What’s the best way to make the most of the cloud?

Source- zdnet.com What’s the best approach to moving to the cloud? According to Rob Howe, IT director at Guinness World Records (GWR), it’s to tread very carefully. Rather than rushing into cloud-led digital transformation, he believes CIOs should evaluate workloads, find partners and — only then — think about how on-demand IT can help deliver innovative services to customers. “Cherry pick the key elements — understand the changes you need to make to the infrastructure, and the behaviour of software, when you’re

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Hybrid Cloud Computing Emerges as Next Big IT Management Challenge

Source- itbusinessedge.com Going into 2019, it’s apparent that a major challenge facing IT leaders will be to bring the cost of cloud computing under control. While cloud computing, in theory, reduces the cost of IT, it turns out that the operational complexity of supporting multiple cloud computing platforms alongside existing on-premises IT environments has become quite expensive. IT leaders clearly need to bring some order to the cloud computing chaos. A recent report from International Data Corp. (IDC) highlights the extent of the

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5 best ways to minimize cloud scaling costs

Source- searchcloudcomputing.techtarget.com There are a lot of ways to rack up cloud computing costs, but scalability issues consistently top that list. Part of the challenge lies in the fact that scalability is one of the best-known benefits of cloud. Whether you need to scale applications under load, burst from your data center to the cloud or replace failed instances with new ones hosted elsewhere — scalability is present. The key isn’t to avoid it, but to manage it well. To protect your

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Amazon Web Services to help skilled students find Cloud computing jobs

Source- firstpost.com As tech companies, the world over face an acute crunch of skilled workforce in the field of Cloud computing, retail giant Amazon’s Cloud arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has decided to go beyond providing training and certification to now help students grab relevant openings in Cloud. According to Teresa Carlson, Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector at AWS, the time is ripe to connect skilled students with employers via “AWS Educate” — a global initiative to provide students and educators

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How Enterprise Data Center is Being Redefined

Source- entrepreneur.com In the recent past, there have been tectonic shifts in the way Indians produce and consume data. Whether it is the widespread Digital India initiative, gravitation towards cashless payments or the innovations being introduced by the burgeoning entrepreneurial ecosystem, the stakes have significantly risen for the organisations that rely on IT infrastructure and ecosystem. As an emerging economy with a growing population, India is expected to be one of the largest national data consumers in the near future. However,

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‘1 mn cloud computing jobs to be created by 2022 in India’

Source- thehindubusinessline.com With cloud computing becoming more prevalent in companies, both large and small, the global requirement for professionals is steadily on the rise and over a million jobs in the sector will be created in the country by 2022, according to a report. Companies are currently investing 4.5 times the rate of traditional IT spending in cloud infrastructure, and it is expected to grow even faster by 2020, according to a report by ed-tech platform for executives Great Learning. The

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The Benefits Of Using Cloud Computing At Your Business

Source- myasbn.com Cloud computing allows your business to store its data on secure internet-based servers. This affords your business many benefits when compared to storing and accessing your data through in-house servers. Here are some of the greatest benefits of using cloud-based computing for your business. Reduced IT Costs There are a lot of costs associated with having servers that are physically located at your business and the necessary IT staff to manage them. Because of this, cloud computing solutions come

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THE PROMISE OF (PRACTICALLY) ‘SERVERLESS COMPUTING’

Source- wired.com The definition of cloud computing may be nebulous, but its promise is clear. Instead of filling a warehouse with servers and paying people to manage them, a company can pay a cloud computing provider for computing resources on demand and pay only for what it actually uses. This prospect lured organizations ranging from startups to massive corporations to stodgy government agencies onto cloud offerings from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others. Those now well-established services might save companies from buying and managing

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We Must Find A Way To Defy Data Gravity In The Cloud

Source- forbes.com The IT industry is in the midst of a transformational era in terms of how we treat data.  At Moor Insights & Strategy we have discussed countless the times forces that are driving the need for a data strategy, how that need is deeply impacted by real-time analytics, and how data has escaped the data center and is now spread from edge to cloud. The world of IT today is one of hybrid and multi-clouds. IT deploys workloads to the public cloud

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Building the hybrid serverless multiclouds of the future

Source- siliconangle.com Developers frequently compose solutions as patterns that hybridize different approaches to developing, hosting and managing application resources. Any solution pattern may be hybridized, with the approach usually contingent on the developer having access to an abstraction layer designed to enable the complex application environment of interest. In cloud computing, we increasingly see hybridization in the form of public and private clouds interoperating to handle transactions, analytics, integration and other complex workloads. At the platform-as-a-service level, we also see it

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Calling all small businesses: The advantages of cloud-based voice-over-IP

Source- smartbrief.com The combination of cloud computing and ubiquitous internet has become the great equalizer in business. The low cost of using computing, storage and applications hosted by a third-party data center enables the smallest of companies to be competitive. So it’s no surprise that small- and mid-size businesses are embracing cloud applications. More than 70% of companies with fewer than 100 employees and more than 90% of companies with between 100 and 499 employees already use the cloud, according to International Data

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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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Google showcases power of the cloud for Thai enterprises

Source- nationmultimedia.com Tim Synan, head of Google Cloud, Southeast Asia, said the event was aimed at bringing the power of Google Cloud to Thai businesses of all sizes and helping them provide specialised solutions through different platforms and devices. The summit highlighted the urgency for businesses to take on new challenges and move towards the cloud. “Cloud computing technology is about speed, agility, collaboration, awareness and transparency, with machine learning underpinning everything,” Synan said. “We have big plans for the future

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Pentagon Cloud Computing Deal Could Give Amazon Monopoly

Source- investors.com Good news for Amazon.com employees is not necessarily good news for everyone else. For example, consider the announcement that Amazon.com will now pay at least $15 per hour. That may be great for current employees, but it’s bad for any smaller companies that hope to compete with Amazon on price. Amazon has a history of cutting prices to dominate a developing space, then using its massive market power to block others from even entering. That’s why it opposed internet sales taxes for

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Cloud computing: How the amazing Amazon service brings agility to companies

Source- financialexpress.com Around the world, cloud first is the way forward. In India too, a few companies are transitioning to a new age where cloud computing—on-demand delivery of compute power, database storage, applications, and other IT resources through a cloud services platform via the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing—is enabling them to transform into intelligent enterprises. India is set to be among the top cloud markets in the world by 2020, with $4.1 billion market opportunity. Diverse workforce Take the case

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How DevOps can reshape the global economy: Study

Source- digitaljournal.com A new report, from Google Cloud, provides a comprehensive view of the growing DevOps industry, with scientific studies that span five years and more than 30,000 survey responses. The new report has been assembled by Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble and Gene Kim, of the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) organization, and it is called “Accelerate: State of DevOps 2018: Strategies for a New Economy”. The research has been undertaken in conjunction with in collaboration with Google Cloud.

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Cloud computing is making data centers more efficient.

Source- digitaljournal.com Cloud computing is changing the way many businesses deploy applications, control users, and deliver resources. The ability to interconnect data centers enables organizations of all sizes to be more agile and cost-effective — and become more competitive. Data centers are complex systems, composed of elements like routers, switches, security devices, storage systems, servers and application delivery controllers. Today many businesses have an option to provision a virtual data center in the cloud. A cloud data center ensures more power, safer

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Security is biggest hurdle to effective digital transformation

Source- itp.net Cyber security risks are the biggest challenge to digital transformation, according to a new survey from Fortinet. The 2018 Security Implications of Digital Transformation Survey found that 85% of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and Chief Security Officers (CSOs) believe that security is the biggest hurdle to properly implementing DX. The independent report surveyed over 300 CISOs and CSOs at 2,500+ employee organisations around the world, and found that 67% have already embarked on digital transformation, while 95%

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Visibility is key for devops and the hybrid cloud

Source- networkworld.com Cloud has undoubtedly become a key component of successful business in recent years, especially when you consider the race to digitally transform. Across the globe, companies are moving their applications and services to the cloud and are consequently reaping the benefits of lower capex and opex as a result. However, with this process, cloud migration is only a beginning for any organization’s digital transformation (DX) journey. If harnessed correctly, cloud is a pillar of innovation for DX, and can

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How hybrid industrial cloud computing is gaining momentum

Source- cloudcomputing-news.net Why do most internet of things (IoT) analytics operations occur in the cloud? The public cloud offers a centralised location for large amounts of affordable storage and computing power. But there are many instances in which it makes more sense to perform analytics closer to the thing or activity that is generating or collecting data ­– equipment deployed at customer sites. This is particularly true in industrial and manufacturing environments, which are familiar with the challenges of managing massive

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