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Apr 24, 2019

How to Develop the Best Cloud Backup StrategyWhile cloud backup has been an available service for a significant amount of time, there are still challenges that come with this approach. This is because of a few factors, such as the shifting business landscape and the more mainstream adoption of the c...

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Apr 24, 2019

As the hyper-scale cloud providers make massive investments in South Africa, opening their in-country data centres, they are prompting organisations to look for seriously at public cloud services to enhance their digital strategies. It’s important that the hyperscale cloud providers are now op...

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Apr 24, 2019

Australian Group I-winning sprinter Viddora was showing signs of lameness after a track gallop on Wednesday ahead of Sunday's Group I Chairman's Sprint Prize (1200m) at Sha Tin. The Hong Kong Jockey Club issued a statement noting the mare was found to be lame in the off-side hind leg. Dr Pet...

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Apr 24, 2019

Apple is spending more money on AWS cloud than any of its competitors, splashing out on average $30m a month on Amazon's services. According to CNBC, the company has signed up to a multi-year agreement with the cloud giant, although this may only be a stop-gap until Apple has finished building i...

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Apr 24, 2019

Confidence in cloud computing is on the up. In fact, analyst firm IDC estimates that by 2020, the majority (60 per cent) of all IT expenditure will be cloud-based and that this figure is only set to increase in the years ahead.  Cloud-based services are now mainstream and are a key component un...

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Apr 24, 2019

Unlimit announced its partnership with Dynamic Cloud, DC, a Saudi Arabia IT company. Through this partnership, Unlimit will deliver end to end Internet of Things (IoT) and provide innovative digital solutions with the aim to serve customers in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. This collaboration will furthe...

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Apr 24, 2019

Motorists in Bristol are finding their cars covered in dust today, and it's come all the way from the Sahara. The strange substance is currently covering the country and has even been causing breathing problems for some. Cars across Bristol have been left covered in the muck, which will have bee...

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Apr 24, 2019

The digital transformation is driving the bank’s desire to shift to a cloud model, a trend we’re seeing influence almost all companies in all regions. In its case, the Standard Chartered customer base is becoming more digital, with 49% of customers actively using online or mobile banking...

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Apr 24, 2019

Zoolz is a leading cloud storage provider that lives on the super-secure Amazon Web Services infrastructure. That makes it a great option for storing files or keeping a remote backup. Zoolz storage splits between two modes. One mode offers instant access like Google Drive or Dropbox, so there’...

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Apr 24, 2019

Marketers are always looking to seamlessly connect customer journeys, right from initial acquisition to the advocacy stage. Traditionally, this was done using several standalone marketing tools, together forming a “stack”. In 2019, there is an emerging preference for a 360-degree connect...

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Apr 23, 2019

Cloud computing technology is trending everywhere, and it should be as it allows people and organizations (small and big) to store, access, and manage all sorts of data remotely. All data related activities that earlier used to worry businesses for native server space has been resolved with the adve...

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Apr 23, 2019

Brisk cloud adoption is a positive move. Globally, businesses are increasingly migrating their workloads to the cloud. However, businesses are still grappling with the challenge of finding the best-fit for their unique business need—whether to opt for on-premise, public, or hybrid cloud. Each ...

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Apr 23, 2019

The mandate to move everything to the cloud usually comes from the top-down without regard for the intricacies involved, leading most c-suite managers to think cloud migration is as easy as “lift and shift.” But IT Ops knows better. In fact, some of the most commonly asked questions are ...

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Apr 23, 2019

Moving to the cloud has become shorthand for a company being in the know, but businesses are not ready to completely abandon on-premise software.  More likely, enterprises have hybrid cloud systems, which are some combination of public cloud, private cloud, on-premises software, or all three. A...

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Apr 23, 2019

The cloud is clearly spreading. Once seen as a nascent technology, cloud computing is now the foundation for the adoption of advanced technologies such as the Internet of Things, blockchain and artificial intelligence. Today, more and more enterprises are working on a cloud policy or are moving towa...

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Apr 23, 2019

After last year’s passage of the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (Cloud Act), officials and journalists in the European Union have ramped up criticism of the American desire for extraterritorial access to electronic evidence, with some accusing the United States of being motivated b...

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Apr 22, 2019

Is your organization ready to go serverless? The trend toward serverless computing is clearly on the rise, but that doesn’t mean it works ideally for every scenario or organization.Serverless computing is a software architecture model in which a cloud service provider runs the server for a cus...

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Apr 22, 2019

The company’s cloud computing service Azure is gradually narrowing its gap with the market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS), thanks to a slew of contracts with government agencies, as well retail firms that do not want to use rival Amazon’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) platform.  Azure revenue gr...

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Apr 22, 2019

And yet, IoT is already a present reality. Estimates put the number of IoT devices worldwide last year at anywhere from seven billion to 10 billion, and it could climb to 25 billion by 2021.The global IoT market is predicted to be worth US$1.7 trillion (S$2.3 trillion) this year, according to global...

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Apr 22, 2019

Brett McMillen, director of federal government at Amazon Web Services, told FedScoop in a video interview posted Wednesday that the company has seen meaningful progress in federal information technology modernization as agencies realize the benefits of cloud adoption.He noted that several agencies a...

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Apr 22, 2019

If the history of simulation has an arc, it’s one that bends towards democratization.It used to be that simulation was a massively complex undertaking. Within an organization, you might have one particularly brainy Ph.D. sitting in front of a complicated piece of software that was running on a...

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Apr 22, 2019

Every federal agency knows the value and importance of shifting to cloud infrastructure. But what about edge computing As agencies deploy more Internet of Things sensors and demand more robust mobile and computing capabilities in the field, more of that data processing will be happening where device...

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Apr 22, 2019

The rewards are not just financial. Microsoft is second only to Amazon as an industry cloud provider, and hundreds of companies use its enterprise cloud solutions. Azure is a preferred platform for enterprise cloud solutions. Furthermore, Microsoft's ambitious goal of making the intelligent clou...

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Apr 22, 2019

To better position itself to take advantage of some of the federal government's largest cloud contracts, Microsoft stepped closer to launching the ability to host classified data in a commercial cloud. Lily Kim, Microsoft's Azure general manager, wrote in a April 17 blog post that two new Az...

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Apr 22, 2019

Two St. Cloud companies will benefit from the latest round of workforce development grants awarded by the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development. DEED is giving Nahan Printing, Inc. $300,000 and American Axle & Manufacturing more than $208,000. The companies say they will us...

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Apr 22, 2019

Symantec is one of the world's largest and most well know security firms, and it's a reputation that stands up well with its cloud computing workload protection platform.Organizations of all sizes can benefit from Symantec's Cloud Workload Protection solution, which offers an easy, yet r...

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Apr 22, 2019

Cloud computing is a broad market with many sub-sectors, so keeping cloud computing safe is also a broad area with multiple categories of technologies and capabilities for cloud security solutions. Cloud security solutions are generally deployed and used to help protect workloads running in both pri...

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Apr 22, 2019

Software as a Service (SaaS) is quickly becoming the single most popular method of software delivery for customers around the globe. According to a report by BetterCloud, 73 per cent of businesses say their applications will be SaaS by 2020. And with the fastest growing SaaS companies scaling their ...

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Apr 21, 2019

Over the past year, Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has continued its relentless trek upward. Shares of the software and cloud computing giant have gained nearly 28% over the past year, eclipsing the 7% rise of the S&P 500. Its stock price has been driven by solid growth in its legacy software business...

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Apr 21, 2019

It’s common knowledge that the internet has changed the way humans use computers, as well as handheld computing devices like tablets and smartphones. The advent of wireless network technology removed geographic limitations, thereby inciting demand for the ability to access digital files from a...

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Apr 19, 2019

This is gonna be a really good chat. I’m happy to be talking with Chris Hines from Zscaler And, of course, if you’re not familiar with Zscaler, they are one of the early companies in kinda moving data and security to the cloud with their Zscaler Cloud and stuff. Just full disclosure, you...

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Apr 18, 2019

It’s not only the use cases that are expanding, the infrastructure and the environment where big data is collected and analyzed are expanding too. In fact, big data is literally everywhere today - streaming from sensors and devices, moving across the internet and of course in data centers. Man...

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Apr 18, 2019

Whether it’s pocket-sized mobile communicators, cars that can drive themselves or a global information-sharing network, scientists and researchers have a history of turning the marvels of technology dreamed up by science fiction writers into reality and the composer of that endeavour is the cr...

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Apr 18, 2019

Microsoft released two new Azure Government Secret regions for its existing customers to test in a “private preview” program, according to a Microsoft blog post Wednesday. The news came two days after a federal claims court judge lifted a stay on the Pentagon’s $10 billion Joint En...

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Apr 18, 2019

Amazon will likely announce the closing of its e-commerce and cloud businesses in China, Beijing Business Today reported. There is market speculation that the US technology giant has decided to close its major businesses in China, except for Kindle and cross-border e-commerce, the report said, addin...

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Apr 18, 2019

Suppose that mid-way along the long, complex road to Federal IT modernization, an agency IT manager jotted down a wish-list for the most important big-picture elements of what the promised land should look like After taking several whacks at the vital task of data center consolidation, and after som...

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Apr 17, 2019

A growing body of technical knowledge has been codified and broadly taught to computer science students on how to properly architect a large-scale application or system to meet functional and performance goals. A similar body of security engineering knowledge needs to be developed to architect a cor...

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Apr 17, 2019

Edge computing and cloud computing are sometimes discussed as if they’re mutually exclusive approaches to network infrastructure. While they may function in different ways, utilizing one does not preclude the use of the other.Indeed, Futurum Research found that, among companies that have deplo...

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Apr 17, 2019

Enterprises looking to adopt the cloud into their infrastructure will have a lot of cloud services to manage. From the initial migration to automating business workflows in the cloud, the applications of cloud computing for enterprises are endless. To help consolidate their IT resources, many compan...

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Apr 17, 2019

In traditional cloud service situations, businesses create a specific virtual machine (VM), including the allocation of application resources necessary for the task at hand, and then access that VM as needed. The business pays a continuous subscription fee for ready access to the server and its reso...

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Apr 17, 2019

The enterprise tech industry has been rife with talk around the potential of hybrid cloud, and its promise is evidenced by the cloud leaders jostling for an early seat at the table. AWS Outposts: Are ‘hybrid clouds’ best for SMEs It’s no surprise then that Google recently introduce...

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Apr 17, 2019

For the past three years, Google Cloud has made it a mission to stake its claim within the Australian channel community amid some fears they were already too late.Despite its global renown and a multibillion-dollar advertising business, the internet giant’s public cloud business has had to car...

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Apr 17, 2019

Cloudian (Booth SL6824) announced availability of a Cisco Validated Design (CVD) for Cloudian HyperStore on the Cisco Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS) platform. The CVD reflects the companies’ expanded collaboration in providing best-of-breed infrastructure solutions for modernizing enterp...

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Apr 17, 2019

It may be true that public cloud is the future of enterprise IT, but it's also true that it's going to take a long, long time to get there. Given that grown-up enterprises still have mainframes kicking around, it's simply too much to expect CIOs to shed legacy systems in favor of modern ...

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Apr 17, 2019

International Business Machines Corp. fell the most in six months after reporting a decline in revenue from the cloud-computing, artificial intelligence and cognitive software unit that the company is hanging its future on.IBM reported a 2% drop, to $5.0 billion, in sales from cloud and cognitive so...

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Apr 17, 2019

Several years ago, many experts were indicating that by 2020 everything would be running in the cloud. The promises of economical on-demand computing and storage resources were appealing. Companies could look to reduce capital investments and begin to sunset expensive data centers by quickly spinnin...

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Apr 16, 2019

We often get questions from clients about the many solutions available to them to address their big data needs. Between Hadoop, cloud-based, and hybrid solutions, finding the best option for their unique needs can be a daunting challenge  Sometimes Hadoop is the answer, and sometimes a cloud so...

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Apr 16, 2019

Picking a VPN service is a daunting task as we start 2019 with a lot of uncertainties when it comes to online privacy and security. With hundreds of different VPN providers out there, choosing the right one means striking the right balance between services, ease of use and pricing.Those looking for ...

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Apr 16, 2019

A growing number of enterprises are pulling selected applications out of the cloud and returning them to their brick-and-mortar data centers. Cloud repatriation is gaining momentum as enterprises realize the cloud isn't always the best solution to IT cost, performance and other concerns.Dave Cop...

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Apr 16, 2019

HubStor today announced it has been selected by Virgin Hyperloop One to protect and manage its mission-critical data. Facing data growth in cloud-based applications and on-premises storage, Virgin Hyperloop One deployed HubStor's scalable and centralized data management solution to simplify back...

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Apr 16, 2019

For IT professionals, there are several tasks and workflows that they need to run every day. Manually setting up and performing those tasks often wastes valuable time that workers can spend on more important projects. Thankfully, IT teams can take advantage of automation to automatically perform the...

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Apr 16, 2019

The Senate Agriculture, Environment and General Government Appropriations Subcommittee Tuesday advanced an overhaul of state technology.The legislation (SB 1570) requires state agencies to manage their data storage using cloud computing with private vendors.The world is going to cloud technology,&rd...

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Apr 16, 2019

The platform helps eliminate the need to move or transform data into specific siloed databases via patent pending Data Edge technology. Data Edge fully indexes datasets with its built-in schema detection, normalization and compression algorithms. Customers can dynamically and seamlessly combine stor...

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Apr 16, 2019

Cloud technology is gaining traction in law enforcement. Driven by the promise of force-wide and cross agency access to tools and applications, an off-premise solution offers forces the ability to tighten budgets by only using software solutions and tools when needed, as well as the promise of a pot...

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Apr 16, 2019

Contour Data Solutions is joining the Wasabi Partner Network, an incentive program that aims to improve partner profitability while selling Wasabi's cloud storage solution. Wasabi's simply effective and inexpensive platform aligns with Contour Data Solutions' own mission to simplify data...

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Apr 16, 2019

A top official from Amazon Web Services said using cloud solutions and coordinating information technology vendors could help local and state governments cut costs in managing data, address gaps between agencies and improve access to information, particularly for health and social services.Many agen...

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Apr 16, 2019

a global leader in cloud data integration and data integrity, today announced the addition of Pipeline Designer to Talend Cloud, a unified, comprehensive, and highly scalable integration platform as-a-service (iPaaS).Talend’s new web-based graphical designer dramatically simplifies the creatio...

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Apr 16, 2019

Insider threats come in many forms, including disgruntled employees with malicious intent and unassuming workers who inadvertently mishandle and leak sensitive data or peak at a co-worker’s private information. Ponemon’s 2018 Cost of Insider Threats: Global found that 159 organizations a...

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Apr 15, 2019

A growing number of enterprises are pulling selected applications out of the cloud and returning them to their brick-and-mortar data centres. Cloud repatriation is gaining momentum as enterprises realise the cloud isn’t always the best solution to IT cost, performance and other concerns. Dave ...

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Apr 15, 2019

In a few weeks, over 22,000 people from around the globe will converge in Orlando, Florida from May 7-9, 2019 for the SAP Sapphire NOW and ASUG Annual Conference. Each year, the event brings together thought leaders across industries to find innovative ways to solve common challenges, unlock new opp...

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Apr 15, 2019

In the eyes of Jeff Bezos, the likely impact of ‘the Cloud’ is still not fully understood. He sees it as a fundamental change in computing that will play out over decades. Why does he think this? Because Information Technology (IT) is becoming a central and strategic activity for many bu...

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Apr 15, 2019

Today we’re announcing the general availability of Apache Hadoop 3.0 on Azure HDInsight. Microsoft Azure is the first cloud provider to offer customers the benefit of the latest innovations in the most popular open source analytics projects, with unmatched scalability, flexibility, and securit...

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Apr 15, 2019

Avaya, a company that provides solutions to improve and simplify communications and collaborations, Avaya Holdings Corp. is growing its AI and Cloud capabilities with Google Cloud to deliver new capabilities to the Avaya clients enhancing their customer experience to achieve desired business outcome...

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Apr 15, 2019

Vortex allows users to play games anywhere in the world on almost any device – smartphone, tablet, or smart TV –via the application, without downloading the game. As the platform has grown in usage and expanded to new markets such as Latin America and South East Asia, Vortex needed to sc...

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Apr 12, 2019

Recruitment and succession planning are the two “pressing needs” within the Department of Homeland Security’s IT and cybersecurity talent portfolio, Deputy CIO Stephen Rice said Thursday. Federal IT staff lacks “technical depth” in the area of cloud architecture, as wel...

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Apr 12, 2019

It would be nice to think that your systems are secure. Most organizations focus their security strategy on trying to keep anyone from getting into their systems. The reality is that threats are everywhere. They come from inside the perimeter of your own systems in the form of human error and they c...

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Apr 12, 2019

Google Cloud has announced the general availability of Anthos: a platform that allows customers to run applications on-premise, in the Google Cloud and, crucially, with other major public cloud providers like Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Speaking at Google Cloud Next in San Francis...

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Apr 12, 2019

Many startups and small businesses subscribe to cloud-based applications for their email, given the popularity and simplicity of that model. But, many mid-sized to large companies still host their email using on-premise servers. Because email servers and software need upgrading or replacing every se...

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Apr 12, 2019

This week was many people's first chance to get a read of Google Cloud's new CEO. The ex-Oracle executive presented his first keynote and cut an understated character, leaning on his colleagues and partners to lay out his vision for the vendor.
He focused on three elements of his stra...

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Apr 12, 2019

Advances in technology are transforming the way we operate and consequently changing the way the government interacts with the public. The digital industry is evolving at lightning speed and keeping up with it can be challenging. Currently, the government relies heavily on older IT infrastructure, w...

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Apr 11, 2019

As companies and individuals come to rely on the public cloud for an increasing range of services, from infrastructure to applications, they often assume that no additional backups are necessary. Nothing could be further from the truth, argues Michael Davies, CEO of ContinuitySA, a provider of busin...

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Apr 11, 2019

Security has always been one of the biggest concerns when moving data into the cloud, with public cloud often perceived as the least secure option. Nevertheless, the benefits of a hybrid environment have been made clear, and organisations have started to adopt public cloud into their environments in...

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Apr 11, 2019

HYCU, Inc., a pioneering enterprise software company specializing in data backup, recovery and monitoring for multi-cloud environments, announced support for Google Cloud services, with Google Cloud SQL being the first service to be supported. This follows the successful introduction of HYCU Backup ...

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Apr 11, 2019

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai kicked off talking about Cloud’s momentum and announced their new multi and hybrid cloud offering called Anthos. Anthos lets customers write once and run anywhere—in the cloud, in their data center, or even in other c...

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Apr 11, 2019

The first major announcement made by Google was related to Open-source integrations into the Google Cloud Console. As per the statement, the company will be moving forward to deeply integrate the products of a wide range of open-source organizations into its cloud. This will essentially make them fi...

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Apr 11, 2019

Google announced several latest retail solutions, built in collaboration with our ecosystem of retail partners and created to resolve business difficulties that retailers face over all parts of the value chain. Google have invested in solutions for retailers and many take full benefit of Google Clou...

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Apr 11, 2019

Being able to share information has always been at the core of doing business. Nowadays, companies have more tools available to them than ever before. These tools aren’t just limited to big companies with big budgets; small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are also able to leverage these sam...

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Apr 11, 2019

Google LLC made even more product announcements on day two of its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco than on the opening day of the event this time aimed chiefly at software developers. Google is very clearly reaching out to the core enterprise customers that have flocked in greater numbers to i...

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Apr 10, 2019

The Cloud has completely changed the way enterprises innovate and deliver services to their users and customers. With this innovation has come the challenge to efficiently govern their cloud resources. CoreStack®, a leading cloud governance platform, addresses this challenge by building automate...

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Apr 10, 2019

A year and a week after emerging from stealth, data migration software developer JetStream Software Inc. is entering the data protection market with a service that backs up entire virtual machine images to on-premises infrastructure, the cloud or a combination. JetStream is aiming the service at clo...

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Apr 10, 2019

Google LLC wants developers to build more of their applications in Kubernetes-based containers hosted on its cloud. To encourage that, today it’s introducing a new set of plugins called Google Cloud Code, which allows apps built with Integrated Development Environments such as IntelliJ and Vis...

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Apr 10, 2019

The new services, introduced at Google’s annual Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, are said to deliver increased visibility into cloud environments by allowing users to detect threats, speed response and remediation, mitigate data exfiltration risks, ensure a secure software supply chain ...

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Apr 10, 2019

Google LLC today introduced two new networking tools for its cloud platform that aim to simplify the management of infrastructure-as-a-service environments, as well as make it easier to link them with a company’s on-premises data centers. The first addition announced at the Google Cloud Next c...

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Apr 10, 2019

Public cloud ecosystem adoption journey for new start-ups and small businesses has a very different trajectory and challenges than those faced by midsize and big enterprises undergoing cloudification of their enterprise systems. Start-ups and small businesses organisations moving to public cloud eco...

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Apr 10, 2019

It gives you the flexibility to move on-prem apps to the cloud when you are ready, and it allows you to keep using the technologies you are already using, while improving security," he said. "Today most of the world's enterprise computing still happens on-premise,” he added. &ldq...

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Apr 10, 2019

The updates comprise improved cloud support, persistent memory support with Intel, intelligent recommendations for effective database management, new machine learning (ML) capabilities, hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) certification, improved cost-effective data tiering and data security enhance...

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Apr 10, 2019

Google has long been in the uncharacteristic position of an also-ran in the cloud services market, but it is in equally unfamiliar territory by not being able to brute-force/out-innovate its way to the top. In facing rivals like AWS and Microsoft, Google is in a battle of equals: not just technologi...

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Apr 10, 2019

Think names like Salesforce, Slack and Quickbooks. The software-as-a-service model defines these offerings that work to bring greater efficiency to individuals and businesses. And a new white paper from CoreSite notes that it certainly hasn’t taken long for enterprises to realize the value of ...

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Apr 10, 2019

Google Cloud Next ’19: Whether it’s about connecting present on-premises applications to latest cloud workloads, enabling new customer experiences, or empower a complete developer ecosystem, APIs are everywhere in today’s enterprise. And with more than two-thirds of enterprises ado...

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Apr 10, 2019

Australia is settling on a state of hybrid cloud adoption, driven by a customer desire to avoid lock-in, boost flexibility and trigger innovation. Coupled with requirements specific to security, cost and agility, and businesses are drawing up a blueprint for success in the cloud, with the channel fr...

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Apr 10, 2019

Avaya is embedding Google Cloud’s machine learning technology within Avaya conversation services powering the contact center, enabling easy integration of digital AI capabilities for a consistent and intelligent customer experience. With the help of Google Cloud, Avaya provides increased flexi...

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Apr 10, 2019

Paris, April 10, 2019 – Atos, a global leader in digital transformation, today announced at Google Cloud Next ’19 that it has received the 2018 Google Cloud Global Breakthrough Partner of the Year Award. This year’s award was presented at the Partner Summit at Next ‘19 in San...

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Apr 10, 2019

At Google's Cloud Next event in San Francisco, partners are announcing third-party data services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that offer impressive integration with Google's own offerings. Confluent, the company founded by the creators of Apache Kafka, is one such partner. Fivetran, which ...

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Apr 09, 2019

Present database instances can also be scaled up to 64 TiB storage without any downtime. The latest storage limit is an increase from 32 TiB and is supported for Provisioned IOPS and General Purpose SSD storage types. For instances using Provisioned IOPS SSD storage, Amazon RDS also supports increas...

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Apr 09, 2019

Google’s annual cloud event is here: Google Cloud Next 2019 (stylized as Next ’19) officially runs between April 9 and April 11. But if you check out the full agenda  see the schedule here  you’ll notice that sessions start on April 7 and continue through April 12. That&r...

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Apr 09, 2019

For agencies looking at a multi-cloud strategy, managing different vendors and gaining expertise in different clouds is key to take advantage of the nuanced differences and prevent cloud sprawl, said Sanjay Gupta, chief technology officer for the Small Business Administration (SBA). Speaking at FCW&...

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Apr 08, 2019

The cloud has become a crucial part of your technology stack, which means taking on the security risks it poses if you want to reap the rewards. And if you're relying on legacy security measures, you're especially vulnerable to improved cyberattacks that are harder than ever to detect in the...

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Apr 08, 2019

Perhaps you’ve heard from other providers that benchmarks are irrelevant. If that’s what you’re hearing, maybe you should be asking yourself why? Independent, industry-standard benchmarks are important because they help you measure price and performance on both common and complex a...

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Apr 08, 2019

You know that old box of photos you have sitting in the attic collecting cobwebs; the one with those beautifully embarrassing childhood photos half-covered by a misplaced thumb? How grateful would your family be if you could bring those back to life digitally, at the tip of your fingers? Manually sc...

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Apr 08, 2019

When it comes to adding a performance tier between compute and file storage, Avere Systems has led the way with its high-performance caching appliance known as the Avere FXT Edge Filer. This week at NAB, attendees will get a first look at the new Azure FXT Edge Filer, now with even more performance,...

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Apr 05, 2019

Just a couple of years ago, developers were using container technologies to quickly provision systems for their prototyping and testing. Today, enterprises are implementing multiple technologies such as Kubernetes for orchestration and complementary technologies such as serverless functions from all...

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Apr 04, 2019

n charge of all this data is the database administrator (DBA). I’ve spent a majority of my technical career in this role and, as immensely rewarding as it was, I was consistently finding ways to automate what I found tedious, as well as acquiring new skills to provide more value to the busines...

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Apr 04, 2019

Cloud Native Buildpacks, an open source technology inspired by Heroku and Cloud Foundry buildpacks and intended to unify the buildpack ecosystem, has moved to a public beta release stage. The Cloud Native Buildpacks project was begun by Heroku and Pivotal and later joined the Cloud Native Sandbox un...

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Apr 04, 2019

Monitoring is a skill, not a full-time job. In today’s world of cloud-based architectures implemented through DevOps projects, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and operations staff need to collectively define an effective cloud monitoring strategy. Such a strategy should focus on...

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Apr 04, 2019

This post will give you an introduction to Moodle, including some of its technical requirements and challenges that come with deploying the platform with cloud-based resources. We’ll also show how Cloud Volumes ONTAP can help make it easier to use Moodle in the cloud.

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Apr 03, 2019

Consider this scenario: One of your critical enterprise applications has come to a grinding halt. Your team is trying to figure out whether the enterprise application ran out of assigned storage, lacks compute capability, or has networking errors. At times like this, you wish your enterprise applica...

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Apr 03, 2019

Migrating Microsoft Windows applications to the cloud is often a frustrating and expensive process. The failure/rollback rate for these projects is far higher than most people realize. There are various factors that make Windows application migrations particularly error prone: key hosting platform d...

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Apr 03, 2019

Spring Cloud Stream Binder for Azure Event Hubs is now generally available. It is simple to build highly scalable event-driven Java apps using Spring Cloud Stream with Event Hubs, a fully managed, real-time data ingestion service on Azure that is resilient and reliable service for any situation. Thi...

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Apr 02, 2019

The intelligent cloud and intelligent edge go hand-in-hand, and together they are sparking massive transformation across industries. As computing gets more deeply embedded in the real world, powerful new opportunities arise to transform revenue, productivity, safety, customer experiences, and more. ...

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Apr 02, 2019

Planning, they were told, was all-important, he writes. Before running significant applications in the cloud, it was vital to understand how data is sourced and stored. End-users were also warned about large-scale commitments to cloud technology and encouraged to plan and execute a carefully managed...

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Apr 02, 2019

The fastest-growing market segment will be cloud system infrastructure services, or infrastructure as a service (IaaS), which is forecast to grow 27.5 percent in 2019 to reach USD 38.9 billion, up from USD 30.5 billion in 2018. The second-highest growth rate of 21.8 percent will be achieved by cloud...

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Apr 02, 2019

After announcing the general availability of Cloud Memorystore for Redis last year, we have seen tremendous growth across various industries, especially in gaming and retail. Cloud Memorystore for Redis lets Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers use a fully managed, in-memory data store service. Clo...

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Apr 02, 2019

Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed PaaS service that helps you run real-time analytics and complex event processing logic on telemetry from devices and applications. Numerous built-in functions available in Stream Analytics helps users build real-time applications using simple SQL language wi...

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Apr 01, 2019

Using ScriptRunner's Script Fragments feature, you can customise your Jira Cloud issues with content from external sources to save you from ever leaving Jira Cloud. In this video, we add a Script Fragment that integrates the Atlassian system status page straight into the Jira Cloud issue UI.

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Apr 01, 2019

Virtual Private Hosting, or VPS is sometimes called as private cloud services. It’s a kind of hosting that uses virtualization technology to create servers.

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Mar 29, 2019

The days of defining cloud computing as just “the cloud” are over. The definition of “cloud” has changed and fractured. Cloud services can now be deployed as public, private or both. One of the more recent models, the hybrid cloud, mixes public and private cloud services.

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Mar 28, 2019

In the chess match that is cybersecurity in the cloud, enterprises are moving their “pieces” to the wrong places. What’s more, they begin the game at a disadvantage because their opponent—the threat adversary—usually makes the first move. And security operations center ...

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Mar 28, 2019

The storage and retrieval of data from traditional servers can be archaic and insecure. To address the increasingly complex requirements for data transmission, storage, and analysis, organizations should consider cloud infrastructure.

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Mar 28, 2019

At the end of February 2019, at Storage Field Day 18, NetApp presented another tool aimed at integrating its on-premises solutions with the cloud, NetApp Data Availability Services (NDAS). As already mentioned in a previous post, this tool might be somewhat immature, but it has huge potential if dev...

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Mar 28, 2019

The changes came as part of an effort to shift channel partners away from operating a traditional reseller model to providing full unified communications (UC) and contact communications (CC) solutions.

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Mar 27, 2019

Insync is, by far, the best of the best for syncing Google Drive to your desktop. Not only can you sync multiple Google accounts (each account will require a separate license for a one-time fee of $29.99), but you can determine what is synced, where it is to be synced, as well as work with teams (re...

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Mar 27, 2019

Data backup is very crucial for any business. It’s been said that a company is as good as the quality of its data backup plan. In a perfect world, if you have the best backup solution, your need for insurance is significantly reduced a reliable backup plan ensures your data is safe even when t...

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Mar 27, 2019

Migrating to a cloud computing platform means your responsibility for data security goes up considerably. Data with various levels of sensitivity is moving out of the confines of your firewall. You no longer have control – your data could reside anywhere in the world, depending on which cloud ...

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Mar 27, 2019

Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, and the Volkswagen Group announced a multi-year, global agreement to build the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud, a cloud-based Industrial digital production platform that will help transform the automotive company’s manufacturing and logistics proce...

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Mar 25, 2019

Analyst rankings and market-share estimates for Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds show Amazon Web Services with a comfortable lead over Microsoft Azure, with Google Cloud Platform being a distant third. They rank the same in public cloud storage services, according to Gartner. A third major categor...

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Mar 25, 2019

The cloud represents the most disruptive trend in enterprise IT over the past decade, and security teams have not escaped turmoil during the transition. It’s understandable for security professionals to feel like they’ve lost some control in the cloud and feel frustrated while attempting...

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Mar 25, 2019

The first wave of cloud migration (Cloud 1.0) is coming to an end, with low-criticality applications being moved to public cloud vendors. The next wave is much more difficult – this is where organisations wish to migrate applications that are running their business to give them competitive adv...

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Mar 23, 2019

Why Cloud computing, why now Adhering IaaS security and compliance means that cloud providers must meet certain legal and industry standards when it comes to security and uptime.

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Mar 22, 2019

Even tech professionals might not stop to think about the staggering amount of data in the world. According to recent reports by the IDC, the global datasphere stands at 33 zettabytes (ZB), which is expected to grow to 175ZB by 2025. To put that in visual terms, David Reinsel, senior vice president ...

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Mar 22, 2019

The NetApp Data Fabric - NetApp announced their “Data Fabric” idea back in 2015, during Insight Las Vegas. The idea of NetApp’s “Data Fabric” is a simple concept; your data where you want it, when you want it. Whether you want to run 100% On-Prem or 100% Cloud (even mul...

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Mar 22, 2019

In the 21st century, it is technology that rules the world. With increasing adoption of tech in almost every sphere of life, there are very few sectors that remain untouched. India as a global IT leader has been at the forefront of this revolution, with the integration of technology in areas ranging...

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Mar 21, 2019

Cloud solutions provider Cloudreach is establishing a new base in Stockholm, Sweden. The new location will enable customers in the Nordic region to “accelerate their transformation journey”, said the firm, with enhanced service and support from Cloudreach locally.

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Mar 20, 2019

HPE Right Mix Advisor recommends which workloads and applications are ideal to move to public clouds, or keep in private clouds, and how to migrate those workloads to achieve the right mix of hybrid cloud according to each business’s specific need, according to the company.

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Mar 20, 2019

Let's get one thing clear, game streaming is nothing new. Founded in 2003, OnLive aimed to do what Google is doing now. It's clear that the company didn't succeed in its ventures and went bust in 2015. But it did seed the idea of gaming on a system without having the hardware locally. Li...

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Mar 20, 2019

Chicago, IL -March 20, 2019 - Zacks.com announces the list of stocks featured in the Analyst Blog. Every day the Zacks Equity Research analysts discuss the latest news and events impacting stocks and the financial markets. Stocks recently featured in the blog include: Amazon AMZN , Microsoft MSFT , ...

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Mar 20, 2019

Creating a strong and reliable cloud architecture is essential for long-term IT and enterprise success. Unfortunately, many cloud architectures are constructed haphazardly over several years, failing to meet the demands imposed by rapidly evolving technologies and business requirements.

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Mar 20, 2019

VMware, Inc., announced advancements to VMware Cloud that further the company’s vision for delivering the essential, ubiquitous Digital Foundation to support customers’ and partners’ digital transformation.

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Mar 20, 2019

Innovation is king. In the face of rising expectations and disruptive digital competitors, enterprises are desperate to innovate to safeguard their businesses and unlock future growth. Yet how often do we see many struggle to be able to execute? Look at Xerox, Kodak, Nokia. All big names that strugg...

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Mar 20, 2019

Hybrid cloud has become the standard model for IT operations within most organisations today, with some workloads running internally on the organisation's own infrastructure, while others are handled by a cloud service provider. However, one of the oft-cited aims of a hybrid architecture, that o...

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Mar 20, 2019

Self-service is core to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). Back in the virtualization days, you had to wait for someone to create a VLAN for you, carve out a LUN, and find space on a host. If Microsoft Azure ran that way, we would have needed to hire more and more admins as our cloud business grew....

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Mar 19, 2019

The five Cloud Czars  Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG, NASDAQ:GOOGL), Amazon.Com (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB)  all built clouds with cash flow from existing businesses. Apple and Facebook still run this way.

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Mar 19, 2019

New capabilities like predictive maintenance are made possible by recent developments driving real-time insights generated from the data that’s being captured, processed and analyzed from all the connected machines, critical systems and other sensor-laden devices in the factory. The most commo...

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Mar 19, 2019

The critical need to embrace digital transformation is driving many businesses to a hybrid multi-cloud world. On one hand the cloud offers businesses the potential to improve efficiency and productivity, on the other hand it brings the risk of mistakes, security impacting errors and digital software...

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Mar 19, 2019

The critical need to embrace digital transformation is driving many businesses to a hybrid multi-cloud world. On one hand the cloud offers businesses the potential to improve efficiency and productivity, on the other hand it brings the risk of mistakes, security impacting errors and digital software...

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Mar 19, 2019

In our increasingly on-the-go and mobile world, cloud computing has dramatically reshaped the way companies conduct business. The technology allows firms big and small, as well as individuals, to access all their vital information nearly anywhere. Cloud computing like the smartphone, is hardly a fad...

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Mar 19, 2019

Cloud-based storage of claims data will give payers the opportunity to strip away inefficiencies backed into legacy systems, where onerous manual processes can also lead to costly errors or lost information.

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Mar 19, 2019

Cloud storage is not only a convenient way to upload and back up your files, photos and other data, but it also gives you extra security in the form of encryption. There are plenty of free cloud storage apps for Android on the Play Store but one of most complete packages is pCloud.

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Mar 19, 2019

By Wylie Wong  Pushing forward its hybrid and multi-cloud-centered product strategy forward, VMware had announced updates to its software portfolio, expanded VMware Cloud on AWS to three new regions, and announced new cloud partners.

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Mar 18, 2019

Trying to get different teams to collaborate is never an easy feat. But no two groups are more notoriously difficult to work together than developers and IT operators. After all, the two groups have had a contentious relationship for quite some time. Historically, developers want to release features...

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Mar 18, 2019

By migrating data to the cloud, businesses can enjoy scalability, ease of use, enhanced collaboration and mobility, together with significant cost savings. The cloud can be especially appealing to subject-matter experts as they no longer have to invest in building and maintaining their own infrastru...

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Mar 18, 2019

So you’ve made the decision to migrate to the cloud. How do you do it? Moving to the cloud isn’t something your enterprise can do overnight. It takes time to bring everything from one environment to the other, and unless you have a cloud migration strategy, you might create potentially c...

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Mar 18, 2019

Imagine India in 1996. Think desktops powered by Intel Pentium I (or Pentium MMX if you got lucky). The first mobile phone call is less than a year old. Relatives coming from Dubai are bringing you calculator watches. Now imagine yourself to be a tech entrepreneur in India in this era. How many user...

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Mar 16, 2019

The world is moving towards the era of creating the virtual world and here all the data will be stored digitally, which means data will be on the internet. In the traditional method, data are kept on servers which have some disadvantages such as; due to this, their investment and the maintenance cos...

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Mar 14, 2019

It provides integrated access to Office 365 apps and services, including SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Word, Excel and PowerPoint, improving collaboration in the context of your team by providing central file sharing, co-authoring, and more in one place.

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Mar 14, 2019

Microsoft has unveiled several cloud-based platforms designed to help federal, local and state government agencies implement their information technology modernization efforts and improve the delivery of citizen services.

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Mar 14, 2019

Arizona State University and Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday launched the ASU Smart City Cloud Innovation Center (CIC) Powered by AWS, an initiative that focuses on building smarter communities in the Phoenix metropolitan area by using AWS Cloud to solve pressing community and regional challenge...

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Mar 14, 2019

Microsoft Teams, the company's collaboration platform,  is now available in the Government Community Cloud (GCC) High and Department of Defense environments. The chat-based workspace integrates Office 365 services, including emails, meetings, calls, files and apps, such as  SharePoint ...

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Mar 14, 2019

Cloud computing involves operating computer functions and capabilities in a service access via an Internet-based platform. It’s commonly used for data computing, storage, and management that takes place off an enterprise’s local machines. Companies all around the world rely on the cloud ...

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Mar 14, 2019

Traditional security tools are not built to protect cloud data that is accessed from personal devices around the clock and around the world. With the rise of bring your own device (BYOD) and cloud-based tools like AWS, Office 365, and Salesforce, it can be challenging to figure out which technologie...

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Mar 14, 2019

Moving forward, the company is all-in on hybrid cloud and opening data and artificial intelligence up for its clients. After embracing open source and technology-agnostic shifts, the enterprise provider is well positioned to compete against market leaders like Amazon and aspirants like IBM.

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Mar 13, 2019

Cloud platforms help organizations to move faster towards their business goals. The complexity of managing vendor relationships with datacenters, hardware vendors moves over to the public cloud operator.  That provides the flexibility to move forward, faster in an uncertain business environment...

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Mar 13, 2019

Multi cloud storage is adopted by most of the enterprises in order to use numerous cloud environment to satisfy the business requirement. An enterprise application might have multiple clouds such as private cloud, public cloud and hybrid cloud including managed service providers. Multi cloud storage...

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Mar 13, 2019

Those cloud services providers offer so many different kinds and levels of services and products that it's imperative to understand how those services best serve your enterprise's needs.

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Mar 13, 2019

You are thinking about moving or backing up data to the cloud. Maybe your team cannot easily collaborate on shared files and synchronize between workspaces, or you need a disaster recovery plan and know you should keep offsite backups.

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Mar 13, 2019

Cloud platforms help organizations to move faster towards their business goals. The complexity of managing vendor relationships with datacenters, hardware vendors moves over to the public cloud operator.  That provides the flexibility to move forward, faster in an uncertain business environment...

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Mar 13, 2019

Cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings, once touted as the “future” of computerized operations, are now the norm in nearly every aspect of our lives, from banking to grocery shopping to tracking our kid’s soccer calendar. But manufacturers have been slow to adopt cloud ...

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Mar 12, 2019

Cloud computing has shifted so gradually from being an innovative concept in the development of the internet to one of the fastest-growing areas of IT investment, that it's difficult to put a finger on when the change happened. Was it when a group of cloud computing linked stocks - Facebook, Ama...

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Mar 12, 2019

The CSA closed its 10th annual Summit at RSA on Monday, and the consensus was that the cloud has come to dominate the technology landscape and revolutionize the market, creating a tectonic shift in accepted practice.

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Mar 11, 2019

Furthermore, the Europe cloud computing market growth is also triggered by the support from various government-led initiatives. For instance, the European Commission has established the European Cloud Computing Strategy (ECCS) to promote the adoption of cloud computing services. The strategy’s...

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Mar 11, 2019

Market Study Report Add New 2019-2024 Global Cloud Gaming Market Report to its research database presenting an informative study covering the market with detailed analysis. The Global Cloud Gaming market research report is a professional and in-depth study on the current state of global Industry.

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Mar 11, 2019

It’s true that taking the decision of selecting the correct hosting plan is one of the toughest jobs for businesses and especially the ones who are just on the verge to start their website. They need to check not only a wide range of hosting types but also need to take the call about the right...

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Mar 08, 2019

The Go Cloud Development Kit (CDK) landed to much fanfare. It is an “open source project building libraries and tools to improve the experience of developing for the cloud with Go.” This project aims to support hybrid cloud deployments and combine local and cloud tools. The portable APIs...

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Mar 08, 2019

A new report revealed that demands from large cloud users was the driving force behind U.S. data centre leasing, which pushed figures to record levels in 2018, according to CRBE.The seven primary U.S. data centre markets saw 303MW of net absorption in 2018, which was up more than 16% from 2017&rsquo...

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Mar 08, 2019

Upland Software, a leader in cloud-based enterprise work management software announced that it has organized its cloud software products, which represent hundreds of millions of dollars in R&D investment, into seven focused enterprise cloud solution suites.

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Mar 08, 2019

Hybrid cloud is a cloud computing environment that uses a mix of on-premises,private cloudand third-party,public cloudservices with orchestration between the two platforms. By allowing workloads to move between private and public clouds as computing needs and costs change, hybrid cloud gives busines...

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Mar 08, 2019

The Global Hybrid Cloud Market Research Report comprises of huge points of interest of Hybrid Cloud industry’s notable execution and its approaching estimations up to 2028. The investigation is a model amassing of various essential components which applies an effect on Hybrid Cloud market. The...

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Mar 08, 2019

The discovery was made by Bob Diachenko and Vinny Troia Feb. 25 on a misconfigured MongoDB database but only made public today. The database in question belongs to a company called Verifications.io that provides services to businesses who wish to vet email mailing lists for valid emails.

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Mar 08, 2019

The suite includes Back Manager for ensuring data backups are done properly and in compliance; Capacity Manager to help manage capacity consumption and provide chargeback information for service providers; Fabric Manager to visualize an entire SAN topology; File Analytics to find duplicate or non-co...

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Mar 08, 2019

Twenty years ago it would be common to have multiple data centers load balanced with specialized devices. The applications in multiple data centers would use the Domain Name System (DNS) to look up the application destination. The DNS system would be set up to with multiple data center locations. Th...

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Mar 08, 2019

The backup outfit is itself owned by private equity house Carlyle Group and currently undertaking a massive shape-shift with the help of restructuring specialist Axil Partners. Buying Aptare is a sign of growth for Veritas to set against product retirements, office space reductions, job transfers, l...

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Mar 08, 2019

A head in the clouds, but eyes on the stock market. Dallas, Texas-based Fathom Realty announced Tuesday they plan to file paperwork an initial public offering with the Securities Exchange Commission, according to Inman.

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Mar 08, 2019

As the key enabler of digital transformation, the business case for cloud migration is clear. Accordingly, cloud computing currently dominates boardroom discussion around the need to create future-ready businesses, says Bruce Arnold, CEO of Pivotal Data. While most these discussions generally pertai...

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Mar 08, 2019

The next trend was focused on security operation centres (SOCs) being implemented with a focus on threat detection and response. According to Gartner, by 2022, about 50 per cent of SOCs will be transformed with integrated incident response, threat intelligence and threat-hunting capabilities.

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Mar 08, 2019

Marc Benioff, then a 35-year-old Oracle executive, was on a long leash from his boss, Larry Ellison. He was already investing in startups and toying with web software ideas. From a chance introduction, he talked a three-man software development team  Parker Harris, Dave Moellenhoff and Frank Do...

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Mar 08, 2019

The cloud swept through businesses and fundamentally restructured how many compute and operate. Today, open source is making many businesses rethink their software development approach.

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Mar 08, 2019

There’s a lot of talk right now about empowering women in the workforce, and for good reason. People are generally now more aware of the job inequality that impacts women on a daily basis. However, we still have a long way to go, and the IT sector is no exception. The National Center for Woman...

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Mar 08, 2019

The last few years have seen tremendous excitement around Kubernetes, and for good reason. Enterprises took note of the collective weight of companies backing the technology and immediately set about to adopt it. However, in the excitement, there was also much confusion over the role Kubernetes fill...

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Mar 07, 2019

As businesses move further into embracing the concept of cloud-based data storage and backup, so do their risks of cyber-attack as well as downtime increase. The onus lies on business leaders to look for ways to leverage the cloud while eliminating the inconveniences of data theft or simple downtime...

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Mar 07, 2019

Our community is filled with individuals who channel their energy, enthusiasm and brilliance towards building and strengthening a platform that helps end users solve real world problems.

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Mar 07, 2019

The Cloud Awards has released its picks for the Best Cloud HR, Payroll or ERP Solution, a report in the mold of the Forbes Cloud 100 that includes the providers it sees as leaders in the space. The Cloud Awards program was founded by a group of technical engineers, business leaders and marketers wit...

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Mar 07, 2019

Bitcoin [BTC], the very first digital currency often referred to as the king of the cryptoverse, has been recognized as a revolution ever since its inception. Interestingly, along with the idea of a digitalized and decentralized economy, the coin’s underlying technology, Blockchain Technology ...

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Mar 07, 2019

Supercomputing 2018 provided clear demonstrations that cloud-based High Performance Computing (HPC) has forever changed HPC and is having profound societal impacts in the medical community as well as on HPC supercomputer centers themselves. One example is Frontera, the latest National Science Founda...

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Mar 07, 2019

The cloud computing revolution has forever altered the ways in which individuals and companies store and transfer information. As one of the world’s largest and most powerful cloud infrastructures, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become one of the most important platforms to learn if you want to...

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Mar 07, 2019

The Cloud Verified badge signals that FNTS offers a service running on top of the complete VMware Cloud infrastructure. With their VMware Cloud Verified status, FNTS clients attain access to the full set of VMware Cloud Infrastructure capabilities, including integration and interoperability, cost op...

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Mar 07, 2019

Edge computing seems to be the new buzzword these days in tech circles. At a time when consumers and businesses are in an overdrive when it comes to the creation of data, edge computing enables connected devices to process data closer to where it is created—or the “edge.” According...

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Mar 07, 2019

Mobile Cloud Market 2019 Research report contains a qualified and in-depth examination of Mobile Cloud Market. At first, the report provides an overview of Product Specification, technology, product type and production analysis considering major factors such as Revenue, Cost, Gross and Gross Margin....

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Mar 07, 2019

Snowflake Computing can help as more and more providers make the transition to the cloud, claims Todd Crosslin, VP of healthcare strategy.

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Mar 07, 2019

Furthermore, the Europe cloud computing market growth is also triggered by the support from various government-led initiatives. For instance, the European Commission has established the European Cloud Computing Strategy (ECCS) to promote the adoption of cloud computing services. The strategy’s...

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Mar 07, 2019

Business Insider has published a fascinating article looking at Amazon’s ambitions in the logistics space. There are a few signs to be interpreted, including its rapid network expansion, its shipping costs, which have growth fifteen-fold from 2009 to 2018, a move to in-house transport, away fr...

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Mar 07, 2019

The consultancy BUI is proud to introduce a customised cloud migration service to help South African businesses transform their operations with digital technology. The Azure Data Centre Migration Service by BUI is an end-to-end solution for moving on-premises servers and applications to the Microsof...

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Mar 07, 2019

The latest exchange investigation ‘Global Cloud Computing Services Market‘ begins with item outline, definition, improvement, and request, subtleties and market figures. The Cloud Computing Services report demonstrates the surmising time frame from 2019 to 2025. The past data related to ...

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Mar 07, 2019

New Belgium Brewing, the fourth largest US craft brewer, has returned its core business applications from a cloud service to its onsite operations. The company has chosen Dell EMC PowerEdge servers as the underlying infrastructure to support exponential increases in its applications and data, achiev...

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Mar 06, 2019

Operators have a choice of four different cloud or hosting products to offer, and two basic delivery options. These options pass over much of the complexity of cloud services; they are meant to form a framework, rather than an exhaustive catalogue of choices. Also, the focus here is on selling compu...

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Mar 06, 2019

Global Cloud Computing Stack Layers Market research report contributes a thorough study of past, present and future bearings of Cloud Computing Stack Layers industry. It provides global Cloud Computing Stack Layers market threats, opportunities, upbeat imminent Cloud Computing Stack Layers tendencie...

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Mar 06, 2019

Tech chiefs are feeling the heat to move systems to the cloud. The pressure is coming not just from vendors who see the future of their products in the cloud but also increasingly from CEOs and board members.

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Mar 06, 2019

The global market for cloud computing in the healthcare industry features a highly fragmented vendor landscape as a large number of companies forayed in the area owing to a massive rise in demand for cloud-based electronic medical health record services across developed economies in the past few yea...

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Mar 06, 2019

Mar 06, 2019 (Heraldkeeper via COMTEX) -- The increasing demand for big data storage also boosts the Cloud Storage Market growth. Companies need to store huge data and cloud-based services provide a reliable platform for the storage of data. The penetration of mobile and wireless networks further dr...

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Mar 06, 2019

According to Michael Howard, CEO of MariaDB - the organisation behind the popular open source relational database management system - the community driven project still faces significant challenges from a variety of quarters, including large cloud vendors, who, he said, were 'strip mining' o...

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Mar 06, 2019

The cloud is a powerful transformational agent for emerging markets, but only when dovetailed with other emerging and evolving digital technologies to deliver complete solutions.  The International Data Corporation or IDC’s top 10 predictions for IT, 2019, says that by 2022, 40% of organi...

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Mar 06, 2019

Some traders may be employing technical analysis to try and conquer the market. There are plenty of various indicators that traders can use. Studying different technical indicators can provide some good insight, but the individual investor may want to start by focusing on a few different popular one...

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Mar 06, 2019

The worldwide cloud computing in healthcare market is anticipated to extend generously because of adoption of positive regulatory acts, developing investment from market players, expansion of high speed internet, government associations, rising awareness among consumers, rising interest for stringen...

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Mar 06, 2019

This report studies the Cloud Computing Stack Layers Market with many aspects of the industry like the market size, market status, market trends and forecast, the report also provides brief information of the competitors and the specific growth opportunities with key market drivers. Find the complet...

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Mar 06, 2019

The retail and consumer goods vertical will experience the highest rate of cloud growth of any of those explored by Research and Markets. This is due to the “rising purchasing power of customers” and a drive to improve customer engagement through innovation. Businesses need to attract an...

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Mar 06, 2019

Spring Cloud Data Flow (SCDF) is a toolkit for building data integration, batch, and real-time data processing pipelines to support IoT and other data-intensive business applications. Alright, so... what about it? The following visual unpacks the value proposition for the developers and operations t...

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Mar 05, 2019

You’ve probably heard a lot about how wonderful Cloud Foundry Application Runtime is because it gives developers the power to self-provision their workloads. But those developers may not be responsible for or even know how to deploy or manage the cloud application platform.

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Mar 05, 2019

Complicating the situation further is the fact that education institutions are required to comply with multiple regulations; for example, FERPA, FISMA, PCI DSS, and HIPAA. Additionally, when personal devices are used to access data (a common occurrence for faculty and students alike), securing data ...

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Mar 05, 2019

The cloud computing model has captured the imagination of everyone: they see the budgetary benefits that cost effective and agile IT deliver, and they want to be involved. The challenge for tech execs is to understand the broad trends without letting themselves be pressured into enterprise applicati...

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Mar 05, 2019

Alan Hayward, Sales and Product Manager at SEH was able to explain to Data Economy’s Abigail Opiah how dongle servers are increasingly helping customers that were struggling with complete cloud migration, essentially using hardware servers to solve a problem created by software.

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Mar 05, 2019

The data within your business is its most precious commodity. As such it is vital that the backup systems in place are robust enough to cope with not only your data backup needs today, but for the future.

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Mar 05, 2019

The telco said the centres will offer "guidance and advice" to small and medium business operators, with the emphasis on services like cloud storage, software-as-a-service, data networks and IP phones.

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Mar 05, 2019

We’ve had a rather inconsistent view of exactly where computing power should be kept, and it just began another huge shift with the advent of 5G wireless technology. We started out with mainframes where the computing power was centralized, then we moved to PCs where it was highly decentralized...

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Mar 05, 2019

With tight integration to Cisco’s Webex solutions, organisations will gain access to advanced audio and video conferencing and Team collaboration applications,” Cisco ANZ vice president Ken Boal said. “When combined with Optus Cloud Calling, customers will have access to an advance...

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Mar 05, 2019

Thomas Kurian, who succeeded Diane Greene last November as chief of Google Cloud, has been outspoken about plans to compete more aggressively in the cutthroat public cloud market. Among his first moves was announcing plans to invest $13 billion in this year in U.S. datacenter expansion.

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Mar 05, 2019

In our last post we walked through the components of a hybrid cloud and how they are connected. While many organizations get this far with hybrid cloud, too many stop there. That’s why they never see the full value from their hybrid cloud deployment. We understand. It’s complex to create...

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Mar 04, 2019

When you’re dealing with petabytes of scientific data, getting it all into the cloud can take time. But once it’s there, running experiments on your data from anywhere in the world is simple — and all you need to download are your results. Convincing researchers to embrace this par...

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Mar 04, 2019

The public cloud is often portrayed by its proponents as the panacea for many of the capital expenditures that typically occur inside the data center. With 96 percent of respondents in RightScale’s “2018 State of the Cloud Report” indicating they now use some form of the cloud, inc...

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Mar 04, 2019

In India, the inflection points are there, adds Shyamal. Internet is huge, companies are going digital in a big way, investment in cloud is increasing quarter-on-quarter, and if it is a company with a national presence, it will need to have branch offices in many locations. The market is going to be...

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Mar 03, 2019

In 2019 admittedly, storing bitcoin and other popular cryptocurrencies is not as straightforward as it should be. If you have a varied portfolio with a mix of different altcoins, finding one place to store all of your assets is frustratingly difficult.

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Mar 02, 2019

There's a battle raging between a handful of data-storage companies to be the dominant player in the public cloud-computing market. Apps, analytics, advertising, artificial intelligence, and a host of other services all depend on cloud-based data to function, which is why Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), A...

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Mar 01, 2019

Cloud computing has emerged as the fastest-growing market in technology. The tech world is witnessing the dawn of a new age where more agile, robust, and cheaper cloud architecture is making traditional data management obsolete. With growing data, the cloud not only helps store terabytes of data, it...

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Feb 28, 2019

Revenue for Nielsen’s Watch segment decreased 3.5% to $881 million in Q4, while Buy segment revenue declined 8.4% to $777 million. But freshly minted CEO David Kenny has a plan.Kenny, who joined Nielsen from IBM Watson in November 2018, wants to bring Nielsen’s technology to the cloud an...

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Feb 28, 2019

Microsoft today unveiled a pair of new cloud-based security offerings aimed at helping large organizations cope with advanced security threats. The announcement comes ahead of the RSA Conference, where the two products will be showcased for security professionals.Azure Sentinel is a new service offe...

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Feb 28, 2019

This is our current recommendation for customers interested in security. SMB is sometimes also referred to as CIFS or Samba. There are subtle differences among CIFS, Samba and SMB, but typically when someone mentions any of these terms, they mean SMB. SMB is most prevalent in Windows environments, a...

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Feb 28, 2019

I’m a glass-half-full kind of person. When I hear the real-life stories of complex, treacherous paths to production (with inevitable delays, failures and fire drills), I tend to think “OMG, what potential!” If you’re like most organizations, you have so much upside by transfo...

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Feb 28, 2019

I got a new set of knives the other day. I do most of the cooking in our house, so it was a welcome addition. But I wasn’t ready for how much sharper the blade was, compared to my older ones. A few band-aids later, I refined my technique accordingly, and finished preparing a tasty dinner. That...

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Feb 27, 2019

Google’s Eric Schmidt first introduced the term “Cloud Computing” in 2006. Now, thirteen years later, the term is ubiquitous. What next for the cloud? Flexera recently created a survey of the state of cloud computing. The 786 businesses that responded to the Flexera survey confirme...

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Feb 27, 2019

The fast revenue growth of AWS, Azure, and other cloud providers makes it clear that companies are embracing public cloud. However, the story behind the numbers can be a bit murky. In its annual survey of cloud users, the RightScale 2019 State of the Cloud Report from Flexera gives us a clearer pict...

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Feb 27, 2019

Who doesn’t like free stuff? The public cloud vendors know we all do.The major cloud services offer their wares to everyone from the indie developer with a credit card to enterprises that cut seven-figure SLAs. The big three—Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure—al...

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Feb 27, 2019

Looking to ease deployments of software-defined networks while reinforcing automation and security for hybrid and multicloud customers, VMware has taken the wraps off of a major release of its NSX-T Data Center software.While the NSX-T 2.4 announcement includes over 100 upgrades, VMware said the rel...

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Feb 27, 2019

I’ve said this before, but it’s worth repeating. You can’t secure what you can’t see, so the very first step in securing IoT is knowing what’s connected. The problem is that most companies have no clue. Earlier this year, I ran a survey and asked how confident responden...

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Feb 26, 2019

First, it was “cloud-preferred” policies, then “cloud-first” policies, now it’s “cloud-native” policies. They all mean pretty much the same things, just at different degrees of mandatory public cloud usage.What cloud-native means is that you’re all in ...

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Feb 26, 2019

Continuing the trend from last year, in 2019, we see more organizations riding the wave of serverless and Kubernetes, and many are starting to see tangible results. The widespread adoption of these technologies, however, has only just begun. Below, we examine five trends in serverless that are sure ...

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Feb 26, 2019

Rancher Labs, creator of the Rancher Kubernetes management system and the RancherOS container-centric Linux distribution, has announced a new Kubernetes distro built to be slender and simple.K3s, as it’s called—a play on “K8s,” a common abbreviation for Kubernetes—is ai...

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Feb 26, 2019

A few weeks ago, iTWire reported on research from Eclypsium that demonstrated the ability to "brick" a cloud hosted bare metal server. This research shows that similar techniques can have more subtle (and nefarious) outcomes.

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Feb 26, 2019

Rackspace and Pure Storage on Tuesday jointly launched the new Ultra-Fast Performance Rackspace Block Storage solution. The offering combines Pure's storage technology and partner program with Rackspace's managed services and hybrid IT expertise. It's aimed at hybrid-cloud customers who ...

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Feb 26, 2019

Microsoft has announced the release of Windows Server IoT 2019, its version of Windows for tiny, low-power Internet of Things devices. Windows Server IoT 2019 is the "binary equivalent" to Windows Server 2019 and is designed to help developers who are familiar with building in Windows Serv...

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Feb 26, 2019

AT&T has announced at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019 that it is working with Microsoft on a proof of concept to integrate network edge compute capabilities with its 5G network and Azure cloud services. We're testing our ability to substantially reduce latency and improve user experience by...

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Feb 26, 2019

Mobile edge computing (MEC) is a network architecture that supports compute, analytics and storage capacity at the edge of the network, and proponents say it provides substantial performance benefits for applications requiring low latency, especially IoT applications. But MEC deployment is complicat...

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Feb 26, 2019

Cloud computing refers to the provision of IT infrastructure, operating software, middleware and applications hosted within a datacentre and accessed by the end user via the Internet. So what is Cloud computing in business and what are the main trends? Infrastructure as a service (IaaS): a model for...

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Feb 26, 2019

Cloud computing had almost changed the look and appeal of work places.The ability to communicate clearly and effectively is one of the skills businesses look for in employees. This next wave of change will fundamentally reshape all our careers. It is estimated that around 65% of children entering el...

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Feb 26, 2019

Announced at the Cloud Economic Summit, the non-profit FinOps Foundation counts among its founding members Atlassian, Autodesk, Cloudability, HERE Technologies, Just Eat and Nationwide. Cloudability co-founder J.R. Storment said the goal is to bring financial accountability to variable cloud spendin...

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Feb 26, 2019

The move by government organizations to public cloud infrastructure is often motivated by a desire to provide better services to citizens, but an academic piece warns about the need to maintain public access to open data in the cloud.Written by Dr. Mariel Borowitz, a professor at the Sam Nunn School...

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Feb 26, 2019

Data has vaulted to the thing that businesses now say is the most important for their companies, after customers and employees. Increasingly businesses are being swamped with the collection huge amounts of unstructured data.Piysh Kumar Chowhan, CIO at Arvind Lifestyle Brands, said that “the ab...

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Feb 26, 2019

Volume services have been available for Cloud Foundry for nearly two years, but the work of making secure configurations available took quite some time. In this article, we take a look at challenges we faced when attempting to use volume services with Cloud Foundry.

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Feb 26, 2019

Cloud computing is an obscure service now turned in multi-million dollar business in the past few decades. Now we are going to discuss top trends in cloud computing this year. Cloud is just a digital version of the warehouse. Amazon web services launched the first cloud in August 2006. Later Google ...

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Feb 26, 2019

Cloud integration refers to a combination of tools, technologies, and practices that companies can use to connect applications, systems, data, and even the entire IT environment. Such integration can occur between different providers and cloud platforms, as well as between hosted and local resources...

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Feb 26, 2019

Almost everyone is in the cloud in which cloud computing challenges are numerous. We have to figure out the challenges which are to be overcome. According to the survey, almost 96% of the IT companies are using cloud computing services, whereas 92% are using the public cloud. Many organisations are ...

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Feb 25, 2019

There are a lot of reasons why companies should choose Cloud Foundry, but I’m going to stick with a developer point of view. I always wanted to build applications using modern approaches that can be deployed on any cloud  without worrying about the infrastructure, and that offers freedom ...

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Feb 25, 2019

Alibaba Cloud has released a suite of cloud-computing products, ranging from server-less computing and data analytics to networking, storage and database management, to the international market – products that were previously available only to clients in China.According to an announcement on M...

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Feb 25, 2019

Supercomputing 2018 provided clear demonstrations that cloud-based High Performance Computing (HPC) has forever changed HPC and is having profound societal impacts in the medical community as well as on HPC supercomputer centers themselves. One example is Frontera, the latest National Science Founda...

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Feb 25, 2019

Cloud cost management is becoming a larger issue for enterprises and the move to containers may not be helping matters, according to a survey by Densify, which offers cloud resource management software.The survey from Densify rhymes with a similar survey by Kentik. Here's the upshot from the Ken...

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Feb 25, 2019

In a relatively obscure processor web forum, Real World Technologies, Linus Torvalds shared his thoughts on why x86 took over the server market and ARM is unlikely to be as successful.  A few people immediately thought Torvalds was saying you should forget about ARM in servers. That's not w...

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Feb 25, 2019

Bringing on a new developer to a programming project with many dependencies can sometimes be a nightmare. I’ve seen an extreme case where the company finally gave up and bought the developer a new computer after a month of issues trying to configure his old one. More commonly, setting up a new...

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Feb 25, 2019

In the last 20 years, more than 2.5 billion people have been affected by natural disasters. In only the past few years, Puerto Rico suffered a massive hurricane, wildfires in California destroyed thousands of homes and an earthquake devastated parts of Mexico City.To help pilot technology that addre...

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Feb 25, 2019

AWS saw the introduction of AWS Solutions, the new catalog of reference architectures, and implementation templates.Elastic File System gets an infrequent access storage class, which enables a transparent move of rarely used files to cheaper storage. Azure's IoT Edge Service, which provides a co...

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Feb 25, 2019

More and more organizations are combining public and private cloud technologies to create a hybrid cloud. That means they connect infrastructure hosted in a public cloud by a company like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to their infrastructure hosted on the...

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Feb 24, 2019

Of course Microsoft will be doing its own implementation of its Edge browser for its HoloLens 2 augmented-reality headset. But Mozilla is all in, too, and has committed to doing a native implementation of its browser for the HoloLens 2 device. Microsoft Technical Fellow and HoloLens founder Alex Kip...

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Feb 23, 2019

Google is offering a physical space that provides developers in Southeast Asia the resources they need to build products and grow their business, including access to the vendor's technologies and engineers, hands-on mentorship, and networking opportunities. Occupying 7,200 square feet within its...

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Feb 22, 2019

Baidu announced on Thursday its full year financial results to 31 December 2018, posting revenue of 102.3 billion yuan ($14.88 billion). This was an increase of 22 percent year over year -- or 28 percent year over year if the impact of divested businesses such as Baidu Mobile Games, Baidu Deliveries...

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Feb 22, 2019

Google this week announced the beta version of its Cloud Services Platform, an on-premises software product that allows enterprises to deploy Google’s Kubernetes Engine inside their own data centers.Google announced CSP last July at its Cloud Next conference. Enterprises can build an in-house ...

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Feb 22, 2019

Running Docker in production has quickly become the norm. Cloud hosting providers like AWS, GCE and Azure realized that this is what organizations need. Services like EKS and ECS from Amazon offer a completely managed environment for your Docker containers to run on. Through this article, we’l...

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Feb 22, 2019

We are using containers” is the battle cry of enterprises looking to get to the ultimate in performance, scalability, and portability. Well, some of that can happen. But there are limitations as well.Here’s my guidance around what value containers actually bring to the enterprise—a...

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Feb 22, 2019

Calculus ruled for hundreds of years after it was introduced in the seventeen century as a primary tool for explaining physics and the world around us. But, while math remains important, it has taken a back seat over the last few decades to numerical analysis and computations.One example is Finite E...

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Feb 22, 2019

The benefits of having a cloud server that deals with their computing necessities far outweighs the need to maintain their own on-premises server. Moving from these offline methods to an online one does call for a change in how the company views data however. This revamping of the view of data comes...

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Feb 22, 2019

Between virtualization and cloud hosting, today’s datacenter doesn’t resemble the datacenter of 10 years ago. Calling upon virtualization technology, organizations can create internal private clouds to more quickly deliver software. At the same time, more companies are comfortable trusti...

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Feb 21, 2019

Almost two-thirds of businesses are planning to migrate an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to the cloud or are already doing so, despite many of them having concerns about moving sensitive data, security and regulatory compliance.That’s according to the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA),...

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Feb 21, 2019

The retail sector has been among the slowest industries to adopt new technologies, but with the continued rise of unified commerce -- the catch-all term for shopping experiences meant to flow seamlessly from in-store to online -- retailers are increasingly more willing to ramp up their tech transiti...

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Feb 21, 2019

There’s a lot of marketing buzz and technical spin on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning. Most of what’s out there is either too fluffy or too mathy, either too general or too focused on specific applications, too disconnected from business outcomes and metrics,...

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Feb 21, 2019

The Cloud Foundry Foundation has always incorporated feedback from folks within and external to the community in order to continue being that “quiet community that just does awesome things.” Therefore, we were pleased to be able to actualize some recent feedback from our community around...

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Feb 21, 2019

Are you planning to attend Cloud Foundry NA Summit in Philadelphia this April 2-4, but you aren’t sure where to start? Read the post on six must-see sessions at Summit with an emphasis on serverless, data streams, functions and knative, according to Bryan Friedman for The New Stack.

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Feb 21, 2019

Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) and specifically Pivotal Application Service (PAS) accelerate the path to production for your code. Once you’re in prod, of course, the job isn’t over and in many ways, it’s just starting. A critical day 2 task: monitoring your app to ensure it remains h...

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Feb 21, 2019

Egnyte had been centered on Google Cloud but switched its focus to Microsoft Azure two years ago, citing Microsoft's focus on enterprise customers.

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Feb 20, 2019

The Department of Defense’s recently released Cloud Strategy covers a lot of territory, from an emphasis on the multibillion dollar Joint Enterprise Defense Initiative as a foundation of its plans, to its description of seven strategic objectives it wants to achieve in the cloud. One of those ...

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Feb 20, 2019

Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Alooma handles data pipelines and helps to integrate, clean and bring data together from various data silos.It allows businesses to connect their data sources together like Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, and Microsoft Azure.As well as its data...

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Feb 20, 2019

Big Data is quickly becoming a business’s best resource. Refined and analyzed data can help companies to improve operations and uncover insights. But as data begins to flow in from multiple sources, it’s important to prevent it from being siloed by pooling it in a central repository.Ente...

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Feb 20, 2019

Google on Wednesday announced the beta availability of Cloud Services Platform, its platform for building and managing services both on premise and in the cloud. First announced at last year's Google Next conference, CSP offers services such as GKE On-Prem, a managed Kubernetes service for the r...

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Feb 20, 2019

Huawei has opened a cloud region in Singapore with plans to develop the site into "one of its largest" outside its domestic Chinese market. The facility will offer the vendor's full cloud stack and support local customers as well as China-based businesses looking to expand into Asia-Pa...

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Feb 20, 2019

Terms like ‘open systems’ have been bandied about for decades. While modern computer systems are relatively open compared to their predecessors, there are still plenty of opportunities to become locked into proprietary interfaces. In this article, we explore the challenge of proprietary ...

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Feb 20, 2019

Google has announced it will buy data migration company Alooma, as part of efforts to catch up with bigger cloud service rivals Amazon and Microsoft.Google trails Amazon and Microsoft in the fast-growing business of helping companies move to the cloud, with Google Cloud holding 8.5 percent of worldw...

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Feb 20, 2019

In a world inundated with data, data scientists help enterprises generate insights and predictions to enable smarter business decisions. Typically, these data scientists are experts in statistical analysis and mathematical modeling and proficient in programming languages such as R or Python.However,...

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Feb 20, 2019

VMware’s introduction of x86 server-virtualization technology was a game-changing event in the history of enterprise computing. But if you look at VMware’s corporate messaging today, it’s almost as if server virtualization has been scrubbed from the lexicon. Instead, VMware highlig...

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Feb 20, 2019

Fundamentally, the way that carriers (i.e. telcos) deliver managed network services hasn’t changed in decades. The core architecture of this network, known as hub and spoke, consists of branches talking to the data center over a managed network with a separate firewall in the middle. However, ...

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Feb 20, 2019

The world’s HPC cloud services require world-leading HPC clusters at their core too. Advania Data Centers (ADC), a Nordic IT company, uses both HPE systems and Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel OPA) to power HPCFLOW, its purpose-built HPC cloud. The company is already winning accolades,...

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Feb 19, 2019

Pure Storage's rapid integration of StorReduce highlights how enterprises and vendors are looking to move to multi-cloud tools and hybrid environments. Pure Storage also recently launched a cloud management system integrated with AWS.

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Feb 19, 2019

No-ops is the concept that an IT environment, such as cloud computing, can become so automated and abstracted from the underlying platforms that there is no need for a team to manage the thing. The no-ops concept has largely arisen from the introduction of serverless cloud computing, and the automat...

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Feb 19, 2019

A record level of recurring revenues combined with strong growth within the software-as-a-service (SaaS) sector led towards a revenue increase of 5.5 per cent to $49.1 million for the six months ending December 31 for Canberra-based Citadel Group.During the first half of FY19, Citadel signed additio...

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Feb 19, 2019

Ever since the rise to prominence of cloud computing, we've seen businesses grapple with how to best think about and leverage this new means of computing. Some companies, particularly web-focused ones, dove in head first and now have their entire existence dependent on services like Amazon's...

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Feb 19, 2019

Federal agencies are the ­custodians of massive amounts of data. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration alone ­gathers about 20 terabytes of data per day, for example.There was a time when such large data sets could only be accessed or analyzed by powerful on-premises computers,...

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Feb 19, 2019

Think tech and health and you might think of Apple's work on chronic disease, Amazon's plans to create a Prime for healthcare, or even Google-affiliated Calico Labs' attempts to defeat death itself. But Microsoft? Microsoft might not be front of mind. But while the other tech giants have...

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Feb 19, 2019

A Black Cloud may be coming to many cloud sites. A “Black Cloud” or “Software Defined Perimeter (SDP)” is a need-to-know security model. Infrastructure is hidden or “black” and does not reveal DNS or IP information.Software Defined Perimeters are an alternative to...

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Feb 19, 2019

Location plays a vital role when it is about data as it affects the latency and throughput, which drives data gravity. The further the data, the longer it takes for the various pieces of your organisation’s infrastructure to communicate with each other. For example, if a company has its data c...

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Feb 18, 2019

Coinbase wants you to keep your crypto holdings safe, but they also want you to have access to the funds, even if you lose your mobile device. According to its latest announcement, Coinbase users can now back up their Wallet’s private keys to their cloud storage accounts, including Google Driv...

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Feb 18, 2019

The security of pre-2019 IoT devices have been notoriously weak. This may be the year that begins to change. The headlines have begun to get attention and vendors are now tasked with securing their devices in order to retain their business. Recently in a piece for Health Data Management, Joe Lea, Vi...

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Feb 18, 2019

Your top competitor discovered a secret tool.Your top competitor is now equipping its design engineers with High Performance Computing on-demand, in the Cloud, which crunches engineering simulations faster, way faster.Your product design engineers are now up against a High Performance Computer (HPC)...

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Feb 18, 2019

The United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) issued a request for information on Feb. 14 for support for the command’s small applications, including help with a cloud migration and continuous delivery. Responses are due by February 28.The RFI notes that contractors are responsible for...

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Feb 18, 2019

It turns out a little knowledge can indeed be a dangerous thing.That’s something the Army Research Laboratory (ARL) discovered when testing the value of artificial intelligence (AI) as an aid to battlefield decision-making. Researchers from ARL and the University of California, Santa Barbara, ...

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Feb 18, 2019

Red Hat, Inc. has announced an expansion of its integrated product portfolio with new components and capabilities for connecting applications, data, and devices across hybrid architectures. The additions are featured in the latest release of Red Hat Integration, and include Red Hat AMQ Online, Red H...

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Feb 18, 2019

The cloud and continuous integration (CI) are a natural match. While the cloud frees us from the pain of installing and maintaining physical servers, continuous integration automates away much of the pain of building, testing, and deploying our code. If both aim to take work off the shoulders of dev...

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Feb 16, 2019

HCL Technologies and IBM have forged a partnership to help accelerate its clients’ hybrid cloud journeys.As part of the partnership, HCL Technologies announced new re-platforming and re-factoring services which will allow enterprises to build and migrate applications to IBM Cloud Private from ...

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Feb 16, 2019

When it comes to Artificial Intelligence, the industry is at a crossroads of fascination versus function. We're awed by the technology, but a number of forces are conspiring to minimize the progress we're making, especially in the Enterprise.  There are a few people out there who are ad...

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Feb 15, 2019

Cloud continues to undergo intense innovation. Around this time last year, I predicted Cloud 2.0—which puts heterogenous cloud at the future of application architecture—would finally go mainstream. This year, we’ll move beyond just a tipping point and onto a new era of cloud: Cloud...

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Feb 15, 2019

Each year we talk with tech leaders about the biggest problems they’ll face in the near future, and we’re starting to see some subtle and not-so-subtle shifts from the worries of 2018.Data overload, a major concern 12 months ago, has evolved as new data-hungry tools and AI help make sens...

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Feb 15, 2019

You can’t beat good BBQ. As long as I’ve been eating, I’ve loved the taste of BBQ cooked correctly, and I’ve loved the science of getting BBQ right, no matter brisket, ribs, pulled pork, or chicken. (Vegans may want to sit this blog out.)What’s clear to me is that the p...

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Feb 15, 2019

Gartner defines edge computing as “solutions that facilitate data processing at or near the source of data generation,” a nice, succinct explanation of this booming technology. If you don’t need it already, you most likely will soon as it’s a key enabler of cloud-based applic...

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Feb 15, 2019

Nine vendors are dominating the cloud ecosystem in the US, according to recent research from Synergy Research Group. Of those nine vendors, the top four are Microsoft, Amazon/AWS, Dell EMC and IBM. Synergy measured seven different cloud services and infrastructure market segments. They found that Cl...

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Feb 14, 2019

IBM has taken the wraps off of a new multi-cloud integration platform it hopes will help customers manage, secure and integrate data no matter where it resides – in on-premise, private-cloud or public-cloud applications.Enterprise customers are faced with the daunting task of bridging legacy a...

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Feb 14, 2019

The foundation of a digitally savvy enterprise is data, and lots of it, coming from all corners, and having the right data at the right time being digested and turned into insights that guide both humans and machines to make the right things happen. But organizations are still fumbling in their effo...

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Feb 14, 2019

Most of the time we talk about the benefit of cloud CAE. Seemingly infinite computing resources that are called on-demand to fit the size of your simulations is amazing. Today, I would like to discuss one of the lesser topics when simulation in the cloud is being considered: the topic of how to tran...

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Feb 13, 2019

Infrastructure-as-a-service has been a boon for companies, enabling CIOs to turn off servers or even shutter data centers while achieving new levels in business agility. But it’s incumbent on CIOs to ask: What’s the next big thing that will deliver business results?The answer may be &ldq...

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Feb 13, 2019

It’s a common tactic to combine two technologies for synergy sake, but Lentiq really has a unique idea. It is combining the concept of the data lake with edge computing into what it calls “interconnected micro data lakes,” or data pools.“Data pools” are micro-data lakes...

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Feb 13, 2019

Open source software is becoming increasingly more common in the technology world. True to its name, the underlying base of open source software is available for its users to study and tinker with. As such, dedicated userbases for open source technology have propped up to provide resources, updates,...

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Feb 13, 2019

The Trump administration’s Cloud Smart strategy makes clear that federal agencies should deploy cloud solutions that meet their mission needs.A key question agency IT leaders need to think through is which cloud models work best for their agencies’ strategic plans: Software as a Service,...

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Feb 13, 2019

Enterprises have come a long way with cyber security, embracing robust enterprise security platforms and elevating security roles and best practices. Yet with public cloud adoption on the rise and businesses shifting to agile development processes, new threats and vulnerabilities are testing traditi...

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Feb 13, 2019

And where’s the best place for her to do that? Face-to-face at conferences. We can tweet at each other all day and engage in engrossing Slack conversations, but there is nothing like talking shop and getting to know each other in a real way  over a cup of coffee in another city, like Phil...

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Feb 13, 2019

The latter is a platform based on Kubernetes, which allows the software to run on a variety of public and private clouds, including AWS and Microsoft Azure. It has been around since autumn 2017  so nothing too new  and already included Watson Studio and Watson Machine Learning. With the an...

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Feb 13, 2019

Increasing numbers of companies across all industries have embraced cloud computing -- but some of the most prominent moves towards it have come from organisations that have traditionally been risk-averse due to the sensitive data they hold, such as legal, financial services, and public sector.

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Feb 13, 2019

Wardy IT is offering 50 free Microsoft Azure migrations as Microsoft support and security updates for SQL Server 2008/R2 on-premises comes to an end in early July 2019.The Brisbane-based consultancy launched its Azure Navigator migration pathway today at Microsoft Ignite The Tour in Sydney. The tool...

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Feb 13, 2019

The issue is that the risks and vulnerabilities keep changing with every new advancement we make in technology, and every time we bring new customers onto any product or platform that we build. Customers constantly demand simpler systems to use, which means we’re building more complex systems ...

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Feb 12, 2019

Jim Comfort is the right guy to talk to about IBM Cloud, not just because he’s general manager of IBM GTS Cloud Services. By his own account, Comfort was responsible for the 2013 acquisition of SoftLayer, whose 13 cloud datacenters immediately got IBM in the public cloud game.At the time, IBM ...

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Feb 12, 2019

Verizon has expanded Secure Cloud Interconnect to allow its customers to privately connect to Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of the Alibaba Group. Verizon’s customers – particularly those looking to expand into the Asia-Pacific region – can now benefit from a secure and dir...

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Feb 12, 2019

Tenzar Technologies has developed a next-generation Data Transfer Protocol (DTP) technology that speeds up the transfer of files and datasets across cloud infrastructure and eases the shipping of thousands of files from on-premise computers to data centers. Usage of Tenzar’s technology in comp...

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Feb 12, 2019

The federal government's decades-old payroll systems are getting a $20.7 million infusion from the Technology Modernization Fund.The funding, announced Feb. 11, follows a push to pay about 800,000 federal employees after a 35-day government shutdown that led to problems in deductions and missed ...

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Feb 12, 2019

Vendors bidding on the Pentagon's $8 billion Defense Enterprise Office Solutions cloud contract won't have to be certified to host classified data on the date of the award.Contractors must still meet cloud computing security requirements for impact levels 5 and 6 -- controlled unclassified i...

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Feb 12, 2019

Alibaba Cloud's investment in Indonesia through the recent launch of a second data centre will bolster international presence, providing the tech giant with a head start in one of the regions most promising and dynamic markets.That's according to GlobalData, in analysing the vendor's rec...

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Feb 12, 2019

Since its inception, the Cloud Foundry Foundation and extended community have strived to uphold values of diversity and inclusivity across all of our activities  from technical development to event production to messaging and communications. Being inclusive is one of our key values as a communi...

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Feb 12, 2019

In a situation like that, where you’re in your own private data center, you have to keep buying hardware to match whatever your peak load is,” says Patrick Perry, CIO for the CSU chancellor’s office. “Our peak load kept getting higher and higher, and we had to keep buying mor...

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Feb 12, 2019

Hybrid cloud can offer a bevy of benefits, including application flexibility, easier access to resources and improved workload management. And according to a new report published Tuesday by Nutanix at HIMSS19 in Orlando, Fla., the technology is steadily becoming a priority for healthcare organizatio...

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Feb 12, 2019

With SD-WAN becoming remote users’ primary access to cloud-based applications, and with organizations deploying multi-cloud environments to optimize performance, it’s important for IT pros to choose SD-WAN technology that supports secure, low-latency and easy-to-manage connectivity to th...

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Feb 12, 2019

There's an old, wise IT statement: "Never fix what's broken." Of course, there's an equally true tech management thought, which goes: "You snooze, you lose." So, trying to satisfy both the tortoises and hares of IT, Red Hat's newest version of its old-school Cloud...

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Feb 11, 2019

The top cloud providers for 2019 have maintained their positions, but the themes, strategies, and approaches to the market are all in flux. The infrastructure-as-a-service wars have been largely decided, with the spoils going to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, but ne...

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Feb 11, 2019

Microsoft recently announced an expansion to Azure’s Internet of things (IoT) intelligence service, Azure IoT Edge, that introduces virtual machine (VM) support. Azure IoT Edge is a fully-managed cloud intelligence service that monitors IoT devices and responds to critical data in real-time. T...

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Feb 11, 2019

The cloud market is growing at a remarkable pace as more enterprises realize the power of the cloud and its untapped potential. The mere concept of not investing in mainframes and data inventories was attractive enough for enterprises to shift to the cloud. And even though some remain skeptical, the...

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Feb 11, 2019

The top cloud providers for 2019 have maintained their positions, but the themes, strategies, and approaches to the market are all in flux. The infrastructure-as-a-service wars have been largely decided, with the spoils going to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, but ne...

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Feb 11, 2019

Over the past year, IBM has made clear its intention to evolve in support of a transformed digital enterprise market. 2018 saw the company reach a few notable benchmarks in its multi-year digital transformation, including its promising first signs of revenue growth in more than 20 quarters. IBM&rsqu...

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Feb 11, 2019

As the city of Akron repairs its computer system after last month's cyberattack, some city council members are turning their attention to a more robust — if not perfect — long-term approach to cyberprotection.Russel Neal, Ward 4 councilman, said the city should consider a cloud-based...

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Feb 11, 2019

Cloud computing, even after more than a decade of existence, is still an evolving platform for enterprises and their applications. As companies modernize, more and more are shifting to the cloud for the extensive benefits it offers. Cloud adoption is becoming mainstream as most of the companies who ...

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Feb 11, 2019

Amazon Web Services is the clear cloud winner, sitting on a run rate of $27 billion and continuing to grow at 45 percent (or better). Where AWS’s lead is a bit murkier, however, is in the area of hybrid cloud, that mix of private and public cloud resources that AWS reluctantly embraced, while ...

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Feb 08, 2019

Kubernetes, getting more popular by the minute for its container orchestration expertise, now has its own integrated development environment (IDE) thanks to open source champion Red Hat. Kubernetes is "an open source container orchestration system for automating application deployment, scaling,...

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Feb 08, 2019

In this Jan. 31, 2014 photo, David Pecker, Chairman and CEO of American Media, addresses those attending the Shape & Men's Fitness Super Bowl Party in New York. The Aug. 21, 2018 plea deal reached by Donald Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen has laid bare a relationship between the pr...

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Feb 07, 2019

Given our focus on public cloud cost control, we here at ParkMyCloud are always trying to understand more about the future trends in cloud computing, specifically the public cloud infrastructure (IaaS) market. Now that public cloud has reached a key peak in growth, there’s a common theme. Whil...

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Feb 07, 2019

The report evaluates object storage suppliers’ capabilities in five use cases; analytics, archiving, backup, cloud storage and hybrid cloud storage.  It is based on an evaluation of a suppliers’ strengths in capacity, storage efficiency, interoperability and five other attributes. E...

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Feb 07, 2019

Microsoft is making a slew of Azure data announcements today, on both the data lake and data warehouse fronts.First, Microsoft's Azure Data Explorer (ADX) product is being released into general availability (GA). ADX, which I wrote about just last week, is a Big Data storage, query and visualiza...

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Feb 07, 2019

Technology is disruptive. It’s the nature of technology. Consider the Gutenburg printing press, the lightbulb, the computer. All of these innovations had enormous impact on the way we live and work. The cloud and the concept of remote computing is one of those kinds of innovation, and it is pr...

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Feb 07, 2019

NetApp as one of the leading providers of data management solutions in the SAP environment offers basically the same solutions for on-premise systems and public cloud instances, for example Microsoft Azure.SAP user companies are more and more often opting for cloud computing. This development is obv...

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Feb 06, 2019

Without question, today, there is considerable focus on securing the Cloud. This is especially true for virtualization systems, which have played a major role in creating cloud computing. However, the downsides to virtualization involve security challenges.In this scenario, Docker containers play a ...

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Feb 06, 2019

The trend of making normal consumer products into digital devices now extends to hairbrushes, forks, water bottles and other mundane objects advertised as “smart.”

Most, if not all, of these supposedly smart consumer goods don’t have the right kind of intelligence to...

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Feb 06, 2019

Serverless computing is all the rage. Everyone who is anyone is either investigating it or has already deployed on it. Don’t be last in line or you’ll be sure to miss out.What’s all the fuss about? Serverless computing gives you an infrastructure that allows server resources to be ...

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Feb 06, 2019

Companies utilizing cloud computing and digital companies that implement emerging technology like blockchain may realize increased profitability and appreciation in stock prices over an extended time horizon,” according to AdvisorShares.Specifically, BKCH will invest in companies seeking to us...

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Feb 06, 2019

IBM Cloud on Wednesday announced a five-year, multi-million dollar agreement with Smart Energy Water (SEW), a SaaS provider for the energy and utility sector. SEW is migrating critical workloads to IBM from another cloud provider, with plans to tap into IBM's analytics, AI and IOT capabilities t...

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Feb 06, 2019

Google Cloud has inked a multi-year deal to be the official cloud provider for the Golden State Warriors at the Chase Center in San Francisco.Terms of the partnership weren't disclosed.Under the deal, Google Cloud will provide infrastructure to enhance the fan experience, analyze performance on ...

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Feb 06, 2019

A Chinese nation-state hacking group known as APT10 has hacked and stolen data from Visma, a Norwegian company that provides cloud-based business software solutions for European companies. The intrusion into Visma's network took place on August 17, 2018, according to a joint report published tod...

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Feb 06, 2019

Data security is paramount, as is an understanding of any compliance obligations. Start with getting a clear understanding of the responsibility of each entity and how the provider meets theirs, including the location of decryption keys, two factor authentications, role-based access controls, encryp...

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Feb 06, 2019

Over the weekend, there were several reports of inappropriate content being shared within the Cloud Foundry community’s Slack in various channels. These messages have been removed and the accounts that posted them have been disabled.