Deutsche Telekom starts European cloud service with Nextcloud
Deutsche Telekom and Nextcloud have announced a partnership to start their own cloud service. The service is to be a European counterpart to the American tech giants and fully comply with GDPR guidelines.
The two companies have announced their cooperation in a press release. All servers of the c...
Time for a Cloud Center of Excellence
In the coming years, double-digit growth rates are expected in terms of investments into the public cloud and IaaS. Many businesses will take the plunge in the foreseeable future or increase existing investments in the public cloud. But how do you, as a business, ensure that a migration to the publ...
SOHO combines Azure and Oracle Cloud via interconnect
Setting up a so-called interconnect between the Microsoft Azure Cloud and the Oracle Cloud has been possible for some time now. This gives you a fast private connection between the two cloud environments and enables applications to be active in both environments. This feature is not yet very well k...
Nutanix hires former VMware executive to be the new CEO
The former VMware executive, Rajiv Ramaswami, is coming into Nutanix as the president and CEO. The announcement was made on Wednesday, as Rajiv replaces co-founder of Nutanix, Dheeraj Pandey, who announced that he was planning to retire in August this year.
The new CEO brings to Nutanix 30 years...
Microsoft announces plans to build an Azure data center in Denmark
Microsoft is continuing its expansion of global Azure data centers at a rapid rate. The company revealed that it plans to launch a new region in Denmark after announcing new regions in Taiwan and Austria two months ago.
In line with many recent announcements from the software giant, there is als...
Dell Technologies: The cloud is a tool, not necessarily the solution
More and more companies are looking for ways to speed up innovation. To achieve innovation, the cloud is often regarded as the solution. Nevertheless, companies need to realise that the cloud is primarily a tool and not a complete solution. We discussed this with Patrick Eikenaar, Director of Data ...
Gartner: 75% of databases to be cloud-hosted by 2022
Report evaluates sixteen major Cloud Database Management Systems vendors.
Gartner this week released its 2020 Magic Quadrant for Cloud DBMS Report. In this report, Gartner has evaluated the cloud database market and key vendors, merging its previous two database reports, the DMSA (Data Mana...
Google’s open-source cloud advocates for openness and transparency
Google is proposing an 'open cloud' approach for businesses that want to move quickly between public clouds, using the infrastructure they want, when they want and with no fear that they may be forced to choose one vendor or have trouble accessing data, just because it is in different clouds.
Th...
Dropbox bolsters Spaces for businesses with remote workers
The company announced changes concerning Dropbox Spaces, a product it introduced last year. It is a collaboration and project management tool designed with the work requirements of a pandemic in mind.
Timothy Young, the president of Dropbox, says that the company has always focused on making it ...
Hackers use cloud services to enhance their flexibility and speed
Are underground cloud services a thing Well, they are quite real, and criminals are taking advantage of their presence to accelerate attacks and give compromised businesses no room to react.
This information comes from Trend Micro’s new report on cybersecurity. The firm found terabytes of inte...
Infor helps companies modernise with cloud-first ERP
Infor is one of the software vendors firmly committed to Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in the cloud. When companies choose for ERP in the cloud, they're also taking a step in modernisation. Therefore, many IT administrators are moving from on-premise to cloud-based or intend to. With cloud-fir...
Amid pandemic, SAP offers financial help for customers
SAP CEO Christian Klein tells Bloomberg that sales weakness is evidence of Cloud transition.
SAP CEO Christian Klein told Bloomberg TV this week that his company has committed to extending customer payment terms and helping partners struggling as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic.
His pro...