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The champion of the open source alternative to proprietary hybrid cloud frameworks says its flexibility is unrivaled. Proprietary platforms like AWS Outposts and Azure Arc have dominated the hybrid cloud headlines in recent years. But proprietary software is not the only way to build a hybrid cloud. Starting long before Amazon and Microsoft entered this market, Eucalyptus offered an open source solution for creating hybrid and private cloud environments. Where does the Eucalyptus project ...

Improve administration architecture Windows Admin Center can be installed on a local Windows 10 client, a gateway server in order to provide centralized management, on individual servers, or in a failover cluster for situations where high-availability is required. Opting for the gateway server or the failover cluster means you could have Windows Admin Center installed in your network DMZ, and limit administrative traffic coming into your corporate network to specific management servers. Adminis...

Meet the partners powering Microsoft’s cloud engine in Indonesia Meet the partners powering Microsoft’s cloud engine in Indonesia Expert market insights from leading cloud specialists in Indonesia, spanning VibiCloud, Mitra Integrasi Informatika, Unzyp Software and Logicalis, alongside NTT, AvePoint, Cloud Comrade and Rhipe. Credit: Channel Asia / IDG As Microsoft starts revving up cloud engine capabilities in Indonesia - spearheaded by the upcoming launch of a first...

The 2021 Cloud Native Landscape Benjy Portnoy senior director of solution architecture, Aqua Security Interest and adoption of cloud native is growing enormously, and more businesses are turning to cloud native to accelerate their digital transformation journeys. However, as cloud native tools become more central to the running of these businesses, new security threats are emerging, and security becomes ever more important. It’s a fast-paced environment, and bu...

Sometimes all it takes to trigger a big move is to take the first step. With its latest Apex “as a Service” offerings unveiled at Dell Technologies’...

Why Tier 2 Cloud Providers Could Be Your No. 1 Choice Tier 2 cloud providers may be a more viable choice as they continue to address Big 3 provider concerns. For more than a decade, the cloud computing market has revolved around three names: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). These so-called Big 3 cloud providers controlled an outsize share of the cloud market. But the times they are a-changin’. Thanks to several key trends, the Big 3 clouds are...

Big Tech seizes growing hybrid cloud opportunity in Southeast Asia By As organizations continue with the transition towards a hybrid working culture, replacing on-premise and completely remote working operations, there is also an interesting shift in how Southeast Asian enterprises are perceiving hybrid cloud opportunities. In a foreshadowing of hybrid work ideology, hybrid cloud is similarly replacing outmoded on-premise data storage and use of a dedicated single public cloud service provider...

Apr 15, 2021 at 7:00AM Cloud computing has revolutionized the business world over the last two decades. Enterprises no longer need to provision and maintain costly on-premises computing infrastructure. Instead, they can access resources like servers, storage, databases, and software remotely through the internet. Moreover, those resources can be accessed on demand, allowing enterprises to quickly and efficiently scale their operations. According to research firm Gartner...

The global coronavirus pandemic has validated Microsoft’s hybrid go-to-market strategy that recognises the cloud is not a one-size-fits-all solution and providers must meet customers where they are on their digital transformation journeys, according to JG Chirapurath, vice president of Azure data, artificial intelligence (AI) and edge. “Our approach has not fundamentally changed,” Chirapurath said. “Ultimately, we are not just building a cloud or a product, we are solving a customer’s...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who’s been absorbed in the technology giant’s “partner-first” culture for nearly 30 years, spends a lot of time contemplating how solution providers are impacted by every decision the company makes. “One of the things that I want to design in our core is -- whether it’s the move from license to consumption or license to subscriptions -- what is the partner opportunity,” Nadella said in an exclusive interview with CRN. “We want to [know] from day one ...