For agencies looking at a multi-cloud strategy, managing different vendors and gaining expertise in different clouds is key to take advantage of the nuanced differences and prevent cloud sprawl, said Sanjay Gupta, chief technology officer for the Small Business Administration. Speaking at FCW’s Cloud Summit on April 9th, Gupta noted that a multi-cloud strategy requires […]

There’s a growing list of significant companies in this category: Automattic, Buffer, GitLab, Invision, Toptal and Zapier, all have from 100 to nearly 1,000 remote employees. The second trend is nomadic founders with no fixed location. For a generation of founders, moving to Silicon Valley was de rigueur. Later, the emergence of accelerators and investors […]

With so many public cloud choices, IT organizations are developing new strategies on how and where to deploy new workloads. With public cloud adoption increasing, one particular workload deployment has also seen an increase: a cloud-first strategy. The basic premise of a cloud-first approach is that all new workloads are deployed on public cloud infrastructure […]

SAP Introduces Cloud Platform Blockchain SAP made a significant announcement concerning its work on distributed ledger technology, releasing the SAP Cloud Platform Blockchain as a new “Blockchain-as-a-service” for enterprises. Most SAP clients are still in the early proof-of-concept phase of DLT adoption, but SAP is already providing DLT services to its clients, according to Gil […]

Former Alphabet Executive Chairman and Google CEO Eric Schmidt had some frank advice for the healthcare industry in his opening keynote address Monday at the HIMSS 2018 conference in Las Vegas. “Get to the cloud. Run to the cloud,” he told attendees. “Don’t stop, don’t walk, don’t think about it – just run. Take an […]