Cynthia Harvey

                For many Americans, business mobile apps make a big difference. Smartphones have become an essential tool for work. While consumer apps still generate more revenue than business applications, the market for mobile business apps is growing quickly. According to Strategy Analytics, the market for mobile enterprise apps […]

                Today’s data centers are sprawling, complex facilities. Some have hundreds of thousands or even millions of square feet of space filled with IT and telecommunications equipment. All those systems generate an enormous amount of heat, and data centers need a lot of electricity both to power the […]

Like a traditional data center, a software-defined data center (SDDC) houses servers, storage, networking devices and other IT or telecommunications hardware. However, in an SDDC all those infrastructure elements are virtualized and delivered as a service. In other words, the software is abstracted away from the hardware, which allows organizations to manage their compute, storage […]

Data centers power the global economy. They house the systems, equipment, applications and data that make it possible to do business in the modern world. Experts estimate that the total number of data centers globally exceeds 8.6 million, with more than 3 million in the U.S. That total has been increasing dramatically over the past […]

                Big Data has become big business. According to IDC, “Worldwide revenues for big data and business analytics (BDA) will reach $150.8 billion in 2017, an increase of 12.4 percent over 2016.” And the market for big data solutions is likely to get even bigger. The same IDC […]

As the world’s undisputed leader in Internet search, Google has undeniable expertise in running data centers. After Amazon launched its cloud computing service in 2006, Google put that data center expertise to work by launching a cloud service of its own. Soon it became known as one of the “big three” public cloud vendors, along […]

When it comes to public cloud computing vendors, IBM doesn’t always enjoy the same mindshare as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. However, some analyst reports have claimed that IBM actually has a larger share of the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) market than Google. […]

For organizations looking for a public cloud provider, Microsoft stands out as one of the top vendors in the market with a wide range of services available, particularly for hybrid IT. Microsoft offers all three of the major categories of cloud computing: software as a service (SaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and platform as […]

By all accounts, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s largest public cloud computing service. And although several other cloud computing providers are currently growing more quickly than Amazon, John Dinsdale, a chief analyst and research director at Synergy Research Group, said that Amazon remains “in a field of its own.” According to the company […]

Cloud cost calculators play a key role in cloud planning and ongoing management. Cloud computing vendors often tout their low prices as one of the big reasons to use their services. And in the RightScale 2017 State of the Cloud Report 35 percent of respondents reported cost savings from their cloud computing efforts. But while the […]