Microsoft Beats AWS, Google Cloud With Middle East Cloud Regions

Source: crn.com Microsoft became the first of the top three U.S. cloud providers to deliver cloud services from data centers in the Middle East this week with its launch of cloud regions in United Arab Emirates (UAE). Both Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Office 365 are now generally available from the new regions, which will serve the Middle East and Africa, and Dynamics 365 and Power Platform are expected to be available by the end of the year. “The opening of the new cloud regions in

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What is cloud computing?

Source:- salesforce.com Everyone is talking about “the cloud.” But what does it mean? More and more, technology is moving to the cloud. It’s not just a fad — the shift away from traditional software models to software as a service, or Saas, has steadily gained momentum over the last 10 years. Looking ahead, the next decade of cloud computing promises even more ways to collaborate from anywhere, using mobile devices. So what is cloud computing? Essentially, cloud computing is a

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How Not to Sabotage Your Multi-Cloud Strategy

Source:- devops.com The immense pressure for enterprises to deliver new applications and insights that exploit new business opportunities has been a driving force for digital transformation. This, in turn, has led IT leaders to embrace a multi-cloud strategy—whether that’s deploying a combination of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and Google, or extending private data centers to the public cloud—to achieve greater agility, optimized performance and cost savings resulting from deploying workloads across multiple cloud platforms. However, maintaining multiple cloud

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Actifio Welcomes Dell EMC, Google Cloud & IBM as Diamond Sponsors of Actifio Data Driven 2019 Conference

Source:- Actifio, the pioneer of copy data management software, announced that Dell EMC, Google Cloud and IBM will be Diamond Sponsors for Data Driven 2019, the company’s annual conference for technologists and business leaders from around the globe who are driving data-intensive transformations in their organizations. In addition, Fujitsu and Hitachi Solutions are Gold Sponsors and TechTarget is the Official Media Sponsor of Data Driven 2019. Datatrend, Onix, and Wasabi have been named Bronze Sponsors. Actifio’s annual global conference, Data

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Destiny 2 developer says Google Cloud will actually reduce input lag on Stadia

Source:- mobilesyrup.com One of the common concerns regarding video game streaming is that online multiplayer experiences may suffer from connectivity issues. Specifically, the idea of input lag — the delay between pressing a button and the game actually triggering the action — has been mentioned a fair bit in the discussion surrounding Google’s ambitious Stadia game streaming service. At the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) this week, Kotaku news editor Jason Schreier looked to address this issue in an interview with

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How 5 Industries Utilize Cloud Computing Solutions

Source:- solutionsreview.com Businesses can do a lot of tasks in the cloud. Providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud offer a wide variety of services for its clients. These range from basic cloud computing functions to hyper-specific cloud applications. Cloud services were traditionally designed horizontally, meaning they serve a general purpose and are not tailored to individual industries or customers. However, a recent trend for cloud development is vertical cloud, or cloud programs specifically designed for particular industries. As more

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Any application, any device, any cloud: The view from VMware (Part 3)

Source:- rcrwireless.com IT modernization for 5G key to hybrid, multi-cloud strategy With the shift to 5G, early investments in network functions virtualization are paving the way to what will ultimately be an IT-centric network that takes advantage of centralized and distributed compute power to support new types of services and billions of new connected devices. Pervasive cloud computing capable of handling a variety of distributed workloads are needed to move the industry from where it is today to the full

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WHAT DOES CLOUD SERVICES MEAN?

Source:- rax.bg “Cloud Services or Cloud Hosting are terms that come to describe computing and hosting services delivered through the Internet. Term “Cloud” refers to a delivered from clustered computer system that uses certain virtualization technology, and not from stand-alone physical server. In any Cloud system, there are a number of nodes (servers) which combine their computing resources into a Compute Cloud (cloud computing system). Compute Clouds have two major components – “Processing Nodes” and “Storage Area Networks”. What does

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The silence of the cloud: What is truly driving growth – and what should be?

Source:- cloudcomputing-news.net Opinion Cloud in various iterations has been around now for approaching 20 years (longer if you go back the concept of compute as a public utility introduced by scientist John McCarthy in the 1960s), many remembering seeing iterations such as the ASP (application service provider) as a failed step along that journey until we matured to the SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and varying other ‘as a service’ offerings now in the market. We have witnessed the varying vendor hype

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Kubernetes Advantage: Considerations for a Multi-Cloud World

Source:- informationweek.com As more IT leaders deploy Kubernetes into mainstream production environments, the ecosystem around Kubernetes will grow and drive innovation. We’ve been seeing more and more use cases around how Kubernetes and containers are helping IT leaders and their teams bridge on-premises and public cloud environments. The fact that major cloud providers including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud have all embraced Kubernetes and are all offering Kubernetes-as-a-service options is a significant benefit for enterprises. Because it’s available as

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Will Google’s Outage Shake Confidence in Its Cloud Service?

Source:- marketrealist.com Network congestion caused the disruptive outage An outage hit Google’s (GOOGL) digital services early this month, with the effects being felt by businesses that run on Google’s cloud platform as well. Google services YouTube and Gmail were unavailable for several hours across the US and Europe on June 2, the Verge reported. Also affected by the outage were Shopify (SHOP) and Snap (SNAP), which host some of their applications and data on Google’s cloud platform. Google blamed the outage

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Google Cloud looks to Looker for greater data analytics – but with the multi-cloud focus

Source:- cloudcomputing-news.net Late last week, Google announced its intention to acquire business intelligence platform Looker for $2.6 billion (£2.05bn) in an all-cash transaction, with Looker joining Google Cloud upon the acquisition’s close. For Google Cloud – whose bill is chump change compared to what Salesforce is outlaying for Tableau – Looker represents more options for customers looking to migrate data from legacy technology stacks to BigQuery, Google’s enterprise data warehouse. As Google Cloud chief Thomas Kurian put it, it will help offer customers

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How the combination of cloud and AI is influencing IT investment strategy

Source:- cloudcomputing-news.net The pace of change from a traditional capital-intensive IT infrastructure model to a more flexible hybrid multi-cloud services model is influencing enterprise spending trends across the globe. Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total $3.79 trillion in 2019 — that’s an increase of just 1.1 percent from 2018, according to the latest global market study by Gartner. IT infrastructure market development “Currency headwinds fuelled by the strengthening US dollar have caused us to revise our 2019 IT spending forecast down

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Microsoft wastes no time in countering Google’s cloud gaming ambitions

Source:-telecoms.com A few days ago Google added some substance to its cloud gaming ambitions by announcing more details, including a list of games and pricing, of its Stadia platform. Shortly after Microsoft had its big E3 reveal, which of course focused on plans for its Xbox gaming console. These included the ability to stream games from a console to a mobile device and the opportunity for attendees to stream games from the cloud via the Project xCloud streaming service. The difference between

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DevOps is changing the way companies build software. Learn more from five experts at the GeekWire Cloud Sum

Source:- geekwire.com As software-as-a-service became the dominant vector for enterprise computing during the last several years, the development velocity required from top-tier software teams skyrocketed. DevOps has been one of the key strategies for managing that increased velocity, and it has never been more important to a new generation of companies modernizing their infrastructure for the cloud era. That’s just one reason why we’re excited to present five experts in DevOps at the 2019 GeekWire Cloud Summit, scheduled for June 5th at

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Cloud to help emerging markets diminish tech, cost barriers.

Source- rcrwireless.com The cloud is a powerful transformational agent for emerging markets, but only when dovetailed with other emerging and evolving digital technologies to deliver complete solutions.  The International Data Corporation or IDC’s top 10 predictions for IT, 2019, says that by 2022, 40% of organizations’ cloud developments will execute artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. IDC forecasts that by 2022, any endpoint device on a cloud-enabled network will be performing AI-driven inferencing and relying on machine learning algorithms to continually ‘learn’ which

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How Jenkins X updates this CI/CD tool for the cloud, Kubernetes

Source- searchmicroservices.techtarget.com Jenkins was one of the first essential technologies of the DevOps revolution. As such, development and operations teams around the world constructed expansions, build packs and plugins for this CI/CD tool. Unfortunately, Jenkins wasn’t built for the cloud or designed for containers. In fact, most Jenkins environments differ substantially from a Docker or Kubernetes ecosystem. This left many developers struggling to figure out how they could continue to use this tried-and-true open source automation server. This is the problem that Jenkins X was designed to

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3 reasons to move your business to the cloud today

Source- bizjournals.com For business owners and managers unfamiliar with cloud technology, the idea of transitioning to a cloud-based business may seem daunting. Many worry that it might be less secure than on-site data and file storage, or it will cost too much to migrate or take too much time and business will suffer in the process. This couldn’t be further from the truth. In reality, cloud-based businesses are reaping enormous benefits today in terms of cost savings, increased productivity and enhanced

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Oracle: Cloud-Native Apps to Drive DevOps Change

Source- containerjournal.com Oracle is betting this coming year will see accelerated adoption of a raft of nascent emerging container and cloud-native technologies that will radically transform a range of DevOps processes. Siddhartha Agarwal, vice president of product management and cloud strategy for Oracle Cloud Platform, predicts 2019 will witness more organizations hiring platform engineers in place of traditional IT administrators as the shift to cloud-native technologies such as Docker containers and Kubernetes continues to gain momentum. Agarwal also expects to see

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DevOps and Cloud: A Symbiotic Relationship

Source- devops.com Most companies want to increase their competitiveness in today’s swiftly changing world, and so they cannot ignore digital transformation. DevOps and cloud computing have become two of the ways companies can achieve this needed transformation, though the relationship between the two is not easily reconciled—DevOps is about the process and process improvement, while cloud computing is about technology and services. It’s important to understand how the cloud and DevOps work together to help businesses achieve their transformation goals. Different

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