Cloud Computing News, Features, and Interviews

• 5 ways your cloud migration may fail—and 5 ways to succeed

  Cloud migrations should benefit the application, IT, and the business. Here's how to avoid the pitfalls and reap the rewards

• Amazon's war on Microsoft's $10B Pentagon cloud deal heats up

  Amazon.com is contesting the Pentagon's award of an up to US$10 billion cloud computing deal to Microsoft.

• Microsoft shows off hybrid cloud management and cloud analytics tools at Ignite

  Enterprises will soon have access to Azure Arc and Azure Synapse Analytics, two new services that bolster Microsoft’s cloud offerings.

• New Zealand not making the most of cloud, says Unisys

  Fifty-eight per cent of New Zealand organisations that participated in a 13 country survey by Unisys say they have failed to realise notable benefits from cloud computing, largely because they have not integrated their migration plan into their broader business transformation strategy.

• The major hybrid cloud options compared: AWS Outposts vs Azure Stack vs Google Anthos

  We compare the hybrid cloud solutions from the big three public cloud providers and beyond.

• Zoho launches WorkDrive to put greater focus on teamwork

  Zoho’s new file management system will replace Zoho Docs and serve as the underlying document storage platform for all of the company’s 40-plus apps.

• Kordia provides optimised Internet access to Azure

  Kordia is offering its customers access to the Microsoft Azure Peering Service, saying it will provide highly reliable and optimised internet connectivity to Microsoft services.

• Top 5 takeaways for developers from Microsoft Ignite 2019

  From Azure Arc and Visual Studio Online to WinUI 3.0 and Fluid Framework, developers got plenty of attention at Microsoft’s server show

• Forrester: Edge computing is about to bloom

  The next calendar year will be the one that propels edge computing​ into the enterprise technology limelight for good, according to Forrester Research.

• 10 picky reasons to choose a cloud

  How do you choose between one cloud of commodity machines and another? You have to get picky

• How Marcus by Goldman Sachs stood up its monitoring in under a day

  The observability team in charge of maintaining the health of Goldman Sachs' new digital saving and lending platform Marcus had to quickly stand up a Splunk instance to monitor its logs and establish some key health metrics for its systems as the service quickly scaled.

• The CIO’s critical balancing act in the next five years

  CIOs have to make many hard choices as their organisations navigate geopolitics, economic shifts, and the ascendance of digital giants

• As the internet turns 50, experts weigh future advances and emerging issues

  The next 50 years may bring pervasive connectivity, brain-computer interfaces and walled-off areas of the internet.

• The top SaaS companies for business

  These 10 SaaS providers offer leading business management, productivity, software development, and collaboration tools from the cloud.

• Microsoft beats Amazon for Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing contract

  ​Microsoft has won the Pentagon's US$10 billion cloud computing contract, the Defense Department said on Friday, beating out favorite Amazon.com.

• Aruba rounds out edge-to-cloud strategy

  HPE Aruba's AOS-CX 10.4 software and stackable CX 6300 and modular CX 6400 Series switches offer intelligence, automation, security across networks.

• Tech and trust will be top drivers for customer loyalty in 2030 - study

  In 10 years, smart machines will handle majority of customer engagements - will brands run the risk of trading empathy for efficiency?

• SAP teams up on cloud sales with Microsoft

  The partnership, called "Embrace", will help clients to run operations hosted at remote servers supported by SAP's flagship S/4HANA database

• Microsoft buys Mover to make moving from Google Drive to OneDrive a snap

  Microsoft buys Mover, a cloud migration service that helps make moving your data from Google Drive and others into OneDrive and Sharepoint as easy as possible.

• Yes, you can reap cost benefits from the cloud

  How four companies improved storage, backup, telephony, security, scalability, IT efficiency, and the bottom line by moving to the cloud

Organisations realising the benefits of the Edge and EcoStruxure

Christie Spaces and Murdoch University on their tech evolution with Schneider Electric