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Global Cloud

Questioning cloud’s environmental impact

March 1, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

I recently participated in a documentary called “Clouded II: Does Cloud Cost the Earth?” Please watch it. It looks at the issues surrounding cloud computing, its consumption of power, and thus its potential impact on the planet. The documentary did […]


Service Models

‘Maverick’ SaaS spending by workers can waste millions: report

March 1, 2024

Via: CIO Dive

Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is projected to grow 20.4% to total $678.8 billion in 2024, up from $563.6 billion in 2023, according to Gartner. Vertice previously reported that almost three-quarters (73%) of SaaS vendors hiked prices in […]


Deployment Models, Public Cloud

Google Cloud adds vector support to all its database offerings

February 29, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Google Cloud on Thursday said it is adding vector support and integrating LangChain with all of its database offerings in an effort to outdo rival cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Oracle. Cloud service providers […]


Global Cloud

Sustainability benefits of cloud computing data centers

February 29, 2024

Via: Computer Weekly

Data centers are significant drivers of growth in electricity demand. Cloud computing data centers are large facilities that need an incredible amount of electricity to run and maintain, but there are worldwide efforts to move to more sustainable energy. The […]


Global Cloud

What’s going on with cloud finops?

February 27, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Hey, remember finops? Cost optimization? According to most surveys, it was a big deal in 2023, but you never would have known it, considering the amount of AI noise out there. The State of FinOps is an annual survey conducted […]


Global Cloud

CIOs rethink all-in cloud strategies

February 27, 2024

Via: CIO

After years of marching to the cloud migration drumbeat, CIOs are increasingly becoming circumspect about the cloud-first mantra, catching on to the need to turn some workloads away from the public cloud to platforms where they will run more productively, […]


Cloud Security

Cloud intrusions spiked 75% in 2023, CrowdStrike says

February 26, 2024

Via: CIO Dive

Threat actors are taking advantage of inconsistent cloud security structures and “living in that uncertainty between the enterprise and the cloud,” Meyers said last week during a media briefing. Cybercriminals are using the cloud to deploy tooling, such as Microsoft […]


Global Cloud

Lambda raises $320 million for GPU cloud

February 26, 2024

Via: Network World

AI cloud service provider Lambda has scored a $320 million cash infusion to build out its GPU-based services, which provide AI training clusters made up of thousands of Nvidia accelerators. Lambda is the latest cloud company to offer GPU processing […]


Global Cloud

Cloud waste, hyperscaler discounts shape FinOps priorities

February 23, 2024

Via: CIO Dive

FinOps emerged in response to a critical mass of alarming cloud bills, as enterprises struggled to tie escalating costs to projected efficiency gains, product development and revenue. Practitioners initially focused on equipping engineering teams with tools to curb usage and […]


Global Cloud

IT leaders are finding the right balance between on-premise and cloud

February 21, 2024

Via: Computer Weekly

A survey of 706 IT leaders conducted by Red Hat for its 2024 Global tech trends report has found that many organisations have figured out the mix between public and private cloud infrastructure. Compared with the previous year’s data, workload […]


Global Cloud

How to Develop a Learning Management System (LMS) from Scratch

February 21, 2024

Via: Cloud Tweaks

Discussions about e-learning projects continue unabated, especially as online education begins to supplant traditional courses, trainings and workshops. This shift includes a growing trend to build LMS from scratch . Distance learning offers two notable benefits: it’s generally more cost-effective […]


Global Cloud

Why enterprises neglect billions in cloud savings

February 21, 2024

Via: CIO Dive

Cloud’s power to digitally transform business comes with a major caveat: access to practically unlimited compute can be a budget buster. Despite a broad enterprise push to optimize spending and commitments from AWS and other major providers to help, cloud […]


Service Models

IBM taps DNS technology to improve load-balancing service

February 20, 2024

Via: Network World

IBM is offering a new service that uses DNS to help enterprise customers more effectively load balance highly distributed application and multicloud workloads. The IBM NS1 Connect Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) service ties together the company’s NS1 DNS technology […]


Global Cloud

Making cloud infrastructure programmable for developers

February 20, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Most developers don’t use infrastructure as code (IaC), argues AWS tech lead Chris Munns. But to those top 10% to 15% of developers who do use modern development technologies such as IaC go the spoils. Even if the audience for […]


Deployment Models, Hybrid Cloud

Improving performance in hybrid cloud deployments

February 20, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

What we mean by “hybrid cloud” has always needed to be clarified for the cloud industry. Once defined as a private cloud paired with a public cloud, it’s now a catch-all for any system that’s not a public cloud working […]


Global Cloud

BigID adds access governance targeted at sensitive data and privileges

February 15, 2024

Via: CSO Online

Cloud data security and compliance provider, BigID, has announced adding an access governance capability to its existing offerings to help hunt down exposed sensitive data and overprivileged user accounts. The capability is targeted at helping organizations improve security posture, mitigate […]


Cloud Security

Infoblox brings AI to DNS protection service

February 14, 2024

Via: Network World

Infoblox is rolling out an AI-based package to bolster its domain name system (DNS) protection portfolio and boost security for widely disbursed, DNS-networked enterprise resources. SOC Insights is a cloud-based expansion of the vendor’s current BloxOne DNS Threat Defense package. […]


Global Cloud

How to get started with Python

February 14, 2024

Via: InfoWorld

Python is often described as an easy language—both easy to learn and easy to use. Python makes it easy to develop powerful software for an enormous variety of applications. But it can be as difficult to get started with Python […]


Cloud Security

Visibility, alarm fatigue top remediation concerns in cloud security

February 14, 2024

Via: CSO Online

Striking a balance between sufficient visibility into cloud computing environments and the potential for an overdose of false positives and duplicate alerts is the key challenge facing cloud security professionals, according to the State of Security Remediation report from the […]


Global Cloud

6 steps for CIOs enabling global IT operations

February 13, 2024

Via: CIO Dive

Delivering an integrated IT experience wherever you do business around the world – especially after the release of ChatGPT – means more than simply setting up a few servers outside your borders and offering extended help desk hours for employees. […]