Tag: AWS

Cloud 5: Online retailer chooses AWS, Salesforce flexes marketing muscles
Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...

Cloud 5: Microsoft’s underwater data center, avoiding cloud lock-in
Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...

Cloud 5: Microsoft all in on cloud, more Pentagon cloud deal controversy
Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...

AWS decides the blockchain is worth a shot after all
When AWS CEO Andy Jassy told reporters at the re:invent conference last December that he had little interest in blockchain technologies, there was no reason to doubt him. Still, he left a small opening that suggested they might be in...

Cloud 5: Google tries to go green, Pentagon’s controversial cloud bid saga
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Cloud 5: Pentagon’s cloud bid drama, Nvidia’s cloud self-driving car simulator
Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...

Battle for control of the public cloud intensifies
The fight for control over application workloads moving into the public cloud is starting to resemble a knock-down drag-out brawl. The catalyst for this conflict is the accelerated rate at which application workloads are moving into public clouds. A new...

DoD removes Star Wars references from cloud planning memo
When it comes to the Pentagon and cloud computing, you don’t expect anyone to be playing around, but according to a Bloomberg report this week, a Pentagon official slipped in a couple of Star Wars references into the initial draft...

The cloud surged in 2017
As Frank Sinatra once crooned, it was a very good year. While he definitely wasn’t talking about cloud computing, 2017 was a year the cloud really became a standard way of computing — and it was a very good year....

Cloud 5: AWS has re:Invent spotlight, Microsoft-SAP deepen partnership
Welcome to The Cloud 5, our weekly feature where we scour the web searching for the five most intriguing and poignant cloud links we can find. Before we jump into this week’s links, please have a look at one of...