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Gartner: Half of companies won't be ready for GDPR by next year
The European General Data Protection Regulation is set to go into effect next May, but the research firm says many companies won't be in full compliance by then.
By Justine Brown • May 5, 2017 -
Rackspace CEO resigns 6 months after company went private
Taylor Rhodes will become CEO at a "smaller private company," but declined to provide further details.
By Justine Brown • May 4, 2017 -
Explore the Trendline➔
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TrendlineHybrid cloud
IT decision makers turn to hybrid cloud in search of security, flexibility and scale within enterprise infrastructure.
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Atlassian shifts to AWS for new software deployment
The move allows the company to offer services in more cloud deployment regions, reducing latency and allowing for more failover options.
By Justine Brown • May 3, 2017 -
Companies rave about the cloud, but majority of workloads remain on-prem
Businesses still leverage on-premise data centers for a large amount of work, such as large scale transaction processing on mission-critical applications.
By Justine Brown • May 2, 2017 -
Facebook split its network to help manage bandwidth for its 1.86B users
The new network configuration separates machine-to-machine and internet user traffic to reduce latency.
By Justine Brown • May 2, 2017 -
Cloudera IPOs, receiving 20% boost from investors
Initially priced at $15 per share, Cloudera had a strong finish Friday, trading at more than $18 per share.
By Justine Brown • May 1, 2017 -
State of the cloud: Microsoft surges, AWS drives company's operating profit
Microsoft Azure grew 93% in the first quarter of 2017, vying for a large slice of the cloud market.
By Justine Brown • May 1, 2017 -
Report: Some IT organizations morphing into 'cloud service brokers'
Cloud-empowered capabilities are allowing companies to use technology for its strategic value. But implementing a cloud strategy can prove difficult.
By Justine Brown • April 28, 2017 -
IBM opens new cloud data centers in DC, Texas
Big Blue says the new centers will give companies the bandwidth they need to leverage cognitive capabilities.
By Justine Brown • April 27, 2017 -
Google cloud leader predicts company will overtake AWS in 5 years
Speaking at the Forbes CIO Summit, Diane Greene said Google has a "huge advantage" when it comes to data centers, infrastructure, availability and security.
By Justine Brown • April 26, 2017 -
Report: Oracle launching an in-house incubator to grow new technologies
The company hopes to push into new areas with the launch of an internal "startup."
By Justine Brown • April 25, 2017 -
Mainframes are alive and well, persisting as the corporate workhorse
Nearly 61% of respondents said they have no plans to discontinue use of their mainframe in the foreseeable future, according to a new survey.
By Justine Brown • April 25, 2017 -
Microsoft to leverage LinkedIn data in challenge to Salesforce
The enterprise giant will use LinkedIn data to allow salespeople to tap into their professional networks and relationships.
By Justine Brown • April 25, 2017 -
What's next for Amazon?
Amazon isn't resting on its AWS cloud laurels. Rather, the company is investing heavily in advanced computing and branching out into new areas.
By Justine Brown • April 24, 2017 -
Report: Cloud price wars now center on object storage
Cloud providers are cutting costs in new areas to attract business.
By Justine Brown • April 21, 2017 -
Docker wants to help businesses move legacy apps to containers
The company said it can migrate a legacy application to a container in five days with the new program.
By Justine Brown • April 20, 2017 -
Dunkin' Donuts and the cloud — a tasty combination
Dunkin' Brands is migrating its mobile applications, e-commerce websites and corporate IT infrastructure to AWS.
By Justine Brown • April 20, 2017 -
Deep Dive
Match game: Why AI could bring the human touch to the call center
Some companies see artificial intelligence as a magic bullet for customer service, and envision sending customers to chat directly with bots. But experts say that won’t necessarily be the best use of AI.
By Justine Brown • April 19, 2017 -
Oracle buys Wercker to help developers streamline code testing
Oracle says acquisition will help "democratize developer tooling for the modern cloud."
By Justine Brown • April 18, 2017 -
Comcast, IBM partner to allow customers a direct link to IBM Cloud
Under the partnership, Comcast Business customers can now get up to 10 Gbps of private network connectivity to IBM Cloud.
By Justine Brown • April 17, 2017 -
Report: Intel pulls the plug on OpenStack venture with Rackspace
The company joins Cisco and Hewlett Packard Enterprise as the latest big tech organizations to roll back OpenStack efforts.
By Justine Brown • April 17, 2017 -
AWS cloud boss takes top payday at Amazon
Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, on the other hand, took home his usual salary of $81,840, with $1.6 million paid for his "security arrangements" both at the office and while traveling
By Naomi Eide • April 13, 2017 -
Cisco leads collaboration market, but Microsoft closing in
Revenues from hosted/cloud solutions grew 9% in 2016 compared with 2015, while revenue from premise-based systems declined 4%.
By Justine Brown • April 7, 2017 -
Google making engineers available to customers
For Google, it's another way to differentiate its cloud business from rivals Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
By Justine Brown • April 7, 2017 -
Cloud infrastructure spending continues to grow, but pace slows
Companies that could easily migrate to the cloud have done so, while companies that face more complicated migrations are now up to bat.
By Justine Brown • April 6, 2017