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• February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19

  AI democracy, hybrid clouds top IBM Think takeaways

  IBM's extension of its Watson AI services beyond the IBM Cloud to users on other cloud platforms impressed IBM Think attendees, but is it ready for enterprise use? Meanwhile, IBM's hybrid cloud and ...

• February 12, 2019 12 Feb'19

  IBM's hybrid cloud plans extend AI to users across platforms

  IBM doubles down on its hybrid cloud strategy with tools to help customers funnel data through their chosen cloud platform and apply IBM's AI to it all.

• February 08, 2019 08 Feb'19

  Google eyes confidential computing to buff cloud security cred

  Google Cloud Platform's Asylo open source project could one day boost confidential computing efforts, but for now it mainly serves to boost Google's security bona fides.

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  UK news org plots move from AWS to Google Cloud Platform

  Google Cloud Platform has scored one against rival AWS with The Telegraph's plan to switch providers to prep the British newspaper for continued success in digital publishing.

• January 31, 2019 31 Jan'19

  Google Cloud Firestore points NoSQL database at mobile, IoT

  Google's NoSQL document database, Cloud Firestore, is now generally available to offer better scale and reliability for mobile and IoT apps and keep pace with AWS and Azure services.

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• January 30, 2019 30 Jan'19

  Cisco expands CloudCenter for multi-cloud management

  Cisco hopes additions and changes to its CloudCenter software will appeal to companies that want to work with multiple clouds.

• January 25, 2019 25 Jan'19

  Microsoft grabs Citus Data, expands Azure open source options

  Microsoft's acquisition of Citus Data adds a distributed architecture for PostgreSQL on Azure and expands the cloud platform's array of open source software.

• January 24, 2019 24 Jan'19

  Google Cloud certifications fuel race for cloud talent

  Google has expanded its cloud certification program to include tests for developers, security, networking and G Suite.

• January 18, 2019 18 Jan'19

  Salesforce Lightning Platform update targets mobile apps

  Salesforce targets line-of-business experts and citizen developers with the Lightning Platform Mobile development system to build enterprise mobile apps.

• December 26, 2018 26 Dec'18

  A look back at the top cloud computing news of 2018

  From product releases to acquisitions, there was no shortage of cloud technology news in 2018. Take a look back at some of the biggest headlines of the year.

• December 20, 2018 20 Dec'18

  GCP addition targets cloud data access, privacy fears

  Google Cloud Platform's Access Approval feature lets customers use more of the data access controls they have in their on-premises infrastructure.

• December 19, 2018 19 Dec'18

  Azure Scheduler retirement sends IT shops to Logic Apps

  Microsoft's retirement of Azure Scheduler next year will mean more manual labor for users of the job scheduler. But the extra sweat will come with some benefits.

• December 17, 2018 17 Dec'18

  GitLab Serverless augments developers' multi-cloud toolbox

  GitLab has added multi-cloud serverless computing capabilities to its CI/CD tool set through a partnership with TriggerMesh.

• December 12, 2018 12 Dec'18

  Microsoft doubles down on Kubernetes with Azure Monitor, AKS

  Microsoft's new monitoring tools for AKS and its decision to sunset Azure Container Service trumpet the rise of Kubernetes as the de facto choice for container orchestration.

• December 12, 2018 12 Dec'18

  Microsoft ups its AI game with Azure Machine Learning service

  Microsoft looks to keep up in the AI race with a machine learning service that competes with offerings from AWS and Google, among others.