For many businesses, 2020 was a fundamental year, marking the shift to a cloud-first mentality as companies around the globe embraced public cloud solutions. At the time, the c loud appeared to be an ...

The initial allure of cloud computing, with its promises of scalability, cost-effectiveness and simplified deployment, fostered a vision of a cloud-centric future. However, this vision has been ...

The combination of rising costs, conversations around sovereignty and the solid alternative in the form of private or hybrid offerings has contributed to customers questioning their cloud strategies.

Not long ago, “cloud-first” was the default IT strategy. Public cloud services promised fast deployment, global reach and freedom from hardware headaches. For startups especially, going all-in on ...

Agencies are adopting a hybrid-by-design strategy so they can place each workload where it fits best and move it in phases without disruption. AI intensifies this trend. When Herb Thompson served as ...

When Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched its cloud services in 2006, it offered a utopian computing vision of agility, cost-efficiency and freedom from clunky legacy IT. Google with its Cloud Platform ...

For several years now, cloud computing has been heralded as the ultimate solution for IT infrastructure, promising scalability, flexibility, and cost savings. Organizations of all sizes rushed to the ...

State and local government IT leaders are grappling with how to best capitalize on stockpiles of data. And that mindset is reshaping how agencies design hybrid environments — and why data repatriation ...

For the past decade, the industry mantra has been “move to the cloud.” Vendors, analysts, and executives have pushed relentlessly toward cloud-first strategies, promising agility, elasticity, and cost ...