News

News

• 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.

• 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.

• Sponsored News

  • Delivering datacentre performance and cost savings with Intel Optane technology

    Sponsored by Intel - Intel® Optane™ technology is the first memory and storage breakthrough in 25 years. Based on Intel® 3D XPoint™ memory media, it offers a new generation of solid-state devices (SSDs) and memory modules built from the ground up. See More

  • Eliminating the App Learning Curve for Users Speeds Up Digital Transformation

    Sponsored by Citrix - Digital transformation changes how business processes are completed, with new apps and services being essential elements in the entire process. Understandably, the focus of many businesses has been on the design, creation, and deployment of these apps. But they are beginning to realize that they cannot afford to ignore perhaps the most important aspect of launching new software: user adoption. Put simply, if workers don’t use the new apps and digital services, nothing has transformed. Costly digital transformations can come to naught. This is not an edge case that most organizations don’t have to worry about. According to a McKinsey study, 70% of digital transformation initiatives fail, with much of the problem resulting from a lack of adoption. See More

  • The Life of the Cloud Architect Part 2: 3 Steps to a Hybrid Multicloud Experience

    Sponsored by NetApp - Here’s a simple truth for cloud architects of any background, whether developers, line-of-business managers or traditional IT: Nobody wants to—or even can—use yesterday’s practices to build the applications of tomorrow. See More

  • Three Tenets of Security Protection for State and Local Government and Education (SLED)

    Sponsored by DellEMC - Security is the utmost priority for IT decision-makers in state and local government and education. Government agencies, schools and citizens are frequent, highly visible targets for cybercriminals, and their systems contain personal data that is extremely valuable on the Dark Web, such as Social Security numbers. See More

  View All Sponsored News
• 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.

• December 12, 2018 12 Dec'18

  Pivotal Function Service aims at multi-cloud, serverless

  Serverless might rule in the public cloud, but the new Pivotal Function Service targets enterprises that also have private clouds in their mix.

• December 10, 2018 10 Dec'18

  Azure database updates court on-premises installed base

  Microsoft hopes a series of features, deployment options and price changes can convince more customers to migrate their database workloads to Azure and not to rival clouds.

• November 12, 2018 12 Nov'18

  Cloud cost management tools heat up with Apptio sale

  Why does private equity firm Vista Equity Partners want to pay nearly $2 billion for IT spend analytics vendor Apptio? Here's a clue: It's the rise of hybrid cloud.