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WHICH CLOUD STRATEGY IS RIGHT FOR YOUR BUSINESS IN 2020

Jan 23, 2020

James Read, EMEA principal solution architect, Cloud and Service Providers, at Red Hat, discusses which cloud strategy is right for your business in 2020. While most organisations are certain that the cloud has a vital role to play in the future of business, the various strategies from a public or p...

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FIREEYE ACQUIRES CLOUD SECURITY STARTUP CLOUDVISORY

Jan 23, 2020

Cybersecurity firm FireEye has acquired cloud security startup Cloudvisory to advance its cloud-hosted security operations.FireEye caters to enterprises and helps businesses thwart cyberattacks. With the addition of Cloudvisory, FireEye will provide customers a single operations platform to monitor ...

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ARISTA NETWORKS BUYS BIG SWITCH

Jan 23, 2020

Arista Networks bought SDN vendor Big Switch Networks, according to sources familiar with the deal.The purchase is Arista’s largest acquisition to date, according to a source. It’s also the networking vendor’s third acquisition Arista in 2018 snapped up cloud-managed WiFi firm Mojo...

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CLOUD COMPUTING DRIVES UPTURN IN IBM QUARTERLY REVENUE

Jan 22, 2020

IBM is expecting to surpass analyst expectations after reporting “surprise growth” in quarterly revenue. Helped by solid figures from high-margin cloud computing business, the company’s shares rose more than four per cent.IBM reported a rise of 21 per cent for the quarter for its c...

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AWS, CAPGEMINI, MORE MAKE SIGNIFICANT EUROPE-CENTRIC CLOUD DEALS

Jan 22, 2020

There’s a lot happening in the world of cloud computing and not just in the United States. From Amazon Web Services to Capgemini, here’s a short roundup of the latest cloud news from Europe of interest to the channel. Amazon Web Services may have lost out on the U.S. Department of Defens...

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THE WAR RAGES ON FOR AWS, AZURE AND GOOGLE CLOUD: EXPLORING THE BATTLEFIELD AND STRATEGY FOR 2020

Jan 22, 2020

The hyperscale cloud providers Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, with other pretenders occasionally cited naturally generate the vast majority of revenues and, with it, the headlines.According to figures from Synergy Research in December, one third of data centre ...

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WHAT IS AWS OUTPOSTS?

Jan 21, 2020

AWS Outposts runs the AWS infrastructure today and debuted in 2019. In 2020, Amazon will also offer a VMware infrastructure that also runs in the same hybrid model.For those who demand low-latency performance for massive data projects, there is nothing quite like a hybrid cloud computing environment...

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CANONICAL DEBUTS ANBOX CLOUD FOR HIGHLY SCALABLE ANDROID APPS

Jan 21, 2020

Canonical Ltd. has come up with a way to distribute compute-intensive applications from the cloud so they can run seamlessly on low-powered Android devices.The solution, announced early today, is a platform called Anbox Cloud. It uses Android as a guest operating system to containerize workloads so ...

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TRENDING NEWS

HUMAN ERROR AND MISCONFIGURATIONS PRIMARY SOURCE OF KUBERNETES SECURITY SNAFUS, REPORT SAYS

Feb 21, 2020

StackRox, a provider of cloud-native, container and Kubernetes security, warned in its previous report that the security implications for Kubernetes were beginning to spill over to adoption – and the release of its updated winter study have proved the company right.The paper, the winter editio...

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TOP SKILLS A CLOUD ARCHITECT NEEDS TO BE SUCCESSFUL

Feb 21, 2020

As businesses are using cloud technologies to transform at a rapid pace, many recognize that their organization needs cloud expertise in order to achieve their goals. Yet research shows that 90 percent of IT decision-makers report cloud skills shortages in their workforce (Global Knowledge, 2018 IT ...

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GOOGLE CLOUD ACQUIRES CORNERSTONE TO HELP CUSTOMERS MIGRATE THEIR MAINFRAMES

Feb 20, 2020

Google Clouds shopping list shows no signs of abating, with the company announcing the acquisition of Cornerstone Technology, a mainframe specialist.The 30-year-old provider, based in the Netherlands, has an overall remit of ‘helping customers protect and improve their investments in essential...

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GLOBAL GOVERNMENT CLOUD COMPUTING MARKET FORECASTS TO 2026 REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, TRENDS, STRATEGY AND PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS

Feb 20, 2020

The global Government Cloud Computing Market 2020 research is a professional and in-depth study on the current state of the industry and provides a basic overview of the industry including definitions, classifications, applications and industry chain structure.Global Government Cloud Computing marke...

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SECURITY VERSUS PRODUCTIVITY: EXPLORING THE DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD OF THE CLOUD

Feb 20, 2020

Adopting cloud technologies has become a common strategy among organisations across all sectors taking the road towards digital transformation. The benefits are evident: businesses that maximise all that the cloud has to offer often see a significant improvement in productivity.However, the journey ...

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HOW TO CREATE A VIRTUAL MACHINE IN GOOGLE CLOUD PLATFORM

Feb 19, 2020

As of the third quarter 2019, the worldwide cloud infrastructure services market grew to $27.5 billion. That was a quarterly increase of 37%. Clearly, cloud computing has become an integral and vital part of the overall information technology strategy for many modern businesses. So, if your business...

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MACQUARIE CLOUD SERVICES SETS UP AZURE PRACTICE

Feb 19, 2020

Macquarie Telecom’s cloud division has started a dedicated Azure practice to support Microsoft’s cloud computing customers in Australia.Macquarie Cloud Services, as the division is called, will deliver Azure managed services to new and existing customers such as ITW Construction, Loanwor...

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HOW WILL DISTRIBUTED COMPUTE AND STORAGE IMPROVE FUTURE NETWORKS

Feb 19, 2020

The age of virtualization and cloud began with the promise of reduced costs. It achieved this by running all types of workloads on homogenous, generic commercial off-the-shelf hardware (COTS) which would be hosted in dedicated, centralized data centers.However, today’s use cases are maturing. ...

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WHY ENTERPRISES NEED A DISTINCTION BETWEEN MULTIPLE CLOUDS AND MULTI-CLOUD - THE LATTER REQUIRES CAREFUL NETWORK PLANNING

Feb 17, 2020

As commonly used, the term 'multi-cloud' doesn’t imply anything about a user’s application architecture. However, once organizations with more than one set of cloud services start using them cooperatively and synergistically, they find that the design and implementation implicati...

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ALIBABA CLOUD BREAKS $1.5BN IN REVENUES AMID HOPE OF ECOMMERCE MIGRATION ENCOURAGEMENT

Feb 17, 2020

Alibaba Cloud hit more than RMB10 billion (£1.18bn) in revenue in its most recent quarter, with revenues up 62% year over year.Total revenues for Alibaba were at RMB161.4bn (£17.7bn) for Q419, at a yearly growth of 38%, meaning Alibaba Cloud comprises 6.7% of the China-based retail giant...

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ALIBABA CLOUD BUSINESS MAKING INROADS GLOBALLY

Feb 17, 2020

Alibaba Group Holdings reported its fourth-quarter fiscal 2019 financial results on Feb. 13, showing strong growth for the company's Alibaba Cloud division. While based in China with a large presence in Asia, Alibaba Cloud is a global cloud operator with 20 data center regions around the world, ...

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AMAZON WINS INJUNCTION TO TEMPORARILY HALT MICROSOFT JEDI CONTRACT AWARD REPORTS

Feb 14, 2020

A US judge has temporarily paused Microsoft’s $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract following an appeal from Amazon, signalling a significant win for the latter.According to various reports, Judge Patricia Campbell-Smith, of the US Federal Claims Court, agreed to the initial step. While th...

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When Tech is Not Enough: Bringing Tools & Resources Together for Better Security Compliance

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Reports of security breaches and noncompliance with industry regulations are splashed across business pages every day. But achieving and staying in compliance can be challenging, especially in cloud e...
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4 Cloud Strategies to Deliver Intelligent Manufacturing How moving your SQL data to the cloud drives innovation

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Learn how manufacturing companies are staying ahead of their competition and breathing new life into their businesses by moving their on-premises data to Azure—the cloud built for SQL. Find out how to...
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Events

EFFECTIVELY DEPLOYING KUBERNETES ON HYBRID CLOUD

March 21-21, 2019

Kubernetes is a key enabler of cloud-native applications which are meant to be portable and capable of running on any underlying infrastructure whether it is on-premises, in the public cloud, or on the edge. However, Kubernetes is enormously complex to deploy and operate at scale in a single cloud. ...

SECURING THE MODERN CLOUD: TRENDS AND PRACTICES

May 08-08, 2019

The adoption of cloud-based infrastructure and services has become nearly synonymous with transformation and modernization. Cloud environments are responsive, elastic, and better tailored to specific user needs. They also have newer security requirements. Security teams now must support these enviro...

ICIN 2020 – 23RD CONFERENCE ON INNOVATION IN CLOUDS, INTERNET AND ...

February 24-27, 2020

The ICIN conference, established in 1989 and praised for the high quality of its technical program and richness of its social networking, is also recognized for its continuous adaptation to emerging technical trends. The year 2020 will be a keystone in the evolution toward the networks of the ...

ICPDC 2020 : 22ND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PRINCIPLES OF DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING

March 05-06, 2020

The ICPDC 2020: 22nd International Conference on Principles of Distributed Computing aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of Principles of Distributed Computing.