TechSpective’s Cloud & Infrastructure section covers the architectural and strategic decisions enterprises face in building, managing, and optimizing cloud environments — from platform selection and hybrid deployment models to cost governance and security integration.
Hybrid cloud is a recurring focal point. Coverage examines why hybrid architectures remain the dominant enterprise reality rather than a transitional state, including IBM Power’s hybrid-by-design approach for AI workloads and how IBM’s research efforts in areas like carbon capture validate distributed cloud models. The public sector’s particular case for hybrid cloud strategy gets dedicated treatment, as do the tradeoffs across the five major cloud platforms — AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Oracle.
Practical infrastructure topics include Infrastructure-as-Code and the role of local values in cloud configuration management, AWS Security Groups and Network Access Control Lists, and how organizations should define cloud economic models as cost optimization becomes a board-level concern. A PwC perspective on effective cloud strategy grounds the coverage in enterprise planning reality.
Contributors include industry analyst Rob Enderle, Tony Bradley, and a range of enterprise technology practitioners and infrastructure specialists. The audience is cloud architects, infrastructure engineers, IT directors, and enterprise technology decision-makers evaluating how to build cloud environments that are performant, cost-efficient, secure, and aligned with long-term business strategy — not just whatever was easiest to spin up when migration pressure hit.
Every vendor in the world is talking about agentic AI right now. Most of them are still figuring out what it actually means for their products. Cisco, on the other hand, just showed up in Amsterdam at Cisco Live EMEA […]
Cisco Bets Big on a Unified Platform for the Agentic AI Era Read More »
The idea of distributing traffic across multiple edge and CDN providers has never been radical. Among the largest digital platforms, it’s been accepted practice for years. If you care about availability, performance, and cost control at global scale, you don’t
Multi-Edge Was Always Right—It Was Just Out of Reach Read More »
The modern game has moved beyond the field and into the cloud. Tickets now live on phones. Gates open with a glance at biometric scanners. Fans tap for snacks, order drinks from their seats, stream instant replays, and check live
When Sports Go Digital: The New Arena of Fan Engagement Read More »
This month, IBM had a briefing on its Power platform for AI, which currently is in use by over 40K users. This may not seem like a lot, but with AI failures outnumbering AI successes, it is important to look
IBM Power: Doing Hybrid by Choice Read More »
Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) has significantly improved the way organizations build and manage their cloud-based IT infrastructure. IaC allows organizations to put all provisioning, management, and maintenance settings into code for easier and faster deployment. This code can then be tweaked and
Why Local Values Are Crucial to Cloud Infrastructure Management Read More »
Amidst the sea of economic uncertainty, one thing is emerging as a non-negotiable for tech companies: a well-defined cloud economic model. With the escalating requirement to optimize costs, controlling cloud expenditure has taken a prime position on the priority lists
Defining Your Cloud Economic Model: Three Things to Consider Read More »
I was listening to a brief on IBM Cloud this week and thinking back to when I led security for marketing while I worked there. I’d also been an internal auditor for the company with a specialty in security audits,
IBM Cloud’s Not-So-Secret Security Advantage Read More »
In the intricate tapestry of Amazon Web Services (AWS), security is paramount. As businesses increasingly rely on the cloud for their applications and data storage, the need for robust security mechanisms has become more pressing. Among the myriad of tools
AWS Security Groups and Network Access Control Lists (NACLs) Read More »
TechSpective Podcast Episode 105 It’s more or less expected that organizations are “in the cloud” these days in some way, shape, or form, but having a cloud strategy is important. In the early cloud days, moving to the cloud
Cenk Ozdemir Chats about Effective Cloud Strategy Read More »
I met with Mathias Steiner, who is a researcher out of the Rio de Janeiro IBM lab. He was talking about the amazing work that IBM is doing with a network of labs all working on sustainability, and material discovery
IBM’s Carbon Capture Research Effort Validates Hybrid Cloud Model Read More »
