FusionStorm

cloudcomputing-news.net | April 20, 2020

Times may change, but standards must remain. Or, rather, technologies may change but user behaviour remains. Shadow IT has been in place at many organisations long before the launch of the smartphone, and attempts to take control of it, from the clunkily-named bring your own PC (BYO PC), to the more streamlined BYOD, have been just as common.Now, instead of just shadow IT, we have shadow cloud, as well as what Zscaler recently described as ‘shadow IoT’. It’s all about complexit...

cloudcomputing-news.net | January 20, 2020

Revenue for cloud infrastructure equipment dipped a little in the most recent quarter, IDC has argued – yet it is more indicative of a wider IT downturn than a cloud-specific malaise.The analyst firm, in its latest Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker report, found an overall quarterly figure of $16.8 billion (£12.9bn) a decline of 1.8% year over year. IDC increased its forecast for total 2019 spending to $65.4bn, which represents flat performance.Public cloud saw some...

Cloud Security

Genetec | March 22, 2021

Genetec has released the latest version (v 5.10) of its flagship unified security platform, Security Center. According to the company, among many new enhancements, this new release allows more system components to run in the cloud, reducing the gap between cloud and on-premises security systems. It also makes it easier to connect external systems and tap external data for use in dashboards, maps and investigations without relying on complex, specialised integrations. The new versi...

spacenews | March 12, 2020

The Space Development Agency (SDA) is evaluating how cloud computing could bolster its campaign to quickly identify and track missiles.We believe in proliferation for sensing and communications,” Joy Stein, SDA tracking layer lead, said at the Satellite 2020 conference here. “That is one of the reasons that I believe we’ll head toward cloud computing capabilities.” Missile detection and tracking is one of SDA’s primary jobs. The agency is soliciting bids and ...