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Posts Tagged ‘IaaS’

AWS Named as Market Leader for IaaS

Cloud infrastructure is an integral part of any organization’s transition into the cloud and Gartner expects the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) market to grow at least 38.4% before the end of the year. Overall, IaaS is expected to continue its skyward path well into 2017 as technology leaders decide to shed their legacy deployments for flexible, cost-effective […]

Azure Named a Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud IaaS

Research and analyst firm Gartner named Microsoft Azure as a leader in the Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Magic Quadrant. Placing Azure in the leaders quadrant confirms Gartner’s belief in the platform’s completeness of vision and ability to execute in the IaaS market, citing the following strengths: Microsoft Azure encompasses integrated IaaS and PaaS components […]

Introducing Our Amazon Web Services Partnership

We are excited to announce that we have joined as a member of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). The service is trusted by thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world and has been recognized as a leading solution by cloud infrastructure industry analysts. Products in the AWS suite support areas […]

3 Insights Into The Cloud From Oracle’s Q3 2016 Earnings Call

  Oracle’s third quarter 2016 earnings call was peppered with strong revenues and big wins in various categories. But what was most striking was the incredible progress the enterprise software powerhouse has made with regard to the cloud. Between CEO Safra Catz, CEO Mark Hurd (yes, they’re both CEOs), and Executive Chairman of the Board […]

Importance of the Cloud: Scaling, IaaS, PaaS

There’s always been a level of redundancy built into large Production or even smaller mission critical systems. Scaling out is the answer to both by adding additional compute resources as well as increase the overall uptime reliability of a system. This principle is no different when it comes to the cloud, than it is on-premises. […]

Is Hybrid Cloud the Real Story at OpenWorld?

“Hybrid cloud is our foundation and focus.” – Oracle SVP Steve Daheb After keynotes from Larry Ellison and Mark Hurd, there’s no doubt that Oracle is confident about its future not just as a leader in the cloud space, but as THE leader. They unveiled a long list of product launches and upgrades. But a […]

Why Azure Should Be Part of Your Business Optimization Strategy

Business optimization is all about making investments that will reduce costs while driving efficiency and productivity, and the cloud is a big part of that, because it enables organizations to move quickly and achieve more, while spending less. 42% of IT decision makers planned to increase spending on cloud computing this year, according to Computerworld. […]

Perficient’s Top 5 Microsoft Azure Blog Posts of 2014

Yesterday, we shared the top five SharePoint related blog posts of 2014. As several of those SharePoint posts alluded to, when it comes to the cloud, 2014 could be called the year Microsoft went “all in” and truly made cloud king. And Azure is a significant piece of that. 80% of Fortune 500 companies are […]

Released – Official name for Oslo and New Office 365 SMB Plans

Oslo Renamed to Delve Announced earlier this year as Codename Oslo, today Microsoft published the official name as Delve. Delve, the first experience powered by the intelligence fabric we call the Office Graph, will be available to Office 365 customers later this year. New SMB Plans Microsoft will release as of October 1st, 2014 three new Office […]

Google’s Bigger, Cheaper Cloud

I’ve been keen to watch the cloud options evolve because of the huge impact they can have on my portal, social, web content, and digital marketing world.  The bits blog has a good article on Google’s continuing evolution with the cloud offering.  It should be no surprise Google is cheaper.  It may be a surprise […]

Google's Bigger, Cheaper Cloud

I’ve been keen to watch the cloud options evolve because of the huge impact they can have on my portal, social, web content, and digital marketing world.  The bits blog has a good article on Google’s continuing evolution with the cloud offering.  It should be no surprise Google is cheaper.  It may be a surprise […]

Windows Azure: Retiring Windows Server 2008 and how to upgrade

Beginning on June 2, 2014 Windows Azure will be retiring Windows Server 2008.  This means that you will no longer be able to deploy a new Cloud Service or manage your existing services on virtual machines running Windows Server 2008. Windows Azure currently supports four different GuestOS ‘versions’: GuestOS 1.x – Windows Server 2008 GuestOS […]

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