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Global Cloud

Oracle CloudWorld 2023: 6 key takeaways from the big annual event

September 22, 2023

Via: InfoWorld

In line with Oracle co-founder CTO Larry Ellison’s notion that generative AI is one of the most important technological innovations ever, the company at its annual CloudWorld conference released a range of products and updates centered around the next generation […]


Global Cloud

Cloud attainable for SMBs as costs come down

September 20, 2023

Via: CIO Dive

Organizations that have yet to commit to cloud represent an opportunity for hyperscaler growth in a market dominated by AWS. As the largest cloud provider, AWS took in one-third of global spending on infrastructure services during the three-month period ending […]


Global Cloud

No backing away from the Cloud

August 9, 2023

Via: Cloud Tweaks

Recently, there’s been a lot of talk about “cloud repatriation.” The idea isn’t new; Dropbox abandoned AWS in 2015, 37Signals announced they were backing out last October, and there has been a flurry of articles about repatriation in the trade […]


Cloud Security

Oracle unveils secure cloud solution in bid for DoD contracts

July 31, 2023

Via: CIO Dive

Industry verticals revved up Oracle’s cloud business earlier this year, as the cloud provider struggled to compete for market share with the more dominant hyperscalers. Segment revenue for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ballooned by 77% year over year during the three-month […]


Global Cloud

Google Cloud chalked up higher growth rate in 2022 than AWS and Microsoft, Gartner data shows

July 19, 2023

Via: Computer Weekly

Google Cloud achieved higher growth on a year-over-year (YoY) basis between 2021 and 2022 than the other top four public cloud firms, Gartner’s latest global infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) market tracker data shows. The IT analyst giant’s shows while Amazon Web Services […]


Global Cloud

Microsoft and AWS caution Ofcom against referring UK cloud market over to CMA

July 7, 2023

Via: Computer Weekly

Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are calling on communications regulator Ofcom to hold off on getting the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to probe the UK cloud infrastructure services market for proof of anti-competitive behaviour, it has emerged. Ofcom […]


Global Cloud

What is Oracle’s generative AI strategy?

July 6, 2023

Via: CIO

While Microsoft, AWS, Google Cloud, and IBM have already released their generative AI offerings, rival Oracle has so far been largely quiet about its own strategy. Instead of launching a competing offering in a rush, the company is quietly preparing […]


Editorial

The Top Cloud Providers: How Do AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure Compare?

June 30, 2023

Via: Reynold Nash

Cloud computing has the power to revolutionize business operations by offering a wide range of benefits. It enables organizations to scale their infrastructure effortlessly, providing payment flexibility through as-a-service models, which offer pay-as-you-go services, as opposed to traditional upfront investments.  […]


Cloud Security

6 strategies for optimizing the security of your SaaS stack

June 26, 2023

Via: CIO Dive

At some point in your tenure as a business leader, you’ve likely been asked, “What keeps you up at night?” My answer is the same as that of any IT leader I know — data breaches, cyber attacks and other […]


Global Cloud

Oracle deploys EU sovereign cloud solution in bid to satisfy regulators

June 21, 2023

Via: CIO Dive

Oracle isn’t the only cloud service provider working toward data sovereignty solutions. Microsoft is making progress on an industry vertical for government and public sector customers it hopes to deploy later this year, and Google Cloud introduced a digital sovereignty […]


Cloud Security

AWS has a new automation feature to save you from mind-numbing security work

June 15, 2023

Via: TechRadar

Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) thinks it has the answer to alert fatigue in the form of automated actions. The new capability, part of AWS Security Hub, aims to prevent potentially dangerous human errors from occurring during the manual […]


Global Cloud

Amazon’s Cloud Computing Service Experiences Regional Outage

June 14, 2023

Via: Data Center Knowledge

Amazon Web Services, the tech behemoth’s cloud computing division, experienced a wide-reaching outage Tuesday. The issues left engineers unable to access certain tools and affected businesses, although the immediate scale was not clear. The Boston Globe and the New York […]


Cloud Security

When To Go Cloud-Native and When To Buy a Security Vendor Solution

June 1, 2023

Via: Data Center Knowledge

A fundamental decision for cloud security architects is how much to rely on the cloud-native security tools of their cloud provider, be it AWS, GCP, Azure, or any other provider. “As much as possible” is the wish of cloud engineers, […]


Global Cloud

Google Cloud can tie together enterprise multicloud resources

May 31, 2023

Via: Network World

Google Cloud has announced services for enterprises to more easily and securely connect distributed multicloud resources. The chief service, Cross-Cloud Interconnect, provides dedicated high-speed connections between the Google network and customer networks hosted in other clouds—Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, […]


Global Cloud

Snowflake feels the pinch of tightened cloud spend

May 25, 2023

Via: CIO Dive

While the data cloud company’s software are platform agnostic, its data storage and analytics solutions depend on cloud, a category of enterprise IT spend that came under greater scrutiny as rising inflation and interest rate hikes shook confidence in the […]


Deployment Models, Hybrid Cloud

IBM wants drag-and-drop connectivity for hybrid cloud applications

May 18, 2023

Via: Network World

IBM is developing a SaaS package to help enterprises securely network heterogenous environments, including edge, on-prem and multicloud resources. The IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh is a SaaS service that implements a virtualized Layer 3-7 environment to rapidly enable secure connectivity […]


Global Cloud

AWS to invest $12.7B to expand its cloud infra in India by 2030

May 17, 2023

Via: Network World

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Thursday said it is committing $12.7 billion to expand its cloud infrastructure in India by 2030 in order to meet growing customer demand for its cloud services. “Today we’re announcing an additional planned investment of […]


Global Cloud

Microsoft readies full deployment of cloud tailored for public sector

May 16, 2023

Via: CIO Dive

Competition for government contracts is not new to cloud, but it has become more heated as technology needs evolve. After the U.S. Department of Defense awarded Microsoft a $10-billion contract to provide cloud services to U.S. military in 2019, Amazon […]


Global Cloud

OVHcloud aims to bring Glacier-like cloud archive to Europe

May 9, 2023

Via: Computer Weekly

French hyperscaler OVHcloud has made its Cold Archive cloud storage service generally available. It offers cheap long-term storage with cost per GB as little as €0.0013 per month. Cold Archive previewed starting last December and competes with Glacier Deep Archive […]


Global Cloud

The AI boom is reshaping the cloud business

May 8, 2023

Via: CIO Dive

As the race to deploy enterprise-grade generative AI moves forward, the three hyperscalers — AWS, Microsoft and Google — are providing glimpses of how large language models and the tools they enable are reshaping infrastructure. Running generative AI at scale […]