Thursday, March 1, 2018

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As-it-happens update March 2, 2018
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There is no turning back on cloud adoption -- the consumption of cloud services is now standard practice for many companies. In fact, cloud computing is central to the competitive strategy of most enterprises in industries such as software development, social media and life sciences. For those of us ...
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Despite longstanding investor fears that Sales Cloud, the company's flagship product, will soon stop growing (it's already tapered down its growth to the mid-teens), Salesforce's platform and other tertiary clouds are becoming massive businesses in their own right. On the side, Salesforce also has a ...
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Snapchat's parent company relies almost entirely on Google and Amazon cloud services to zip its users' photos, chat messages and videos around the globe. Eventually, Snapchat's cloud-computing reliance could make it wildly profitable because it doesn't have to pay to build and maintain its own ...
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Breaking with Telenor's hardware-centric legacy, the cloud-based approach has two big advantages, said WG2's Chief Executive Officer Erlend Prestgard. First, the platform can be developed to run on top of multiple mobile virtual networks. Second, no up-front investment is needed to set up a new ...
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Separately, the company said it would acquire Santa Clara, California-based software startup Minjar, which makes programs that let companies manage work running in public cloud computing facilities. Terms were not disclosed. Following the company's conference call this afternoon with analysts, ...
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The Defense Department will host an industry day for the ongoing cloud acquisition effort, March 7, in Arlington, Virginia, chief Pentagon spokesperson Dana W. White announced today. She said industry day reinforces the commitment to attaining the best value for the American people by emphasizing ...
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Hybrid cloud and virtualization giant VMware reported a strong fourth quarter, but said it wouldn't comment on chatter about a potential reverse merger with parent Dell Technologies. VMware reported a fourth quarter net loss of $440 million, or $1.09 a share, on revenue of $2.31 billion, up 14 percent ...
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Google has teamed up with Flex, a $9.5 billion gadget manufacturer, in a cloud computing deal. Flex is using Google Cloud technology to build BrightInsight, a platform for connecting medical devices together. Flex lauds Google for its security, privacy, and futuristic technology. Amazon and Microsoft are ...
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While Amazon and Apple are going after the consumer market, Microsoft is focusing on meeting the needs of researchers, physicians, providers, biotech companies and other organizations that use artificial intelligence and the cloud. Days before HIMSS18, Microsoft Corporate Vice President of AI and ...
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Alibaba said customers would be able to access the superconducting quantum computing cloud service to run or trial custom-built quantum algorithms and download the results. This would enable them to assess the performance of quantum processors and identify any potential technological barriers, ...
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Nearly two-thirds of Australian and New Zealand (ANZ) businesses are unsure how a cloud outage might affect their business, a survey has found. The Truth in cloud survey of 1,200 global organisations revealed that 99% plan to move some systems to the cloud in the next two years. In ANZ, 24% of ...
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Opened in 2013, Cloud 9 bobs above Roro Reef in the Mamanuca archipelago, about 45 minutes off the west coast of Fiji. "Prior to Cloud 9, Fiji was famous for family getaways and swaying palms, but it was really, really quiet," Bar'el Wachtel, co-founder of Cloud 9, tells CNN Travel. "There's still not a lot ...
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Alibaba Cloud has partnered with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to build one of the world's fastest quantum processors and offer its vast computing power as a cloud-based service to customers. The "superconducting quantum computing cloud" is powered by an 11-quantum-bit processor, ...
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Spotify, which is selling its share publicly, disclosed that it is moving its infrastructure completely to Google Cloud Platform in an all-in bet that rhymes with the Amazon Web Services-Netflix relationship. When I read Spotify's chat about cloud infrastructure in its Security and Exchange Commission filing, ...
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Google Cloud and AGI (a.k.a. Analytical Graphics Inc.) have gotten on board with the B612 Asteroid Institute to develop a cloud-based platform for keeping track of asteroid discoveries. The two companies have become technology partners for the Asteroid Decision Analysis and Mapping project, ...
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The Financial Accounting Standards Board issued a proposed accounting standards update Thursday aimed at improving how to account for the costs of implementing cloud computing. The proposed update would specifically clarify the accounting for implementation costs related to a cloud computing ...
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Cloud storage company Box was set for its worst one-day performance on record on concerns about slowing growth after issuing soft revenue guidance. Shares in the California-based company fell as much as 21.2 per cent to $18.95 before trimming those losses to trade 20.7 per cent lower. That would ...
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Arista Networks, Inc. (ANET) stock has been under pressure in recent days, but the sell-off in the shares could present an entry into the cloud computing market. That's according to E*TRADE, which made the case for why investors may want to take a look at the networking and cloud computing company ...
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Veeam roadmap adds cloud to virtual and physical backup with acquisitions that bring cloud and hybrid functionality. Object archives, CDP and NAS backup are also planned ...
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Lawyers are increasingly providing legal counsel digitally as clients become less interested in funding lavish workspaces. The idea also appeals to workers seeking a reprieve from the hourly demands of a traditional law practice. Marlene Laro, partner and chief operating officer of Potomac Law Group, ...
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The move is in accordance with the 2016 Data Center Optimization Initiative, an Obama-era plan that requires agencies to develop their own data center strategies to be compliant with the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act, including possible migrations to the cloud or other more ...
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Sean Miller sat there in a red shirt with an Arizona logo on it -- water bottle to his left, white piece of paper to his right -- and carefully read a statement Thursday afternoon during which he said the following: "Let me be very, very clear: I have never discussed with Christian Dawkins paying Deandre Ayton ...
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Wade Marrs, mushing along the Iditarod 2016 Trail on the outskirts of Nome. (Photo by Laura Collins/KNOM). The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race kicks off this Saturday, as mushers and their teams begin cross a thousand miles of the Alaska wilderness. But this year the event is mired in scandals: Fallout ...
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The IoT "user experience" is a product of interactions between wearables, smartphones, and applications and analytics software hosted in the cloud. Securing this web of hardware and software is a tricky challenge for companies accelerating into the IoT, an environment that didn't exist until a few years ...
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Tasmanian Liberals have said that if re-elected they will put a stop to cloud seeding. Looking in from the outside the obvious question is, why? Cloud seeding is the process of adding chemicals to clouds to increase rainfall. Usually when it comes up, the debate is around if it actually works, but this time ...
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Security resellers are facing opportunity as cloud becomes increasingly relevant to enterprises. However, some are weary of fully embracing cloud as understanding key terms and aspects can feel like learning a foreign language to the traditional channel partner. In an interview during Fortinet's ...
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Cloud computing has quickly become an industry standard for companies that want access to processing power without having to maintain expensive technological infrastructure. Companies like Netflix, Apple, Etsy, and Xerox, for instance, manage some (or all) of their applications and data with cloud ...
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Companies are investing in the cloud: Fourth-quarter expenditure on cloud capital grew 29 percent last year. Companies show no signs of scaling back spend in 2018.For small businesses, however, it's easy to view the cloud as an enterprise expenditure — just 30 percent of SMBs are using cloud ...
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In 2018, Mitel is looking to capitalize on its large install base and a strong mix of public and private cloud offerings. But Mitel Cloud will have to compete with both pure-cloud startups and legacy UC vendors.
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Research conducted by Computing and presented in our most recent web seminar - 'Cloud security: fresh concerns require new answers', now available to watch on-demand - revealed that most CIOs' public cloud concerns revolve around where their data is being held. So-called data sovereignty is a ...
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DUPLIN COUNTY, NC (WITN) - A possible funnel cloud was spotted near two Eastern Carolina schools this afternoon. Strong storms pushed through several counties that produced several tornado warnings. There have been no reports of tornado touchdowns or damage. A WITN viewer caught on ...
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U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to impose steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports left Canadian companies in a cloud of uncertainty Thursday, jolting stock prices and leaving experts to parse how the punitive action might be enforced. Trump told a gathering of U.S. industry executives on ...
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VMware's expanding hybrid cloud portfolio and multi-cloud outlook powered the company's growth in the final quarter of its fiscal year, CEO Pat Gelsinger told investors Thursday. The virtualization leader's sustained momentum "demonstrates the power of our broad-based portfolio," Gelsinger said in an ...
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In the minds of healthcare IT decision-makers, as several surveys have shown, Cloud-based solutions have long been associated with data security and data ownership concerns. The apprehension does have a strong rationale: Why would anybody move confidential patient data off-premises and ...
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dropbox today announced a partnership with Google Cloud to deliver a more unified home for work. Working with Google Cloud, Dropbox plans to develop a series of cross-platform integrations that connect G Suite cloud productivity tools and content (Gmail, ...
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 01, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SAUCECON - Sauce Labs, Inc., provider of the world's largest cloud-based platform for continuous testing of web and mobile applications, today unveiled its Continuous Testing Cloud to deliver high quality applications more efficiently.
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The allure of getting cloud computing certified is strong, as is anything in IT that's new and shiny. Virtualization administrators need to evaluate the growth of their companies and how their careers fit alongside the certification paths available to them. What is your company's cloud strategy? If your ...
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The Stearns County Sheriff's Office and St. Cloud Police Department plan to purchase new equipment with funds from a U.S. Department of Justice grant split evenly between the agencies. The grant is for the 2017 year, according to Chief Deputy Jon Lentz, and would provide $30,139 total for both ...
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The ultimate goal of implementing any warehouse management system (WMS) is an increase in operational efficiency, accuracy, and productivity. Leveraging a cloud-based WMS achieves this on a new level. A cloud-based WMS eliminates the need to maintain infrastructure, allowing your IT ...
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It's "the cloud improves performance" versus "the cloud introduces latency." It's "legacy applications will only run on-premises" versus "on-premises infrastructure creates a management nightmare." It's the never-ending, never-resolved debate over whether the cloud or on-premises technology is a better ...
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SAN FRANCISCO & SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Asteroid Institute today announced Google Cloud and AGI as new technology partners in the development of the Asteroid Decision Analysis and Mapping (ADAM) project. ADAM is being designed as a cloud-based platform to provide analytical ...
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