Cloud Services stories - Page 227
Over the last decade the IT world has seen a mass transition from in-house computer assets to everything-as-a-service in the cloud, with hardware, platform and services now all commonly cloud-resident. Ideally positioned to support distributed working and working from home, most major players are currently moving or planning to move more than half of their operations to the cloud. The current direction of travel is to multi-cloud deployment, seen as providing greater flexibility, specialisation and security.
The main bumps in the road have shown up in skills shortages reported by many organisations, complexity leading to misconfiguration and the need to operate and integrate multiple security dashboards. Consequently, third-party cloud security providers are a hot growth area.
Redis Enterprise to launch as managed service on Azure Cache
Mon, 18th May 2020
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The new service offering will provide Redis for Azure customers’ mission-critical workloads through enterprise-grade functionality.
Red Hat and AWS launch OpenShift, a joint Kubernetes service
Mon, 18th May 2020
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hyperscale
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public cloud
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open source
The new offering is designed to better enable organisation wide digital transformation and is targeted towards enterprises around the globe.
NVIDIA unveils its first GPU featuring Ampere architecture
Fri, 15th May 2020
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hyperscale
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public cloud
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ai models
The NVIDIA A100 GPU boasts up to 20 times more power than its predecessors, boosting throughput for data centres as demand for data surges.
Microsoft acquires Metaswitch, affirming investment in telcos
Fri, 15th May 2020
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public cloud
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multi-cloud
Microsoft's acquisition of Metaswitch, following its recent purchase of Affirmed Networks, underlines its deepening investment in the 5G telco sector.
Google Cloud & VMware reach 'milestone' for customer cloud journeys
Fri, 15th May 2020
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virtualisation
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datacentre infrastructure
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digital transformation
Google Cloud and VMware join forces, allowing customers to run VMware environments within Google Cloud, enhancing workload management and cloud services.
Gartner: Local IT spending to dip 6% in 2020
Thu, 14th May 2020
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cloud services
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it spending
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market research
Australia's IT spending is projected to decline by 6% in 2020 due to COVID-19, equating to a reduction of approximately AUD $8.8 billion, per Gartner.
8x8 ditches AWS for Oracle for video
Thu, 14th May 2020
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public cloud
8x8 moves its video meetings hosting from AWS to Oracle Cloud for a 25% performance boost per node and 80% savings on network costs.
Dell announces suite of open source networking solutions using SONiC
Wed, 13th May 2020
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network infrastructure
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hyperscale
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public cloud
The solutions, jointly known as Enterprise SONiC Distribution by Dell Technologies, builds on the open source project SONiC, which was headed by Microsoft.
Nutanix automates more disaster recovery capabilities
Wed, 13th May 2020
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dr
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converged infrastructure
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healthtech
Nutanix has released several new capabilities within its hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software and AHV hypervisor this week.
AWS launches Amazon Kendra, its machine learning search service
Wed, 13th May 2020
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Amazon Web Services launches Amazon Kendra, an ML-powered enterprise search tool designed to provide precise results for natural language queries.
ASC launches compliance recording solution for Teams
Tue, 12th May 2020
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public cloud
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risk & compliance
Records, transcribes and analyses all communications through MS Team to ensure compliance, storing it all in the cloud.
Boomi launches EventBridge iPaaS platform connector
Tue, 12th May 2020
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paas
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hyperscale
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public cloud
Provides out-of-the-box support for Amazon EventBridge, offering Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Boomi customers.
Tackling internal perceptions that SLAs aren’t performing
Mon, 11th May 2020
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public cloud
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multi-cloud
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finops
Not all organisations have realised the maturity to recognise when the performance claims of public cloud don’t stack up.
Quest Software launches NetVault, its newest backup solution
Fri, 8th May 2020
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cloud services
Quest Software unveils NetVault, a robust backup and recovery solution enhancing data protection for Office 365 Teams and cloud environments.
LogicMonitor partners with Aquion to reach Aussie channel
Thu, 7th May 2020
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partner programmes
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cloud services
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managed services
Partners can build, integrate, resell and implement the company's cloud-based platform to monitor hybrid IT environments.
D-Link ANZ launches EasyMesh COVR-1102 mesh system
Thu, 7th May 2020
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wireless networks
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cloud services
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wifi
The kit is one of the world’s first Wi-Fi Alliance certified EasyMesh home and home office mesh router systems.
Splunk Cloud comes to Google Cloud as two companies team up
Wed, 6th May 2020
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siem
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hyperscale
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public cloud
Splunk Cloud is set to integrate with Google Cloud, aiming to provide unified data insights using Google’s advanced AI, ML, and security technologies.
10 best practices for work-from-home contact centres
Wed, 6th May 2020
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crm
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dr
NICE outlines 10 best practices for effective work-from-home contact centres, focusing on infrastructure, tools, dynamic schedules, and AI-driven support.
Microsoft unveils preview of its Azure VMware Solution
Tue, 5th May 2020
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virtualisation
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public cloud
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it automation
Microsoft unveils the next-generation Azure VMware Solution preview, enabling seamless migration of VMware apps to Azure, boosting agility and resilience.
Rackspace to open first NZ office in Auckland
Tue, 5th May 2020
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hyperscale
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public cloud
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microsoft
Rackspace is set to open its first office in New Zealand, located in Auckland, as part of its strategic expansion across the Asia Pacific and Japan regions.