Cloud services have been reshaping the IT landscape for almost a decade. But the initial euphoria, when companies opted for “cloud-first” strategies and migrated to public cloud services on a huge scale, has been quickly tempered by the high costs of running predictable workloads in the cloud. Striving to optimize their IT operations, enterprises are ...

This study was conducted by IDC France with 206 private sector companies with at least 1,000 employees. This analysis demonstrates how the rise of big data is transforming businesses, with 44% of organisations using a big data platform and 19% planning to do so in the next two years. In addition, one company in every ...

For several years now, coupon marketing has become a key strategy. It is flexible, customisable and financially affordable, and has helped brands boost their power at an incredible rate. A major customer loyalty programme, based on distributing coupons, has completely reworked its digital platform. One of its objectives was to offer users the ability to ...

One of the first major questions AI development poses is whether it should be built in house or as a ready out-of-the-box solution. In-house development can be challenging but potentially rewarding. Those who decide to develop in house will benefit from a solution which is finely tuned to their business needs. Businesses should choose a ...

Hosted Private Cloud, the OVHcloud flagship service, is a virtualised and fully-dedicated datacentre, powered by VMware software-defined technologies. All infrastructure elements are abstracted from their hardware layers and controlled by software. This includes compute resources, network gear and storage services, which – freed from the constraints of a traditional, hardware-centric approach – can satisfy the ...

Technology advances rapidly and hardware quickly becomes obsolete. Regular upgrades are therefore crucial if organisations are to keep pace, facilitate growth, and reduce product time-to market. This report shows how private cloud is often defined as the cloud that companies build in-house, thus providing all the guarantees that come with a dedicated hardware infrastructure. We’ve ...

In today’s highly-virtualised world, companies are demanding even more from the Cloud, and ever since VMware paved the way, the Software-Defined Datacentre (SDDC) has been hailed as the next step. In this article, we aim to demystify the software-defined approach and run through the basic building blocks and drivers pushing SDDC Private Cloud adoption. If ...

Over the past few years, the hype surrounding cloud services has prompted many organizations to consider a transition from on-premises data centers to cloud-based infrastructures. The main reasons for such transitions are to boost IT agility, speed up time to market, avoid capital investments, lower TCO, and increase redundancy and disaster recovery capabilities. There is ...