Cloud
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Deep DiveBuild vs. buy: How AWS balances organic growth and strategic acquisitions
With few acquisitions, the cloud leader tends to rely on organic growth of new functionalities. But in the last month, AWS picked up steam with the purchases of CloudEndure and TSO Logic.
By Alex Hickey • Jan. 18, 2019
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Retailers push for hybrid cloud as staying on budget remains an industry strength
The retail industry has the second-strongest rate of hybrid cloud deployments, driven by application, traffic uptick and budget demands.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Jan. 14, 2019
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Top 2019 trends for IT decision makers
From software and cloud to security and leadership, these trends will shape business technology in the coming months.
By Alex Hickey • Jan. 11, 2019
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2019 trends: The cloud journey is never complete
This year, even businesses well into a cloud migration will have to reassess what cloud computing means for their portfolios and near- and long-term strategies.
By Alex Hickey • Jan. 08, 2019
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Cloud vendors surpass $250B revenue 'milestone' in 2018
Scalability and flexibility are overshadowing cost savings as a reason for cloud adoption.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Jan. 08, 2019
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GitLab pushes back on serverless computing vendor lock-in
Serverless technology can facilitate application portability across different clouds, making developers' jobs easier, said GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij.
By Alex Hickey • Jan. 03, 2019
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Our 10 best stories of 2018
To sum it up, 2018 was a year of change and the stories that resonated most focused on the future.
By Naomi Eide • Dec. 21, 2018
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Microsoft's hold on industry as an enterprise mainstay hinges on cloud, AI
Patents and acquisitions have backed up the company's progress in fields from AI and the cloud to edge computing, open source development and even quantum computing.
By Alex Hickey • Dec. 21, 2018
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Organizations look to cloud for infrastructure woes but not cost savings
More investments in business technology are congruently an investment in the cloud.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Dec. 21, 2018
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There's 'no way' customers would migrate from Oracle to Amazon database software, Ellison says
High-profile companies have worked to migrate off Oracle database technology, sparking a war of words for Larry Ellison, Oracle's chairman and CTO.
By Naomi Eide • Dec. 18, 2018
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The biggest, baddest, billion-dollar tech deals in 2018
Enterprise technology saw not one, not two, but nine multibillion dollar acquisitions take place in the last 12 months, running the gamut from a mere $1.7 billion to a whopping $34 billion.
By Alex Hickey • Dec. 14, 2018
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A 'leap of faith': Whirlpool Corp.'s journey to the cloud
What runs on those data centers can be a mystery, tangled in a dark web of application interdependence.
By Naomi Eide • Dec. 14, 2018
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Shortage in cloud talent as cloud job seekers lag employer demand
The big three cloud providers — AWS, Azure and Google Cloud — continue to dominate job searches and postings related to cloud computing.
By Alex Hickey • Dec. 06, 2018
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Michaels taps Salesforce to deploy personalized shopping tech
With the addition of Salesforce Marketing Cloud, the arts and crafts retailer again taps its long-time partner, this time for cloud-based marketing help.
By Dan O'Shea • Dec. 06, 2018
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Welch's CIO finds $1M savings with new software support vendor
"One of the crowning achievements of my career as CIO was to break the hamster wheel of Oracle Support," said Welch's Dave Jackson.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Dec. 06, 2018
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Deep DiveDramatic or justified? Retailers' fears push cloud customers from AWS to Microsoft, Google
Though AWS and Amazon.com operate separately, retailers feel they could unintentionally add to a competitor's profit.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Nov. 30, 2018
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AWS CEO expects freedom from Oracle database by end of 2019
During his re:Invent conference keynote, Andy Jassy took some "defensive" jabs at other cloud vendors.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Nov. 29, 2018
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Amazon digs into cloud hardware with on-prem racks, data center processors
Customers want the same APIs, tools, hardware and functionality between cloud and on-premise environments, the latter of which many aren't ready to retire yet. Amazon is responding.
By Alex Hickey • Nov. 29, 2018
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AWS takes on shadow IT with customizable software marketplace
Most IT professionals want to ignore software as a service applications, but they can't afford to do so because eventually a enough of it will demand attention.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Nov. 28, 2018
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A lesson in chaos engineering as Black Friday, Cyber Monday loom
An hours-long outage could push a business into the red on the largest retail weekend of the year.
By Alex Hickey • Nov. 21, 2018
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Synergy Research: Salesforce emerges as a top 5 global cloud leader, ties with IBM
AWS, Microsoft and Azure held tightly onto the top ranks of public cloud leadership, collectively accounting for 65% of the global market.
By Alex Hickey • Nov. 20, 2018
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Deep DiveEmpowered developers, cost savings drive serverless computing adoption
Developers spend 30% to 40% of their time working on or waiting for infrastructure, and serverless computing allows them to turn their attention elsewhere.
By Alex Hickey • Nov. 19, 2018
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Google Cloud CEO stepping down; Oracle veteran to succeed
After three years as chief executive, Diane Greene will leave her role to focus on empowering women leaders in STEM.
By Samantha Ann Schwartz • Nov. 19, 2018
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Docker, MuleSoft deal nods to legacy environment needs
MuleSoft and Docker provide options for customers to containerize legacy environments or rebuild their environment in a containerized architecture.
By Alex Hickey • Nov. 16, 2018
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AWS and Coursera deliver cloud training 101
AWS already has a robust training program, but with Coursera it has access to 32 million more learners, including broad IT and data science learning spaces.
By Alex Hickey • Nov. 15, 2018