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![Everything we learned at Google Cloud Next 2019]() EVERYTHING WE LEARNED AT GOOGLE CLOUD NEXT 2019 blog article 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... Read More |
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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... Read More |
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![What You Need to Know About AWS’s Hybrid Cloud Play]() WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AWS’S HYBRID CLOUD PLAY blog article 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... Read More |
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![How Indian schools are starting to use Cloud Computing, AI and VR]() HOW INDIAN SCHOOLS ARE STARTING TO USE CLOUD COMPUTING, AI AND VR blog article 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... Read More |
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![Are we any closer to hybrid cloud nirvana?]() ARE WE ANY CLOSER TO HYBRID CLOUD NIRVANA? blog article 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... Read More |
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![7 steps to a well-architected cloud]() 7 STEPS TO A WELL-ARCHITECTED CLOUD blog article 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. Read More |
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![Save 65% on secure cloud storage with pCloud]() SAVE 65% ON SECURE CLOUD STORAGE WITH PCLOUD blog article 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. Read More |
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![Are Cryptographic Keys Safe in the Cloud?]() ARE CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEYS SAFE IN THE CLOUD? blog article 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... Read More |
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![ASU, Amazon Web Services open Smart City Cloud Innovation Center]() ASU, AMAZON WEB SERVICES OPEN SMART CITY CLOUD INNOVATION CENTER blog article 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... Read More |
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![How to choose a cloud storage and backup provider]() HOW TO CHOOSE A CLOUD STORAGE AND BACKUP PROVIDER blog article 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. Read More |
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![5 Reasons Why You Should Choose Cloud Server for Your Projects]() 5 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD CHOOSE CLOUD SERVER FOR YOUR PROJECTS blog article 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... Read More |
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![798M email addresses found exposed on misconfigured MongoDB database]() 798M EMAIL ADDRESSES FOUND EXPOSED ON MISCONFIGURED MONGODB DATABASE blog article 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. Read More |
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![Five Female Cloud Computing Influencers You Need to Follow]() FIVE FEMALE CLOUD COMPUTING INFLUENCERS YOU NEED TO FOLLOW blog article 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... Read More |
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![These Are the Best Cloud HR, Payroll and ERP Solutions Right Now]() THESE ARE THE BEST CLOUD HR, PAYROLL AND ERP SOLUTIONS RIGHT NOW blog article 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... Read More |
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![How Cloud Computing Has Forever Changed HPC]() HOW CLOUD COMPUTING HAS FOREVER CHANGED HPC blog article 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... Read More |
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![Europe Cloud Computing Market By Key Players: IBM SoftLayer,]() EUROPE CLOUD COMPUTING MARKET BY KEY PLAYERS: IBM SOFTLAYER, blog article 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... Read More |
![Amazon]() AMAZON'S GOT CLOUD COMPUTING – NOW IT'S EYEING LOGISTICS blog article 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... Read More |
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![Data storage and backup trends for 2019]() DATA STORAGE AND BACKUP TRENDS FOR 2019 blog article 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... Read More |
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![Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.0 at a Multi-platform Enterprise]() SPRING CLOUD DATA FLOW 2.0 AT A MULTI-PLATFORM ENTERPRISE blog article 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... Read More |
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![Why you shouldn]() WHY YOU SHOULDN'T RUSH INTO THE CLOUD blog article 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. Read More |
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![The pros and cons of telcos]() THE PROS AND CONS OF TELCOS' CLOUD OPTIONS blog article 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... Read More |
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![Cloud Computing Stack Layers Market by Type, Stage, End-User]() CLOUD COMPUTING STACK LAYERS MARKET BY TYPE, STAGE, END-USER blog article 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... Read More |
![Cloud market expected to surge at a rate of 18% by 2023]() CLOUD MARKET EXPECTED TO SURGE AT A RATE OF 18% BY 2023 blog article 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... Read More |
![Dongle Servers As A Tool To Combat Cloud Migration Complications]() DONGLE SERVERS AS A TOOL TO COMBAT CLOUD MIGRATION COMPLICATIONS blog article 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. Read More |
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![Google Touts Stable Cloud Storage Prices]() GOOGLE TOUTS STABLE CLOUD STORAGE PRICES blog article 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. Read More |
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![Nielsen Will Accelerate Use Of Cloud And AI Tech]() NIELSEN WILL ACCELERATE USE OF CLOUD AND AI TECH blog article 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... Read More |
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![The danger of having a cloud-native IT policy]() THE DANGER OF HAVING A CLOUD-NATIVE IT POLICY blog article 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 ... Read More |
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![Cloud App Integration-Developers Should Know]() CLOUD APP INTEGRATION-DEVELOPERS SHOULD KNOW blog article 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... Read More |
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![Top 10 Cloud Computing Challenges in 2019]() TOP 10 CLOUD COMPUTING CHALLENGES IN 2019 blog article 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 ... Read More |
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![Cloud IDE review: AWS Cloud9 vs. Eclipse Che vs. Eclipse Theia]() CLOUD IDE REVIEW: AWS CLOUD9 VS. ECLIPSE CHE VS. ECLIPSE THEIA blog article 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... Read More |
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![New AWS Solutions, Google]() NEW AWS SOLUTIONS, GOOGLE'S JIB AND IBM'S CLOUD-NATIVE PROGRESS blog article 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... Read More |
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![What is AWS ECS? Running Docker in Production]() WHAT IS AWS ECS? RUNNING DOCKER IN PRODUCTION blog article 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... Read More |
![Containers: The pros and cons you may not know about]() CONTAINERS: THE PROS AND CONS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT blog article 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... Read More |
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![The Difference Between Big Data Servers And Dedicated Hosting]() THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BIG DATA SERVERS AND DEDICATED HOSTING blog article 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... Read More |
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![Moving ERP to the cloud? Expect delays]() MOVING ERP TO THE CLOUD? EXPECT DELAYS blog article 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),... Read More |
![IBM to retailers: We]() IBM TO RETAILERS: WE'LL MANAGE YOUR CLOUD, NO AWS REQUIRED blog article 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... Read More |
![AI, machine learning, and deep learning: Everything you need to know]() AI, MACHINE LEARNING, AND DEEP LEARNING: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW blog article 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,... Read More |
![Endpoint Security is Tip of the Spear for DoD’s Cloud Plans]() ENDPOINT SECURITY IS TIP OF THE SPEAR FOR DOD’S CLOUD PLANS blog article 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 ... Read More |
![Google to buy data migration firm Alooma to simplify cloud migration]() GOOGLE TO BUY DATA MIGRATION FIRM ALOOMA TO SIMPLIFY CLOUD MIGRATION blog article 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... Read More |
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![Huawei has big plans for new Singapore cloud region]() HUAWEI HAS BIG PLANS FOR NEW SINGAPORE CLOUD REGION blog article 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... Read More |
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![The Perils of Becoming Trapped in the Cloud]() THE PERILS OF BECOMING TRAPPED IN THE CLOUD blog article 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 ... Read More |
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![5 reasons data science belongs in the cloud]() 5 REASONS DATA SCIENCE BELONGS IN THE CLOUD blog article 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,... Read More |
![VMware’s ongoing reinvention]() VMWARE’S ONGOING REINVENTION blog article 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... Read More |
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![Beware the siren song of no-ops]() BEWARE THE SIREN SONG OF NO-OPS blog article 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... Read More |
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![IBM]() IBM'S WATSON ANYWHERE HIGHLIGHTS REALITY OF A MULTI-CLOUD WORLD blog article 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... Read More |
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![Understanding Data Gravity: How Cloud Is Helping It Grow Stronger]() UNDERSTANDING DATA GRAVITY: HOW CLOUD IS HELPING IT GROW STRONGER blog article 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... Read More |
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