Road To The Cloud - Learnings, Benefits And The Future
After completing the cloud migration in 6 months, we finally had a moment to breathe, reflect on our journey, and look to the future.
Multi Cloud Becomes The New Norm For Banking
Multi-cloud for banking has moved from an oddity to a popular buzz term in the course of just a couple of years. But the journey is just getting started, said Shanker Ramamurthy global managing partner banking and financial markets at IBM Services and president of IBM Industry Academy.
Oracle Cloud Expands Footprint In India By Launching Hyderabad Region
Oracle announced that it’s opening the second cloud region of India in Hyderabad. The first region was launched in Mumbai in 2019. The Hyderabad region of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) comes with one availability domain. OCI is hosted in regions and availability domains.
HashiCorp Goes Multi-Cloud With A Fully Managed Cloud Platform
At HashiConf Digital, HashiCorp’s community event, the company announced that its offering the flagship DevOps and automation tools as managed services in mainstream public cloud platforms. HashiCorp’s tools such as Terraform, Vault, Nomad and Consul gained popularity among the developers and the operator community.
China Roundup: Alibaba to add 5,000 staff to cloud unit
Many may know that China has turned one of its poorest provinces Guizhou into a pivotal tech hub that’s home to many cloud services, including that of Apple China. Now China is morphing Tibet into another cloud computing center.
The Era Of Cloud Nomads: Why Multi-Cloud Is Here To Stay
From the COVID-19 pandemic to the oil crisis and rising global unemployment, 2020 has been a trying year for many businesses.
CEOs Have Their Heads In The Cloud Around COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic is hastening many companies’ ongoing migration to the cloud as organizations both small and large see their workforce turned into a well-distributed, stay-at-home army.
Runa Capital closes Fund III at $157M, with an added focus on quantum computing
VC fund Runa Capital was launched with $135 million in 2010 and is perhaps best known for its investment into NGINX, which powers many web sites today.
Microsoft to open first data center in New Zealand as cloud usage grows
In spite of being in the midst of a pandemic sowing economic uncertainty, one area that continues to thrive is cloud computing. Perhaps that explains why Microsoft, which saw Azure grow 59% in its most recent earnings report, announced plans to open a new data centre in New Zealand once it receives approval from the Overseas Investment Office.
Alibaba Cloud will invest $28 billion more into its infrastructure over the next three years
Alibaba Cloud announced today that it will invest another RMB 200 billion (or about $28 billion) into its infrastructure over the next three years, prompted in part by increased demand for services like video conferencing and live streaming as businesses adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic.
What Technology Accelerates Long-Term After The Short-Term COVID-19 Danger Subsides?
I recently sat down with my friend and fellow analyst Daniel Newman, of Futurum Research, for a podcast discussion on some of the technology trends we expect to accelerate in the post-corona world.
U.S. High Performance Computing Takes On COVID-19
In the battle against the COVID-19 coronavirus, we need all our weapons to defeat this enemy. And high-performance computing (HPC) may be one of the most valuable weapons.
Google cloud boss looks to AI as it fights Amazon, Microsoft duopoly
Robert Enslin had worked for enterprise software giant SAP for 27 years, and was president of its cloud business group, until his resignation shocked the industry last April.
Cloud computing: invisible, versatile and highly profitable
With each passing quarter, Amazon, Microsoft and Google have been setting new records, while cloud computing has become the invisible backbone supporting much of our daily lives. Its potential to become an even bigger part of people’s daily existence is sky-high.
Datadog Leads The Pack In Observability For Cloud Environments
Last Thursday, Datadog (DDOG) delivered especially strong Q4 results, providing solid proof that organizations of all sizes are increasingly selecting the company’s monitoring and analytics platform, with most of the demand associated with cloud environments.