Tag: AWS

July 27, 2020

Most folks will by now have heard of Alibaba, the giant Chinese conglomerate, with business interests that include retail, financial services, logistics, media, and digital branding and marketing. The technology backbone underpinning these business units, Alibaba Cloud, is the third […]

June 29, 2020

Recently, AWS announced the beta release of Amazon Honeycode, a fully managed service allowing customers to build mobile and web applications without writing any code quickly. With Amazon Honeycode, customers can build applications that are tailored specifically for tasks that […]

June 19, 2020

Flash storage is increasingly important to the enterprise market, and analysts expect solid state storage to largely replace spinning disks for enterprise systems, endpoints and consumer devices – possibly within this decade. Meanwhile, some predict spinning disk will be used […]

June 9, 2020

Recently, Amazon announced the general availability (GA) of Amplify iOS and Amplify Android, which are both part of the open-source Amplify Framework. Amplify iOS and Amplify Android include libraries and tools, allowing mobile developers to build scalable and secure cloud-powered […]

June 1, 2020

Amazon Web Services may dominate with a vast collection of products and options, but it’s far from the only game in the cloud. Microsoft, a company once known for its domination of personal computing, has slowly and steadily built its […]

May 20, 2020

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a member of the .NET Foundation and is a major proponent of .NET development and .NET developers. AWS engineers are currently supporting several different .NET open source products with the support for those projects, and […]

May 7, 2020

The extent of Amazon and Microsoft’s dominant dual-hold on the European cloud infrastructure services market is laid bare in Synergy Research Group’s latest quarterly tracker data. Its research shows that that, despite the cultural and economic differences that exist between […]

April 29, 2020

In a recent blog post, Google announced that Athos support for multi-cloud is generally available. With Anthos, customers can now consolidate all their operations across on-premises, Google Cloud, and other clouds starting with AWS and Microsoft Azure as it is […]

April 17, 2020

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has rubbished the findings of a 317-page investigative report into “ethical misconduct” allegations pertaining to the US Department of Defense’s (DoD) controversial Joint Enterprise Defense infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract. The $10bn cloud contract, which centres on […]

March 23, 2020

Back in February, cloud security specialists DivvyCloud released their 2020 cloud misconfigurations report, which highlighted that misconfigured cloud installations had cost organisations $5tn (approximately £4tn) over the past two years. During that time, over 33 billion records were exposed; an […]

February 3, 2020

Each new week seemingly brings with it another disturbing discovery of personal data left unsecured and exposed on the internet. Different companies — spanning industries as varied as pornography, cannabis, and medical records — screwing up in hard-to-parse ways, all […]

January 21, 2020

Big data has become big business in healthcare. The public freaked out in November 2019 at the Wall Street Journal’s revelations that Google was taking in non-anonymous healthcare information from hospital network Ascension. Now, a new report from the Journal […]

December 27, 2019

The public cloud market continues to mature, and enterprises are becoming increasingly more comfortable with using off-premise products and services, and it is predominantly Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Google reaping the rewards of these trends. Much of the […]

October 28, 2019

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expressed surprise over the decision by US government defence chiefs to award a lucrative 10-year, $10bn cloud contract to its arch-rival Microsoft. The US Department of Defense (DoD) confirmed on Friday 25 October that Microsoft […]

August 19, 2019

When does it make sense to move applications and data to the public cloud? What exactly should be moved? What are the potential and actual cost benefits? Business and technology leaders at many organizations are likely asking these questions on […]

July 17, 2019

First came containers, then came Kubernetes. The world needed relief from the tedium and complexity of deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications, and Kubernetes answered the call. One factor that has propelled Kubernetes forward is that Kubernetes clusters can run […]

May 9, 2019

NHS Digital has confirmed its pursuit of a multi-cloud strategy, in which it will mix and match cloud services from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, to help improve the efficiency of its operations. As part of this push, […]

April 9, 2019

Google Cloud is rebranding its Cloud Services Platform (CSP) as it enters general availability, and adding functionality to enable enterprises to use it to manage workloads in the Amazon and Microsoft public clouds. Having made its debut during the Google […]

April 3, 2019

There are plenty of ways to access storage in the public cloud. Each of the big three providers – Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) – allow access to their cloud storage via application programming […]

February 19, 2019

In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced Azure Cost Management has reached general availability (GA). Azure Cost Management provides a native cost management solution for enterprise customers which allows organizations to manage and optimize Azure costs across their subscriptions using […]