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Kubernetes Costs Less, But Less Than What?

Sure, compared to traditional IT, Kubernetes is great, but not much will beat public cloud in the long run. Let’s start with some gospel: In IT, there is no gospel. No definite “thou shalts” that always apply, 100% of the time. Thus spake Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO: “Building evolvable software systems is a strategy, not a religion. And revisiting your architectures with an open mind is a must.” This goes for all smart IT strategies. The right answer for a given team in a certain circumstance won’t necessarily apply to another team in a slightly different circumstance. “It depends” is the only…
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When Will The Fascination With Cloud Computing Fade?

At some point, cloud will be baked into all of IT—just another building block of how we automate business. All the more reason to get it right the first time. Cloud computing has enabled businesses to focus on their core competencies and scale up their operations without worrying about the IT infrastructure. That’s pretty much the same take we had many years ago. Now that cloud computing is already more than 20 years old (depending on who you ask), will interest remain in this technology “trend”? I’m not talking about cloud computing’s ability to provide value to businesses or being…
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3 Common Myths About Sustainability And Cloud Computing

As sustainability becomes a front-and-center topic for enterprises, stubborn misconceptions about the power consumption of cloud-based deployments need debunking. Sustainability is a genuine objective for many enterprises, driven by their desire to be good stewards of the planet. Other companies want to hit a specific ranking to attract more customers and investments. Regardless of the reasons, enterprises now look to cloud computing to lower costs and provide good ESG (environmental, social, governance) scores. Many pitch cloud computing to decision-makers as a technology that will help an enterprise meet sustainability objectives because cloud computing is green. Don’t take that statement at face value.…
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2022 Trends In Cloud Computing: Poly Cloud Specialization

Once, there were only three types of clouds: public, private, and the nebulous hybrid cloud which, depending on whom one asked, entailed a synthesis of the first two or one of them enjoined with on-premise resources. A number of more recent developments, however, have occurred to multiply the types of clouds and their purposes into the specialization befitting cloud computing’s preeminence in the contemporary data sphere. The past two years have proved the cloud’s the essence of remote collaboration, for which it furnished a distributed workspace resiliency for organizations of all types at the very moment these capabilities were necessary…
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Cloud Deployments To Rocket Ahead In 2021 After Dizzying Growth During The Pandemic

Public cloud, multicloud, distributed cloud, and accelerated digital initiatives are all expected to gain momentum next year, experts say. No matter what cloud segment you look at—BPaaS, PaaS, SaaS, IaaS and DaaS—thanks to the dizzying growth of cloud computing during the pandemic, all will continue an upward trajectory in 2021. Public cloud services have been the one bright spot in IT spending in 2020, according to Gartner, particularly when the pandemic began last March. The firm is predicting that IT spending on public cloud will only continue to increase next year. Despite a few hiccups early on in the pandemic,…
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Top Cloud Trends For 2021: Forrester Predicts Spike In Cloud-Native Tech, Public Cloud, And More

Businesses’ reactions to the pandemic response has leaned heavily on the cloud, and demand and revenue escalated for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Alibaba, and are expected to grow more in 2021. Not that anyone was necessarily looking for “a star” amid pandemic recovery, but if an inanimate object could be considered one, it would be the cloud, which has taken center stage, according to the recently released “ForresterNow Predictions 2021: Cloud Computing.” The report contends that if the companies that have found success with shunning on-premises backups and have, at last, moved disaster recovery to the cloud, something techs have…
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