Which cloud products and services are gaining traction in the marketplace? Which companies are leading the charge and are poised to dominate their markets? Which cloud trends continue to be hyped with no real uptake in the market?
Traditional transactional databases also are not very good at analyzing and mining intelligence from oceans of data. This spawned an entire industry around business intelligence and analytics. All of this just made the life of a CIO more complex. More tools. More technologies. More decisions. Is cloud-based analytics and databases an answer to this issue?
I recently had an interesting conversation with Sean Hackett, Research Director of Cloud Services at TheInfoPro, a division of the 451 Group, on their latest cloud study around market factors relating to growth of cloud services. Here are my five key takeaways.
Adoption of cloud hosting is accelerating. But not all cloud hosting solutions are the same. Here are five myths to watch out for.
The cloud hosting model is reaching an inflection point. The trend is unmistakable: traditional server-based hosting models are evolving into self-service-based cloud models.