Ahead in the Clouds

May 2019

The people vs. Amazon: Weighing the risks of its stance on facial recognition and climate change
Caroline Donnelly - Senior Editor, UK 28 May 2019

Amazon's annual shareholder meeting appears to have highlighted a disconnect between what its staff and senior management think its stance on facial recognition tech and climate change should be. ...

Has the UK government's cloud-first policy served its purpose?
Caroline Donnelly - Senior Editor, UK 09 May 2019

The government has confirmed its long-standing public cloud-first policy is under review, and that it is seeking to launch an alternative procurement framework to G-Cloud. But why? It is hard not ...

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Calls for federal data privacy law grows alongside AR, VR use
A federal data privacy law would provide crucial safety guidance for development and adoption of technologies like augmented and ...
4 ways CIOs can adapt metrics for the new workplace
The limitations of traditional leadership and enterprise metrics are coming to the fore. To adapt, CIOs will need to focus on ...
Big opportunities for strategic CIO leadership today
CIOs and technology leaders have unprecedented opportunities to lead their enterprises in meeting today's new demands. Here are ...

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Risk & Repeat: Apple bug bounty frustrations boil over
Security researchers criticized the Apple Security Bounty program and claimed the company ignored bug reports, denied bounty ...
Chris Krebs weighs in on zero trust, FBI web shell removal
Regarding the FBI action to silently remove web shells from vulnerable Exchange Servers, former CISA director Chris Krebs said he...
Gartner analysts debate ransomware payments
During Gartner's IT Symposium, analysts discussed the complex factors companies face when deciding whether or not to give into ...

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Gartner predicts IT spending to reach $4.5 trillion in 2022
Corporate boards will prioritize their digital tech initiatives, as fully remote work gives way to a thoughtful hybrid work model...
A quick guide to BGP best practices
Border Gateway Protocol is prevalent among ISPs and enterprises. While BGP best practices change for specific use cases, some ...
What are the different types of network cables?
The main types of network cables are coax, fiber optics, and shielded and unshielded twisted pair. As enterprises deploy new ...

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IBM details Kyndryl spinoff, business reorg and earnings
IBM's third-quarter earnings report was a mixed bag, with overall cloud revenues continuing to rise, and server hardware showing ...
Bust latency with monitoring practices and tools
Improve latency across your data center's infrastructure by exploring its causes, a handful of best practices and tools you can ...
Best practices for container security in the data center
Container sprawl and container repositories can introduce new vulnerabilities to a data center. Here's what organizations should ...

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CockroachDB introduces Serverless as a cloud database option
The database vendor added a serverless option for cloud database-as-a-service deployments. Aimed at developers, the serverless ...
SolarWinds expands DataOps portfolio with Database Mapper
A year after acquiring SentryOne, the IT management software vendor is out with updated tools to help organizations better ...
Aiven raises new funding as cloud data service demand grows
The open source cloud database-as-a-service platform vendor is seeing continued demand for Kafka as organizations increasingly ...

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May 2019

The people vs. Amazon: Weighing the risks of its stance on facial recognition and climate change

Has the UK government's cloud-first policy served its purpose?