Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)

Find out what is PaaS, what PaaS is used for, what companies are using PaaS, and the vendors offering products that fall under this category of cloud services.

April 21, 2022 21 Apr'22
Alibaba Cloud eyes VMware workloads with new cloud service

The Alibaba Cloud VMware Service is aimed at Chinese enterprises that are looking to move their VMware workloads to public cloud, perform disaster recovery and reduce their on-premise datacentre footprint
April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22
How PropertyGuru is approaching technology integration

Property tech firm PropertyGuru has invested in capabilities such as DevOps and authentication that can be applied across different platforms that it has acquired over time
April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22
Gartner: Public cloud spending on the rise across the globe as hybrid working takes hold

Latest worldwide public cloud services spending tracker reveals end-user appetite for off-premise services shows no signs of slowing down
April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22
Google Cloud research highlights disconnect between intention and delivery on green IT initiatives

Google Cloud research reveals disconnects between intention, delivery and budgets within businesses across EMEA on sustainability matters

The time is now: Edge datacentres come of age

After years of hype and speculation, could the post-pandemic period see a resurgence in interest in the build-out of edge datacentres and compute environments as enterprises look to dust off projects that Covid-19 forced them to shelve? Continue Reading
Weighing up the nuclear option for powering datacentres

Resourcing energy-hungry IT through the race to reduce carbon emissions means looking objectively at all the options, including nuclear power Continue Reading
A waste of energy: Dealing with idle servers in the datacentre

Servers can be the slackers of the datacentre, consuming power without doing much work. Why not whip them into shape? Continue Reading

How HPC and AI are driving physical change in datacentres

In this follow-up guest post Paul Finch, CEO of Harlow-based colocation provider Kao Data, sets out how datacentre designs are having to change to accommodate evolving chip densities and ... Continue Reading
AWS Re:Invent 2019: The kids' take on the public cloud's biggest tech show

Official estimates suggest 65,000 people made the trek out to Las Vegas this year for the 2019 Amazon Web Services (AWS) Re:Invent user and developer conference, and among them were five tech-savvy ... Continue Reading
Getting cloud under control: A how-to guide for CIOs

In this guest post, Dave Locke, chief technology advisor for Europe, Middle East and Africa, at IT service provider World Wide Technology, sets out why organisations need a clear, consistent and ... Continue Reading

Server virtualisation is far from dead

Server virtualisation must be looked upon with an expanded and fresh perspective amid the growing adoption of containers and Kubernetes. Here are seven server virtualisation trends to watch Continue Reading
How Covid-19 accelerated cloud investment in the financial world

Cloud computing is no longer a thing of the future for banks that want to remain competitive Continue Reading
Defining a cloud journey to deliver business outcomes

Here are six steps to ensuring a journey to cloud is focused on delivering business outcomes Continue Reading