Category: Cloud Infrastructure

February 26, 2021

Just ask any marketing person—it’s their job to keep demand for a product or service high. So they depend on advertising and other methods to create brand recognition and a sense of demand for what they sell. These days marketing […]

February 24, 2021

Microsoft is continuing to roll out more vertical cloud packages tailored for specific vertical industries. On February 24, the company announced three more of these “industry clouds” for financial services, manufacturing and nonprofit. These supplement the already-announced Microsoft cloud packages […]

February 23, 2021

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has explained the role of cloud computing in processing data sent back from NASA’s Perseverance explorer on Mars. During Perseverance’s mission on Mars, the science and engineering data will be processed and hosted in AWS. The […]

February 18, 2021

We think of cloud services as a creation of the modern digital world, but one of the first cloud services was installed almost 140 years ago, on Pearl Street in Manhattan, just south of Fulton Street. On September 4, 1882, […]

February 17, 2021

For most organizations, the transition to the cloud will not involve suddenly flipping a switch. Especially for back office or other modern “legacy” systems, transformation strategies to cloud-native deployment are not likely to happen overnight. Nasuni is one of a […]

February 15, 2021

It was just another day for Luca Bongiorni, a security advisor for Bentley Systems. He’d just spun up an Ubuntu Linux 18.04 instance on the Microsoft Azure cloud using a corporate sandbox for testing purposes. Three hours later, on Bongiorni’s […]

February 12, 2021

Microsoft already has two vertical ‘clouds for industry’ for healthcare and retail; expect more. “These are the two first ones that came out but there’ll be more to come,” Takuya Hirano, Microsoft vice president for global alliances and systems integrators […]

February 9, 2021

Cloud computing has become the preferred model for modernizing IT portfolios, with CIOs claiming that migrating applications to a combination of public and private clouds affords them greater business agility. And during the pandemic the increased consumption of cloud services […]

February 4, 2021

Spending on cloud infrastructure from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and others reached $39.9 billion in the fourth quarter of last year – up $10bn year on year. Collectively, AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud earned 58% of […]

February 1, 2021

Azure Quantum, the public cloud ecosystem dedicated to quantum applications developed by Microsoft, is now available for public preview. The Redmond giant has urged developers and researchers in the field to start using the platform’s cloud services to explore, build […]