Tag: AWS

November 28, 2022

Pity the tech company that tries to put out news this week, particularly on Tuesday, when AWS re:Invent kicks off. Trying to compete with AWS during its big conference is absolutely futile given the barrage of launches and updates the […]

November 17, 2022

Since deploying its first resource to AWS ten years ago, Liberty Mutual Insurance has shifted nearly three-quarters of its workloads to a multi-cloud environment. The sixth largest property and casualty insurer has also shuttered one of its on-prem data centers […]

November 15, 2022

Graph database provider TigerGraph on Tuesday said that it was adding graph analytics and machine learning tools to its graph database-as-a-service (DBaaS) TigerGraph Cloud, which was was launched in 2019 and is available across major cloud platforms such as Amazon […]

November 7, 2022

Adoption of public cloud IaaS platforms like AWS and Azure, and PaaS and SaaS solutions too, has been driven in part by the simplicity of consuming the services: connect securely over the public internet and start spinning up resources. But […]

October 28, 2022

Despite the click-click of belt tightening and the snip-snip of budget trimming, enterprise cloud spend continues to rise. It’s just not growing at the neck-breaking pace of recent years. In part, that dynamic accounts for Amazon’s underperformance during the three-month […]

October 27, 2022

After sailing through the pandemic and weathering the first waves of economic uncertainty earlier this year, the cloud service provider market has finally hit a rough patch. While Microsoft’s intelligent cloud business, which includes Azure, continued to grow, its rate […]

October 26, 2022

AWS recently launched AWS AppConfig Feature Flags. Feature flagging is a powerful tool that allows engineers to safely push out new features to customers, but doing so in a measured and usually gradual way. In this blog post, you will […]

October 12, 2022

Amazon has announced three new initiatives as part of its effort to provide 29 million people with cloud-computing skills by 2025: IT Skills 4U, the AWS re/Start Associate initiative, and the opening of an AWS Skills Center in Arlington, Virginia. […]

October 5, 2022

Ofcom’s plan to investigate competition in cloud services – especially the position of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud – has raised eyebrows in provider communities. Industry players argue that any threat might be more theoretical than […]

September 30, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Google now control nearly three-quarters (72%) of the European enterprise cloud storage market, a new study has claimed. Synergy Research Group found tha, although cloud hosting providers local to the region have seen revenues […]

September 23, 2022

Jamf has teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to introduce new tools that let IT admins using Jamf Pro enroll virtual EC2 Macs when they are provisioned via the AWS portal. It means even virtual Macs can have all […]

September 7, 2022

The successful journey to cloud adoption for Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) enterprises cannot be completed without addressing the complexities of core business systems. Many businesses have been able to migrate corporate support systems – such as ERP and […]

September 7, 2022

Despite the rise and emergence of major datacentre hubs in countries such as Ireland and the Netherlands, more than half of the world’s hyperscale facilities are located in the US. That is according to market watcher Synergy Research Group, which […]

August 30, 2022

NetApp has announced the general availability of its Ontap storage for VMware Cloud on AWS. According to NetApp, that will help customers make savings of 20-50% in TCO by being able to scale cloud storage independently of compute. The offering […]

August 22, 2022

CIOs and IT directors working on any project that involves data in any way are always more likely to succeed when the organisation has a clear view of the data it holds. Increasingly, organisations are using data classification to track […]

August 18, 2022

Wider economic pessimism may finally be impacting the cloud computing market after revenue growth at all the major cloud providers slowed down in Q2 2022. Amazon Web Services (AWS) posted sales of $19.7 billion for its second quarter, up 33% […]

August 16, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Training and Certification has launched two digital subscriptions aimed at helping organizations and individual learners deepen their cloud skills. An Individual subscription bolsters cloud skills through interactive, challenge-based learning in live AWS environments; a Team subscription […]

August 9, 2022

Usually, when it comes to a business cloud decision, you’re going to go with one of the big players: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Services, IBM Cloud, or Microsoft Azure. You know their names. But the bigger clouds aren’t […]

August 8, 2022

You can be forgiven for believing Oracle is the world’s largest database vendor. After all, Oracle claimed that honor for decades. No more. Today Microsoft is the world’s largest database vendor by revenue, as Gartner highlights in a 2022 report, […]

August 3, 2022

Cloud service revenues are still growing at a fast pace after many organizations accelerated their digital transformation plans due to the pandemic. However, that accelerated pace may be slowing a bit as CIOs look at inflation and recessionary indicators, at […]