Active Directory in the Cloud (Part 2)

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In this two-part article, we’re taking a close look at directory services in general and Azure Active Directory in particular, along with what Windows 10 will bring to the table in terms of integration with Azure AD. In Part 1, we covered the history and evolution of directory services in Windows, beginning with NTDS way back in Windows NT 3.1, all the way up to the advent of cloud-based directory services such as Azure AD.

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Switchfly, Inc

Switchfly is a SaaS travel commerce & loyalty engagement platform enabling enterprises to rapidly deploy state-of-the-art online travel services to customer. Leading airlines, hotels, online travel agencies and financial service providers depend on Switchfly to power their omni-channel travel experiences because it uniquely combines a highly scalable and secure architecture with deep product and content inventory.

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What Is Cloud-Native and Why Does it Matter for CI

Article | November 29, 2022

Continuous intelligence (CI) relies on the real-time analysis of streaming data to produce actionable insights in milliseconds to seconds. Such capabilities have applications throughout a business. In today’s dynamic marketplace, new CI applications that use data from various sources at any given time might be needed on very short notice.The challenge is how to have the flexibility to rapidly develop and deploy new CI applications to meet fast-changing business requirements. A common approach employed today is to use a dynamic architecture that delivers access to data, processing power, and analytics capabilities on demand. In the future, solutions also will likely incorporate artificial intelligence applications to complement the benefits of traditional analytics. Increasingly, cloud-native is the architecture of choice to build and deploy AI-embedded CI applications. A cloud-native approach offers benefits to both the business and developers. Cloud-native applications or services are loosely coupled with explicitly described dependencies.

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Why Microsoft Should Spinoff Its Cloud Business

Article | July 18, 2022

Microsoft currently features old-school solutions that are growing relatively slowly (Office and Windows) and new cloud solutions that are growing tremendously (Dynamics 365 and Azure). If the company stays in its current form, Microsoft stock will keep steadily advancing. But because the company’s total top and bottom lines are never going to increase much more than 30% or 35% per year, the shares are never going to deliver truly huge returns. But that would change if the company was to spin off its rapidly growing cloud businesses. In such a scenario, the current owners of Microsoft stock would receive shares in a cutting edge cloud services company (let’s call it Azure), and shares in a company focused on providing old, mostly PC-based software to businesses and consumers.

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Intelligence Giant Upgrading its Cloud Technology

Article | July 19, 2022

With the huge amounts of data in all fields, a future in the cloud is imperative to help deal with this explosion of data, especially in the field of intelligence technology. This is the reason why the US Central Intelligence Agency is updating its cloud technology. The agency has recently released a draft request for proposal for its Commercial Cloud Enterprise contract.The C2E tens of billions contract will be a multi-award commercial cloud computing contract with a five-year base period and two five-year options for a period of performance of up to 15 years, according to nextgov.com.In a March 2019 presentation by the Directorate of Digital Innovation, a division of the CIA, the department outlined its vision for C2E. It would be broad and include infrastructure, platform and software cloud services supporting a broad range of users, with a variety of security clearances and a worldwide presence, as reported by techcrunch.com. The principal C2E Program objective is to acquire cloud computing services directly from commercial cloud service providers with established records for innovation and operational excellence in cloud service delivery for a large customer base,the department stated in the presentation.Apparently, the agency prefers to avoid all the attention that the Pentagon’s JEDI cloud procurement process got, and quietly go about its business.

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AWS tags US$235 million to expand its cloud infrastructure in Latin America

Article | February 10, 2020

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is raising its stake on cloud computing infrastructure in Latin America. Proof of this is that the IT company will use R$1 billion (around US$235 million) to expand its data center in Sao Paulo. These millions will be used for its Data Processing Center located in that part of Brazil. In addition, a portion of these US$235 million will also be used to increase the services it offers to both public and private parties.The move gives reason to suggest that AWS is upping the ante in the future of startups and tech in the region that rely on cloud services to develop their own products.It launched its cloud center in Brazil in 2011 but it’ll be getting some beefing up thanks to these funds. Moreover, AWS has two Edge networks in São Paulo and two in Rio de Janeiro. As well as one in each of the following cities: Bogotá (Colombia), Buenos Aires (Argentina), and Santiago (Chile).The objective of all of this is to be the region’s prime provider of cloud infrastructure and beat out its competition AKA, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft’s Azure.

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Switchfly, Inc

Switchfly is a SaaS travel commerce & loyalty engagement platform enabling enterprises to rapidly deploy state-of-the-art online travel services to customer. Leading airlines, hotels, online travel agencies and financial service providers depend on Switchfly to power their omni-channel travel experiences because it uniquely combines a highly scalable and secure architecture with deep product and content inventory.

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Alibaba Cloud launches second data center in Indonesia

marketing-interactive | January 09, 2019

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, today launched a second data center in Indonesia to double its local capacity. The company also announced the Internet Champion Global Accelerator Program, contributing to Indonesia’s 2020 Go Digital Vision.Driven by strong customer demand, the opening of the second data center came only ten months after the first. According to Alibaba, the two centers will provide high availability and strengthen disaster recovery capabilities, allowing customers to deploy mission-critical workloads in multiple availability zones and switch over within seconds. Alibaba Cloud now has 55 availability zones across 19 regions worldwide. In addition to Indonesia, Alibaba Cloud also has data centers in Singapore and Malaysia.

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FirstWave Cloud Technology Ltd bolsters cloud platform with Cisco partnership

Cisco | August 02, 2016

The new platform incorporates Cisco’s Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) cloud-based solution into FirstWave’s cloud security gateway infrastructure for Telstra’s enterprise and government customers.

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Soil Sub Technologies Ltd raises $5M, shifts to cloud mapping technology

May 31, 2016

"Soil Sub Technologies Ltd (ASX:SOI) has successfully closed a $5 million capital raising and will soon be relisted as Pointerra Ltd as part of a reverse takeover. The company had offered investors 166.6 million shares at an issue price of $0.03 each to raise $5 million, with RM Corporate Finance underwriting the offer up to $3.6 million. Pointerra is an emerging cloud based technology company building a Data as a Service (DaaS) solution for mapping the world in 3D through the processing, managing and sharing of cloud data sets."

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Alibaba Cloud launches second data center in Indonesia

marketing-interactive | January 09, 2019

Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, today launched a second data center in Indonesia to double its local capacity. The company also announced the Internet Champion Global Accelerator Program, contributing to Indonesia’s 2020 Go Digital Vision.Driven by strong customer demand, the opening of the second data center came only ten months after the first. According to Alibaba, the two centers will provide high availability and strengthen disaster recovery capabilities, allowing customers to deploy mission-critical workloads in multiple availability zones and switch over within seconds. Alibaba Cloud now has 55 availability zones across 19 regions worldwide. In addition to Indonesia, Alibaba Cloud also has data centers in Singapore and Malaysia.

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FirstWave Cloud Technology Ltd bolsters cloud platform with Cisco partnership

Cisco | August 02, 2016

The new platform incorporates Cisco’s Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) cloud-based solution into FirstWave’s cloud security gateway infrastructure for Telstra’s enterprise and government customers.

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Soil Sub Technologies Ltd raises $5M, shifts to cloud mapping technology

May 31, 2016

"Soil Sub Technologies Ltd (ASX:SOI) has successfully closed a $5 million capital raising and will soon be relisted as Pointerra Ltd as part of a reverse takeover. The company had offered investors 166.6 million shares at an issue price of $0.03 each to raise $5 million, with RM Corporate Finance underwriting the offer up to $3.6 million. Pointerra is an emerging cloud based technology company building a Data as a Service (DaaS) solution for mapping the world in 3D through the processing, managing and sharing of cloud data sets."

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