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CLOUD APP DEVELOPMENT

Zoom, Five9 | July 19, 2021

Zoom is leveraging its last year's impressive growth in its stock price to make its first significant acquisition. Estimated about $9 billion at its IPO two years ago, the leading video conferencing firm agreed to buy cloud call center Five9 at almost $14.7 billion in all-stock transactions. Five9, a 20-year-old cloud call center, will be an operating unit of Zoom after the deal. This deal is about to close in the first half of 2022. The projected acquisition is...

Accenture | September 18, 2020

Accenture today announced the formation of Accenture Cloud First with a $3 billion investment over three years to help clients across all industries rapidly become “cloud first” businesses and accelerate their digital transformation to realize greater value at speed and scale. Karthik Narain will lead Accenture Cloud First and join the Global Management Committee, effective October 1. Accenture is recognized as a leading partner to the world’s major cloud provide...

CLOUD STORAGE

Google Cloud | June 07, 2021

Recently Google’s Cloud Director said that, Google is migrating few of its popular YouTube video services from the company’s in-house data center infrastructure to their cloud service. This move indicates Google’s effort to expand their market share of the growing cloud computing market and minimize the dependencies on the advertisement hosted on web search engines and other properties. It will also help to boost their cloud revenue. Till date, Goo...

CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT

Google, Aramco | December 28, 2020

Google will start selling its cloud-computing services in Saudi Arabia through a deal with oil producer Aramco, a controversial move by the internet giant. The partnership gives Alphabet Inc.’s Google regulatory clearance to set up what it calls a “cloud region” in the kingdom, the companies said last week. Employees at Google have called on the company to abstain from work in the oil and gas industry, citing environmental concerns, and work with authoritarian re...