Garner halves IT spending forecast, projects 2.4 percent growth in 2023
Gartner expects spending to reach a total of $4.5 trillion in 2023, slightly down from its previous forecast.
According to Gartner, the revision is not a reflection of a decline in enterprise IT spending, but rather the result of a strengthened US dollar and a decrease in demand for consumer de... Read more
Gartner forecasts massive growth in public cloud service spending
Gartner forecasted a massive increase in the cloud service market in the coming years.
Since the introduction of SaaS in the global market, cloud services have been used by organizations worldwide. The cloud's popularity is on the rise. According to a study by Gartner, the use of cloud services ... Read more
‘Demand for cloud infrastructure services grows by 33 percent’
Organizations paid over €60 billion for cloud infrastructure services in the past quarter, up 33 percent from the same period last year.
Market researcher Canalys publishes a report on the cloud infrastructure market once every three months. In the second quarter of 2022, organizations spent ... Read more
Barracuda expands SASE platform to support hybrid cloud deployments
Improvements aimed at companies that have moved to SaaS and IaaS environments
Barracuda Networks this week announced the expansion of its cloud-native SASE platform. Barracuda's SASE platform streamlines Secure SD-WAN, firewall-as-a-service, Zero Trust Network Access, and Secure Web Gateway func... Read more
NetApp reports solid earnings with uncertain guidance, stock dips after-hours
NetApp surpassed analyst estimates for fiscal Q3 earnings and generated sales according to projections today. Still, its shares slumped 9% in extended trading after cautioning that revenues in the next quarter would likely fall short of analysts' expectations.
The firm reported $1.44 per share i... Read more
OVH plans to share its OpenStack automation for on-prem clouds
OVH will share the automation tools it developed to run its own OpenStack-based cloud as part of its strategy to grow its managed cloud business.
In Europe, the French company has offered to operate and manage a private cloud using its tech on customers' premises. OVH is planning to let others h... Read more
Google invests $1.2 billion on cloud infrastructure in Germany
Google is investing $1.2 billion to expand its cloud infrastructure in Germany and is committed to using more renewable energy sources. Google is currently number three among the premier cloud providers in the world.
The CEO of Google Cloud, Thomas Kurian, is making it his mission to take the nu... Read more
European regulators approve CISPE Code of Conduct
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB), under which all European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) fall, gave a favourable resolution on Thursday that said the CISPE Data Protection Code of Conduct complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The CISPE Code was submitted by t... Read more
Mirantis Container Cloud offers Kubernetes on different clouds
Mirantis announced Mirantis Container Cloud with hundreds of updates. It includes support for the IaaS solution VMware, which helps businesses build and operate container and virtual machines (VMs) clouds, wherever they want, with consistency.
Adam Parco, the VP of engineering at Mirantis, says ... Read more
IBM Power Virtual servers now offer Red Hat’s OpenShift
On Tuesday, IBM unveiled a new series of Power Systems capabilities and open-source-based tools. The goal is to help companies deploy and manage hybrid cloud infrastructures. That is not all the company is releasing, though.
IBM also announced the availability of Red Hat’s OpenShift, on Big Bl... Read more