Category: Global Cloud

March 5, 2021

The promotion of longtime Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy to Amazon.com CEO this summer suits the company’s customers and partners just fine — for now. “We expect little change to the innovative technologies Amazon has continued to provide its […]

March 4, 2021

IBM customers will now be able to use its hybrid cloud services from any environment and on any cloud, on premises or even at the edge with the launch of IBM Cloud Satellite. The tech giant also worked with Lumen […]

March 4, 2021

Okta’s $6.5 billion purchase of Auth0 is based on the idea that there will be only a handful of clouds within companies in the years ahead. Identity will be one of those clouds joining functions like collaboration, CRM, infrastructure, HR […]

March 2, 2021

I’ve built distributed applications for years. Put in simplistic terms, you break down an application and data into parts that run on the platforms that will provide the best performance and reliability. Back in the day, we deployed applications on […]

March 1, 2021

Tencent Cloud has unveiled plans to launch an internet data centre in Bahrain by year-end, marking its first facility in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. It hopes the launch will pave its way into a market that […]

February 26, 2021

Just ask any marketing person—it’s their job to keep demand for a product or service high. So they depend on advertising and other methods to create brand recognition and a sense of demand for what they sell. These days marketing […]

February 25, 2021

There might be a few organizations that know exactly how many servers they’ll require to handle their database needs for any given period of time, but for most large enterprises whose success depends upon flows of multiple terabytes of data […]

February 25, 2021

Between 666 million and 819 million workers in Asia-Pacific will use digital skills by 2025, up from just 149 million today, with the average employee requiring seven new digital skills to keep up with emerging technologies. Businesses then are likely […]

February 24, 2021

The pandemic is rapidly accelerating enterprise adoption of digital technologies, particularly cloud solutions – projects that are expected to take years are being completed in just weeks or months. One report by Markets and Markets found that the cloud market […]

February 24, 2021

I’ve been in the object storage space for a while now, and I thoroughly enjoyed a recent conversation with fellow storage veteran Brian Schwarz, the Director of Product Management at Google Cloud. In my first post excerpted from that conversation, […]