cloud computing - News, Features, and Slideshows

• Waikato Institute of Technology joins AWS Academy

  The first intake for the foundational AWS Academy course starts in February 2020

• Exclusive: Inside the Department of Internal Affairs’ digital business platform

  Marketplace, the digital business platform of the Department of Internal Affairs, represents a ‘new way of thinking’ for the public sector, writes James Staten of Forrester

• Google's competition for advertising heats up from Amazon, rival platforms

  Google's streaming video platform YouTube has also struggled to stop the spread of disturbing or adult content on the site, prompting some major advertisers to remove its ads for fear they could appear next to offensive content

• Kiwi firm Biomatters to be acquired by US firm

  Biomatters has established its Geneious software as the premium brand for DNA data analysis

• IDC NZ: Cloud adoption driven by organisations seeking competitive advantage

  Predicts local IT services revenue to reach $3.96 billion in 2023

• 5 Tips for Transforming Enterprise IT Towers Into Cloud Services

  As companies adopt more cloud IT services and work with an increasing number of service providers, the tried-and-true IT towers of the past no longer serve their needs. "The old model lacks the clarity of ownership required to drive decisions on as-a-service offerings that span the traditional tower structure," says Steve Keegan, principal with outsourcing consultancy Pace Harmon. "Determining who makes the call isn't straightforward -- the server team, the app team or the database team?"

• 5 Tips to Keep Your Data Secure on the Cloud

  The number of personal cloud users increases every year and is not about to slow down. Back in 2012 Gartner predicted the complete shift from offline PC work to mostly on-cloud by 2014. And it's happening.

• Why Dropbox dropped Amazon's Cloud

  Dropbox has culminated a multi-year project to build a customised infrastructure environment that company officials say is finely tuned to their specific needs, allowing them to reap savings compared with how they used Amazon Web Services' cloud. Should you get out of the cloud too?

• 21 data and analytics trends that will dominate 2016

  Five industry insiders predict the trends that will shape the big data and analytics market in 2016.

• You moved to the Cloud ... the Internet's down. Now what?

  Major connectivity issues are bound to happen sooner or later. Will your employees be able to keep working, or is an Internet outage a prelude to sending everyone home for the day?

• Government CIOs fret over apps reliability in the cloud

  Government CIOs in states and local districts increasingly are looking to push applications to the cloud, but security and a reliable user experience remain principal challenges, a new survey reports

• Why the open source business model is a failure

  Open source software companies must move to the Cloud and add proprietary code to their products to succeed. The current business model is recipe for failure.

Whitepapers about cloud computing

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  Why Cloud Computing is Requiring us to Rethink Resiliency at the Edge

  Use of cloud computing by enterprise companies is growing rapidly. In this paper, we describe and critique the common physical infrastructure practices seen today, propose a method of analysing the resiliency needed, and discuss best practices that will ensure employees remain connected to their business critical applications.

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  The Smart Digital Workplace: Transforming your network foundation to evolve the future of work

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  The Total Economic Impact™ Of Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management Solution

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  Why Cloud Computing is the Future