March 6, 2024
Via: Network WorldAmazon 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 […]
Deployment Models, Public Cloud
February 22, 2023
Via: Network WorldAmazon Web Services (AWS) has announced availability of its new Amazon EC2 M7g and R7g instances, the latest generation of instances for memory-intensive applications and running Amazons custom Arm processor, known as Graviton3. This is the second offering of Graviton3-based […]
January 18, 2023
Via: CIO‘Cloud’ is a buzzword that has run its course in a lot of industries, but there is a resurgence of cloud talk in the contact center arena these days. Contact Center as a Service (CCaaS) is a high-priority digital transformation […]
October 31, 2022
Via: Info WorldIt was bound to happen: The cloud is starting to leak some rain. The big three cloud providers (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Alphabet/Google Cloud) reported earnings this past week and with the exception of Google Cloud, they came […]
September 6, 2022
Via: Info WorldFor many companies, the shift to the cloud has been sudden and all-encompassing, and it’s left their IT departments with a cloud-skills gap. That gap ensures that cloud engineers are in high demand. Training as a cloud engineer could be […]
August 3, 2022
Via: InformationWeekThere’s never a good time for a cloud outage. But when there’s an 8-hour long cloud outage in December — the height of holiday shopping season — there are going to be some discussions among executives, especially those at retail […]
April 1, 2022
Via: СIOGoogle Cloud has released a new fully managed search tool, called Retail Search, which is aimed at retailers who are concerned about product discovery on their digital platforms. The service is intended to solve a common retail challenge of losing […]
March 9, 2022
Via: Info WorldReliance on cloud is growing rapidly—and with some surprising new trends. Most notably, Microsoft Azure seems to be either closing the gap, or has slightly surpassed, Amazon Web Services (AWS) with some users. Specifically, Azure appears to have passed AWS […]
February 23, 2022
Via: CIO DiveOrganizations have raised security concerns when they expand the number of cloud deployments. The reliance on a multicloud environment, using some combination of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers, including Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure, complicates the […]
February 17, 2022
Via: ZDnetAmazon Web Services (AWS) has unveiled plans to set up 10 Local Zones in Asia-Pacific, as part of a global rollout that will add another 22 locations to the fold. The move to push cloud capabilities to the edge is […]
January 12, 2022
Via: Data Center KnowledgeAmazon Web Services has introduced new Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances designed for HPC workloads, powered by AMD’s third generation EPYC processors. The cloud vendor said the instances codenamed ‘Hpc6a’ offer up to 65 percent better price-performance than similar compute-optimized, […]
December 3, 2021
Via: CIOThis week’s Amazon Web Services’ customer conference, AWS re:Invent 2021, was Adam Selipsky’s first outing as CEO. He recently returned to AWS, where he worked from 2005 to 2016, after five years as CEO of Tableau Software, the data visualization […]
December 2, 2021
Via: CIO DiveAmazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud provider, has long celebrated its developer roots, but 15 years in the company’s tone is shifting to tout connections to business and industry. AWS is trying to “elevate the approach so that it […]
Deployment Models, Public Cloud
November 10, 2021
Via: Tech RadarBy using business apps that reside on public cloud, rather than on-prem data centers, EU businesses could cut energy consumption and significantly curb carbon emissions, claims Amazon Web Services (AWS). Working with 451 Research, AWS looked to analyze the state […]
November 5, 2021
Via: CIOWarner Music Group is the epitome of a cloud veteran. The media giant’s advanced cloud architecture, which runs on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, dates back almost 12 years, making it one of the first enterprises to migrate nearly […]
March 5, 2021
Via: CIOThe 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 […]
January 18, 2021
Via: ZDnetIBM has gone on a shopping spree of companies that manage cloud deployments that span across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. The upshot here is that IBM is aiming to be the Switzerland of multicloud. With Red […]
December 21, 2020
Via: ZDnetIBM said it will acquire Nordcloud, a Helsinki-based company that focuses on cloud integration in Europe. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but IBM said the purchase advances its cloud migration services and tools. Nordcloud is triple certified in Amazon […]
May 20, 2020
Via: ZDnetGoogle Cloud on Wednesday announced that a unit within the US Defense Department (DoD) will use its Anthos platform to build a multi-cloud management platform for detecting and responding to cyber threats across the globe. The contract is specifically with […]
February 3, 2020
Via: Cloud TweaksSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Oracle Corp (ORCL.N) said on Monday it had added new cloud computing data centers in five countries and aims to have them in 36 locations by the end of 2020, as it races with Amazon.com (AMZN.O) […]