Cloud Computing News, Features, and Interviews

• Fear not the startup, but the cashed-up company behaving like one

  Old-world businesses are reinventing themselves, says technology futurist Chris Riddell.

• Russia blocks Google, Amazon IP addresses in bid to ban Telegram

  Russia's state communications regulator says it has blocked IP addresses owned by Google and Amazon, saying they were being used by the Telegram messaging service which Moscow moved to ban this week.

• Machine learning is the ‘new normal’

  In the future, machine learning will be part of the business model, says Olivier Klein, head of emerging technologies at Amazon Web Services

• VMware Cloud Foundation coming to Amazon’s Sydney region

  VMware will have VMware Cloud Foundation, the bundle of its three key software products for virtualisation — vSphere, vSAN and NSX — available in AWS’s Sydney region from Q3 of 2018.

• Spark offers businesses security as a service

  Spark is offering a suite of managed security services to businesses, based on those provided to government agencies under Telecommunications as a Service (TaaS) panel contract.

• Microsoft adds depth to cloud security with ‘confidential computing’

  The growth of “confidential computing” approaches will help clear away any “last mile barriers” for enterprises that are concerned about processing highly sensitive data in the cloud, Microsoft Azure chief technology officer Mark Russinovich believes.

• Salesforce could buy MuleSoft

  Salesforce.com is in advanced discussions to acquire U.S. software maker MuleSoft, people familiar with the matter claim, as it looks to expand its offerings beyond customer relationship management software.

• How SAS IT is taking a different approach to digital disruption

  In a country inspired by innovation and dominated by disruptive thinking, market differentiation represents a challenging undertaking for Kiwi businesses.

• Dynamo6 adds Google Cloud talent, Deloitte gains AWS expertise

  Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services have both strengthened their market position in New Zealand, with cloud services and bespoke software specialist Dynamo6 appointed a Google Cloud partner, and with Deloitte expanding its AWS and cloud infrastructure offerings by absorbing a team from AWS specialist, API Talent.

• Dropbox IPO priced at nearly one-third below its peak valuation

  Dropbox this week priced shares for its initial public offering that would value it at up to US$7.1 billion, nearly a third below the valuation it commanded in 2014, a clear sign of how overheated the private tech market became a few years back.

• Auldhouse to offer training in Google Cloud

  ICT training provider Auldhouse has been appointed a Google Cloud Platform training partner for New Zealand.

• Origin unveils dedicated security practice

  Origin has launched a dedicated IT security practice targeting mid-market and enterprise businesses, leveraging specialist subsidiary Optinet.

• Government CIO urged to boost use of shared IT services

  The Controller and Auditor General has called on the Government Chief Information Office (GCIO) to work with public sector organisations to produce a set of measures for its shared information and communications technology services and to use these to monitor and report on the effectiveness, efficiency and benefits of these services.

• Futurist Chris Riddell on why businesses need to turn their tech teams into rockstars

  … and ICT leaders need to behave like entrepreneurs and ‘a bit like startups’.

• Orion Health offers integration services on AWS

  NZX-listed health software company, Orion Health (NZX: OHE) has announced the global launch of a cloud-based integration service running on Amazon Web Services that is says has the capability to manage and maintain the entire integration engine for customers.

• FedEx exposes customer records

  Global package delivery company FedEx says it has secured some of the customer identification records that were left on an unsecured AWS S3 bucket, and so far has found no evidence that private data was "misappropriated."

• Spark expands telecoms offering to government agencies

  Spark has added contact centre, unified communication, cloud security access brokerage and site connectivity to its Telecommunications as a Service (TaaS) portfolio, saying the move will strengthen its ability to offer TaaS to government agencies.

• Dell Boomi rides the IPaaS wave

  Dell Boomi, Dell’s integration platform as a service offering, is claiming triple digit growth in the Asia Pacific and Japan region on the back of what it says is a growth in hybrid cloud environments requiring organisations to integrate cloud based and on-premises applications.

• Hospitals roll out NZ-developed clinical messaging system

  North Shore Hospital and Waitakere Hospital have rolled out a smartphone messaging service developed by Auckland-based Oncall Systems Limited.

• Google says no cloud performance hit from its Spectre, Meltdown patches

  Alphabet's Google said on Thursday it had already deployed software patches against the Spectre and Meltdown chipset security flaws last year, without slowing down its cloud services.