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 businesses are projected to spend US$256.61 billion on tech this year and another US$272.84 billion in 2020, focusing their investments on transforming operations and improving efficiencies as they brace themselves for an uncertain geopolitical climate, says Forrester.
According to 2nd Watch AWS Athena, Glue and Sagemaker are starting to gain traction among customers.
Microsoft's 315 pages of release notes about its coming April '19 updates for its various Dynamics 365 apps and Power Platform tools details what's coming next from Microsoft on the ERP, CRM and HCM fronts.
'Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and Power platform on top of what we’re doing with Azure is the core of what we are doing as a company,' says CEO Satya Nadella.
Do you have too many items on your todo list or in your email inbox? If so, you might want to learn some of the insider techniques and tools our own David Gewirtz has put into practice to keep his very busy schedule under control.
Microsoft has continued to waffle around how exactly it plans to position Cortana. But CEO Satya Nadella gave the clearest explanation so far: Cortana will be a skill, not a head-to-head competitor with Alexa, Google Assistant and Siri.
Effectively measuring, contrasting, and comparing the details of products and services offered by Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud requires a systematic and rational approach. This download includes an overview...
A chat with MuleSoft founder Ross Mason, passionate advocate for APIs.
According to the "State of Digital Transformation" research, in 2019, it is clear that digital transformation is maturing into an enterprise-wide movement. Digital transformation is modernizing how companies work and compete and helping them effectively adapt and grow in an evolving digital economy.
Microsoft's Bing Ads is now the exclusive search-ad provider for Verizon Media, which includes Yahoo and AOL properties.
Rackspace said the suite of services is designed to help companies leverage adoption of Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, AWS Glue and Amazon Athena.
The new service offers centralised backup in the cloud and on-premises.
An 87GB dump of email addresses and passwords containing almost 773 million unique addresses and just under 22 million unique passwords has been found.
The G Suite price increases are the first in a decade. Google argues that the price increases reflect more value. G Suite Enterprise prices unchanged.
The T4 can handle machine learning training and inference, and it's the first in Google's GPU portfolio with dedicated ray-tracing processors.
Red Hat won't use MongoDB in Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora thanks to MongoDB's new Server Side Public License.
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.
The new service offers centralised backup in the cloud and on-premises.
The National Hockey League, SAP, and Apple have partnered together to utilize the SAP Cloud Platform with SAP HANA to process in-game hockey data. Read more: https://zd.net/2AQw176
ZDNet's Larry Dignan outlines G Suite's price increases, how it'll compare to Microsoft Office 365 and what it means for cloud and technology inflation.
Australia's national broadband wholesaler is looking to speed things up with software-defined networking.
Microsoft has been chosen to provide services to the Department of Defense, Coast Guard, and intelligence community. Read more: https://zd.net/2H9Ll4k
Nvidia and Mercedes-Benz have extended their partnership to develop AI architecture across the entire car.
Central Europe's cloud market could be just what Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba is looking for. Read more: https://zd.net/2CWYwBj
Vendor lock-in worries to creating a single version of cloud data: here are some trends to watch for.
By late September 2019, NBN wants less than 1 percent of its fixed wireless towers under its 6Mbps in busy hours threshold.
Second only to AWS among cloud providers, Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud-based computing services available to businesses, developers, government agencies, and anyone who wants to build an app or run an enterprise without having to manage hardware.
Samsung's new Remote Access feature will allow users to wirelessly control their PCs, tablets, and smartphones through their smart TVs.
Australia's incumbent telco picks up 25 percent of Southern Cross and gains capacity on existing and future cables.
51 drones to be deployed around Australia to augment lifesavers' vision.
Chuck Rhoades, director of e-commerce infrastructure at Pizza Hut, shares how the pizza chain has leveraged containers and what it's learned from the experience.
Financial firms and services are being actively targeted in the UK and US.
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.
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These rooms full of TVs are how Amazon gets Prime Video to look sharp on every device
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Google raises G Suite prices: Basic to $6 a month per user, business to $12 a month
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Survey reveals growing concern about container technology security
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Zoom, Slack, and Twilio see expense account love from businesses, says Expensify
