Tag: Amazon

November 30, 2021

Nasdaq Inc. partnered with Amazon.com Inc. to shift its North American exchanges to the cloud starting in 2022. The move is the latest among exchanges that have started to expand into cloud-based software and data analytics. Earlier this month Alphabet […]

November 30, 2021

AWS is now offering a mainframe service that promises to help Big Iron customers interested in moving apps to the cloud cut that migration time by two-thirds. The goal of AWS Migration Acceleration Program for Mainframe is to get those […]

November 2, 2021

Cloud platforms from providers, such as Google, Amazon and Microsoft, have proven to deliver a level of security, resilience, raw compute power and expertise that no one but the largest enterprises could hope to build. Even if they could, the […]

November 1, 2021

There’s no slowing down in sight for the big three public cloud providers, as they all once again reported growth in the third quarter of calendar 2021. Demand for public cloud services continues to grow, as evidenced by the strong […]

October 6, 2021

The US government has been asked to weigh in on a previous infringement case brought by a PersonalWeb Technologies against Amazon and other brands that use its AWS hosting services. The US Supreme Court has sought the federal government’s views […]

September 30, 2021

Google has announced the upcoming availability of Compute Engine N2 virtual machines (VMs) running on Intel’s 10nm Ice Lake Xeon Scalable processors. While not available today, Google now belatedly joins Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle in confirming Intel’s latest generation Xeon […]

September 30, 2021

Some of the world’s largest tech giants — Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM, Salesforce/Slack, Atlassian, SAP, and Cisco — have joined forces to establish the Trusted Cloud Principles in what they are claiming is their commitment to protecting the rights of […]

September 15, 2021

E-commerce has undoubtedly seen a huge boost in growth in the last year and a half of Covid-19 living, with people turning to the web and apps to shop for essentials and not-so-essentials to keep their social distance, and using […]

September 3, 2021

Amazon’s cloud computing division, AWS has teamed up with NetApp to launch a new service that allows customers to launch and run complete, fully managed NetApp ONTAP file systems in the cloud. Dubbed Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, the service […]

August 23, 2021

The ever-increasing mass adoption of IoT devices is leading to a consistent rise in the data generated through these devices. Large corporations are cashing on this opportunity through their range of cloud services to handle IoT data. Brands like Amazon, […]

August 3, 2021

Alibaba delivered mixed first quarter results as revenue missed expectations, earnings were well ahead, and the company grew its global customer base. The e-commerce giant’s results mirrored Amazon earnings, which showed a slowdown in e-commerce growth. However, Amazon’s profits were […]

April 30, 2021

Conventional wisdom over the last year has suggested that the pandemic has driven companies to the cloud much faster than they ever would have gone without that forcing event with some suggesting it has compressed years of transformation into months. […]

April 26, 2021

It’s common knowledge in the tech world that the vast majority of organizations shifting to public cloud are adopting a mix of hybrid and multi-cloud operating models as part of their cloud strategy. In response, all three of the major […]

March 26, 2021

The reins of AWS will rest in the familiar hands of Adam Selipsky, who will return to the web services provider as Andy Jassy becomes CEO of parent Amazon. The news was a bit of surprise to at least one […]

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 […]

January 12, 2021

Now that Amazon Web Services has shut down Parler, will the social network rebuild elsewhere? Parler CEO John Matze says Parler will be back with “many competing for our business.” Don’t bet on it. There appears to be no major […]

January 5, 2021

Australian-based not-for-profit organisation Northcott Disability Services may have been “paying good money” for its on-premise environment but according to the organisation’s CIO Paul Herbert, it was not doing its 184 worksites across Australia any favours. “The sites were unloved; a […]

December 16, 2020

It’s been more than two years since the Pentagon announced its $10 billion, decade long JEDI cloud contract, which was supposed to provide a pathway to technological modernization for U.S. armed forces. While Microsoft was awarded the contract in October […]

December 3, 2020

Today’s cloud services customers are looking beyond the basic benefits of the cloud, such as ease of scale and payment options. Now, they want the cloud to keep their business evolving and improve customer experience to help them compete. Amazon […]

November 13, 2020

On Thursday, an Amazon AWS blogpost announced that the company has moved most of the cloud processing for its Alexa personal assistant off of Nvidia GPUs and onto its own Inferentia Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC). Amazon dev Sebastien Stormacq […]