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Daily Cloud Computing News from @cloudfeednet - Dec 21, 2016
Daily Cloud Computing news from @cloudfeednet.
Amazon opens data centres in Montreal to take advantage of the province’s
MobileSyrup.com Teresa Carlson, vice-president of public sector with Amazon Web Services, told the National Post that Amazon primarily chose Quebec because of its … more.
Microsoft Takes on Blindness, Eye Care with AI, Machine Learning
The Microsoft Intelligent Network for Eyecare (MINE), which includes the L V … At LVPEI, we have been using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and … more.
Predictions 2017: IaaS Becomes the Next Launching Pad for Cyber Threats
Public infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) platforms like Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft Azure, in particular, are growing at incredible rates even among … more.
Why Sphere 3D Corp (NASDAQ:ANY) Is Rounding Up Bullish Energy
It is currently available both as an appliance as well as through Microsoft Azure wherein it can be accessed as an App Containerization Virtual … more.
Perspective: Amazon Web Services’ Rapid Growth Could Help Leverage
This IDC Government Insights Perspective discusses how Amazon Web Services’ (AWS’) rapid growth could help leverage government digital … more.
Interview: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on the democratization of IT
Ten years after its U.S. launch, Amazon Web Services (AWS) opened its first Canadian datacentre, located in Montreal, to much fanfare at the … more.
2017 Stock Market Trends: What To Expect In The Tech Sector
The cloud’s growing popularity is a major boon for Amazon, which finally became profitable off the backs of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud … more.
Users Say Privacy Not Taken Seriously By Evernote
Adding this to the recent announcement to move its corporate infrastructure (including customer data) to Google’s cloud service is certainly going to … more.
TNB Financial Raises Position in Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN)
Amazon.com logo TNB Financial raised its position in shares of Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) by 3.2% during the third quarter, according to its … more.
Principled Technologies Releases Research Paper: Choosing a Cloud Object
PR Web (press release) … object storage solutions from four competitors: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS), Google Cloud Storage, … more.
SharePoint Fest Heads Back to Washington, DC and Declares cFocus Software
Benzinga … government and commercial customers using Microsoft SharePoint, Office 365, Power BI, Microsoft Azure, and the Microsoft Cloud for Government. more.
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 is here! So what’s new?
extensive use of the command line, so in this release we’re bringing a new … more.
What Apple (AAPL) Stock & Amazon Stock Have In Common
First there is Amazon Web Services. AWS is growing 50% year-over-year with revenue of $3.2 billion in Amazon’s last quarter. It is small relative to … more.
Learning Path: Advanced Architecture for Big Data Applications
Learning Path: Advanced Architecture for Big Data Applications [Video] more.
Microsoft wins $927m tech support deal with US military
DISA has also approved Microsoft Azure Government, a specialised cloud platform for managing controlled, classified and unclassified information. more.
Amazon Web Services and Cisco CloudCenter
center-based hybrid cloud service offerings. Features: … more.
Microsoft is collaborating with LV Prasad Eye Institute to leverage AI to
Firstpost Dr. G.N. Rao, Founder-Chair, L V Prasad Eye Institute said At LVPEI, we have been using Microsoft Azure Machine Learning and Power BI to drive … more.
CNCF Preps Kubernetes Program for MSPs
“But Google is only interested in workloads running on Google Cloud. The rest of those leads they want to be able to pass on to an MSP community.”. more.
Aricent Achieves Amazon Web Services IoT Competency Status
DMN Newswire–2016-12-20–REDWOOD CITY, California - Aricent announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT … more.
IT’s next moves: Adaptiva forecasts 2017 surges in enterprise Win10
ITProPortal … reduce support for Windows 7/8/8.1 or promotions that sweeten the pot with Microsoft Azure and Office 365 to get reluctant IT departments to switch. more.
Drums are beating as Amazon sets up shop
The first Amazon Web Services staff arrived six months ago and by January the $US360 billion ($495 billion) company will occupy five floors of the … more.
OpenStack: Quick and automatic instance snapshot backup and restore
automatically, quick and easy. This allows you to create a full backup of … more.
Build chat bots with Microsoft’s Bot Framework
Like much of Microsoft’s recent development tools, the Bot Framework is intended to be cross-platform and cloud-based, building on Azure services … more.
OpenStack becomes ‘de facto’ private cloud
The December report, which analyses the state of OpenStack at the time of the October 2016 Barcelona Summit, found that the cloud has become the … more.
VMware acquires PLUMgrid to strengthen its SDN offering
With the acquisition of Plumgrid, VMware is poised to expand its cloud, virtualisation software and OpenStack services with SDN architecture and … more.
Interview: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on AI services and experimentation
Ten years after its U.S. launch, Amazon Web Services (AWS) opened its first Canadian datacentre, located in Montreal, at the beginning of December … more.
Has VMware found a cloud strategy savior in AWS?
Unfortunately for VMware, there are already two (or three if you count Google Cloud Platform) formidable public clouds: AWS and Microsoft’s Azure. more.
Under Amazon’s CIA Cloud: The Washington Post
Bezos personally and publicly touts Amazon Web Services, and it’s evident that Amazon will be seeking more CIA contracts. Last month, Amazon … more.
Microsoft’s new connectivity feature enables UK customers to connect
PCR-online.biz Microsoft’s UK customers can now use its connectivity feature Azure ExpressRoute and PSN/N3 Connectivity to connect privately to its data centers. more.
‘Amazon investing more in Europe hasn’t helped us’ - Sentia CEO
… cloud infrastructure to its customers called Sentia Cloud, Zein said that Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure makes up its public cloud offering … more.
Microsoft Brings Azure Analysis Services to Preview
Azure Analysis Services is a platform-as-a-service that is an enterprise grade engine for modelling BI solutions. Microsoft’s new OLAP engine is also … more.
The Top Collaboration Successes of 2016
This was the result of a realization that Cloud is the way ahead, with already more than a billion people using the Google Cloud platform and services, … more.
Seattle’s cloud-computing boom is new force driving regional economy
“It was very daunting,” Sanders said of his charge when he joined the team building Microsoft’s Azure. “We did have a very big competitor to look at.”. more.
Has VMware found a cloud strategy savior in AWS?
Originally called vCloud, it finally saw the light of day as vCloud Hybrid Service in 2013, before being rebranded as vCloud Air the following year. more.
Google Unveils IoT Developer Platform, Updates to Weave
… with Project Brillo will recognize Android Studio, the Android Software Development Kit (SDK), Google Play Services and Google Cloud Platform. more.
Plumgrid’s Talents And Assets Acquired By VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW)
Plumgrid has a litany of talent in such areas as OpenStack, Security and … VMware has been providing an OpenStack distribution of its own while … more.
Leveraging Microsoft Azure with Citrix NetScaler HA
Now many are leveraging Netscaler GSLB to setup complex Geo based load balancing across different regions using built-in health checks and … more.
Google Drive adds discounted, annual subscriptions for 100GB and 1TB of
9 to 5 Google … company’s increased enterprise cloud ambitions, with a recent rebranding to G Suite and unifying of various cloud products under Google Cloud. more.
Aricent Achieves Amazon Web Services IoT Competency Status
Aricent announced recently that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT Competency status. This designation recognizes Aricent for … more.
Microsoft Announces Support for Asian Consortium Blockchain Network on
Crowdfund Insider Earlier this month, tech giant Microsoft announced it formed a partnership with AMIS and the Industry Technology Research Institute of Taiwan to … more.
Cloud data center expansion becomes an arms race among heavy hitters
Multiplay has relationships with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform, but uses Google as its preferred cloud provider because it offers the best … more.
OpenStack’s Global Traction Expands, According To Independent Research
AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–According to a newly released Forrester Research Report titled, OpenStack’s Global Traction Expands For Its … more.
Trump says Amazon is a monopoly this chart shows he’s wrong
… turn out to be a very lucrative business for Amazon that grabs market share away from incumbents, just like its cloud service, Amazon Web Services, … more.
OpenStack’s Global Traction Expands, According to Independent Research
titled, OpenStack’s Global Traction Expands For Its Newton Release, … more.
Panzura wants to provide archiving freedom, for a price
Freedom Archive supports Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google, and IBM Cloud public clouds, and private object storage from IBM, Hitachi … more.
Trump says Amazon is a monopoly this chart shows he’s wrong
… that grabs market share away from incumbents, just like its cloud service, Amazon Web Services, own the lion’s share of the cloud market today. more.
Need a holiday recipe? AllRecipes and Microsoft Azure cloud have you
Network World AllRecipes.com will be a popular site to check this holiday season and this year it’s using Microsoft Azure’s cloud. AllRecipes, founded in 1997 and … more.
Feeding the 5000: How CIOs can tackle the challenge of big software How
Information Age Customers look at OpenStack as an opportunity to reduce the cost of application deployment whilst increasing the speed with which they can bring … more.
Shares in 2016’s hottest tech IPO soar up over 15% after reports of a
Business Insider That spike comes after Benzinga reported that Twilio is deepening its partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the $13 billion cloud computing … more.
How Microsoft became more like Amazon to emerge from darkness
SEATTLEThe winter of 2010 brought some of Microsoft’s darkest days. … Azure was difficult to use, and despite its “Windows Azure” branding, … more.
Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) Receives Outperform Rating from Robert W. Baird
Amazon.com logo Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)’s stock had its outperform rating reissued by equities researchers at Robert W. Baird in a note … more.
Google Drive now offers discounted annual plans
If, on the other hand, you are already well invested in Google’s cloud ecosystem, having to renew your contract every month is just one huge pain in … more.
Druva Cloud Platform zeros in on inactive data
Druva cloud storage uses Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure as a target destination for inactive data that companies need to keep for legal … more.
Why InvenSense, Twilio, and Navistar International Jumped Today
… of reports that the cloud-based software company will work more closely with Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) and its Amazon Web Services unit. more.
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