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Data Protection Goes to the Cloud
Growing deployment of distributed applications on scale-out and cloud databases has, vendors claim, fueled the need to protect critical application data, resulting in data governance standards that mandate backup ...Full Article
‘Cloud Shift’ Gains Momentum, Spending Surge Seen
So-called "cloud first" strategies are expected to propel IT spending over the next five years as more enterprises transform themselves into digital businesses, a new forecast predicts. In a ...Full Article
U.S. OKs AWS Cloud For Sensitive Data
Amazon Web Services extended its cloud reach deeper into government IT infrastructure with an announcement this week that it has been certified to handle a larger share of federal ...Full Article
Storage Software Comes Packaged in App Containers
Server software released this week by storage vendor Scality comes packaged in a Docker application container to speed deployment of cloud-native applications by eliminating the need to decide ahead ...Full Article
Salesforce Shifts Core Services to AWS
Salesforce, the customer relationship management leader, said it would expand its use of Amazon Web Services to deliver core cloud services as it extends its global infrastructure. The partners ...Full Article
U.S. Spy Master to Hire CIO
The U.S. intelligence apparatus is looking for a spy to come in from the cold to serve as its first chief information officer. The Office of the Director of ...Full Article
AWS Acquires NICE Compute-Intensive Cloud and Visualization Technologies
In announcing its acquisition of NICE, the Italy-based software-as-a-service provider for high performance and technical computing, Amazon and AWS not only acquire technology for optimizing customers’ HPC, cloud and ...Full Article
Amazon Enters Chip Business with ARM Platform
Amazon.com crashed the semiconductor sector this week, announcing that its Annapurna Labs Inc. subsidiary would offer an ARM-based platform-on-a-chip targeting network-attached storage and networking applications. The new chips dubbed ...Full Article
Network Outages Expose an Aging, Vulnerable Internet
None of us is getting any younger, and the same is true of the Internet. Experts who track major outages are warning that the Internet is not aging well, ...Full Article
