Tag: Amazon Web Services

May 20, 2020

Google 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

SAN 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) […]

July 18, 2019

Google Cloud is moving up the infrastructure as a service rankings to become more of a tier 1 provider as it invests in service, new analytics capabilities and builds out its portfolio with acquisitions, according to Gartner’s 2019 IaaS Magic […]

May 1, 2019

You’d almost think I’d get tired of writing this story over and over and over… but the ongoing growth of cloud computing is too big a trend to ignore. Critically, the impressive growth numbers of the three leading cloud infrastructure […]

March 29, 2019

So says The Cloud Industry Forum, which has been monitoring cloud adoption among UK businesses year-on-year since 2011. Seven years later, cloud usage has infiltrated almost every organisation in one form or another, bringing with it improved flexibility, agility, mobility […]

March 27, 2019

Oracle plans to get rid of over 350 employees in the coming months as the database giant attempts to transform itself for an enterprise world dominated by Amazon Web Services (AWS). As reported by Bloomberg, Oracle disclosed the impending cuts […]

December 17, 2018

Just when you didn’t think there could be any more drama over the Pentagon’s decade long, $10 billion JEDI contract RFP, the plot thickened again last week when Amazon Web Services (AWS) joined the US government as a defendant in […]

September 28, 2018

You are setting up a quick report around sales for the year, and it needs to use three separate databases. One is an object database running on Amazon Web Services. The second and third are relational databases running on Microsoft […]

August 2, 2018

BEYOND VDI (VIRTUAL DESKTOP INFRASTRUCTURE) Before I start this blog, I want to get something off my chest. Here it goes: Leostream is not a VDI company, at least not in your typical sense of the acronym. Forget what you’ve […]

July 20, 2018

Two leading analysts’ reports, from Intersect360 Research and Hyperion Research, show the high-performance computing market has reached an inflection point. The cloud segment includes Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Google. Intersect360 says high-performance cloud spending by high-performance computing customers grew […]

July 17, 2018

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc will provide a new set of real-time statistics and graphics on live baseball games later this season, expanding its cloud computing deal with U.S. Major League Baseball, the two organizations told Reuters. The agreement, […]

May 15, 2018

Cloud newcomer Aparavi is giving business customers greater mobility between their disparate cloud vendors and premises-based environments. Now, Aparavi is supporting more cloud platforms and is rolling out more features for the archival of unstructured data. The channel-friendly startup on […]

May 8, 2018

A new report from McAfee highlights the skills gap when it comes to security in the cloud. The report reveals that one in four organizations using infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or software as a service (SaaS) have experienced cybersecurity […]

May 4, 2018

When you address security in the cloud for your enterprise use, you need to think of it in several layers: Layer 0 is the primary IaaS cloud on which everything else runs; typically, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud […]

May 1, 2017

To most people, Jeff Bezos’ Amazon is known as the company reshaping the way people buy everything from books to shoes to groceries. But the part of Amazon that is driving Bezos within shouting distance of becoming the world’s richest […]

June 16, 2016

When linked with the correct choice of provider, visibility and control in the cloud provide organizations with security as well as cost savings, speed, agility, efficiency, and innovation. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one such provider which allows for the […]

April 20, 2016

The AWS Summit in Chicago this week kicks off an international tour of dozens of Summits from New York to Tokyo this year, culminating with AWS re:Invent in December. At today’s conference Amazon Web Services GM of Product Strategy Matt […]

March 18, 2016

Amazon just got dumped by DropBox. At first it seemed the relationship would last forever. A rapidly growing cloud storage startup relies on Amazon Web Services’ cloud for most of its infrastructure needs, allowing Dropbox’s engineers to focus on its […]