Google survey shows banks reduce potential cloud computing risks
Banks are doing what they can to reduce the risk of using cloud computing services, according to a survey by Google Cloud and Harris Poll. The Bank of England and the Bank of France have voiced concerns about the lack of transparency, citing that banks rely on a concentrated group of outside cloud ...
ServiceNow acquires Swarm64 to futureproof its Now Platform
ServiceNow has acquired the database performance company, Swarm64, to boost its ability to scale digital workflows. Swarm64 operates out of Berlin and will give ServiceNow a database model combining analytics and transactional database functionality.
ServiceNow said that the move will serve its ...
Amazon Web Services and Ferrari enter an agreement on data
Ferrari has agreed to make Amazon Web Services (AWS) their artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud storage provider. This is to aid the design and testing of their cars and launch their fan engagement platform.
Amazon Web Services has agreed to be luxury carmaker Ferrari's provider ...
Zscaler and ServiceNow integration offers fast threat detection, enhanced control
Zscaler, a cloud security company, announced on June 10th, the release of new integrations with ServiceNow, which is the leader in digital workflows. This will enhance visibility, control of access, and data security for optimized cloud data protection and reliable incident response capabilities.
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Cisco launches the new Cisco UCS X-Series
With the new launch, Cisco has joined the race to dominate the hybrid cloud space.
This week Cisco launched what it calls the Cisco UCS X-Series. This new HCI platform represents an overhaul of its hyperconverged system designed for hybrid cloud deployments. Cisco announced the UCS X-Series alon...
Distributed cloud: the best of two worlds
Hybrid cloud is currently the most widely used cloud strategy. The use of this model has risen sharply in the past year. Yet hybrid cloud does not seem to offer the advantages businesses had expected in advance. A successor is already on the way: distributed cloud. Distributed cloud was named by Ga...
Survey: 81% of global IT decision makers plan to adopt MACH
The execs said they plan to add MACH to their architecture in the next 12 months
A recent study has found 81% of IT leaders intend to increase MACH elements into their front-office architecture within the year. The research was done by the MACH Alliance and supported by DJS Research.
MACH st...
Bosch and Microsoft partner up on advanced automotive software
Bosch and Microsoft will be working together on a software platform for vehicles. The announcement came on Thursday and is a clear move on the software giant’s part, to get its foot in the door of the growing electromobility and automated driving market.
The software platform will use cloud te...
Google Cloud launches Apigee X to help enterprises scale up
On Wednesday, Google announced the launch of Apigee X, the new major release of the Apigee API management platform it bought in 2016. Amit Zavery, Google Cloud’s head of platform, said that if we look at current events, especially after the pandemic started in 2020, the volume of digital activiti...
Google’s new subsea cable between the US and Europe is now live
Today, in partnership with SubCom, Google announced that its privately owned Dunant subsea cable between Virginia Beach, Virginia and Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez on the French Atlantic Coast is now operational.
The project was first announced in the middle of 2018 and was nam...
Amazon announces a new program to train 29M people in cloud computing
Amazon announced last week that it is planning to train 29 million people in cloud computing by 2025. The program's agenda is to reskill people so they can get jobs in the information age where cloud computing is the prevailing technology.
The reskilling also comes when online commerce is the do...
Box, Citrix, Dell, Google, Slack and others want enterprises to use modern web apps
A group of industry leaders came together to announce the launch of Modern Computing Alliance. They include Google, Box, Citrix, Dell, Imprivata, Intel, Okta, RingCentral, Slack, VMware, and Zoom. The mission states to drive silicon-to-cloud innovation.
The mission says that the results will ben...