Cloud computing is one technology moving faster than almost all others toward becoming table stakes in enterprise IT. In 2017 alone, the public cloud services market is predicted to grow 18 percent, ...

I’m often asked whether a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) startup, is better off contracting for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) services. However, that question begs ...

Last week, Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Connect, a cloud-based contact center service. The objective is to provide enterprises with an easier-to-use and faster-to-deploy call center system. But ...

Cloud computing is an increasingly multi-faceted phenomenon. It continues to quickly evolve not just at private and public cloud levels (and increasingly in the continuum between these two extremes) ...

Cloud computing has long been heralded as the backbone of digital transformation, but not all parts of the cloud market are treated equally. As of 2025, software as a service (SaaS) continues to ...

Commentary - Cloud Computing has the entire IT industry buzzing, with companies such as Microsoft, IBM, Amazon, Google, and others investing billions of dollars in this new form of computing in ...

The dawn of a new decade represents a good opportunity for a more rounded assessment of cloud computing to take place – and according to industry analyst Synergy Research, the ‘remarkable ...

In my last article on the cloud price wars, I mentioned how Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers are in a race to differentiate themselves by producing developer friendly features that ...

As businesses grow and users’ IT needs change, data centre admins should consider hybrid cloud and the IaaS, PaaS and SaaS models of IT delivery. But the road to a hybrid cloud infrastructure is ...

In his keynote to kickoff OpenWorld, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison saved many of his quotable lines for attacks on AWS, but as I discussed in my last column, the two take somewhat different approaches ...