‘Rise with SAP’ extended to vertical industries
In a bid to prepare for a post-pandemic global economy, SAP has unveiled ambitious plans to create a business network connecting millions of customers across their supply chain networks
SAP, the software industry giant, is extending its digital transformation offerings to five different vertical...
Growth in cloud usage accelerates
More and more companies are making the switch to a cloud-based infrastructure, according to a new report.
The research was conducted by CloudCheckr, a cloud visibility management platform. The company surveyed more than 300 IT professionals and stakeholders working at companies with more than 50...
Colt and IBM partner to hasten edge computing adoption
Colt Technology Services, the global high-bandwidth connectivity systems provider, has deepened its partnership with IBM, in a deal that will see IBM Cloud included in the Colt edge platform. IBM Cloud Satellite systems are used by companies to make use of consistent and secure sets of cloud servic...
Oracle Cloud Lift offers free help with migration to OCI
Oracle is keen to make its cloud position as solid as possible. Over the past few months, we've seen several examples of this. Whether that's a partnership with Red Bull Racing, the simplification of the Autonomous Data Warehouse or the introduction of new edge devices for hybrid cloud environments...
RISE with SAP is a new program to move customers to the cloud
Luca Mucis, the Chief Financial Officer at SAP, said that the company aims to convert 5 billion euros in revenue from support and software licenses, into cloud subscriptions, in the next five years. The CFO spoke with investors on a conference call with Morgan Stanley, where he elaborated on the so...
Google’s open-source cloud advocates for openness and transparency
Google is proposing an 'open cloud' approach for businesses that want to move quickly between public clouds, using the infrastructure they want, when they want and with no fear that they may be forced to choose one vendor or have trouble accessing data, just because it is in different clouds.
Th...
Google makes migrating database to the cloud easier
Google has announced its Database Migration Service. The service helps companies migrate their databases to the Google Cloud without having to deploy additional servers.
With the Google Database Migration Service, companies can send their databases to the Google Cloud, whether they are stored lo...
Accenture to invest $3B in new Cloud First business unit
The multiservice group will be developed over the next 3 years with 70,000 employees.
Consulting giant Accenture is investing $3 billion in forming a new business unit that will focus on helping enterprises become "cloud first" businesses and accelerate their digital transformation to the publi...
Amazon in talks with Apollo to invest in Rackspace Technology
Amazon is in the early stages of a plan to invest in Rackspace Technology. People close to the deal said that the agreement would involve Amazon acquiring a minority stake in Rackspace. Rackspace is in the business of helping companies migrate to the cloud.
The deal could be a great way to soli...
‘Companies are working on large application migrations to the cloud’
Most companies are currently in the process of migrating their application environments to the cloud on a large scale. This is the outcome of a study conducted worldwide by database specialist MariaDB.
According to the study, companies learned a lot from the recent impact of the corona cris...
The three biggest concerns about cloud migration
More haste, less speed: this also applies to the digital
transformation of companies. Companies are often inclined to want to change as
quickly as possible and use technologies and strategies that seem appropriate
for this purpose. This is also reflected in cloud adoption. Today, most
organizations...
Microsoft and Informatica help enterprises with cloud migration of data analytics
Microsoft and Informatica work together to make it easier to migrate their data analytics processes to the cloud. Enterprises should therefore be tempted to use the cloud-based Azure SQL Data Warehouse service.
Microsoft focuses specifically on enterprises that process their data-analytics workloads...