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Ahead in the Clouds

Analysis of the latest trends in cloud and datacentre technology.

March 2017

Lock-in: Using cloud-neutral technology to avoid it
Caroline Donnelly - Senior Editor, UK 30 Mar 2017

In this guest post, Gary Bloom, CEO of database software supplier MarkLogic, explains why adopting a cloud-neutral strategy is essential for enterprises to avoid lock-in. Not so long ago, choosing ...

Amazon S3 outage: Acknowledging the role humans play in keeping the cloud going
Caroline Donnelly - Senior Editor, UK 06 Mar 2017

The Amazon cloud storage outage provides a neat reminder about the role humans continue to play in the delivery of online services, but - when things go wrong - end-user sympathy for the plight of ...

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C-suite executives offer advice on working remotely during pandemic

C-level execs in industries from biotech and telecom to accounting and marketing are making sure their employees have the proper ...

How IT can build an agile business partnership

Gene Kim, award-winning researcher, author and founder of IT Revolution, discusses why IT leaders need to involve their ...

Former Cisco CEO offers C-suite leadership tips in time of crisis

COVID-19 is forcing enterprises to make tough decisions. There is no one-size-fits-all roadmap, but those who've survived earlier...

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Microsoft warns hospitals of impending ransomware attacks

Microsoft warned "dozens" of hospitals with vulnerable gateway and VPN software that an infamous ransomware group known as REvil ...

4 essential AI-enabled security concerns for buyers and vendors

Experts offer four concerns for enterprises and vendors to discuss in order to deploy and run AI-based cybersecurity tools.

Risk & Repeat: Zoom security comes under fire

This week's Risk & Repeat podcast looks at several security issues Zoom faced over the last week, which led to questions about ...

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Tech users weigh in on upcoming approval of more Wi-Fi 6 spectrum

Technology users say the pending Federal Communications approval of additional spectrum for Wi-Fi 6 should bring much higher ...

CloudGenix-Palo Alto buy combines SD-WAN with cloud security

The CloudGenix-Palo Alto Networks acquisition will combine the Prisma cloud security suite with CloudGenix's software-defined WAN.

A deep dive into the differences between 5G and Wi-Fi 6

While the latest cellular and Wi-Fi technology generations -- 5G and Wi-Fi 6, respectively -- have been pitted against one ...

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Build a migration plan for enterprise edge infrastructure

Micro data centers are essential to edge computing use cases. Build an effective migration plan through site selection, ...

Tech giants aim supercomputers, clouds at finding a COVID-19 cure

The new COVID-19 HPC consortium comprised of tech giants, national labs and academia are using supercomputers and clouds to speed...

Top vendor SDDC certification programs for admins

If you decide to grow your knowledge of software-defined data center technologies, VMware, Nuage Networks and Microsoft offer ...

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PlanetScale extends multi-cloud database as a service

Open source-based PlanetScaleDB adds support for Microsoft Azure, enabling a multi-cloud database as a service platform that ...

Oracle NoSQL database comes to the cloud

Another Oracle database is coming to the cloud with the general availability of Oracle NoSQL Database Cloud Service as the demand...

MariaDB SkySQL enables cloud-native database as a service

MariaDB brings back an old name for its cloud-native database-as-a-service platform. MariaDB CEO Michael Howard details how he's ...