Cloud Services stories - Page 239
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.
Dell and Google Cloud deepen integration to bolster hybrid cloud storage
Thu, 21st May 2020
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hybrid cloud
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Dell and Google Cloud unveil a hybrid cloud storage system, capable of moving 50PB high-performance workloads, enhancing flexibility and scalability.
VMware launches 2nd gen VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
Thu, 21st May 2020
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virtualisation
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network infrastructure
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hyperscale
VMware and Dell have released the second generation of VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, offering support for remote connectivity and business-critical applications.
More in store for NZ data centre landscape after Microsoft investment
Wed, 20th May 2020
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dc
Microsoft's NZ$80-100m data centre investment is set to boost New Zealand’s digital economy, paving the way for further local infrastructure development.
Sophos and Arcserve bolster alliance with two new solutions
Wed, 20th May 2020
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firewalls
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dr
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network infrastructure
The new solutions combine anti-ransomware and other threat-protection tech with immutable backup and disaster recovery capabilities.
Aussie edge data centre provider receives $20m in funding
Wed, 20th May 2020
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hyperscale
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Leading Edge Data Centers secures USD $20 million funding from Washington H. Soul Pattinson to expand its regional data centre network across Australia.
FireEye unveils Cloudvisory: A multicloud security control centre
Wed, 20th May 2020
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cloud security
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multi-cloud
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breach prevention
FireEye launches Cloudvisory, a new multicloud security control centre offering centralised visibility, continuous compliance, and advanced threat detection.
Former AWS executive joins Ping Identity
Tue, 19th May 2020
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hyperscale
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public cloud
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cloud services
Former AWS exec Candace Worley joins Ping Identity as Chief Product Officer, to drive identity solution innovation.
Dicker Data to distribute display control platform
Tue, 19th May 2020
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digital signage
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displays & projectors
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healthtech
Five Faces has tapped DD to provide the solution which enables the central control of digital displays, interactive displays and mobile phones.
CRM, website building, project management - all in 1 free solution
Tue, 19th May 2020
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crm
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dr
Amid the pandemic, Bitrix24 offers a comprehensive, free solution integrating CRM, project management, and website building, easing transitions to remote work.
Redis Enterprise to launch as managed service on Azure Cache
Mon, 18th May 2020
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public cloud
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partner programmes
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open source
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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uc
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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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hyperscale
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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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public cloud
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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uc
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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.