SaaS

Desktop in the cloud would seem like a good solution for remote workers, but there are still many drawbacks to the DaaS model.

At the recent retail technology conference, Amazon explained the unique relationship between its retail and cloud businesses – and how that's helping drive its enterprise strategy.

The service is aimed at legacy enterprise workloads. Google is the second major cloud provider to offer the option besides IBM.

Analysts wrote that while the dollar-amount of the deal made it “inconsequential” for Microsoft’s near-term results, it still represented a milestone for its fast-growing cloud business.

The $10 billion cloud contract -- unthinkable for Microsoft even a year ago -- will likely come at a cost, both legally and internally.

HPE CEO Antonio Neri is tying to increase sales by moving the company to a subscription business model. By 2022, all HPE hardware and software will be available as a service or via a pay-per-use model.