July 20, 2022] This week, Huawei held the Carrier Cloud Transformation Summit as a highlight of its Win-Win Innovation Week. During the summit keynote entitled Huawei Cloud: Enabling New Growth for Carriers, Director of Huawei Carrier IT Marketing & Solution Sales Chen Xuejun announced Huawei’s first suite of global scenario-based cloud solutions for carriers. These solutions focus on
