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.
'IT leaders want to enjoy all the benefits of new information technologies while keeping their legacy systems humming.' Gee, isn't there a way of dealing with that?
Greene will be succeeded by Thomas Kurian, a longtime Oracle executive who recently left after reported disagreements with Larry Ellison.
IBM's services unit said it is aiming to speed up multi-cloud deployment processes by using its algorithms in its Cloud Migration Factory.
With this infographic we illustrate how much AI and Machine Learning initiatives have grown and continue to grow.
The next major RHEL update is on its way with more container friendliness than ever.
Freshworks has been on a growth tear in recent years with venture capital raises, product advances and a marketing program that takes shots at Salesforce. We caught up with Freshworks CEO Girish Mathrubootham to talk shop, culture and technology. [Cloud TV]
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...
Kyle Brown, the CTO at Cloud Architecture, found commonality between solving Lego robot problems and solving customer problems using cloud computing. [Cloud TV]
CyrusOne's John Gould discusses trends in the data center & cloud computing industry with ZDNet's Tonya Hall. [Cloud TV]
Jason McGee, IBM fellow, VP and CTO, IBM cloud platform, talks about how IBM continues to grow within the open-source community. [Cloud TV]
Sean Harley, CIO of business information company Ascential, talks about the role cloud computing plays for his organisation. [Cloud TV]
Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth talks about Ubuntu, OpenStack, competition with Red Hat, and Canonical's forthcoming IPO.
The partnership targets enterprises that want to move towards a modern microservices architecture without sacrificing the value in legacy applications.
Digital Erskine Park II in Western Sydney is the fifth Australian facility operated by the California headquartered company.
The acquisition is expected to bolster Xero's presence in the United Kingdom.
The contract for the JEDI Cloud could be worth more than $10 billion over 10 years. The GAO rejected Oracle's arguments that it should go to multiple vendors.
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.
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.
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 deal is the biggest Linux and open-source acquisition ever.
ZDNet's Larry Dignan and Steven Vaughan-Nichols talk about the rationale behind IBM's purchase of Red Hat, how the open source community reacts, and whether the deal will live up to its advance billing.
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.
SlashData's latest survey of 20,000 developers identifies machine learning and data science are the skills to know for 2019.
Freshworks has been on a growth tear in recent years with venture capital raises, product advances and a marketing program that takes shots at Salesforce. We caught up with Freshworks CEO Girish Mathrubootham to talk shop, culture and technology.
Facial recognition to allow customers to withdraw funds.
From ancient manuscripts to movies, the National Library of Norway wants to put it all online for the public.
Parkinson's UK is using cloud-based data warehousing to support changes that put better use of information at the heart of its processes.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong outlines the government's plans to migrate some of its systems to the cloud and build a suite of standardised software components that can be used to more quickly develop new applications.
Salesforce rolled out its technology roadmap to align various technologies and systems so they revolve around one customer record. The idea isn't unique, but so many enterprises struggle with being customer first. ZDNet's Larry Dignan and Steve Ranger talk about the moving parts.
Bias detection and black box transparency is limiting AI deployments at scale, argues IBM. Read more: https://zd.net/2Oxdguc
Application spending has moved to the cloud fastest, but other areas of IT spending are catching up.
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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