Cloud

Going serverless? Prepare for a shake-up in security

A serverless environment means "moving parts" and organizations can "quickly lose control" when DevOps teams are tasked with engaging with a cloud, according to Gadi Naor, CTO of Alcide.

By Samantha Ann Schwartz • May 18, 2018

Oracle releasing 'Internet Weather Map' for when the cloud gets gloomy

The company's cloud users can access the map for overseeing and analyzing activities and "paths" on the internet.

By Samantha Ann Schwartz • May 18, 2018

Cloud-embedded data analytics mission critical for businesses

A shift to predictive analytics is providing companies with a more competitive edge, but organizations don't have the talent required to use advanced tools.

By Samantha Ann Schwartz • May 17, 2018

3 lessons from Talend Connect to drive technology innovation

With good data, AI and cloud, companies can build out the scalability, agility and compute power for continued digital transformation.

By Alex Hickey • May 15, 2018

Moving to the McCloud: How McDonald's pulled off a digital transformation

Every Big Mac, french fry and nugget is feeding a massive data platform, and the fast food company is using cloud and ETL to make sense of it.

By Alex Hickey • May 10, 2018

Will confidential computing incentivize companies to move more sensitive data to the cloud?

Google launched an open-source framework to develop applications in trusted execution environments, a new level of security for sensitive workloads and information.

By Alex Hickey • May 03, 2018

AWS, Python, Java top list of in-demand cloud skills

The top 10 skills demonstrate high demand for engineers familiar with the top IaaS providers and automation, containerization and cloud management.

By Alex Hickey • May 03, 2018

How corporate cultures stack up in cloud companies

More companies with distributed workforces are overcoming culture and employee satisfaction challenges, topping lists of best companies to work for.

By Alex Hickey • May 02, 2018

Marc Jacobs: Hybrid cloud solutions — so haute right now

The hybrid cloud approach has helped make 92% of Marc Jacobs' invoices correctly route to the approver within five days instead of 90 days.

By Samantha Ann Schwartz • April 26, 2018

Microsoft Azure prepares data subject request capabilities for GDPR

The company rolled out tools across Azure and Office 365 enterprise platforms to help customers comply with data rights in the upcoming EU regulation.

By Alex Hickey • April 17, 2018

Opinion

Top 3 factors CIOs should consider when looking at SD-WAN

Cloud services and virtualization across traditional WAN architectures has led to performance bottlenecks. Enter software-defined wide area network, one of the hottest networking technologies.

By Ed Fox

How AppNexus is upgrading storage infrastructure to get ready for Kubernetes

A reduction in the number of servers being used translates to a reduction in spending, boosting the bottom line for the online advertising company.

By Alex Hickey • April 13, 2018

Why Microsoft is beefing up its IoT and AI cloud offerings

CEO Satya Nadella has hammered out a roadmap for the company centered on enterprise clients with a focus on artificial intelligence technologies. 

By Alex Hickey • April 12, 2018

Opinion

Digital transformation: Necessary vs. sufficient

Turning a company into a digital business is the only thing that really matters right now. CIOs know it, and they need a lot of help.

By Jim Haar

With CLOUD Act, Microsoft's Supreme Court case outcome 'moot'

The new law "is ultimately a complete answer to the outcome of the Microsoft case,” codifying the government's position.

By Alex Hickey • April 03, 2018

Life after Windows: Microsoft reorg pushes intelligent, cloud-ready everything

Part of the reshuffle includes the departure of long-time Microsoft executive Terry Myerson, who leads the current Windows and Devices group. 

By Naomi Eide • March 29, 2018

GoDaddy goes 'all in' with AWS

This is only AWS' second big client announcement of 2018 after Comcast made it the "preferred public cloud infrastructure provider" in mid-January.

By Alex Hickey • March 29, 2018

Microsoft trails Cisco in the collaboration market even after a cloud boost

Despite so much of enterprise collaboration turning to the cloud, traditional, on-site solutions remain the ones to beat.

By Samantha Ann Schwartz • March 28, 2018

Dropbox pops 35% in public debut on the road to profitability

The company must continue to flip freemium customers into paid seats and level the playing field with other offerings in the market.

By Naomi Eide • March 26, 2018

Is Google getting ready to make a splash in blockchain?

After years of heavy investment and research, reports are circulating that the Google is looking for blockchain applications for its cloud platform.

By Alex Hickey • March 22, 2018

Atlassian moved its entire infrastructure to AWS for cloud-native customers

The collaboration company's old infrastructure simply did not support cloud-based customers, which make up 75% of all new customers.

By Samantha Ann Schwartz • March 20, 2018

What to know about Zscaler, Wall Street's latest tech darling

The 10-year-old company was built on the premise that security needed to reflect how users interact with applications as technology shifted away from the data center.

By Naomi Eide • March 19, 2018

Only 4 services account for 85% of all cloud spend, with AWS EC2 leading the pack

In Cloudability​'s analysis of 1,500 companies' cloud usage, 59% relied on EC2, followed by EBS, RDS and S3.

By Samantha Ann Schwartz • March 15, 2018