Cloud computing encompasses everything from Google Apps to data center services to virtualization to software-, infrastructure- and platform-as-a service. Key players include IBM, HPE, Google, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Salesforce, NetSuite and VMware.
Microsoft is working to bring a consumer version of its Microsoft 365 bundle to market, which could include Windows 10, Office 365, Skype, Cortana, Outlook Mobile and/or other services.
Can a platform conceived to support running ephemeral applications become the operating system of choice for running data workloads in the multi-cloud and hybrid cloud era? Looks like it, but we're not just there yet.
Want a trustworthy, full-featured Kubernetes package that's not tied to a specific vendor? Then you should talk to Bitnami.
The hype surrounding AI and machine learning is cacophonous - and small businesses hoping to take advantage of emerging technology might be fearful the cost will be even greater than the hysteria. But it doesn't have to be that way.
AWS CISO told ZDNet that security is job zero for the cloud behemoth.
Here's a look at the annual run rates, hybrid cloud strategies, and approaches to artificial intelligence and machine learning among the public cloud providers.
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A vital part of the Kubernetes stack, etcd, is moving from Red Hat to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.
The feature lets users snap a photo of their driver's license or passport as a form of digital ID authentication.
The Dell Technologies company reported revenue growth of 30 percent.
Canonical wants to make it darn clear that, besides being the leading cloud Linux distributor, it's also a major Kubernetes player.
Google says the report it commissioned shows that, contrary to what some ISPs claim, cloud content providers don't get a free ride on the internet.
The battle for cloud dominance is heating up. Google, by most accounts in third place after Amazon and Microsoft, is adding the advanced storage software from Elastifile. Here's what it means for cloud-using Enterprises.
The bank has lots of customer data in the cloud, and its CIO believes it is more secure than having it live in its datacentres.
LG CNS, LG Group's IT service affiliate, has partnered with Megazone Cloud, South Korea's largest public cloud vendor, to expand its cloud business locally and abroad.
The cloud skills gap is now so intense that a group of researchers is branding the situation as a 'full-blown crisis' that is hurting employers.
While Creative Cloud has its strong benefits, it's also costly. If you want to accomplish most of what you can with Creative Cloud, but pay absolutely nothing, these products can help.
Our analysis of the data that matters from the past month.
Photos: Amazon needs to test its video service across lots and lots (and lots) of TVs. Here's an inside look.
We tell the story of key technology trends from the past month.
Here's how, with a few tweaks and accessories, you can transform your iPhone into a business workhorse that will allow you to get serious work done.
Everybody knows that 12345 is a bad password. But what they're using instead isn't much stronger
In this guide, we've spotlighted 24 cloud-based services that can take your business to the next level. There's a huge world of opportunity and available resources beyond Google, Dropbox, Salesforce, Amazon, and Microsoft.
12 graphs which explain the tech news of the last month.
Norway's newest white-space data center has opened in a former mine. Lefdal Mine Datacenter could become the world's largest once of three of its five levels are filled.
Make your posts more engaging and encourage more clicks and comments with these image-editing and graphics tools.
Breeze through the hot summer with these IoT-enabled devices and sensors, all controlled from your smartphone.
Click by click, we'll show you how to get Microsoft's Apache Hadoop-based big bata service up and running.
Microsoft's Azure Data Lake is now generally available, but what does it do, and how does it work? Here's a tour around the service's tooling and capabilities, to help you understand it and get productive with it, quickly.
With more businesses and applications moving data to the cloud, even small outages can be devastating. By studying the worst cloud fails, we can find clues to avoiding future problems.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shared a series of pictures from the social network's datacenter site up near the Arctic Circle in Sweden.
Chinese e-commerce player will jointly work with El Corte Inglés across multiple areas including cloud computing, digital payments, e-commerce, and logistics.
Google has said it will bring all of Allo's best features to Messages, with the former to be killed off in March 2019.
Serverless architectures promise to abstract away a lot of developers' headaches. Read more: https://zd.net/2Q5vl7o
Guinness World Records has used partnerships to help create business value from its move to the public cloud.
Does a developer really want to be called a builder? AWS sure wants to use builder especially as it pitches itself as a master tool provider for enterprises.
Microsoft unblocks the Windows 10 October 2018 Update for one group, but several other blocks remain in place.
Emily Silgard, a data scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, explains how Amazon's new service can help researchers save valuable time by extracting information from doctors' notes and other data in a narrative format.
Bernard Golden, VP of Cloud Strategy at Capital One, explains what enterprises can learn from Capital One's initiative to move its entire application portfolio to the cloud.
ZDNet's Larry Dignan and CNET/CBS News' Dan Patterson recap a rough 2018 for Facebook, how the cloud industry matured, AI and how Apple is morphing to focus on services given smartphone saturation.
Amazon bake-off for new locations for its new headquarters concluded with a decision to go with two cities. Here's how the move plays into Amazon's business.
Karthik Rau, CEO of SignalFx, discusses how Facebook's approach to application monitoring in the cloud applies to broader enterprises as a microservices approach becomes the norm.
From artificial intelligence to datacentre cooling, machine learning, and blockchain, Alibaba used new technology to surpass its record 11.11 Global Shopping Festival sales figure set last year by 45.3 billion yuan.
Sean Harley, CIO of business information company Ascential, talks about the role cloud computing plays for his organisation.
Microsoft engineers have already ported the ProcDump utility and are currently working on porting ProcMon as well. More tools to follow.
IT leaders looking to drive change in their organisations must build strong partnerships.
This cloud-based small-business accounting service provides a well-planned set of tools for staying on top of your finances and streamlining the processes involved.
Microsoft is developing a set of cloud-based tools for managing and deploying session virtualisation servers, allowing you to publish and share apps on Windows, iOS, Android, OS X and (soon) Windows Phone devices. We take the beta for a test drive.
A quicker and slicker new app for the online Xero accounting service adds automatic reconciliation of bank accounts, allowing Android users to stay on top of their finances.
After a week of using Office 2013 we're pleasantly surprised. The changes Microsoft has made to support Windows 8 — and specifically Windows 8 tablets — are logical, and they work well with more traditional ways of using Office.
Version 3.0 of Microsoft's cloud-hosted management platform is now available, adding support for mobile devices — including iPhones, iPads and Android.
Xero is an affordable online accounting service that delivers key bookkeeping functionality for small businesses in an admirably straightforward way.
A big step up from Actinic Express, which it replaces, Actinic Online delivers everything an SME requires to build and run an online store via the cloud. It's not perfect, but it is affordable and worth evaluating if you need to start selling online.
Cortado's ThinPrint Printer Dashboard is a potentially useful cloud application for monitoring the printers on your network. We had a few issues in this review, which hopefully will be addressed in a forthcoming update.
