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ORACLE JAVA CARD UPDATED FOR IOT APPLICATIONS

Jan 17, 2019

Oracle’s Java Card platform, which provides security for smart card and limited-memory device applications, increases support for the internet of things in Version 3.1.Java Card is a software technology providing isolation between secure hardware and software services. Typical hardware platfor...

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ENTERPRISES MORE CONFIDENT WITH CLOUD THAN EVER – BUT STILL CONCERN OVER SECURITY ISSUES

Jan 17, 2019

Another year, another study on cloud adoption – and if it’s surprising statistics you want, you’ve come to the wrong place.Yet this may be seen as a good thing. As the report released by NetEnrich shows, the numbers on infrastructure and public cloud usage for enterprise continues ...

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ORACLE CEO: ALL CLOUD APPS TO INCLUDE AI AS STANDARD BY 2025

Jan 17, 2019

Artificial intelligence will be seamlessly integrated into all cloud apps by 2025 rather than being introduced as an afterthought, according to Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. During the same time frame, as the world of business shifts further towards this increased use of AI and automation, there will be mas...

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BOX LAUNCHES UK-SPECIFIC BOX ZONE WITH DATA CENTRES IN LONDON AND CARDIFF

Jan 17, 2019

Box has launched an additional data zone for its Box Zones offering, presenting a new zone for the UK with separate data centres in London and Cardiff.Back in 2016, the cloud content management company first announced Box Zones and said that it would feature eight separate locations where users can ...

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ORACLE UNVEILS JAVA CARD 3.1 FOR SECURING IOT DEVICES

Jan 17, 2019

Oracle has revealed the latest version of its Java Card, used for securing internet of things (IoT) devices such as smartwatches and other hardware that process large amounts of information. Java Card 3.1 can be used in a vast array of applications, from telecoms devices and contactless payments ter...

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MICROSOFT, WALGREENS SIGN MAJOR CLOUD COMPUTING PACT

Jan 16, 2019

Microsoft (MSFT) and Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) on Tuesday announced a wide-ranging strategic partnership. The pharmacy chain will use Microsoft's cloud computing software and services and the two firms plan to innovate in the health care space. Under the seven-year deal, Microsoft will prov...

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WHICH ANALYTICS AND BI TECHNOLOGIES WILL BE THE HIGHEST PRIORITY IN 2019?

Jan 16, 2019

These and many other fascinating insights are from the recent TDWI Best Practices Report, BI and Analytics in the Age of AI and Big Data. An executive summary of the study is available online here. The entire study is available for download here (39 PP., PDF, free, opt-in). The study found that ente...

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WALGREENS SELECTS MICROSOFT AS STRATEGIC CLOUD PROVIDER IN SEVEN YEAR DEAL

Jan 16, 2019

Pharmaceutical giant Walgreens Boots Alliance is making Microsoft its strategic cloud provider, focusing on connecting Walgreens stores and health information systems with a sprinkling of artificial intelligence (AI) on top.The companies have signed a seven-year agreement with various strands. On th...

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TRENDING NEWS

IBM MAKES WATSON AVAILABLE FOR COMPETING CLOUD SERVICES

Feb 14, 2019

San Francisco, In a departure from its past practices, IBM is now making its Watson Artificial Intelligence (AI) services available for any Cloud, even those run by Google, Amazon or Microsoft. Watson is designed to help organisations put AI to work to improve the performance of business. But earlie...

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GOOGLE CLOUD CHIEF KURIAN ADVOCATES AGGRESSIVE ENTERPRISE SALES STRATEGY IN OPENING SALVO

Feb 13, 2019

Google Cloud chief executive Thomas Kurian is looking to give his new employer a stronger enterprise presence – by using old-school sales tactics.Speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco, the former Oracle veteran noted his plan to hire more salespeople...

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MORE HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS TO ADOPT HYBRID CLOUD COMPUTING

Feb 13, 2019

The healthcare industry is increasingly adopting hybrid cloud models, according to a survey of more than 2,300 IT decision makers by VansonBourne on behalf of cloud provider Nutanix.Hybrid cloud deployment by healthcare providers is expected to jump from 19 percent penetration to 37 percent in two y...

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HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS SLOWLY EMBRACE BENEFITS OF HYBRID CLOUD

Feb 13, 2019

The healthcare sector is increasingly adopting hybrid cloud environments, although it’s been a slow process so far, with just 19% of healthcare providers currently taking advantage of mixed public and private cloud infrastructure.Nutanix’s healthcare Enterprise Cloud Index Report predict...

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OMAN DATA PARK ADDS FORTINET SD-WAN TO ITS MANAGED SERVICES PORTFOLIO

Feb 13, 2019

Oman-based cloud and managed service provider Oman Data Park selected Fortinet’s SD-WAN service to boost its managed security services portfolio. This is the first managed SD-WAN that the service provider has offered as part of its portfolio of managed enterprise services.This addition extends...

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GOOGLE GETS AGGRESSIVE, PLEDGES $13B FOR US DATA CENTERS AND OFFICES

Feb 13, 2019

Google CEO Sundar Pichai pledged to spend more than $13 billion this year on data centers and offices in the U.S.This will include “major expansions” in 14 states and “tens of thousands” of new employees, Pichai wrote in a blog post. He added that “2019 marks the second...

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PAXATA TAPS INSTANA FOR CODE-LEVEL INSIGHTS INTO ITS CONTAINERIZED APPLICATIONS

Feb 13, 2019

Paxata, a data preparation software company, tapped Instana’s application performance monitoring (APM) software to gain complete code-level visibility of its containerized applications.The Redwood City, California-based company develops software that enables business analysts to prepare their ...

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KINETIC EDGE ALLIANCE TARGETS 30 MARKETS TO UNLEASH EDGE CRITICAL MASS

Feb 13, 2019

There’s a new edge alliance in town — or rather, coming soon to 30 metropolitan markets across the U.S. Vapor IO today launched the Kinetic Edge Alliance (KEA) with a slew of software, hardware, networking, and integration company partners.Deployment partners include Federated Wireless, ...

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UC BERKELEY PAPER HERALDS RISE OF SERVERLESS COMPUTING IN THE CLOUD – DO YOU AGREE?

Feb 13, 2019

Almost exactly ten years to the day from publishing of their widely-read, seminal paper on cloud computing, UC Berkeley researchers have issued another ambitious examination of cloud computing – Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing. The new work heralds the ris...

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BLOCKCHAIN WILL FOLLOW THE SAME ADOPTION PATH AS CLOUD COMPUTING

Feb 12, 2019

Anthony Woolley, head of innovation, UK at Société Générale, highlighted that while his team had been aware of blockchain from an intellectual point of view, in 2015 the bank decided to leverage increased “interest in smart contracts, crypto assets, securities and d...

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RELATIONAL DATABASES ‘HERE TO STAY’ IN THE ENTERPRISE AMID GREATER CLOUD AND DATA COMPLEXITY

Feb 12, 2019

Reports of the death of the relational database have been greatly exaggerated – at least in the enterprise.According to a new study from Progress Software – the company’s latest annual data connectivity report – while the on-premises relational database behemoths of SQL Serve...

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EXPLORING THE LINKS BETWEEN AI, 5G AND IOT – AND HOW CLOUD COMPUTING UNDERPINS THEM ALL

Feb 12, 2019

Sponsored If the agenda and sessions at MWC 2019 don’t explicitly mention cloud computing, then there’s a good reason. The emerging technologies that will be explored at the show, which runs as ever in Barcelona from February 25-28, from artificial intelligence (AI), to 5G, to the Intern...

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SPOTLIGHT

Cloud Computing II - The world of IT is changing

Established IT service providers and internal IT departments must respond to these new impulses by at least introducing dynamic price, provision and IT production modules.

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McAfee Labs 2019 Threats Predictions

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Cybercriminals will band together, creating fewer but stronger malware-as-a-service families. Cybercriminals can buy malware, exploits, botnets, and other shady services on the underground market. Cri...
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Fostering Business and Organizational Transformation to Generate Business Value with Amazon Web Services

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As cloud technology has matured, adoption rates have accelerated by demands from business to deliver transformational solutions faster and stave off unexpected competition. IDC has observed the migrat...
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Events

THE JOURNEY TO 5G: A CLOUD-CENTRIC PERSPECTIVE

February 19-19, 2019

The distinguished panel of speakers will share key considerations on rolling out cloud-like 5G-enabling platforms for the “Cloud-Generation Mobility”. The panelists will discuss what deployments will entail in the future (5G and beyond) as communications service provider modernize their ...

DELIVERING A SECURE DIGITAL WORKSPACE WITH CITRIX CLOUD

February 20-20, 2019

Today’s workforce can be located anywhere in the world. To meet this challenge, Citrix has built a set of tools that make building a secure “Digital Workspace” easy to extend to the user. This presentation will highlight Citrix Cloud, a subscription-based offering, and other tools ...

CYBER STORM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

February 18-18, 2019

UNSW Canberra Cyber, Australia’s premier centre for the interdisciplinary study of cyber security and the campus Research Group on Cyber War and Peace, will convene an international conference in February 2019 on the “Cyber Storm.” Australia’s former Minister of Cyber Securit...

21ST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VIRTUALIZATION AND CLOUD TECHNOLOGY

February 18-19, 2019

The ICVCT 2019 : 21st International Conference on Virtualization and Cloud Technology is the premier interdisciplinary platform for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of Virtualization and Cloud Technology. The conference will bring together leading academic scientis...