Tag: Cloud

March 1, 2018

The Department of Homeland Security is launching a cloud steering group as part of its cloud computing strategy, CIO John Zangardi said during a keynote address at AFCEA’s 2018 Cyber Summit on Feb. 27. “There are 584 applications roughly in […]

March 1, 2018

It’s been an eventful week for Dropbox coming off its announcement last Friday that it was finally going public, but that doesn’t mean the business stops. The company announced plans to partner with Google today to bring native G Suite […]

February 28, 2018

With the advent of disk mirroring over 35 years ago, data redundancy has been the basic strategy against data loss. That redundancy was extended in the replicated state machine (RSM) clusters popularized by cloud vendors in early aughts, and widely […]

February 23, 2018

Cloud computing has overcome some tough resistance over the years, but it has gained acceptance and proven it’s value. Now IT pros have to make sure that cloud technology is applied the right way, delivering the solutions that business managers […]

February 20, 2018

An unidentified hacker or hackers broke into a Tesla-owned Amazon cloud account and used it to “mine” cryptocurrency, security researchers said. The breach also exposed proprietary data for the electric carmaker. The researchers, who worked for RedLock, a 3-year-old cybersecurity […]

February 12, 2018

Oracle is raising its bid to attract enterprises moving to the cloud by extending AI-based automation throughout its PaaS (platform as a service) offerings, claiming that the new automated services will cut costs and reduce management headaches. The company is […]

February 10, 2018

Cloud storage is undoubtedly one of the dominating online trends of the past 4 years. Work has become more mobile and on multiple devices, so the need for an appropriate storage option was quite obvious. Accessing important files and documents […]

January 30, 2018

With Event Grid, Microsoft introduced a new Azure service last year that it hopes will become the glue that holds together modern event-driven and distributed applications. Starting today, Event Grid is generally available, with all the SLAs and other premises […]

December 18, 2017

For some state and local governments, emerging technology brings just as many opportunities as challenges. Citizens continue to demand services on pace with what they can find in the private sector, while governments are struggling to embrace methodologies that will […]

November 28, 2017

HPE on Tuesday is introducing a multi-cloud management service that aims to be truly comprehensive. Called HPE OneSphere, it unifies management across different public clouds, on-premise private clouds and software-defined infrastructure. It’s also intended to work for everyone in an […]

November 21, 2017

Federal agencies now have the option of moving classified data to the cloud with Amazon Web Services’s new AWS Secret Region. With the launch of the AWS Secret Region, “the U.S. Intelligence Community can now execute their missions with a […]

November 14, 2017

Amazon has sold some of its cloud computing infrastructure in China to its local partner in a deal worth $300m, a move it said was necessary in order to comply with the country’s tech regulations. The company confirmed that it […]

November 13, 2017

Moving enterprise applications to a cloud computing environment is a growing trend. At a recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) event in London, some of the company’s customers discussed their decisions around moving to the cloud — why they did it, […]

November 6, 2017

It’s been just over a year since Salesforce introduced Einstein, a set of artificial intelligence technologies that are designed to underlie and enhance the Salesforce product set. Today, at Dreamforce, the company’s enormous customer conference taking place this week in […]

October 31, 2017

The move to the cloud brings unprecedented flexibility and scalability, but agencies’ new network architectures are prompting some growing pains as well. “The idea of having access to any data, anywhere, with the cloud means you have to look at […]

October 27, 2017

Microsoft has posted its results for the first quarter of its 2018 financial year. Revenue was $24.5 billion, an increase of 12 percent year on year, with an operating income of $7.7 billion, up 15 percent, a net income of […]

October 17, 2017

Symantec choosing Azure to host its ubiquitous line of consumer security products represents not only a big customer win for Microsoft’s public cloud but also a tremendous endorsement of its data security capabilities, partners told CRN. Through the deal revealed […]

October 12, 2017

Spending on cloud computing services is growing faster then previously expected, with software-as-a-service (SaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) two of the most rapidly expanding segments. Worldwide public cloud services revenues are expected to grow 18.5 per cent in 2017 to a […]

October 9, 2017

Microsoft has struck a deal with GE to buy all of the output from its new 37-megawatt wind farm in Ireland for the next 15 years. Microsoft says GE’s wind farm, which is located in the south west of Ireland […]

October 3, 2017

Software-as-a-service delivers significant benefits and advantages over traditional installations, but data security cannot be overlooked. Here, we discuss high-level policy considerations such as how to classify data based on its sensitivity, assign risk levels, and set access privileges based on […]