Tag: public cloud
AWS Launches High-Speed Amazon S3 Express One Zone
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a major player in the public cloud space, however, with several other emerging competitors, AWS needs to continue evolving and innovating to continue enjoying the largest slice of the cloud p Read more…
Navigating Data Access Management Strategies: Build Vs. Buy
In today's data-driven world, effectively managing access to a growing volume of cloud-based data is an ongoing challenge for most companies. With over 60% of all corporate data now stored in the cloud, it is a delicate Read more…
Stormy Skies Ahead? Report Finds 20% of Businesses Intend to Move Workloads From Cloud to On-Prem
Is there an economic storm brewing in the public cloud sector? IT asset management firm Device42 thinks the skies could be darkening. The company has released the results of its Cloud Adoption Survey that found 20% of bu Read more…
Cloud Cost-Saving Claims Questioned
Does the public cloud help companies save money? While cloud vendors like AWS tout cost savings as a major benefit, the question once again has come up for debate, especially among medium-sized and large companies that h Read more…
Public Cloud Horse Race Heating Up: Gartner
Gartner predicts that worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services will grow to $591.8 billion in 2023, a 20.7% growth from 2022. The public cloud horse race has several cloud services companies jockeying for pos Read more…
Teradata Taps Cloudian for On-Prem Lakehouse
Teradata has reinvented itself as a cloud-first data warehouse provider with its Vantage offering. But some customers don’t want to run analytic workloads in the cloud, which is why the data warehousing giant this week Read more…
Oracle Delivers More On-Prem Options for Hybrid Cloud
Oracle is helping its hybrid cloud customers keep sensitive data on-prem with two announcements today, including a lowered price point for its full-service OCI Dedicated Region, as well as a preview of Compute Cloud@Cust Read more…
Cloudera CEO: Enterprise Data Cloud Vision Nearly Complete
The hard work may be paying off for Cloudera, the embattled former Hadoop distributor that’s been pivoting to an enterprise data cloud strategy for the past year-and-a-half. With the delivery of an on-prem version of i Read more…
Who’s Winning the Cloud Database War
Three-quarters of all databases will be deployed or migrated to the cloud within two years, Gartner said today in its much-anticipated report on cloud database management systems. The big cloud companies are winning thei Read more…
Multi-Cloud Driving Database Monitoring Services
The steady shift of databases to multiple clouds has created a niche market for SQL database monitoring tools used to track the performance of those enterprise platforms increasingly running in hybrid configurations. Read more…
Cloudian Pins Container Hopes on K8s Operator
Object storage systems like Amazon S3 are currently winning the big data storage battle, thanks to low costs and infinite capacities. But getting object stores to work with containerized applications isn’t always strai Read more…
Is Kubernetes Overhyped?
The amount of attention paid to Kubernetes has increased substantially over the past couple of years. What started out as a relatively obscure container management system open sourced by Google has turned into the must-h Read more…
Confluent Goes ‘Infinite’ with Kafka Cloud Storage
Companies that want to store oodles of event data in Kafka but don’t want to pay oodles of dollars may be interested in the new “infinite storage” option unveiled today by Confluent. The Kafka company says the new Read more…
SAP Aims to Simplify Data Analytics in the Cloud
SAP is no stranger to complexity. German engineers have certain expectations to uphold, after all. But with the latest release of HANA and related analytics services in the cloud, the storied enterprise software firm has Read more…
Rob Bearden Returns to Lead Cloudera’s Second Act
When Cloudera ran into trouble last June following poor financial results, the board jettisoned senior leadership, including CEO Tom Reilly and Mike Olson, its chief strategy officer. Those moves would open up a path for Read more…
Cloud Looms Large for Big Data in 2020
If you’re involved with big data in 2020, then it will be hard to avoid the cloud, which has become the de-facto standard platform for storing and processing vast amounts of data. The cloud will change quickly this yea Read more…
Big Data Is Still Hard. Here’s Why
We're over a decade into the big data era that emerged from the tectonic collision of mobile, Web 2.0, and cloud forces. Bolstered by progress in machine learning, we stand at the cusp of a new AI era that promises even Read more…
Kafka in the Cloud: Who Needs Clusters Anyway?
Confluent is reimagining what it means to run Kafka in the cloud, and is jettisoning the notion that clusters are even necessary to get started with the real-time streaming data technology. Confluent today announced t Read more…
Cloudera Unveils CDP, Talks Up ‘Enterprise Data Cloud’
Cloudera today shed more light on its strategy to develop a unified flagship offering called Cloudera Data Platform, which is core to its emerging "enterprise data cloud" strategy. It also announced plans to maintain exi Read more…
Confluent Moves Kafka to the Cloud
As adoption of the Apache Kafka accelerates, the company behind the data pipeline is rolling a cloud service designed to boost "developer velocity" while IT operations are handled in the background. Confluent said Mon Read more…