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March 6, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has decided to waive data transfer fees for enterprise customers moving their business to another cloud provider. Google made a similar announcement in January. “Starting today, we’re waiving data transfer out to the internet (DTO) charges […]

March 5, 2024

The European Commission (EC) approved the Project of Common European Interest – Cloud Infrastructure and Services (IPCEI-CIS) programme in late 2023. In this programme, around 100 companies and knowledge institutes from 12 EU countries will cooperate on developing new and […]

March 5, 2024

Data volumes continue to grow exponentially, and there’s no end in sight. IDC predicts that the amount of commercial data in storage will be 12.8 ZB by 2026. A typical novel contains 1 MB of data and is about 12 […]

March 4, 2024

The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) is reviewing its decision to ramp up the insurance cover needed by prospective suppliers on its flagship cloud computing framework, G-Cloud, by £20m after being criticised about how anti-small business the change would be. The […]

March 4, 2024

What Is Azure Cost Management? Azure cost management refers to the practices and processes that organizations implement to monitor, manage, and optimize their cloud spending on the Azure platform. This involves a systematic approach to understanding and controlling the costs […]

February 28, 2024

By and large, people use Python because it’s convenient and programmer-friendly, not because it’s fast. The plethora of third-party libraries and the breadth of industry support for Python compensate heavily for its not having the raw performance of Java or […]

February 28, 2024

As organizations migrate more workloads, the pressure to keep a lid on cloud cost intensifies. Enterprises prioritized optimization in 2023, leaning on providers to deliver better usage data and implementing FinOps practices to track and trim spending. Kubernetes, the open […]

February 27, 2024

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 […]

February 27, 2024

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, […]

February 26, 2024

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 […]

February 21, 2024

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 […]

February 21, 2024

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 […]

February 20, 2024

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 […]

February 20, 2024

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 […]

February 20, 2024

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 […]

February 14, 2024

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 […]

February 13, 2024

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. […]

February 13, 2024

The runaway success of Kubernetes adoption by enterprise software developers has created motivation for attackers to target these installations with specifically designed exploits that leverage its popularity. Attackers have become better at hiding their malware, avoiding the almost trivial security […]

February 12, 2024

Networking giant Cisco is planning to restructure its business, which may involve laying off thousands of employees, according to a Reuters report. The restructuring plans may be announced later this week in an earnings call, according to the Reuters report. […]

February 12, 2024

From the get-go, the cloud promised to help companies scale up their architectures in seconds, run their applications faster, never turn away a transaction, and save money through economies of scale. How could any CIO or application manager resist the […]