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.
Chinese internet giant talks up new product releases such as Anti-Bot Service and its datacentre footprint in Asia-Pacific as key differentiators against cloud rivals, Amazon Web Services and Google. Its machine learning specialist also urges need for governments looking to build smart cities, such as Singapore, to ensure its citizens benefit from such initiatives.
If you haven't checked out OneDrive lately, you're missing out. Over the past two years, Microsoft has methodically added a raft of new features that can help you back up personal files and photos. In this post, I show you some of the most useful options for saving and sharing files and folders.
Microsoft is adding a new option to OneDrive consumer to encourage Windows users to automatically back up their Documents, Pictures and Desktop folders to the cloud.
The updates aim to help companies streamline and simplify compliance with shifting global trade regulations, as well as speed up customer fulfillment, Oracle said.
La Trobe has started accepting the first intake for its online Applied Cloud Technology bachelor's degree, based on internal training content from Amazon Web Services.
Another on-premises version of Microsoft's BizTalk enterprise integration server is coming next year. And Logic Apps will be hostable on-premises in 2019, too.
Digital transformation initiatives and project work continue to expand in companies of all sizes, industries and geographic locations as the world moves closer to a digital economy. Tech Pro Research...
The research firm says C3 IoT, IBM, Microsoft, PTC and SAP are leaders in the industrial IoT game.
Updated: It is believed information belonging to thousands of GoDaddy systems was leaked due to the failure.
Vault Systems has lost the contract that now lies within the capability of the Department of Human Services and the Australian Taxation Office.
When COO Dennis Woodside steps down, he will not be replaced, Dropbox announced, explaining that it will elevate two other senior executives.
There are a few hints about potential SQL Server, virtualization, Microsoft 365, Surface Hub 2 and other revelations in Microsoft's recently published Ignite 2018 session list.
Box is integrating with the Salesforce-owned platform via Quip's new Live Apps tool
IBM and Microsoft take up Intel's new long and skinny SSDs for cloud storage.
Samsung Heavy Industries will use a variety of AWS services notably for machine learning and augmented reality.
Despite the hype, ML really is in its infancy according to a just-published survey from O'Reilly. The good news is that those who are furthest along with ML are getting quite cognizant of moral and regulatory hazards, like bias and privacy. The survey results drop hints of drastic changes in store as adoption grows more broad-based.
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.
A year by year summary of the most significant events in Linux's history to date.
The most recent Summer Olympiad staked its place in history as the competition with the highest levels of digital engagement than any previous Olympic Games. We look at some of the key technology numbers behind the Rio events.
Many professionals find themselves working on both Macs and PCs. If your work requires you to jump back and forth between Windows and Mac systems, here are some apps that will make your life easier.
Survey Monkey has released its list of the most popular downloaded apps in the US on iOS and Android for the first six months of 2016. Pokemon Go was released in July so did not make it here.
IBM is betting that its cloudMatrix software will enable it to make a pivot from a systems integrator to a services integrator.
Macquarie Telecom has said it will be expanding its Macquarie Park Intellicentre in a staged process, with the first part to cost between AU$75 million and AU$85 million in capex during 2019. Read more: https://zd.net/2KxtPDs
Microsoft's cloud growth is outpacing AWS but it is still way behind the top dog of cloud infrastructure.
Microsoft's latest financial results show that it is now bigger than IBM has ever been -- but Google got there first.
A team of researchers found flaws in several popular smart security cameras, including those developed by Swann, that allowed anyone with little effort to access any user's device. Read more: https://zd.net/2mLgOg4
Marc Fiume, CEO of DNAstack, explains why housing biomedical data on premise can be a burden for research institutions.
Credit Karma CTO Ryan Graciano explains how the business has used Google Cloud Platform resources to quickly build new products.
Here's a look at how Fortnite approaches analytics and cloud computing.
Mark Geremia of Nuance Communications and Chief Joseph Solomon of the Methuen, Mass. Police Department explain how first responders use tools like voice recognition to help with everything from paperwork to potentially preventing police ambushes.
Intuit said it has sold its largest data center to H5 Data Centers as it aims to speed up its move to the cloud. Read more: https://zd.net/2Lte3Ld
Well, you didn't think Walmart was going to partner with Amazon Web Services did you?
In a homecoming of sorts, cloud data warehouse pure-play Snowflake's product is no longer an AWS exclusive
The latest batch of tariffs from President Trump's trade war on China is likely going to affect the IT sector.
The South Korean telco has teamed up with Nvidia to launch its SKT Cloud for AI Learning, or SCALE, a private GPU cloud solution, within the year. Read more: https://zd.net/2KNcfzC
Cloud computing has quickly become politicized, with Microsoft and Amazon employees demanding that their employers stop working with the US government and controversial US agencies like ICE. Read more: https://zd.net/2tbjQh9
AMD did something that was long overdue -- it upended a stagnant and complacent server market, and all in a year.
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.
A usable small-business accounting service that's quick to configure and easy to learn, the initial release of QuickBooks Online lacks a number of features important in this market.
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