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Jun 18, 2018

They are commonly known today as hyperscalers, massive technology companies such as Google LLC, Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. that have carved out significant market positions in public cloud and related services. And while cloud dominance is a primary goal, the leading hyperscalers have desig...

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Jun 13, 2018

Oracle made available a free map that tracks the health of internet and provides insights on disruptions like natural disasters or state-imposed interruptions.

The visibility tool is part of Oracle’s Internet Intelligence initiative, which provides insight and analysis on the st...

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Jun 12, 2018

Understanding digital transformation involves looking at how companies operated before embracing digital technologies. This introductory video shares three simple examples of digital transformation and explains how transformation can be achieved leveraging SAP Cloud Platform, SAP's enterprise Pl...

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Jun 12, 2018

The result of this rude awakening is the acceptance that cloud, in its many shapes and forms, is about adopting a new operational, delivery, and consumption model of IT resources. Companies that were open to embracing this change with open arms were able to transform their organizations and leverage...

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Jun 11, 2018

A new effort by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has aimed to improve how experiments are planned and designed in multiple scientific disciplines by using computational and analytical tools, including those pulled from engineering disciplines. The Synergistic Discovery and Design Pr...

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Jun 11, 2018

Cisco Systems Inc. and Google Inc. Monday revealed more details about a planned hybrid cloud offering designed to help customers build apps that span on-premises data centers and the public cloud.The companies announced the Cisco Hybrid Cloud Platform for Google Cloud last year. At the time, they sa...

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Jun 07, 2018

The CLOUD Act (Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act) was enacted early in 2018 in an attempt to modernize data privacy and government surveillance laws in a world where data is increasingly being housed in global cloud-computing data centers. It amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) from ...

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Jun 06, 2018

Public sector IT and private sector IT can be very different animals, but a looming decision by the Department of Defense has the potential to send shock waves through both sides of the IT world. The Department of Defense is preparing to accept bids for a potential 10-year, $10 billion Joint Enterpr...

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Jun 05, 2018

BMC Helix is a SaaS offering delivering cognitive service management that is fast, accurate, and cost effective, across multi-cloud, multi-device, and multi-channel environments.

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Jun 05, 2018

One of the great promises of cloud computing that’s never been met is making it easy for organizations to move workloads between multiple clouds. Each cloud computing environment is built on top of a unique implementation of a hypervisor. Unless each cloud is built using the same hypervisor, m...

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Jun 04, 2018

By condensing and organizing current medical research, ThinkResearch continually delivers updated consultation and treatment protocols for use with patients. By using IBM Cloud infrastructure and managed Kubernetes services, ThinkResearch DevOps teams stay focused on innovating for their customers i...

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Jun 01, 2018

I won big at a recent “casino night” event by betting all my chips and hitting blackjack on the last hand.  After lots of adulation from my peers for my courage, and a small prize (we weren’t playing for money), they asked me why I risked the bet: “There was nothing at s...

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Jun 01, 2018

Lisa Gade introduces you to an interesting new concept- commercialized P2P cloud storage. This technology is potentially more secure from hackers, snooping governments and unhappy accidents at data centers. Your files are stored on a decentralized network of computers in bits and pieces with end-to-...

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May 31, 2018

Mick Murray, CFO at Blue Shield of California, explains how cloud services and predictive analytics can transform the US healthcare industry and why the firm participated in Oracle's Intelligent Finance research study on cloud productivity.

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May 30, 2018

Hoping to maintain the high ground in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, Nvidia Corp. late Tuesday debuted a new computing architecture that it claims will unify both fast-growing areas of the industry.The announcement of the HGX-2 cloud-server platform (pictured), made by Nvidi...

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May 30, 2018

Two working adults from NTUC LearningHub sharing their learning experience on AWS IoT. To help address the demand for cloud computing and solution development skills in the market, NTUC LearningHub (LHUB) and NTUC’s Employment and Employability Institute (e2i) leverages AWS Educate program to ...

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May 30, 2018

Cloud is no longer a trend it’s a reality and enterprise IT organizations across the world are riding this disruption and  reimagining the way IT has been consumed and delivered. With the escalation of the cloud, experts believe that it signals the beginning of the end of conventional IT ...

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May 29, 2018

A cloud complexity crisis is going to happen. We’re adding hundreds of workloads to the cloud on a daily basis, standing up new databases, adding different types of compute and storage, and adding cloud-based networks—and doing all of this without taking down almost no existing on-premis...

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May 25, 2018

Barbara Cosgrove, Workday’s chief privacy officer, talks with host David Clarke about the main principles of GDPR compliance, Workday’s role in supporting our customers’ compliance, and highlights the fact that we’re only at the beginning of this new privacy framework.

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May 25, 2018

With the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) data regulation going into effect, we recently wrapped the latest GDPR Summit in London. Almost 500 attendees across most industries attended three parallel tracks of GDPR focused activity: GDPR program, HR and sales, and marketing. I was...

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May 23, 2018

This blog provides an overview of Azure Data Catalog, which is used to discover Azure data sources in your environment, as well as register and index those sources, making it easy for users to find the data they need.

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May 23, 2018

Discover how the all-flash core within Pure’s Data-Centric Architecture speeds up and simplifies DevOps and the CI/CD pipeline, increases developer productivity and the growth of the enterprise.

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May 23, 2018

In 2016, the company, whose history dates back more than 100 years, divested its LED and traditional lamp business to focus on the digital future of light. Be it with laser light for automobiles, increased security thanks to iris recognition or intelligently connected lighting, OSRAM is transforming...

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May 22, 2018

The modern enterprise is comprised of a complex set of application stacks that span a disparate variety of virtual machines, physical servers, and proprietary storage hardware. Tentacles reach from headquarters, branch and remote offices, and offshore facilities around the world to technology stacks...

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May 22, 2018

The push to get more women in computing is decades old. I remember back in my college professor days they did studies on why there are fewer woman in computer science and information systems studies. We have made little progress since. With the inflection point of new compute trends, such as cloud c...

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May 22, 2018

The promise of multi-cloud is a pool of resources and connections to seamlessly manage workloads anywhere. This is a stark contrast to current enterprise architectures, which are typically comprised of infrastructure islands that are architected, deployed, and managed independently. Given this, the ...

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May 21, 2018

Public Cloud means the whole computing infrastructure is located on the premises of a cloud computing company that offers the cloud service. The location remains seperate from the customer & has no physical control over the infrastructure.

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May 21, 2018

As enterprises consider outsourcing their IT infrastructure, they should consider moving their public authoritative DNS services to a cloud provider’s managed DNS service, but first they should understand the advantages and disadvantages. Cloud DNS providers have fully redundant and geographic...

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May 18, 2018

MLC Life Insurance chose Oracle HCM and ERP Cloud to enable them to bring data together across multiple sources, give them greater visibility, and support the HR and Finance teams to make more strategic decisions for the organization.

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May 17, 2018

Although Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides standard operating system (OS) images for launching compute instances, many scenarios require custom images, either based on the standard images or created by users. This white paper describes how to create and import custom images. It provides step-by-s...

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May 17, 2018

This video is the tenth in a multi-part series discussing computing. In this video, we’ll be discussing what cloud computing is and the fundamental change it brings in how we view and think about computing.

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May 16, 2018

Nitzan Miron, vice president of product management for application security services for Barracuda Networks, said the Barracuda WAF-as-a-Service is designed for organizations that want to be able to customize a WAF policy to suit individual application requirements without having to update the WAF t...

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May 16, 2018

Veritas SaaS Backup, a hosted cloud backup and recovery solution provides data protection for popular SaaS applications like Microsoft Office 365, Google G Suite and Salesforce.com.

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May 16, 2018

Smartphones put the whole world in the palm of users’ hands. They can manage their personal lives, interact with friends and social networks, and bank and shop online. But how can we know that our interactions and transactions are secure? Social networks, e-commerce companies and banks require...

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May 16, 2018

Oracle Corp. is looking to expand the analytics capabilities of its cloud platform with a new strategic acquisition. The technology giant this morning announced that it has inked an agreement to buy DataScience.com Inc., a venture-backed startup with a platform for powering analytics projects. The s...

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May 15, 2018

True data protection extends beyond the core. Agencies need to apply the same level of protection deployed at the core to the cloud and to remote or disconnected environments in the field. SafeNet AT serves as a trusted, U.S. based source for cyber security solutions. We offer a broad selection of s...

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May 15, 2018

Citrix is a leader in virtualization, networking and cloud infrastructure to enable new ways for people to work better. Citrix solutions help IT and service providers to build, manage and secure virtual and mobile workspaces that seamlessly deliver apps, desktops, data and services to anyone, on any...

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May 15, 2018

Wireless network operator Verizon Communications Inc. has become the latest big enterprise to move a large chunk of its business applications to Amazon Web Services Inc., choosing the company as its “preferred public cloud provider.”Verizon, which been working with AWS since 2015, said i...

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May 14, 2018

In this latest iteration of the sales hacks series, Justin Chugg shares his secrets of how Ensable was able to reverse engineer public data points to predict cloud sales.

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May 11, 2018

Delivering IT as-a-service is one of the newer trends in IT, driven by a growing enterprise-wide need to manage the IT lifecycle across software, platform, and infrastructure categories. In recent years, IT has increasingly become both usage- and service-based, and as a result, a variety of complex ...

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May 09, 2018

For more than 20 years, Rackspace has collaborated with Cisco to provide the highest levels of security for their company and their customers’ networks. Today, Cisco and Rackspace continue their long-standing collaboration by delivering to Rackspace customers advanced protection for their mult...

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May 08, 2018

The landscape for application performance management (APM) and network performance management (NPM) tools has changed enormously over the last few years, driven largely by changing infrastructure and application architectures. The industry as a whole, including enterprises, service providers and ven...

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May 08, 2018

The NetApp and Google Cloud Platform partnership brings a fully-managed cloud service with extreme performance and rich data management features.

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May 07, 2018

Easily sync & share files across multiple devices with highest security standards using the award winning solution for your own Private Cloud.

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May 07, 2018

Imagine ordering groceries from an online grocer that promises a one-day delivery.After you quickly select your items and proceed to the checkout, you get stuck at the payment gateway, which takes too long to load. Just as you decide to abandon the sale, you get through and complete the checkout pro...

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May 07, 2018

There’s application components and there’s containerisation and there’s all forms of compartmentalisation designed to separate out ‘discrete’ functions of application design in order to align with the abstracted world of cloud computing and web architecture where we can...

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May 07, 2018

When it comes to cloud computing applications, Oracle Corp. is all about self: self-repairing, self-securing and self-driving. After rolling out its Data Warehouse Cloud in March, Oracle doubled down today on its autonomous capabilities with the general availability of built-in artificial intelligen...

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May 04, 2018

At the IBM Cloud Private Day event in Johannesburg, South Africa, last month, Soloman Barghouthi, a product manager for hybrid cloud, told ITWeb that IBM Cloud Private isn’t something leaders buy just because they have money to spend.“I’m buying it to deliver business value,”...

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May 03, 2018

Cloud computing is the use of various services, such as software development platforms, servers, storage and software, over the internet, often referred to as the "cloud." In general, there are three cloud computing characteristics that are common among all cloud-computing vendors.

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May 03, 2018

Chinese chip maker Cambricon Technologies officially released the country's first artificial intelligence (AI) chip for cloud-based services on Thursday in Shanghai. The peak processing power of the high-performing MLU100 model is over 1.66 terabytes of fixed-point computing per second.

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May 03, 2018

This week's roundup of analyst musings includes discussions about the importance of hybrid cloud data protection and whether it's beneficial to strike a work-life balance. John Oltsik, an analyst with Enterprise Strategy Group in Milford, Mass., recapped a presentation given by his colleague...

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May 03, 2018

When you think about storing and managing your company’s vital data, reliability and scalability rise to the top as the most important measures of a good investment. And the solution that delivers on these priorities the most efficiently and economically is software-defined storage (SDS). By g...

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May 03, 2018

Even as KubeCon Europe got off to a rollicking start with over 4,000 attendees, Brian Leroux, founder of Begin and erstwhile PhoneGap developer, was quietly coding at home in San Francisco, happy to not have to be bothered with containers at all."Things I won't be doing today," he wrot...

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May 03, 2018

Google Inc. is touting a better way for enterprises to secure their cloud applications and corresponding data in what it calls a confidential computing environment.The company is pitching an open-source framework its just released called Asylo, which is designed to provide greater isolation for sens...

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May 02, 2018

In a world increasingly driven by cloud-based digital transformation, cybersecurity remains a stubborn roadblock. Although organisations increasingly understand their responsibilities, they’ve yet to take advantage of the native and cloud-ready security tools available to them. That’s wh...

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May 02, 2018

Multi-cloud environments provide enterprises with the ability to mix and match private clouds with multiple public clouds. The “multi” in multi-cloud raises the importance of connectivity between and among those clouds, and of securing that connectivity. The “cloud” aspect al...

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May 02, 2018

Artificial intelligence workloads are becoming central to cloud computing. AI is assuming a larger role in optimizing the hyperconverged infrastructures that underpin today’s multiclouds, as well as premises-based “true private clouds” that approximate the public cloud experience.A...

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May 01, 2018

Edwin Yuen is an analyst at ESG covering Cloud Platforms & Services, Data Protection, Systems Management, and DevOps. In this video, Edwin covers issues of security and data protection when using the cloud for long-term retention of unstructured data. Edwin also discusses innovation by HubStor t...

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May 01, 2018

Frederik Janssen, VP, Global IT Infrastructure, Siemens talks about the company's secure cloud transformation with Zscaler. Siemens shares insights into the company’s re-architecting of its global hub-and-spoke network to a direct-to-cloud architecture, and explains that because more appli...

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May 01, 2018

A common question from people setting up devops in the cloud is where to track configurations. You certainly have a vast array of technologies to help you track configurations, including configuration management (CM) tools such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, and Cfengine. However, a more fundamental ques...

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May 01, 2018

If your team doesn’t know what to look for in a private cloud solution, you might end up picking a terrible choice for your organization. That one bad decision could put your business at a huge disadvantage for key IT activities such as developing applications, protecting data and building gre...

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May 01, 2018

With recent news that Google’s Cloud TPU is more cost efficient than Nvidia’s Volta, you might think Google would be gearing up to replace competitor GPUs with its own hardware. Instead, the company is extending its GPU offerings to Nvidia’s Volta and deploying the GPU across a wid...

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Apr 30, 2018

A Virtual Cloud Network transforms businesses by enabling pervasive connectivity and security across all apps, data, and devices — from data center to branch, to cloud, to edge.

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Apr 29, 2018

More enterprises are moving to the cloud with Microsoft Azure. Find out the 5 stages of cloud adoption to get your organization started to make the move.

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Apr 27, 2018

If you are building new applications on public cloud platforms, you are faced with a choice: Should you build a set of APIs bound to the new cloud application’s application services? Or should you look for another job? I’m seeing many new cloud applications that are built to fail. Not be...

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Apr 26, 2018

For those who been wondering how long Microsoft Corp. can continue the blistering growth of its cloud infrastructure business, the answer is: We still don’t know. The desktop and cloud computing giant rode 93 percent growth in its Azure infrastructure-as-a-service business to $22 billion in fi...

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Apr 25, 2018

Trying to choose between all the different cloud storage providers out there can be intimidating. What are the pros and cons of each? How much storage space do you need? What are the advantages of cloud storage? For one thing, cloud storage is accessible anytime, anywhere. All you need is an Interne...

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Apr 25, 2018

Introducing Veritas SaaS Backup, a hosted cloud-to-cloud backup and recovery solution that protects data connected to SaaS workloads including O365, G Suite and Salesforce.

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Apr 25, 2018

There's a lot of reasons to move on-premises workloads to the cloud or better yet launch new projects directly on the cloud. In this video I'll talk about a fictitious company "ZenHouse" and their Journey to IBM Cloud.

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Apr 25, 2018

The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), an organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud-computing environment, recently released its State of Cloud Security 2018.The report, authored by the CSA Global Enterprise Advisory Board, examines such are...

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Apr 24, 2018

Cloud-based malware is a real and present danger - and it can spread through an organisation like wildfire. But it is not always on the radar of security teams, and without strong protocols in place, there are many possible routes to infection. It's time for those organisations which don't h...

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Apr 24, 2018

SAP's cloud computing revenues have topped €1 billion in a quarter for the first time, prompting the company to make bolder plans for markets like CRM. The European software giant said cloud subscriptions and support revenue grew 18 percent year on year to €1.07bn in its first financia...

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Apr 24, 2018

It began as a 30-minute meeting that was intended to revisit a DR plan I had helped a company to develop two years ago. At that time, the company didn't have a formal DR plan, but it had clients asking how it had planned for disasters and contingencies. The company was processing and storing cli...

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Apr 23, 2018

According to Deloitte, purchases on mobile devices now make up 27 percent of all retail revenue in the US. Average order value on mobile devices has consistently grown by 15 percent year after year and is now double that of orders on desktop. Focusing on the mobile market has never been more importa...

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Apr 20, 2018

Businesses are continually evolving to better serve their customers and stakeholders. Higher competition means an even faster pace of change. IBM’s David Curbishley says that no industry is immune to disruption, so investing in technology to drive innovation and differentiate your business is ...

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Apr 19, 2018

Cloud Foundry Foundation, home of the most widely-adopted open source cloud technologies in the world, announced today that Cloud Foundry will be available on Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group. Alibaba Cloud, the largest cloud infrastructure provider in China and among the thre...

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Apr 19, 2018

Google’s data centers are the physical infrastructure that supports the Cloud and keeps Google products running 24/7. Learn how Google's US data center investments contribute significantly to job growth and income gains at both the national and state level.

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Apr 19, 2018

BOSTON—Things are moving fast in cloud application development, in more ways than one. The key pieces needed to build and deploy modern cloud-native applications—Docker and Kubernetes—have become de facto standards for container formats and container orchestration, respectively, in...

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Apr 18, 2018

Perhaps no other technology has as significantly impacted the way that developers work as much as cloud. It gives instant access to emerging technologies such as blockchain and AI. Cloud-powered tools such as containers and microservices enable developers to rapidly create apps and deploy them acros...

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Apr 18, 2018

If you stay up to date on the latest IT trends, you probably hear about AI, analytics and deep learning as the newest and most innovative technology for businesses…and rightfully so. According to International Data Corporation’s (IDC’s) latest research, it’s now a fact that ...

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Apr 18, 2018

We’re delighted to be working on a new offering in the IBM Cloud Foundry compute, called the Cloud Foundry Enterprise Environment. This offering provides a version of Cloud Foundry deployed into a customer’s IBM Cloud account in any of our worldwide regions. The IBM Cloud Foundry Enterpr...

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Apr 16, 2018

In the lead-up to this month's webinar "Launch and Scale Your E-commerce Website with Magento", our presenter Wen Chen-yu of the Training and Certification Team shares his tips and knowledge on how to launch and scale an e-commerce website using Magento and SAS. What is Simple Applicat...

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Apr 16, 2018

Are information technology executives prepared to accept that data stored in the cloud will be 75 percent secure? That’s one of the central questions that emerged today on the first day of the RSA Conference in San Francisco. A report released by McAfee Inc. today found that one in four organi...

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Apr 16, 2018

Drone taxis, driverless cars, smart elevators and parking lots and trains – all were a distant future in not so far past, but now they most of them are the present – safer and better managed. All thanks to the cloud computing and advanced technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), I...

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Apr 12, 2018

Spending on public cloud computing services will grow by nearly a quarter this year, but more of that spending is going to a small number of vendors. Worldwide spending on public cloud services will grow 21.4 percent this year to $186.4bn, up from $153.5bn in 2017, according to analyst firm Gartner....

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Apr 12, 2018

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that it will provide $30 million in funding of data science and big data projects under a program grant that they’re calling BIGDATA.  Additionally, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) are all adding an additional $3 ...

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Apr 11, 2018

Description: On the next This Is My Architecture, Srini from Philips Healthcare walks us through the architecture for Philips HealthSuite Digital Platform - Connect that provide cloud-based services for connected medical devices. He'll explain how they support multiple connectivity and device au...

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Apr 11, 2018

IBM Cloud is everywhere enterprise clients need…in their data center and extending world-wide. Clients can accelerate their journey with IBM Cloud’s consistent experience for their applications, the developers that code them, and operations teams that manage the clusters.

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Apr 10, 2018

Find, classify and protect the personally identifiable information that you manage, and do this all on your mainframe. Reduce your likelihood of a catastrophic data breach. You need to unleash this data by enabling fast and simple development and test approaches. Accelerate your testing to DevOps an...

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Apr 10, 2018

IBM Corp. is looking to make mainframes a better fit for the modern data center — literally. The company late Monday unveiled two miniaturized mainframe models it said are easier to deploy in a public or private cloud facility than their more traditional, much bulkier predecessors. The first n...

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Apr 09, 2018

On this episode of This Is My Architecture, Dan from Evertz explains how they leverage AWS Cloud's high availability, resilience and the scale to power the broadcast signals for over 160 US-based Discovery's channels for satellite delivery. Broadcast requires much more resiliency and uptime ...

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Apr 09, 2018

Today consumers have higher expectations than ever for their digital experiences. To exceed these expectations, businesses must adapt quickly. IBM Z DevOps makes this possible by enabling businesses to innovate with agility and modernize applications for multi-cloud systems. Watch IBM experts discus...

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Apr 09, 2018

A key part of any modern application is the ability to spread the load of user requests to your application across multiple resources, which makes it much easier to scale as traffic naturally goes up and down during the day and the week. Amazon Web Services’ answer to load balancing in the clo...

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Apr 09, 2018

Building a Private Cloud has been the objective of many mid to large companies that want the operational flexibility and quick scalability promised by public cloud vendors and that also want to be able to closely control their data to minimize security risks. But is a private cloud goal just a pipe ...

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Apr 09, 2018

Google Inc. is refusing to let up on the artificial intelligence front. In its latest update, the web giant today announced some major changes to its popular Cloud Speech Application Programming Interface, which was first introduced in 2016. Google said it’s renaming the Cloud Speech API as &l...

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Apr 09, 2018

Cloud vendors have been aggressively targeting the fintechs to ensure that they are compliant with the new regulation coming down the road at them. This includes the likes of the Revised Payment Service Directive (PSD2) and MFID.PSD2 will open the fintech market to new players since it has forced th...

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Apr 06, 2018

Cloud computing is rapidly finding favor among small businesses with an estimated 78 percent of companies forecast to adopt this technology by 2020. And it makes sense, considering the technology has liberated businesses from the shackles of limited storage and memory imposed by external hard drives...

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Apr 05, 2018

Recently, as I was reporting on cloud computing’s effect on the CIO, I kept running into the same idea: The job of CIO is not the technology job it once was. In fact, Forrester Research’s Bobby Cameron said the last time he and his colleagues looked into how many CIOs had a tech backgrou...

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Apr 05, 2018

Owing to the enormous application possibilities with the merger of consumer electronics and the internet, an increasing number of companies are venturing into the digital commerce platform market, and several of them will follow the suit in the near future, making the competitive landscape further f...

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Apr 04, 2018

The Polaris SaaS platform provides a unified system of record to organize all your business information to make it easily discoverable and usable. It provides a platform for a new class of data management applications addressing unified control, search, orchestration, and data intelligence. All buil...

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Apr 04, 2018

Survival of the fittest is not always about strength but almost always about adaptability — a phrase particularly applicable when referring to ransomware. In 2017 alone, ransomware attacks infected hundreds of thousands of devices, significantly impacting countless industries and market segmen...

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Apr 04, 2018

Rubrik began its “second act” today, launching its software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for data management applications. The software-defined storage startup’s flagship product allows companies to manage and archive their data across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. It ...

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Apr 03, 2018

The hybrid cloud is defined as a computing infrastructure that spans one or more public and private clouds. Within the hybrid cloud model, private cloud services may be hosted either on- or off-premises, in a dedicated section of a cloud service provider’s data center. Utilizing the hybrid clo...

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Apr 03, 2018

Following our new IBM Cloud Load Balancer service that went live last year, we’ve just added additional capabilities to enhance your experience in cloud-native network services. Our IBM Cloud Load Balancer is an infrastructure layer (IaaS) load balancer that distributes traffic “locally,...

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Apr 03, 2018

The growth of the cloud computing industry continues to amaze. According to the gurus, we are still looking at annual global growth rates between 18% and 25%. Every new generation of people entering the world's workplaces right now uses the cloud and sees it as obvious, familiar, natural and saf...

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Apr 02, 2018

Try to imagine life without software as a service (SaaS). It’s really hard to do, given how much all of us –businesses, organizations and individuals – rely upon these cloud applications services nearly every day.The more dependent we have become upon SaaS apps, the more important ...

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Apr 02, 2018

The process of animating a feature film has come a long way since 1937, when Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was made. Back then, it took hundreds of artists several years to hand-draw thousands of illustrations, and the project cost of millions of dollars. Today, all that is don...

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Mar 31, 2018

In its first decade, cloud computing was disruptive to IT, but looking into the second decade, it is becoming mature and an expected part of most disruptions. For the past 10 years, cloud computing changed the expectations and capabilities of the IT department, but now it is a necessary catalyst for...

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Mar 30, 2018

Data is omnipresent; the healthcare industry is no exception to this fact. As the Cloud takes over technology at an exponential rate, there is a vast amount of potential for Cloud computing in the healthcare industry. Since the Cloud provides on-demand computing, it has rapidly become the go-to tool...

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Mar 30, 2018

Back in 2010, Australian enterprise software company Atlassian Corp. Plc had the usual problem of fast-growing companies: too many customers — or rather, too many customers for its information technology systems to handle well.When Atlassian launched its first software-as-a-service offerings f...

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Mar 29, 2018

I cannot recall a time when there was more change going on in the technology sector. The latest massive Microsoft reorganization is a case in point.While Windows is dropping from the central platform for Microsoft—a move that was expected when Satya Nadella took over leadership from Steve Ball...

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Mar 29, 2018

If Microsoft Corp.’s employees didn’t already realize cloud computing and artificial intelligence will drive their company’s future much more than its venerable Windows software, they sure know it now. Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella today announced a series of majo...

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Mar 29, 2018

IDC's new primary research surveys thousands of cloud customers, developers and cloud suppliers on a quarterly and annual basis, digging deep into enterprise IT buying behaviors, vendor assessments, and technology adoption.

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Mar 29, 2018

Public cloud providers can offer unrivaled levels of data availability and durability. However, when it comes to data security, they use a shared responsibility model. With a shared responsibility model the cloud vendor is responsible for security of the cloud, including the physical hardware, softw...

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Mar 29, 2018

For 89% of companies, one cloud is not good enough. That’s according to a 2017 Forrester report on cloud adoption. Forty-eight percent use five cloud providers or more, and 41% have two-to-four providers, leaving 11% with just one. Fifty-nine percent say their cloud strategy is hybrid, typical...

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Mar 28, 2018

The traditional electronic security industry, whose origins are rooted in the burglar alarm, is now moving very rapidly toward more complex networked systems and information management. Much discussion has occurred about the role of IT and physical security and the need to work closely together to m...

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Mar 28, 2018

Get an in-depth look at how the Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud can help you easily access your data and analytics to benefit your business today.

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Mar 28, 2018

Cybersecurity experts expressed worry about the surge in cloud computing, highlighting a wide variety of potential issues that have either already cropped up or will crop up in the near future,according to a survey by Crowd Research Partners. The group spoke to more than 1,900 cyber security profess...

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Mar 28, 2018

The benefits of cloud computing continue to make it very attractive for enterprises. More businesses are starting to make use of the cloud and many of those have made an initial move are migrating more of their applications to it. As cloud computing begins to develop, it will become an even more imp...

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Mar 28, 2018

A new research study by TMR Research presents an exhaustive assessment of the global market for cloud robotics. The research report, titled “Cloud Robotics Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2017 – 2025,” assesses the prominent trends,...

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Mar 28, 2018

Users have a lot to gain from database as a service models, and the cloud computing variants of these are the ones that can provide users with easy access to large databases at nearly any given time and location. Accessing this database does not require the used to physically carry the database, or ...

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Mar 27, 2018

This is the third in a five-part blog series that provides a checklist for proactive security and forensic readiness in the AWS cloud environment. This post relates to protecting data within AWS. Data protection has become all the rage for organizations that are processing personal data of individua...

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Mar 26, 2018

When you want cloud, you just turn it on (or off), right? That’s the beauty of the eminently controllable datacentre-driven services-centric cloud computing model of application processing and information storage, right? Well yes, but no, it’s kind of not quite like that, at least not at...

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Mar 25, 2018

Cloud Migration dashboard provides insights into your private cloud usage and cost, side by side with your public cloud usage and cost. Migration dashboard enables you to quickly track, analyze and plan your datacenter migration.

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Mar 23, 2018

In this guest post, Susan Bowen, vice president and general manager at managed service provider Cogeco Peer 1, takes a look at the history of cloud computing, and where enterprises are going with the technology. The late 1960s were optimistic days for technology advancements, reflected headily in th...

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Mar 23, 2018

Almost all of the Netflix’s customer-facing services – like a massive database that creates personalized content recommendations based on prior viewing history – are run in Amazon Web Service’s public cloud.

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Mar 22, 2018

The advent of cloud computing offers businesses many advantages regarding both data security and efficiency. By storing data in the cloud rather than on the hard drives of individual computers or within a local network, you can maximize IT efficiency, requiring less space for storage and free up com...

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Mar 21, 2018

Google Inc. is working on a blockchain-based transactions platform for its cloud service, according to an unconfirmed report published Wednesday. Bloomberg, quoting “people familiar with the situation,” claimed that the as-yet-named blockchain solution is being designed by the search gia...

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Mar 21, 2018

From the minute you chose one of the world’s most popular cloud computing companies as your strategic cloud services provider, your world became multi-cloud. In a multi-cloud world, there’s now every reason to consider and embrace the relative newcomer, Alibaba Cloud. Not just as a speci...

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Mar 20, 2018

IBM Corp. is hoping to entice more enterprises to its cloud platforms with a raft of updates aimed at boosting security and enabling artificial intelligence workloads and “multicloud” deployments. The company’s announcements will be made Tuesday during its annual Think Conference t...

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Mar 19, 2018

Specifically tailored for Software Companies seeking integrated financial software, this infographic from Intacct Corporation looks to share the true benefits of cloud financials for software companies.

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Mar 19, 2018

The kickoff of this week’s inaugural IBM Thinkevent in Las Vegas, Nevada, represents a new approach by the technology company now well into its second century of operation. For years, IBM Corp. held smaller, niche events focused on various technical areas of the business. Now, the company is f...

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Mar 19, 2018

Companies today need the ability to easily and securely collect, store and analyze their data at a massive scale. IBM Cloud Object Storage is built to store any amount of data and retrieve it from anywhere on the web.

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Mar 19, 2018

The great migration to the cloud is underway. As part of it, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become an incredibly popular destination for organizations making the move to cloud computing. As new workloads are deployed on AWS and IT organizations are freed from having to purchase, deploy, operate, and ...

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Mar 19, 2018

Applying a foundational transformation means reinventing your platform and the way you address problem solving across your enterprise. The IBM Cloud Adoption and Transformation framework and consultancy offers a proven, comprehensive approach, based on the seven dimensions of digital transformation,...

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Mar 19, 2018

Several years ago, IBM and VMware set out to tackle two pressing industry challenges.The first was to help clients extend existing VMware workloads from on-premises environments to the cloud without having to retool operations, rearchitect applications and redesign security policies. This would help...

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Mar 19, 2018

Practically everyone in the West has heard of “the cloud,” but not everyone knows what it means. Even those who frequently use the cloud may have misconceptions about its risks and benefits. To put rumors to rest, here are some of the most widely circulated myths being floated about the ...

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Mar 16, 2018

IBM Corp. today unveiled a new data science and machine learning platform that one executive called “the most significant announcement we’ve made about data in years.”Featuring an in-memory database, a real-time processing engine and the ability to ingest and analyze massive amount...

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Mar 16, 2018

IBM Corp. today unveiled a new data science and machine learning platform that one executive called “the most significant announcement we’ve made about data in years.”Featuring an in-memory database, a real-time processing engine and the ability to ingest and analyze massive amount...

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Mar 16, 2018

IBM Corp. today unveiled a new data science and machine learning platform that one executive called “the most significant announcement we’ve made about data in years.”Featuring an in-memory database, a real-time processing engine and the ability to ingest and analyze massive amount...

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Mar 16, 2018

AWS allows you to build seamless connected brand experiences inside and outside of the vehicle. The AWS IoT Platform provides the ability to reliably and securely connect and manage billions of vehicles, and provides local computing even when not connected

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Mar 16, 2018

Akshay Bhargava, VP of Oracle Cloud Business Group, discusses the benefits of Oracle's secure cloud and additional cloud security services that include automation and machine learning.

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Mar 16, 2018

First there was Moore’s law, the complexity and computing power of hardware doubles every two years.  Then, in 2014, Greg O’Connor, former CEO of AppZero, in a post on GigaOm proposed a similar law for Cloud Computing and called it Bezos law:  “over the history of the clo...

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Mar 16, 2018

IBM continued its onslaught of news ahead of next week’s Think 2018 event, with the latest involving a cloud analytics platform that can ingest and analyze 1 million events per second.The Cloud Private for Data platform integrates various IBM data science, data engineering, application buildin...

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Mar 16, 2018

Cloud computing is now powering the next generation of technology–from artificial intelligence (AI) to Internet of Things (IoT) to machine learning, offering government agencies scalability and agility to support and analyze a massive influx of data for more informed decision making.Yet, many ...

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Mar 15, 2018

The cloud is an excellent alternative to an abundance of expensive and complicated on-premises solutions; however, it is far from a simple turnkey experience. Getting the most out of your cloud solution requires finding the right provider, plan, and configuration for your enterprise.

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Mar 15, 2018

IBM has announced that it is partnering with Cloudflare to provide DDoS protection, security tools, and website acceleration services to its customers. The partnership will translate into a full range shop for performance and security capabilities that are aimed at protecting public-facing applicati...

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Mar 15, 2018

IBM Corp. said today it will offer the Kubernetes software container orchestration platform on bare-metal servers, becoming the first cloud infrastructure provider to make that option available. The IBM Cloud Container Service is aimed at organizations that are running data- and processor-intensive ...

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Mar 14, 2018

IBM and VMware have joined forces in a strategic partnership. Together, we have streamlined hybrid cloud adoption to help you extend your existing workloads to the cloud with full access to the native VMware stack.

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Mar 14, 2018

Cloud computing is global in nature, and that means compliance and data protection must be, too. The worldwide cloud computing market is expected to reach $160 billion in 2018, a 23 percent increase over 2017, according to IDC projections. With key advantages like speed to market and cost efficiency...

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Mar 14, 2018

Web security company Cloudflare announced the general availability of Cloudflare Workers, which enable developers to launch their code directly at the edge of the company’s global network.Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Workers beta in September. The company said since then, customers in the b...

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Mar 14, 2018

IBM Corp. said today it will offer the Kubernetes software container orchestration platform on bare-metal servers, becoming the first cloud infrastructure provider to make that option available.The IBM Cloud Container Service is aimed at organizations that are running data- and processor-intensive w...

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Mar 13, 2018

Capitalizing on new and existing data sources requires a lightweight, agile, multicloud approach to integration.

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Mar 13, 2018

Organizations worldwide are on an irreversible march towards embracing multiple clouds, drawn by the greater agility and flexibility, the specific functionality each one offers, as well as improved efficiencies and the ability to adapt to the fast-moving digital way of doing business. Numbers from I...

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Mar 13, 2018

The cloud computing market continues on  a tear and is expected to reach $53.3 billion in revenues by 2021, according to 451 Research.  90 percent of businesses are using some form of the cloud, and 451 Research forecasts that by the end of next year 60 percent of business workloads will a...

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Mar 13, 2018

For the first time, the Defense Department will begin moving classified data and applications to Amazon Web Services’ Secret Region—the same cloud environment developed for the CIA and intelligence community several years ago. U.S. Transportation Command—the part of the department ...

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Mar 13, 2018

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) upgrades are not for the faint of heart, but facilitating two such transitions in successive years while also outsourcing ERP in a hybrid cloud model is a bold undertaking. Sloan Valve CIO Tom Coleman is tackling these challenges to better position the plumbing pro...

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Mar 13, 2018

In my conversations with the #CIOChat over the last couple of years, it is clear that in the next three years, on-premises will become more the exception as SaaS and public cloud obtain a majority of computing workloads. Given this, I wanted to get these CIO’s take on what is needed for public...

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Mar 12, 2018

Rather than simply comprising a cost to do business, information technology (IT) should link with and complement business strategy. This requires an efficient, flexible and resilient infrastructure that is primed to anticipate and respond rapidly to shifting business requirements. These requirements...

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Mar 12, 2018

Adding to the versatility of Azure Stack, HPE’s ProLiant servers is also one of the first hybrid cloud solutions to make it possible for companies to consistently run Azure services in their data center. It also provides a more simplified working environment that will ensure flexibility and se...

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Mar 12, 2018

As enterprises gain experience with cloud computing, the practical limits with public cloud options become more obvious. Hybrid cloud is the necessary response, but enterprises face a range of options for bringing the cloud experience to their data’s locations. A lot of new technology is queue...

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Mar 12, 2018

The Managed Service Provider (MSP) model under VMware Cloud Provider Program (VCPP) enables partners to leverage VMware Cloud services to broaden their technology portfolio and provide value added functionality with their unique managed services. VMware Cloud services consists of several services th...

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Mar 09, 2018

Dropbox and Salesforce have entered into a partnership which will see the two cloud-native firms mix their services together. The partnership will not only involve service integration but will also see the two companies enter into shared marketing efforts and have a joint commitment to broadening th...

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Mar 09, 2018

Moving all or part of your operations to a public cloud provider will be the most substantial decision many CTOs and CIOs will make in their careers, and a misstep could cripple your company for years. For some, the decision is strictly a cloud cost comparison, though trying to compare costs across ...

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Mar 09, 2018

Years ago, the notion of hybrid cloud bursting was compelling: How cool is it to have workloads on both private and public clouds and be able to run those workloads on the private cloud during normal operations and burst to the public cloud when resources on the private cloud were running low? Priva...

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Mar 09, 2018

There’s a race among cloud vendors Amazon, Microsoft, Google and IBM. But the race isn’t just about securing the most revenues from customers, there’s also a race for claiming territory by filing patents on intellectual property. In 2017, for example, IBM filed 9043 patents, the mo...

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Mar 07, 2018

On the next This Is My Architecture, learn about the architecture powering VMware Cloud on AWS. We will show how VMware uses multiple AWS services, including S3, CloudFormation, IAM, Lambda, and the new EC2 i3.metal instance type, to deliver a solution that combines the consistency and compatibility...

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Mar 07, 2018

Enterprise adoption of cloud computing has created a paradox, according to one market researcher: Although companies move to the cloud to take advantage of lower costs, most of them end up spending more on their cloud infrastructures than they did with installations in their own data centers.451 Res...

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Mar 07, 2018

You haven’t moved to the cloud yet? In this Azure Every Day installment, I’d like to tell you the top 5 reasons why you may want to move your infrastructure to the cloud.

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Mar 06, 2018

With the further development of the cloud computing market, organizations are becoming more convinced that cloud computing is not just a technology shift. Cloud computing has an impact on all organizational layers, starting with the IT departments and the IT professionals working within these depart...

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Mar 06, 2018

You probably hear a lot these days about small and medium-sized businesses moving their operations to the cloud. Even so, just why you should take the leap to the cloud still may be unclear. After all, it wasn’t too long ago that the term cloud computing burst onto the IT scene.

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Mar 06, 2018

When the data scientists at messaging software maker Synchronoss Technologies Inc. embarked upon a new project in 2014 to store, manage and extract insights from the massive amounts of data produced in their business, they thought they had found the answer to their prayers: red-hot software with the...

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Mar 06, 2018

The Pentagon has reportedly slashed a contract worth almost $1 billion that was awarded last month to one of the partners of Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing unit. The Washington Post reported late Monday that the Pentagon has cut the value of the contract with REAN Cloud LLC from its origina...

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Mar 06, 2018

It may seem like businesses move to the cloud in a single, sweeping motion, but the reality of cloud migration is far more complex. According to 451 Research's cloud transformation journey model, released Tuesday, there are four key phases in the process. Using literature references, 451 Researc...

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Mar 05, 2018

The cloud has many benefits, but we must be clear-eyed about the downsides as well. Here are a few things to consider. Not so long ago I went to the opening of a gigantic new datacentre on the outskirts of London. It was a cold day and, despite a few heaters scattered around the hall, most of the he...

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Mar 05, 2018

Big data analytics has emerged in recent years as the heart of the digital business, the basis for turning data into a business value that drives differentiating operations and customer experiences.
But even as big data analytics, or BDA, has become a boardroom conversation, too often the dis...

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Mar 02, 2018

Discover CloudGuard, Check Point's advanced cloud security solution. The cloud enables business benefits like agile computing and elastic scalability, but also introduces new cloud security challenges. The responsibility to secure cloud environments is now shared by you and your cloud provider.

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Mar 01, 2018

With over a decade into the market, AWS continues to dominate the public cloud infrastructure space by a sizable margin. Most companies have migrated to AWS with a clear mindset to reap the benefits of cloud services such as increased agility, improved efficiency, accelerated development and cost ef...

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Mar 01, 2018

The continuing digitization and globalization of our economy is becoming increasingly reliant on the control and processing of personal data. And while this presents enormous opportunities for business, it accompanies a growing public awareness and concern for the importance of personal data protect...

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Mar 01, 2018

Many cloud developers espouse the benefits of serverless computing, but others find the approach unwieldy or difficult to manage. The AWS Serverless Application Repository, one of several AWS features released into general availability in February, can help wary developers join the Lambda fraternity...

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Mar 01, 2018

The impending death of the cloud computing has been a hot topic among venture capitalists and information technology industry analysts, including Peter Levine, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz LLC. “[The] sensor data explosion will kill the cloud,” Levine said in his talk “Th...

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Mar 01, 2018

Thanks to cloud computing the days of running applications and programs from software that you've downloaded onto your physical computer are now over. Many businesses are now using cloud computing instead. This allows them to access these same applications through the internet. Throughout this y...

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Mar 01, 2018

The cloud is supposed to make IT easy.  That might be the end game goal, but the process of migrating to and aligning with the cloud may actually create a world in IT that is more complex than ever. The tasks of interconnecting the pieces can be daunting. Skills are needed to migrate to the clo...

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Feb 27, 2018

With cyber attacks frequently making headlines, and May's introduction of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) leading organisations to look closer at how they securely store data, it's understandable that businesses are making disaster recovery and business continuity a high priority. ...

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Feb 25, 2018

This week, telecommunications experts will gather in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, the industry’s premier event and a chance for tech companies to show off their latest innovations in areas as diverse as 5G technology, artificial intelligence, and the cloud. Although the cloud is far fr...

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Feb 23, 2018

On 25 May 2018, the most significant piece of European data protection legislation to be introduced in 20 years will come into force. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) replaces the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive. The GDPR strengthens the rights that individuals have regarding perso...

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Feb 22, 2018

IBM plans to sow its latest crop of U.S. patents with a strong cloud emphasis, and prepare a feast for its hungry customers. A substantial number of IBM patents for 2017 — more than 1900 out of 9043 total patents — were for cloud technologies, the company disclosed last month. Those numb...

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Feb 21, 2018

Cloud migration can be one of the most important moves an organization makes, bringing new levels of agility, scalability, and cost efficiency—but the journey isn’t always a smooth one. As with any major initiative, it’s crucial to have a well-designed process in place before you b...

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Feb 16, 2018

Most Enterprises are wasting almost 35 percent of their cloud spend due to inefficient use of cloud and many businesses are seeing their cloud spend spin wildly out of control—spiking unpredictably, trending sharply upward, and quickly exceeding their previous IT budgets thanks to ineffective ...

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Feb 16, 2018

Cloud computing is not a new technology but its implementation in the recent times is ushering tremendous transformation in the way business is carried out in the banking sector. This technology is helping in create a flexible, agile business model to meet the demands of the dynamic and competitive ...

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Feb 15, 2018

Launched in 2011, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has had to do some catching up to market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS), its most direct competitor as a purer cloud play. But Google had no experience servicing large enterprise IT, and so has spent several years playing catchup.
Rather than be...

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Feb 14, 2018

IT infrastructures using private and public clouds are gaining momentum. When moving to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS) models, your internal IT team — as well as managed services providers — needs to undergo a major chang...

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Feb 14, 2018

This paper describes the background of and challenges faced in metro network. It also describes the cloud-based BNG with control plane and user plane(C/U) separated architecture and the future evolution of the cloud-based metro network architecture.

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Feb 14, 2018

This white paper examines the issues, process and technologies which can be adopted to provide public sector organisations with a springboard to the cloud.

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Feb 14, 2018

Veritas Technologies on Feb. 14 released CloudPoint 2.0, the latest edition of its snapshot-based data protection software. Veritas, which has been on its own as a private company for three years since its 10-year “marriage” to Symantec ended in 2015, thus rolled out its biggest news sin...

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Feb 14, 2018

Serverless computing is rapidly emerging as a viable option for enterprises looking to run cloud-native workloads, according to a new whitepaper published by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation this week.The CNCF defines serverless computing as a framework for building and running applications tha...

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Feb 13, 2018

The AWS Cloud provides a broad set of infrastructure services, such as computing power, storage options, networking and databases that are delivered as a utility: on-demand, available in seconds, with pay-as-you-go pricing. From data warehousing to deployment tools, directories to content delivery, ...

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Feb 13, 2018

As organizations have expanded cloud appropriation in the course of the last few years, public cloud spending has now become a significant portion of enterprise IT budgets. While the advantages of the cloud are clear, the on-request nature of cloud utilizes frequently brings about uncontrolled cloud...

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Feb 13, 2018

Leaders in governments worldwide are using cloud technologies with impressive results. DC predicts that mashups of the four technology pillars – cloud, mobile, social and big data – will begin to significantly transform key government services in 2014 and beyond.

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Feb 13, 2018

The rise of virtualization as a business tool has revolutionized the way companies operate today. By decoupling data from the underlying physical hardware, businesses are freed from the limitations imposed by a need to keep their data within arm’s reach—it can now be stored anywhere in t...

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Feb 13, 2018

In January 2018, RightScale conducted its seventh annual State of the Cloud Survey of the latest cloud computing trends, with a focus on infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service.
Both public and private cloud adoption grew in 2018, with larger enterprises increasing their focus o...

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Feb 13, 2018

One of the likely outcomes of moving to the public cloud is altering how products are designed, a recent Harvard Business Review article shows. With cloud, there is closer collaboration between corporate IT departments and business units—sales, finance, forecasting, and even customer interacti...

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Feb 12, 2018

Trimble is a global leader in telematics solutions. They had a significant investment in on-premises hardware in North America and Europe running Oracle databases. Rather than refresh the hardware and renew the licenses, they opted to migrate the databases to AWS.

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Feb 09, 2018

Many businesses have invested large amounts of time and money in on premise security policies and controls. When you work with Google Cloud's technology partners, you‘re able to take your existing controls into the cloud, and mitigate its unique threats more effectively.

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Feb 07, 2018

Cloud VR introduces cloud computing and cloud rendering for VR services. Fast and stable networks allow the implementation of cloud-based VR service content and content rendering where display output and audio output are coded, compressed, and transmitted to user terminals.

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Feb 07, 2018

The best companion to DevOps is the public cloud. While the principles and practices of DevOps can be applied to and can benefit private clouds and internal applications, organizations that have applications in the public cloud find that DevOps practitioners can provide even greater benefit. First, ...

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Feb 07, 2018

To help our customers better understand Alibaba Cloud products and services, we have just released a product and service comparison article - Alibaba Cloud Product Comparison. If you are planning on building a multi-cloud cloud architecture or considering to migrate to Alibaba Cloud, this article is...

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Feb 07, 2018

Recent years have seen a noticeable increase in large-scale cyberattacks that compromise a significant amount of sensitive data or cause substantial business disruption. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. collectively refers to such breaches as “Gen V” threats, the risk of which it&r...

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Feb 06, 2018

Total Size of Cloud Computing Industry to be $150 Billion in 2014 as compared to $46 Billion in 2008.The current spending for global public IT services in 2012 was more than $40 billion, but with a CAGR (compound annual growth rate) of 26.4 percent for the period of 2012–2016, it is expected t...

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Feb 06, 2018

Whether it’s the world’s largest insurance company, or the local PR consultancy, it is clear that cloud computing is big business. IHS estimates that global business spending on the cloud (infrastructure and services) reached $174.2 billion at the end of 2014, up 20 percent from 2013.1 B...

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Feb 06, 2018

With new market demands driving an emphasis on application availability that is outpacing legacy data center design, it’s imperative that IT leadership starts to plan a transition to the next generation data center.

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Feb 06, 2018

Cloud services are becoming so ubiquitous that they will account for virtually all data center traffic within the next three years, according to a new report from Cisco Systems Inc. The latest Cisco Global Cloud Index published this week says both business and consumer applications are contributing ...

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Feb 06, 2018

Cloud Computing has been enjoying increasing popularity among large, but also small and medium-sized companies for several years now. The first cloud computing services are only about ten years old. What is special about cloud computing and what are the benefits of using it? Cloud computing is the p...

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Feb 05, 2018

Cloud computing is revolutionizing many aspects of business. In particular, the ability to provide technology platforms and infrastructure “as a service” is driving positive change in IT operations, helping companies bridge the gap to digital innovation, quickly and cost effectively.

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Feb 05, 2018

A robust SaaS product can be built with a minimalist approach, for example, Tomcat, mySQL, XML, Struts 2.0, POJO and JSP are all it takes to build a SaaS application/product using Java technology. And it can work very well too. However, there are additional tools/techniques that can be utilized effe...

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Feb 05, 2018

Meet Adam, an IT Security Analyst working in the finance industry (USA). Watch this video to learn how Adam transitioned to a cloud technology role and was able to increase productivity and reduce downtime.

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Feb 01, 2018

CIOs find digital transformation often demands not only technological change but also a re-imagination of roles, skills and culture. This report examines how CIOs are changing themselves and their organisations to ready themselves for the future. Today, these changes require going beyond simply intr...

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Feb 01, 2018

This WP does not constitute any relations between the recipient of this WP and Crowd Machine. This WP does not constitute a prospectus or offer document of any sort, and is not intended to constitute an offer for securities or a solicitation for investment in securities in Crowd Machine or any relat...

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Jan 31, 2018

1,400 IT security professionals from around the globe report their organizations have been adopting cloud at a rapid pace and trusting more sensitive data to reside there.

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Jan 31, 2018

In this series, Ram and Sai Vennam, IBM Cloud developers, introduce IBM Cloud. They give you an inside view into adding an on-prem resource to a cloud-native app, developing new serverless actions and connecting a cloud weather data service.

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Jan 31, 2018

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) describes three ways to deliver cloud computing capabilities: Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

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Jan 31, 2018

Corelogic partners with Oracle Consulting to adopt and take their business to the cloud.

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Jan 31, 2018

A hybrid cloud model is becoming one of the most popular approaches to IT across every industry. By utilizing CROSS CONNECTED CLOUD, Accelera's hybrid cloud solution, it will allow organization to solve key challenges, achieve certain mandates (such as DCOI, FedRAMP or FISMA to name a few) and i...

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Jan 31, 2018

Greetings from Cisco Live Barcelona! It’s great to be here, sharing and showcasing the big things Cisco and our partners are doing to help our customers embrace multicloud. We announced one of those big things earlier today. The Cisco Container Platform is a new Cisco software offer to simplif...

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Jan 31, 2018

Quantum computing is coming to a data center or cloud near you; it is poised to become part of the mainstream technology world, and its potential implications are staggering. For starters, it will be blazing fast, beyond anyone’s current experience with computers – making the real-time e...

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Jan 30, 2018

Cloud Computing refers to flexible, network accessible computing resource pools that can be allocated to meet demand. Flexible - Your computing resources can be adjusted on-demand so you only use and pay for what your current demand requires.

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Jan 30, 2018

Extending its reach in the cloud, Microsoft Corp. today announced its Azure Event Grid service is now generally available. The service is a key part of the company’s strategy for serverless computing, which is a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider automatically manages ...

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Jan 30, 2018

You know cloud computing is here to stay when the accountants take notice. The Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Emerging Issues Task Force plans to propose new rules for how to deal with cloud computing service costs. The updated guidance means that a customer under contract with a cloud...

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Jan 30, 2018

Providing secure management of systems located anywhere is critical. Experts explain how Cisco Intersight adheres to more than 130 InfoSec requirements while ensuring greater security and compliance on the systems it supports.

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Jan 30, 2018

Earlier this month, Gemalto released its 2018 Global Cloud Data Security Study based on responses from 3,285 IT and IT security practitioners from the US, UK, Australia, Germany, France, Japan, India and Brazil involved in both public and private cloud. This highlighted some clear regional differenc...

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Jan 29, 2018

It seems that every year, a new set of cloud computing technologies emerge and shake up the enterprise market. Containers and serverless were buzzworthy in 2017, but what other new trends will this year bring? AI is expected to be a hot topic, as organizations look to gain more business value out of...

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Jan 29, 2018

Having your head in the cloud used to be a shortcoming, but in today’s cloud-dominated business environment, many are struggling to find skilled professionals with cloud expertise for their companies. According to an IBM article, the cloud skills shortage is becoming an increasing problem as &...

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Jan 29, 2018

On-premise computing will be dead soon, according to a presentation by Gartner Research Vice President Milind Govekar.  The only data centers with any chance of surviving are those that will deploy artificial intelligence and machine learning to become efficient. Govekar thinks that as early as...

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Jan 29, 2018

We've heard from developers that they're interested in adding value to their applications, improving security, and ensuring uptime. We've created an e-book that provides all the technical details they need and explores exciting solutions.

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Jan 28, 2018

Telstra’s Cloud Management Platform Network, powered by RightScale, allows you to visualize your operations and gain insights from a single unified view of your cloud services. It combines self-service for developers, cloud management for ops teams and Cloud Analytics for cost management so yo...

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Jan 27, 2018

Storj which is pronounced as “storage,” is the first decentralized end-to-end encrypted cloud storage that uses cryptography and blockchain technology which provide security to your files. Storj does not have a data center of its own. Instead, Storj allows users to sell their unused stor...

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Jan 25, 2018

You might read the headline statement that the cost of cloud computing is dropping and say “Well, duh!”. Or maybe you’re on the other side of the fence. A coworker recently referred me to a very interesting blog on the Kapwing site that states Cloud costs aren’t actually drop...

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Jan 25, 2018

Public, private, hybrid — there are a lot of qualifiers used when describing sectors of the cloud market.  IDC has a new one: the ‘whole cloud’.  The whole cloud is a sum of public, private and hybrid cloud.  It also includes cloud-based services, software and infras...

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Jan 25, 2018

Google and Cisco might be falling behind in the cloud wars, but they aren’t giving up. Their recently announced partnership for the hybrid cloud aims to bring them both forward in the fight against their bigger cloud computing competitors, namely AWS and Azure.

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Jan 24, 2018

Cloud technology is flexible and accessible out of the office. Workers can boost interaction within their community and even work remotely which boosts productivity.

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Jan 24, 2018

Nowadays, we are being offered a wide variety of storage options, such as direct attached storage, networked storage, and Internet-based public storage services. Since different types of storage services are designed for different purposes, we often use several of them to meet different needs.

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Jan 24, 2018

Across all industries, discussion of migration to cloud services have become commonplace. In fact, it is one of the first considerations when discussing IT cost reduction. While cost savings, speed of deployment and scalability top the list of business motivations, an increasing number of enterprise...

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Jan 24, 2018

Digital transformation has changed virtually everything in the business world. Old ways of working are no longer enough to keep up with the rapid pace of innovation and market change. Whether you’re a tech startup born in the digital world or a hundred-year-old company establishing new process...

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Jan 23, 2018

A survey of cloud and on-premise solution users found that there were twice the number of brute-force attacks on on-prem as opposed to cloud solutions, due to the need to upgrade firmware, which exposes the network to vulnerabilities.

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Jan 23, 2018

Journeys to the cloud don't have to be cloudy. Learn how the powerful combination of hybrid cloud and IBM Bluemix can deliver 40% savings over standard migration practices.

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Jan 22, 2018

The driving force(s) for cloud adoption varies widely by organization. Whether it’s the perceived financial benefits, a pending office relocation, increased agility, or the appeal to get out of the business of managing hardware and data centers. However, sometimes the benefits of cloud don&rsq...

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Jan 19, 2018

Many organizations are implementing Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) technology to protect critical corporate data stored within cloud apps. Amongst many other preventative and detective controls, a key feature of CASBs is the ability to encrypt data stored within cloud apps. At the highest level...

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Jan 19, 2018

Understand why cloud computing services came to stay and is much more than just a trend. The service streamlines your IT performance and leaves your team free to focus on your customers. Want to know more?

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Jan 18, 2018

We all know that, although Google has become a name synonymous with tech success, it has always been in the shadows of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure when it comes to cloud computing. Now, it seems that Google Cloud Platform is falling behind again in regards to serverless computing. Google...

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Jan 18, 2018

VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure enables customers to connect their own instance of Microsoft Azure to the incredibly intuitive Horizon Cloud control plane, to create a secure, comprehensive, cloud-hosted solution for delivering virtualized Windows applications and session desktops.

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Jan 18, 2018

Infrastructure as code with HashiCorp Terraform enables operators to automate provisioning at scale. This comes with risks, as every action can have larger effects. Sentinel policy as code places guardrails to protect users from creating infrastructure changes that fall outside of business, security...

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Jan 17, 2018

The writing is on the wall. The cloud is the future of data center strategy, and more and more companies are finding value in it. The only real variable here is how much of a company’s environment will be cloud-hosted. Some companies have very little data in the cloud, while others are almost ...

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Jan 17, 2018

Because of the costs to buy and maintain mainframe computers, it was not practical for an organisation to buy and maintain one for every employee. Nor did the typical user need the large (at the time) storage capacity and processing power that a mainframe provided. Providing shared access to a singl...

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Jan 17, 2018

IT executives are in one of the most dynamic, challenging business environments of all time. The business expects speed; the IT function strives to keep up while pursuing innovation and efficiency. Many CIOs recognize that cloud is a possible solution to achieving both but they are uncertain about t...

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Jan 17, 2018

Google is rolling out another expansion to its cloud computing platform by adding five new regions. This will allow them to offer cloud services with endpoints closer to their customers. To further improve cloud performance, Google also plans to build three more dedicated undersea cables with improv...

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Jan 17, 2018

Cloud computing has multiplied its market size many times over in the past decade and continues to be strong. It’s truly rare for a technological force to witness such sustainable success. Well, unless it has to do with the “Transformers” franchise or the new “Star Trek&rdquo...

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Jan 16, 2018

Watch the HPE and Accenture partnership video as Chip McCullough discusses the benefits of using HPE Synergy, a composable infrastructure platform supporting a hybrid cloud approach for on-premise and public cloud.

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Jan 15, 2018

In the latest Tech Pro Research survey, 68% of respondents said their companies are either using or considering the hybrid cloud. 99% of those predict some of their systems and applications will be cloud-based within the next five years. They're getting on board with hybrid cloud for lots of rea...

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Jan 15, 2018

The rising use of cloud computing makes security forensics no less important--only harder. The standards organization, Cloud Security Alliance, tracks forensic readiness as part of their Security and Risk Management domain and notes that the ability to identify, obtain, preserve, and analyze potenti...

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Jan 15, 2018

The XenMobile Service offers a number of great advantages, including reduced infrastructure overhead, simplified administration (Citrix owns all XenMobile Server patching), and the dependability that comes with regimented and repeatable deployment architectures that are characteristic of cloud servi...

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Jan 11, 2018

Cloud computing careers are growing at a fast pace. See what it takes to become a cloud computing expert.

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Jan 11, 2018

Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN) is, quite simply, the backbone of hybrid cloud for enterprise applications. It’s the backbone of a secure digital perimeter. Simply said, it’s the foundation of modern networking requirements. Just look at the trend of SD-WAN acquisitions that happened in th...

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Jan 11, 2018

Blockchain transactions, AI-enabled farming, weather and climate forecasting, wearable medical devices, industrial robots, automated vehicles, smart home devices the enormous complexity of the datasphere is dependent on data centers. Without cloud and edge computing hard drives, our data-driven worl...

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Jan 10, 2018

Cloud providers are beginning to provide infrastructure to support a range of modern approaches to software development and maintenance, such as containerisation, infrastructure-as-code and continuous integration. These approaches make the development and change management of services in the cloud s...

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Jan 10, 2018

Compared to the majority of other ICO-launches on the market n’cloud. swiss is not a start-up operation. The initiator of n’cloud. swiss AG - Netkom IT Services GmbH - is a Swiss based IT & cloud provider with a proven track record of 17 years of successful operations in various coun...

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Jan 10, 2018

Cloud computing technologies are evolving, and have penetrated deep into a vast plethora of industries. Quick access to information, organized and secure storage mechanisms and seamless shareability being the key attributes of cloud computing, it has made its way into the IT infrastructure of almost...

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Jan 10, 2018

Businesses are embracing cloud computing to meet today’s needs and the demands of tomorrow. However, Hybrid Cloud poses challenges.

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Jan 09, 2018

In a short span of time, Cloud Computing has gained great popularity among the IT Heads and CEOs. The reason being its cost-effectiveness as their no upfront-cost or long-term commitment attached to it.

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Jan 08, 2018

When on-premises IT was the only game in town, corporate IT had to invest long-term. With the public cloud, there is another option. While there are many positives in shifting to public cloud, some organizations are better served by maintaining (and expanding) corporate IT asset portfolios.

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Jan 08, 2018

In a world of automation and set it and forget it IT resources, there is something quaint about physically handling a piece of equipment nightly, especially equipment based on technology that was invented nearly 70 years ago, back in 1951. What equipment am I talking about? Nope, I’m not talki...

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Jan 05, 2018

It was all the way back in 2009 that Cisco first began to integrate WebEx with TelePresence endpoints — hybrid cloud before hybrid cloud was the next big thing. At the time, it was called Cisco TelePresence WebEx One Touch, which begat WebEx One Touch 2.0, which then begat WebEx Enabled TelePr...

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Jan 05, 2018

To meet peak usage demands, more and more HPC environments are taking advantage of cloud computing.  In this video, learn how IBM Spectrum LSF enables organizations to easily build out an intelligent dynamic hybrid cloud, which grows and shrinks in response to demand, so you only pay for what y...

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Jan 04, 2018

As the number of devices built for the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to grow, you’ve likely heard the term edge computing being used more frequently. With items like drones and advanced robots, these devices are increasing in their complexity. As a result, they require rapid processing of...

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Jan 04, 2018

As organizations adopt one or more public clouds they are faced with the challenge of securely providing access to secret material, such as usernames and passwords, API tokens, encryption keys, and TLS certificates. This problem is known as secret management, and there are several primary challenges...

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Jan 04, 2018

SIMSOLID Cloud is currently in beta (you can try it here), but is based on the same technology pioneered in our popular desktop application. Embedded in Onshape, SIMSOLID Cloud works on the original, fully featured CAD geometry and does not require any geometry simplification. SIMSOLID delivers your...

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Jan 03, 2018

RancherOS is one of the most popular container management platform used for running Docker. It runs Docker directly on top of the kernel and delivers Linux services as containers. Its popularity draws from its features that offer numerous advantages to its users, which include convenient usability, ...

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Jan 02, 2018

The amount of new technologies in 2017 has been overwhelming: The cloud was adopted faster than analysts projected and brought several new tools with it; AI was introduced into just about all areas of our lives; IoT and edge computing emerged; and a slew of cloud-native technologies came into fruiti...

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Jan 02, 2018

Edge computing is an approach to data processing and resource management in the cloud that can dramatically improve communication between mobile applications, gadgets, and cloud nodes. Edge computing remains a relatively novel practice, but it is an increasingly important one as organizations move m...

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Jan 02, 2018

First of all, I hate doing yearly predictions. Also, this is the time of year that every PR firm in the country asks me to read the cloud computing predictions of their clients, which are all pretty much wrong and self-serving. So, I’ve put together four cloud predictions for 2018 that you won...

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Jan 01, 2018

Users expect the online experience to be always available and always secure — and for their personal and business assets to be safe. As more data and business processes move online, organizations are challenged to protect websites and infrastructure without sacrificing performance for security...

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Jan 01, 2018

Security teams have lost visibility into their networks. As recently as a few years ago, network boundaries were well-defined and data and devices easily identified. But a tsunami of new developments means that not only have we lost the boundaries of the network, but we have lost control over how an...

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Dec 28, 2017

An increasing number of enterprises are realizing the benefits of utilizing cloud platforms to support employee productivity, collaboration and business innovation. The benefits of switching to the cloud are far-reaching and can include reduced operational costs, higher accessibility and lower maint...

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Dec 27, 2017

VMware Identity Manager and AirWatch enterprise mobility management are o ered as cloud services or as packaged software you can install behind the firewall based on your requirements. On-premises connectors provide a bridge between your directory and the cloud. VMware Identity Manager was built fro...

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Dec 21, 2017

Transform data protection from cost center to business enabler Leading organizations don’t think of data protection in traditional back-office terms—and that’s no accident. They think and act like service providers, and in doing so transform data protection operations from mere cos...

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Dec 21, 2017

In 2018, accelerated cloud migration will fuel digital transformation. How do we know?  According to Forrester, the total global public cloud market will continue to grow at a 22% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), with more than 50% of global enterprises relying on at least one public cloud p...

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Dec 21, 2017

Dome9 delivers verifiable cloud infrastructure security and compliance to enterprises. The Dome9 Arc SaaS platform allows organizations to visualize network.

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Dec 21, 2017

As cloud computing has proliferated in both scope and popularity, so have the ways in which businesses use the cloud to meet their needs. Today’s cloud ecosystem includes an acronym soup of services – SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, and the like – as well as a variety of different deployment mod...

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Dec 21, 2017

Silicon Valley insider, John Woodall: Data-driven companies can master hybrid cloud with effective data management.

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Dec 21, 2017

Having the ability to protect applications and supporting data in a public cloud environment is a critical component of all organizations security governance protocols. On December 15, 2017 IBM added a new security service to the London Region to help you build data-at-rest security into the IBM Clo...

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Dec 20, 2017

Docker Enterprise Edition (Docker EE) is a Container-as-a-Service platform for IT that manages and secures diverse applications across disparate infrastructure. It’s designed for enterprise development and IT teams who build, ship, and run business-critical applications in production and at sc...

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Dec 20, 2017

Businesses of all sizes are embracing public Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions to improve efficiencies, drive innovation and increase responsiveness to competitors and the market. In fact, analyst firm Gartner predicts adoption of public IaaS services will grow “38.6% in 2017 and re...

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Dec 19, 2017

Cloud deployment has many advantages over the traditional on-premise model of implementation. Here are four key areas where cloud computing beats the alternative. Cloud computing is now the choice platform for many technology enterprises due to its innovative and dynamic features. As opposed to on-p...

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Dec 18, 2017

Data is everything. And with every new technology, it continues to grow exponentially which makes how you store, secure and access your data critically important. IBM Cloud Object Storage offers flexible and scalable storage, giving you space for everything your business knows, does or cares about&m...

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Dec 18, 2017

Hear a partner perspective from COMPAREX on where they see customers' focus for their digital transformation and hybrid cloud expectations, and how VMware vRealize plays a key role.

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Dec 14, 2017

Twelve months is a long time in cloud computing (just think back on all the new developments 2017 brought us) but I’ll willingly uphold this time-honored tradition by asking my own crystal ball what the future holds. Without further ado, here are my 2018 Cloud Predictions.

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Dec 14, 2017

Cloud applications, platforms and services are changing the way enterprises compete for customers. The implementation of cloud technology promises business transformation and modernization, while adding product value and meeting the increasingly demanding needs of applications – maneuvering ev...

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Dec 14, 2017

A Cloud Project Management software system is of little use if poor performance slows down your key people and robs them of their productive edge. And yet, many of the biggest and best firms still struggle with sluggish platforms that leave users frustrated by slowing down their ability to deploy th...

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Dec 14, 2017

It goes without saying that data security is a big deal. Across every industry, protecting your intellectual property is paramount. Corporate espionage and product knockoffs take many forms and sometimes data leaks are completely accidental. So what’s the best approach to keeping your propriet...

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Dec 14, 2017

Organizations have begun moving applications and workloads to public cloud at an increasing rate. According to Gartner, the worldwide infrastructure as a service (IaaS) public cloud market grew 31% in 2016 to total $22.1 billion1. In 2016, Amazon AWS had the No. 1 market share of 44.2%, Microsoft Az...

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Dec 13, 2017

The SAP Cloud Platform Internet of Things includes a gateway edge component. The Internet of Things Gateway Edge can be deployed in the cloud or on the edge and provides adapters for the communication with different network protocols. It acts as a virtual gateway that brings devices and assets onlin...

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Dec 12, 2017

Cloud computing allows you to store, access and share data from Internet-connected devices is one central location. As technology careers continue to grow across the U.S. and cloud computing create nearly 14 million jobs by 2015, the Cloud is more important than ever. Here are the facts you need to ...

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Dec 12, 2017

iExec aims at providing decentralized applications running on the blockchain a scalable, secure and easy access to the services, data-sets and computing resources they need. This technology relies on Ethereum smart contracts and allows the building of a virtual cloud infrastructure that provides hig...

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Dec 12, 2017

Cloud computing has been on the radar of many CTOs, CIOs, and CFOs. Being one of the rapidly developing technologies it has gained massive traction in recent years. In fact, the cloud has been an enabler of many other disruptive technologies including big data, IoT, AI, etc. Cloud computing is also ...

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Dec 12, 2017

A few years ago, the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) outlined the five stages of self-driving vehicles. In actuality, there are six levels, but the zero level is no automation, so we will ignore that. The idea behind the different phases is to make it possible for us to get there in a reasonab...

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Dec 12, 2017

A cloud-native approach to build, manage and continuously update cloud based applications using microservices architecture for Faster Time-to-Market and Improved App Quality. Enterprises must modernize its applications on regular basis to keep-up the pace of change revolving around user-experiences,...

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Dec 12, 2017

OpenStack is a combination of open source projects that use pooled virtual resources to build and manage private and public clouds. Six of these projects handle the core cloud computing services of compute, networking, storage, identity, and image services, while more than a dozen optional projects ...

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Dec 11, 2017

In 2020 there will be 15 Billion connected devices and possibly higher as more vendors are building connected products. In our experience, key challenge is not a number of devices, instead of the ability of these devices to feature heterogeneity, security, and diversity across multiple industries. I...

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Dec 11, 2017

Businesses often turn to the cloud as a new destination to run their workloads. But getting the most out of the cloud requires more than a simple lift-and-shift of your applications. That was the point made in our recent webinar, Cloud as a Model, not a Place: Migration and Automation. According to ...

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Dec 11, 2017

Let’s face it: Migrating to Microsoft Azure just isn’t as straightforward as switching from a local version of Office to Office 365. Managed well, cloud migrations can pay great dividends, but for small and midsize businesses, the move can be more than a little intimidating.

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Dec 10, 2017

One of the key reasons cited by IT teams for those slow response times was a lack of visibility across their organization’s networks, with 80% reporting that they had blind spots in the network. The report also revealed a correlation between the number of organizations that admitted to having ...

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Dec 08, 2017

GDPR readiness is a key concern for the vast majority of CIOs across Europe. Jonathan Wisler from IBM Cloud infrastructure offers advice on how to make sure that your data is GDPR ready.

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Dec 08, 2017

We understand your desire to take advantage of the benefits of VDI. But we also know you just aren’t sure how to easily get there because we hear the same thing all the time.

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Dec 07, 2017

Sure, it was a cloud computing conference, and maybe the goal remains a bit unrealistic, but at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas last week, the number of enterprises expressing a wish to stop running their own data centers was too big ignore. Even old-line enterprises companies said they weren’t con...

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Dec 07, 2017

A wide range of organizations use public clouds. But most also want to maintain systems under their direct control. Doing so may give them greater visibility and control. Certain workloads and data storage may be cheaper on-premise. The ability to customize and co-locate can also simplify integratio...

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Dec 06, 2017

We are excited to announce that Redis Enterprise Cloud Private (RCP) is now generally available, with simplified signup and automated management. This release brings customers the power to deploy fully managed Redis Enterprise within their VPC in a zero touch and seamless manner.

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Dec 06, 2017

cloud-init is an increasingly popular way to configure Linux VMs. Today we are pleased to announce a preview of provisioning RHEL 7.4 and CentOS 7.4 using cloud-init. This will allow you to migrate existing cloud-init configurations to Azure from other environments.

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Dec 05, 2017

With the advent of digital age, Cloud SaaS applications have become the next big thing in enterprises. Almost every organization (small or big) is planning a move to cloud technology and Saas applications. One of the biggest adopters of cloud technology has been the HR department of these organizati...

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Dec 05, 2017

Due to our high volume of traffic these days, we’ve decided to upgrade our hosting platform to better serve you.

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Dec 05, 2017

Microsoft is proud to be a platinum sponsor of Pivotal’s SpringOne Platform conference, which started yesterday in San Francisco. SpringOne Platform is a premier destination for enterprise developers and architects who are passionate about cloud-native applications, and IT leaders that have se...

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Dec 01, 2017

SAP Hybris Marketing Cloud gives a deeper understanding of customers. It can fetch data from any channel to create a single integrated customer view. Real-time insights help to develop custom Omni-channel experiences. It enables to identify profitable audiences which make it easier to know where to ...

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Dec 01, 2017

More and more companies are migrating their applications to public and private clouds . The main difference of migrating to one option or another is the availability of native tools and services that can greatly accelerate the process . For example, AWS has a database migration service that allows y...

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Dec 01, 2017

When two healthcare IT veterans realized that a whopping 32 percent of all prescriptions called into pharmacies don’t get picked up, they decided to do something about it and founded a business to help close the gap. Their company, ScriptDrop contracts directly with pharmaceutical companies to...

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Nov 30, 2017

The boom in cloud computing over the past few years has led to a situation that is common to many innovations and new technologies: many have heard of it, but far fewer actually understand what it is and, more importantly, how it can benefit them. This whitepaper will attempt to clarify these issues...

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Nov 30, 2017

As cloud adoption increases so do digital data regulations and organizations’ concerns about where their data is located. With data security and privacy regulations varying significantly from country to country, organizations must firmly embrace data sovereignty in their cloud strategies. Data...

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Nov 30, 2017

90% of organizations leverage cloud computing. There’s a good chance that your organization is either in the process of migrating or actively using the cloud. Over the last decade, cloud computing has become a popular mainstream solution. For good reason. Cloud computing has accelerated decisi...

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Nov 30, 2017

Enterprise cloud can provide the craveable “pay-as-you-go” model of the public cloud but potentially at a much lower cost, while giving you a common foundation to run legacy apps alongside cloud-native applications. No ugly rip and replace required.

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Nov 30, 2017

I’m lucky enough to spend a good portion of each working year with customers and speaking at conferences, where I get to hear from the best and brightest on virtually every subject related to cloud computing — which at this point is basically everything, from smart home devices to follow...

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Nov 30, 2017

Load balancers play a critical role in the world of infrastructure. They improve the performance of applications by distributing network or application traffic across the servers in your environment.

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Nov 29, 2017

Gartner predicts that through the course of the next year, "90 percent of organisations will lack a postmodern application integration strategy and execution ability, resulting in integration disorder, greater complexity and cost". Experience seems to confirm Gartner's conclusion too, ...

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Nov 29, 2017

Modern business communications should not be limited to phone service alone. Businesses of all sizes need a secure and reliable solution that unifies HD voice, including voicemail and visual voicemail, fax, sophisticated call handling, and call routing with more advanced communications functionality...

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Nov 29, 2017

PureCloud is opening a beta program, giving customers the ability to test the new multitenant Edge media microservice that runs atop Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. The Edge media tier manages all voice aspects of media processing for both customer engagement and unified communications. If you&rsqu...

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Nov 29, 2017

Watch this video and find out how to access your enterprise applications and data where they fit best—across on-premises, hosted, and public-cloud environments.

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Nov 29, 2017

In the new multi-cloud world, next-generation managed service providers (MSPs) can also leverage Uber-like concepts to help enterprises achieve breakthrough performance and efficiencies in managing their business applications across heterogeneous cloud environments.

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Nov 28, 2017

A challenge that those of us in product management and development wrestle with daily is continually pushing the rate of innovation of PureCloud. One of the most powerful ways to do this is through technology partnerships. By leveraging marketplace vendors with existing solutions, we can integrate w...

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Nov 28, 2017

Staying ahead of the competition in digital business means that companies must continually innovate and deliver improved services and products to the market. The speed and agility of public cloud has proven to be a cost effective, flexible platform, but it has brought with it new security challenges...

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Nov 28, 2017

You may wonder what NetApp is up to with our latest efforts with VMware and Amazon Web Services. Most of Netapp’s customers are well aware of our long partnership with VMware. We have many mutual customers who are using NetApp® storage behind their on-premises VMware environments. But we a...

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Nov 28, 2017

Even for tried and true workloads, there’s more to NetApp’s cloud strategy than “ONTAP® everywhere.” SnapMirror® is a popular way to back up data, but it isn’t the only one. NetApp’s AltaVault™ finds the cheapest place to put storage, and places it t...

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Nov 28, 2017

Looking to access the right data at the right time for agile decision-making and operations? See how cloud storage can transform your business.  If your business needs fast data retrieval for collaboration with users around the world, you'll need an always-on, secure and self-service cloud ...

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Nov 28, 2017

Modern security products can leverage the cloud for real-time intelligence. The intrusion prevention systems, endpoint protection solutions, and security information and event management tools running in our data centers rely on cloud-based threat intelligence to provide real-time updates as the thr...

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Nov 27, 2017

The cloud creates huge opportunities for businesses: new innovation, data monetization, increased operational efficiency, and more. And heavy adopters of public cloud see a wide range of benefits, according to a new survey from IDG Research and sponsored by the Accenture AWS Business Group

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Nov 27, 2017

There’s no doubt by now that Amazon Web Services Inc. won the first phase of cloud computing, the revolutionary disruption to traditional information technology that’s reshaping the entire technology landscape. Now it’s gunning to win the next phase, too.Amazon.com Inc.’s clo...

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Nov 24, 2017

There’s a simple reason why one in three businesses say their cloud migration was more expensive and complicated than expected. They planned it wrong! But just because the explanation is simple, doesn’t mean the solution will be. Migration to cloud services like Azure is a complex affair...

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Nov 23, 2017

To explore this new reality, Asigra surveyed over 125 MSPs to discover how cloud-based data protection and backup services fit into current or future service offerings, and what the revenue impact of these services means for their business.

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Nov 22, 2017

Previous analysis and industry focus has missed the point: access networks, not data centres, are the biggest threat to the sustainability of cloud services. This is because more people are accessing cloud services via wireless networks. These networks are inherently energy inefficient and a disprop...

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Nov 22, 2017

Organizations can better position themselves for data security resiliency by first understanding which responsibilities for managing cloud security fall under their ownership and which can be addressed by a cloud provider. The components of cloud operations can be categorized and aligned to company ...

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Nov 21, 2017

BMC’s SecOps Policy Service ensures your developers can perform critical security and compliance checks without hampering agile development and innovation. It's a cloud-based offering that provides continuous verification, analytics, and governance throughout your software delivery process...

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Nov 21, 2017

HPE Cloud Bank Storage lets you leverage the economics, agility and flexibility of the cloud for modernized data protection.

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Nov 21, 2017

Between technological advances and patient expectations, healthcare providers find themselves in the middle of a digital healthcare revolution. What once was an analog world, is now transforming into an online highway, fully equipped with new tools and new ways of providing care. These digital healt...

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Nov 21, 2017

This is a guest post from Pavel Klushin, Solutions Architect at Spotinst. Spotinst is an online cloud management platform which allows companies to run their mission-critical applications and manage their infrastructure while reducing costs by up to 80%.

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Nov 20, 2017

Robots have become smart, but when you use cloud resources to run them, they can become even smarter – and faster. While cloud-enabled robotics has been around in some form since 2011, some companies have recently taken the field from theory to practice.

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Nov 20, 2017

When Microsoft introduced Office 365 in 2010, few enterprises ran all of their mission-critical business applications in the cloud. That’s changed dramatically over the last seven years. In fact, in July, Microsoft announced that revenue from its cloud-based Office 365 surpassed that from its ...

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Nov 18, 2017

ASI Cloud is based on SaaS architecture with zero installation at client side. It works on all latest operating systems and devices, which includes Microsoft Windows, Apple OSX, Linux, iOS, Android. ASI Cloud is smart rich client hotel management software application that will give you excellent loo...

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Nov 17, 2017

“Building a World of Difference®” is how global engineering, consulting and construction company Black & Veatch sums up its different activities. They rely on Geographical Information Systems (GIS) software to take complex project data and render it as simple visuals that are eas...

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Nov 17, 2017

Cloud based services has taken over today’s world and over the past few years, delivering cloud based Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions is no exception. The right solution can reduce risk, cut down costs and save time, but choosing the right vendor requires careful consideration.

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Nov 17, 2017

Object Store on SAP Cloud Platform is a scalable, flexible, ease of use, cost effective storage solution for applications built on SAP Cloud Platform.

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Nov 17, 2017

As companies are gaining business momentum at a rampant pace, the use and application of different cloud services have become talk of the town. Companies are shifting from self-maintained data centers, as they are expensive to maintain and are not fully scalable. Cloud services have proved to be piv...

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Nov 17, 2017

At VMworld Europe this year, we were lucky to have many iland customers at the event to share their experiences on leveraging Secure Cloud services from our VMware Powered global cloud.

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Nov 16, 2017

It’s not surprising that the public’s imagination has been ignited by Artificial Intelligence since the term was first coined in 1955. In the ensuing 60 years, we have been alternately captivated by its promise, wary of its potential for abuse and frustrated by its slow development. But ...

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Nov 16, 2017

There are clouds on the horizon for 2018 – lots of them. According to new data from 451 Research, companies are spending more than ever on hybrid cloud environments and multi-cloud services and they’re investing in all types of cloud infrastructures.  Nearly 90% of large companies s...

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Nov 16, 2017

SAB Holdings streamlines processes and creates new revenue opportunities with IBM Cloud Managed Services and SAP S/4HANA.

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Nov 15, 2017

In recent years, there has been a concerted effort among all companies to move their infrastructure to a centralized cloud, enabled by virtualization. This push started with the vision of reducing time to market for new services and achieving lower total cost of ownership (TCO). This surge in the de...

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Nov 15, 2017

To respond to the ever-increasing demand for faster innovation, organizations are adapting technology trends and moving workloads to the public cloud. Although public cloud services can be a good fit for many applications, company-owned data center continues to play a critical role, with majority of...

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Nov 15, 2017

In previous posts in this series, we discussed the intricacies and benefits of cloud-friendly technologies such as per-app gateways and cloud-native DNS-based policies. Here, we’ll look at two different (but equally crucial) elements of realizing those technologies: self-service gateway deploy...

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Nov 15, 2017

Many IT leaders have been asking themselves if they need a Cloud Managed Services Provider. Given a lack of experienced cloud technologist and growing complexities, the answer seems clear. As Gartner has pointed out, the chances of businesses having a “no cloud” policy will soon sound as...

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Nov 14, 2017

Welcome to the multicloud era - SaaS apps in the cloud, public and hybrid clouds hosting infrastructure, employees and branches accessing the cloud and internet from anywhere.

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Nov 14, 2017

Companies used to automatically default to the former “lifting and shifting” existing apps to the cloud. And that made sense at the time because it helped them capture the low-hanging fruit: IT cost savings without a lot of effort.

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Nov 14, 2017

Workday’s annual gathering of customers, prospective customers, partners, and employees, Workday shared the latest on the open Workday Cloud Platform, its Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering.

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Nov 14, 2017

The 0.9 release of Vault is focused on new functionality that improves Vault’s governance and data security capabilities across globally-distributed, multi-cloud environments.

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Nov 14, 2017

With cloud adoption standing at 88% amongst UK organisations, embracing the cloud revolution is now mainstream.

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Nov 13, 2017

IBM Power Systems’ open cloud strategy supports a wide variety of cloud computing models, adaptable to your specific business needs—with private, hybrid and public cloud environments.

blog article

Nov 12, 2017

We took on that challenge with the introduction of Symantec Endpoint Protection 14 (SEP) one year ago. For the first time, customers could combat cyber threats with an integrated defense platform that would fully orchestrate prevention, detection and response across endpoints, gateways, messaging an...

video

Nov 09, 2017

In this episode of cloud performance atlas, Colt McAnlis figures out what the right GCS bucket is, for the right performance.

blog article

Nov 08, 2017

When looking at hybrid cloud connectivity in a modern data center, most people first think about Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers like Amazon AWS, Azure or Google Compute Engine. But the real shift in cloud is the fact that more and more of the applications in the data center are just li...

blog article

Nov 08, 2017

Public cloud costs are buried in monthly billing detail across multiple accounts and providers, business units, and teams. As a result, IT leaders do not have visibility into the total cost of supporting technology services and cannot make informed decisions about the most effective use of the publi...

blog article

Nov 07, 2017

Tintri introduced Cloud Connector, our goal was to create a solution for cloud data protection that was extremely efficient.