It's been ten years since I first started working on this blog, yet I remember that moment as if it were yesterday. For those of you who don't know me, you probably wonder who Rick is in 'Rick's Cloud'? I

With its global reach in 140 countries and an infrastructure spanning more than 100 highly secure facilities worldwide, Microsoft Azure Cloud is established as the second-largest provider of cloud-computing software and services on the market. Powered by Microsoft's strong enterprise

According to CISCO predictions, cloud traffic will represent 92% of all data center network traffic this year. More than that, a SADA Systems survey on 200+ IT managers revealed that 84% of IT managers surveyed are using public cloud infrastructure today,

Several years back, the ‘cloud’ was considered the future of application development. While this is still the case today, savvy experts say that the key to modernizing application development lies in one particular cloud computing component: cloud-native technology.   This is an

This subject is a dilemma faced by system administrators and business users alike, with many having difficulty interpreting the difference between the two. There are a number of core questions you should be asking if you are in the market

Technology has evolved massively in the past decade and industries must come up-to-date and follow the current trends. We are now at the point when a multitude of devices are connected and are communicating to make processes work efficiently in

Where are we with the cloud in the enterprise? That’s what we are trying to answer in this infographic.  Cloud computing doesn’t stop to surprise us year by year. New developments, new integrations with other platforms, and new innovative solutions are

Internet of Things (IoT) is no longer a novelty in the business world, and more companies are considering an IoT strategy in order to remain competitive on the market. In fact, according to a survey, only 9% of companies admitted

Once again, I found some interesting information about the adoption of custom applications in the cloud. It seems like companies migrate more and more apps in the cloud thanks to the functionalities they offer. These custom applications have a wide

Companies that are succeeding are most likely leveraging big data. Implementing it can be a complicated technical process, big data has benefits but in order to utilize big data, enterprises have to be able to store and process it, and

Over the past several years, we have all seen how Artificial Intelligence reshaped everything surrounding us. AI has touched almost every industry, and businesses everywhere have already started to reap the benefits. Financial services is another industry that is redefining

Unless you’ve been living in a galaxy far, far away, you’ve probably heard about Wi-Fi and how it made our lives easier. Needless to say, the Wi-Fi Network is increasing day by day, and it will probably reach 340 million

Cloud computing has known a huge expansion over the last years and is becoming worldwide adopted, facilitating organization-wide functionality, including online learning. Many companies are looking to improve their employees training results with minimum costs on resources. With more than 6.3

I’m not sure if you are a Star Trek fan, but I’m sure you know about the high-tech envisioned back then. It seems that the Star Trek technologies are actually coming to be a reality. First we had a touchscreen

In its simplest form, the cloud is basically virtual real estate space. As businesses started to move away from keeping manual records to “computerizing” themselves, they also needed increasingly large amounts of hardware and a host of software applications to