Cloud Computing

The cloud continues to rise—and fast

Wall Street fretted when AWS’ earnings grew ‘only’ 47% in Q4 of 2016. Here’s why analysts are wrong to worry about the cloud.

Microsoft overhauls Azure Marketplace for easier app shopping

Finding and evaluating Azure apps should be much easier

How to prevent a bad case of cloud buyer’s remorse

Google ordered by US court to produce emails stored abroad

An appeals court had taken a different view in a lawsuit involving Microsoft

Is SD-WAN as stupid a term as the cloud?

Previously, I wrote suggesting we all stop using the term hybrid WAN and standardize on SD-WAN. Scott Picket emailed me to challenge that.

Snap is paying Google $400M a year for cloud services

Snap has agreed to a minimum annual cloud bill roughly equal to its 2016 revenue

Beware of the legacy public cloud

Legacy is a bad word. Legacy public clouds are a scary thought. It just might happen.

What’s next for Azure Site Recovery?

Microsoft’s Azure-based high availability disaster recovery service turns the cloud into your off-site failover for complex applications, and it can double as a migration strategy.

VMware further extends SDN software to work in non-VMware environments

Launch of NSX-T meant to encourage non-VMware customers to use virtual networking platform

How to calculate the true cost cloud migration

Cloud migration is a complex process. Determining the cost and benefits requires a strategic, holistic approach, so it’s important to understand and account for all of the factors that go into a migration.