Tag: cloud

December 8, 2023

“My cloud application is slow,” is a common complaint. However, nine times out of ten the cause does not lie with the application processing or the database’s inability to serve the application at the required performance level. It’s almost 2024. […]

December 7, 2023

The Home Office’s mega £450m public cloud hosting contract with Amazon Web Services (AWS) is concerning public sector market watchers as more details emerge about the contract’s content and how it was arranged. The three-year contract commenced on Friday 1 […]

December 7, 2023

One big advantage of developing cloud native applications is that you can often leave all the tedious infrastructure work to someone else. Why build and manage a server when all you need is a simple function or a basic service? […]

December 6, 2023

Software mapping is an important concept in the field of software engineering and cloud computing. It involves the process of creating a visual representation of software components, their dependencies, and interactions. This visualization helps in understanding the software’s structure, behavior, […]

December 6, 2023

When speaking with IT leaders from the world’s largest companies about their greatest business challenges, there’s one thing I hear often. They all want to be future proof, where their operations become more flexible and resilient so they can bounce […]

December 6, 2023

Cisco has unveiled its natural language-based AI Assistant for Security aimed at helping enterprise customers better assess security situations, eliminate configuration errors and automate complex tasks. The Cisco AI Assistant for Security will first be implemented as part of the […]

December 5, 2023

In the last two years, Arvest Bank partnered with Google Cloud to kickstart a multiyear digital transformation, launched its first cloud-native payments processing platform and bolstered its tech leadership with three key appointments. The bank recruited Chief Transformation and Operations […]

December 5, 2023

Cloudflare joined the industrywide race to deploy AI-optimized graphics processing units in the cloud last month. “Right now, there are members of the Cloudflare team traveling the world with suitcases full of GPUs, installing them throughout our network,” CEO Matthew […]

December 5, 2023

The EU has approved $1.3 billion (EUR1.2 billion) in funding for a European cloud computing project to compete with US companies. The companies involved in the project will create open-source software designed to enable real-time and low-latency services using computing […]

December 5, 2023

Reporters often call me about whatever newfangled buzzword is out there and what it means to the typical enterprise. Recently, I’ve been questioned about the fediverse. The fediverse is a decentralized social network of independent servers that can communicate with […]

December 4, 2023

Microsoft has been accused of leaving its SME IT supplier partners in the dark over a decision to ban the resale of its cloud services though a newly-launched government procurement framework. More than a week has passed since Computer Weekly […]

December 1, 2023

Generative AI has yet to move the needle on enterprise IT spending, according to most analysts. But data cloud services are starting to reap the benefits of this year’s model harvest. “Interest in AI is also driving interest in data […]

December 1, 2023

Okay, I’m going to geek out for this one. The start of my cloud computing career was not using cloud computing services, it was building them. This meant setting up a service that could do complex things, handle many service […]

December 1, 2023

OpenTelemetry is a set of APIs, libraries, agents, and instrumentation that empower developers to observe, collect, and manage telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) from their services for improved reliability, understandability, and debuggability. The project is a merger of two […]

November 30, 2023

IT consultancy CGI is collaborating with Google Cloud to co-develop a platform for the United Nations that will help countries tackle a range of climate change-related sustainability challenges. The United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), which is the UN agency […]

November 30, 2023

No sooner did Broadcom complete its $69 billion acquisition of VMware than the headaches have started. The company is laying off employees, it lost a top executive, and it may lose an awful lot of customers. Layoffs are inevitable after […]

November 30, 2023

Cloud expertise continues to be in high demand and attract the highest compensation. Networking and security credentials are also financially fruitful, according to Skillsoft’s ranking of the 20 top-paying IT certifications going into 2024. At number one on this year’s […]

November 30, 2023

While global cloud spending continues to rise, AWS and its fellow hyperscalers have been trying to keep customers happy by helping them control cost. More compute for less money, a central tenet of cloud, has been harder to achieve than […]

November 30, 2023

When enterprises turned to cloud for easy access to generative AI models, Salesforce responded quickly, leveraging ChatGPT to build Einstein GPT and deploying the tool in its industry-leading CRM solution. The company launched natural-language assistant Einstein Copilot across its enterprise […]

November 30, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made its AWS SDK for Rust generally available, for developing and deploying applications on the AWS cloud using the Rust programming language. Announced November 28, the AWS SDK for Rust simplifies the use of AWS […]