Companies plan to increase their spending on cloud infrastructure but may be slowing down on taking a “cloud-first” approach. These are two of the conclusions outlined in the Enterprise Strategy Group’s (ESG) “2022 Technology Spending Intentions Report.” According to ESG’s report, the number of companies that said moving applications and infrastructure to the public cloud was […]
So You Want to be a Cloud Engineer?
It has been predicted that “cloud engineer” will be among the top ten in-demand IT jobs in 2021. There is currently a great need for cloud engineers, primarily because a significant number of organizations are moving their business processes to the cloud. As more organizations shift to cloud data storage, the demand for cloud engineers […]
Smart Cities Venture to the Edge for Data Processing
Click to learn more about author Bernard Brode. There is a growing consensus that the “smart city” is the only real solution to the challenges faced by urban planners and city governors. With more than half of the world’s population now living in cities, the focus on harnessing the exponentially larger amount of data generated […]
Accurics Launches to Make Cloud Infrastructure Security Ubiquitous
A new press release reports, “Accurics, the ‘code-to-cloud’ security specialist, came out of stealth mode today to announce the formal launch of the company. It introduced technology that protects the cloud native infrastructure throughout the DevOps lifecycle, and reconciles risk posture drift between infrastructure defined through code and infrastructure running in the cloud. These advances […]
Zoom Selects Oracle as a Cloud Infrastructure Provider
A recent press release states, “Today Oracle announced that Zoom Video Communications, Inc. is turning to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to support its growth and evolving business needs as the enterprise video communications company continues to innovate and provide an essential service to its extensive customer base. ‘We recently experienced the most significant growth our business […]
Core Scientific and SQream Team Up to Accelerate Massive Data Analytics
A new press release states, “Core Scientific, the leader in best-in-class artificial intelligence and blockchain cloud infrastructure and software solutions, and SQream, a leader in GPU-accelerated analytics, today announced a partnership to bring accelerated analytics of massive data to the GPU Cloud for Data Scientists. This partnership provides cost effective accelerated analytics based on GPU […]
Aiven Increases Access to Managed Apache Kafka by Providing it on AWS Marketplace
According to a recent press release, “Aiven, a startup that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure, announced today that its products will be available in the AWS Marketplace, starting with Aiven for Apache Kafka. This enables customers who use AWS to simplify their procurement process when purchasing Aiven products. This new option […]
Oracle Announces Oracle Cloud Data Science Platform
According to a recent press release, “Oracle today announced the availability of the Oracle Cloud Data Science Platform. At the core is Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Science, helping enterprises to collaboratively build, train, manage and deploy machine learning models to increase the success of data science projects. Unlike other data science products that focus on […]
The Rise of the Enterprise Cloud Manager
Click to learn more about author Jay Chapel. There’s a growing job function among companies using public cloud: the Enterprise Cloud Manager. We recently did a study on users which showed that a growing proportion them have “cloud” or the name of their cloud provider such as “AWS” in their job title. This indicates a […]
Splunk to Acquire Cloud Monitoring Leader SignalFx
According to a recent press release, “Splunk Inc., delivering actions and outcomes from the world of data, today announced a definitive agreement to acquire SignalFx, a SaaS leader in real-time monitoring and metrics for cloud infrastructure, microservices and applications. Splunk is already a leader in ITOM and an AIOps pioneer and, upon close, will be […]