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Cloud Clients

How the NHL modernized its draft app in the cloud

June 21, 2024

Via: CIO Dive

As the Edmonton Oilers and the Florida Panthers faced off in the first games of the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup finals earlier this month, the league’s technology team tackled one of its biggest challenges of the year: the NHL […]


Cloud Clients

Norwegian Cruise charts AI adoption course after 15-month AWS migration

June 5, 2024

Via: CIO Dive

NCLH is reaping the rewards of its ongoing digital transformation. The company handled record volumes without any known performance or availability issues during its largest traffic event in November 2023, Mortakis said in the announcement. During the cruise company’s investor […]


Cloud Clients

Microsoft unveils $3.3B AI infrastructure plan as it grows US data center capacity

May 8, 2024

Via: CIO Dive

Hyperscalers AWS, Google and Microsoft are crafting comprehensive infrastructure plans to support growing compute capacity needs and investing in states across the U.S. AWS committed to investing around $21 billion in Indiana and Mississippi earlier this year in a plan […]


Cloud Clients

French MSP saves 30% on cloud costs as it deploys Cubbit

May 7, 2024

Via: Computer Weekly

Paris-based Cloudreso.com has saved 30% on cloud object storage costs by deploying Cubbit’s DS3 distributed object storage. Cloudreso.com is a managed service provider (MSP) that distributes value-added data protection and security solutions. It provides turnkey services across all French-speaking countries, […]


Cloud Clients

Retail banking turns to core modernization as cloud strategies mature

May 1, 2024

Via: CIO Dive

Hybrid IT estates that split workloads between cloud and on-prem systems are the norm in retail banking. Wholesale core replacements can be costly and disruptive, hitting critical business functions and banking services. For many banks, it’s simply not an option. […]


Cloud Clients

Sovereign cloud demand booms in APAC amid geopolitical tensions

April 29, 2024

Via: Network World

A new report by market intelligence firm IDC has predicted a surge in the adoption of sovereign clouds across Asia Pacific governments in the wake of geopolitical tensions and data privacy regulations. The report revealed that one-third of the APAC […]


Cloud Clients

DIY cloud cost management: The strategic case for building your own tools

April 25, 2024

Via: CIO

Cloud cost management remains a critical CIO priority. With questions around ROI, increasing outlay, and corporate scrutiny on IT cost savings on the rise, CIOs must know not only what contributes to their organization’s overall cloud spend but also how […]


Cloud Clients, Deployment Models, Others

IBM drops $6.4B for HashiCorp and its multicloud automation technology

April 24, 2024

Via: Network World

IBM today said it will buy multicloud infrastructure automation company HashiCorp for $6.4 billion. Once the deal closes, which is expected by the end of 2024, IBM plans to further integrate Hashicorp’s automation technology into its Red Hat, watsonx, data […]


Cloud Clients

United Airlines nears final mile of cloud migration

April 18, 2024

Via: CIO Dive

The news cycle hasn’t been kind to United. The fourth largest domestic carrier by capacity suffered through several safety incidents last month involving Boeing aircraft. In response, the Federal Aviation Administration announced it would heighten oversight and review United’s processes. […]


Cloud Clients

The UK government’s G-Cloud procurement framework: Everything you need to know

April 12, 2024

Via: Computer Weekly

The UK government’s G-Cloud purchasing agreement was hailed – from the time of its launch in spring 2012 – as a model for how all government departments would buy their IT. G-Cloud contracts were initially capped at 12 months in […]


Cloud Clients

The cloud is benefiting IT, but not business

April 12, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

“The cloud has tremendous business value!” That’s the battle cry chanted by cloud providers and their allies at every cloud computing conference. You will never hear me say that “the cloud” is always the right solution or, for that matter, […]


Cloud Clients

Teradata taps Anaconda to add Python, R packages to VantageCloud Lake

April 9, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Teradata is partnering with Anaconda to add packages of popular programming languages Python and R to its multi-cloud analytics platform offering, VantageCloud Lake. The partnership will see Teradata integrate the packages from Anaconda’s repository into its self-service data analytics offering, […]


Cloud Clients, Service Models

AWS launches Deadline Cloud for content rendering

April 3, 2024

Via: Network World

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has released a new managed version of its Thinkbox Deadline 10 offering, Deadline Cloud. Deadline Cloud, which has been made generally available, is designed for render management tasks for teams creating computer-generated 2D or 3D graphics, […]


Cloud Clients

Ethics makes a comeback in cloud-based systems

March 26, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Years ago, I found myself sitting in a conference room dealing with a question that I’ve gotten thousands of times in my career: Was the technology I was representing, which I created as the CTO of an enterprise technology company […]


Cloud Clients

AWS relaxes Savings Plans restrictions

March 26, 2024

Via: CIO Dive

AWS loosened its cloud discount pricing restrictions, offering customers who purchase cloud discount Savings Plans a seven-day window to apply for credits and refunds, the company said Monday. The move will provide customers who previously had no way to back […]


Cloud Clients

Microsoft is now blocking Russian firms from using its cloud services

March 18, 2024

Via: TechRadar

Microsoft will stop providing cloud services to users in Russia later this weeks as part of the sanctions package imposed on the country by its Western peers. The company has set up a dedicated Telegram channel to support its clients, […]


Cloud Clients

Microsoft Azure removes exit fee as EU regulations kick in

March 14, 2024

Via: Network World

Microsoft has announced that Azure customers can now transfer their data to other cloud providers or on-premises data centers via the internet free of charge, following similar moves by Amazon and Google. “We support customer choice, including the choice to […]


Cloud Clients

AWS removes transfer fees for customers leaving with their data

March 6, 2024

Via: Network World

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has decided to waive data transfer fees for enterprise customers moving their business to another cloud provider. Google made a similar announcement in January. “Starting today, we’re waiving data transfer out to the internet (DTO) charges […]


Cloud Clients

5 Azure Cost Management Strategies

March 4, 2024

Via: Cloud Tweaks

What Is Azure Cost Management? Azure cost management refers to the practices and processes that organizations implement to monitor, manage, and optimize their cloud spending on the Azure platform. This involves a systematic approach to understanding and controlling the costs […]


Cloud Clients

Going cloud-scale with Azure Automation

February 1, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

One of the great advantages of using the public cloud is the ability to deploy applications and services at scale. But scale has a flip side, as working with dozens or hundreds of servers imposes new constraints on systems administration. […]