Powerful Denial of Service attacks are becoming increasingly common. A Distributed Denial of Service attack is when the attacker uses multiple machines to flood the resources of the target to overwhelm it and deny the legitimate users access to the service.
Category: Cloud Computing
The SHA1 hash function is now completely unsafe
Security researchers have achieved the first real-world collision attack against the SHA-1 hash function, producing two different PDF files with the same SHA-1 signature. This shows that the algorithm’s use for security-sensitive functions should be discontinued as soon as possible.
Listen to your bearings
Analytics, remote monitoring enabled by IIoT enable new, more effective maintenance strategies that move users from reactive or condition-based to predictive and prescriptive maintenance With the emergence of Industrial IoT , collecting data from equipment is moving from paper-based, manual inspections to automated systems. This improves both data quality and quantity.
Battle of the clouds: Amazon Web Services vs. Microsoft Azure vs. Google Cloud Platform
Amazon Web Services is the consensus leader of the IaaS public cloud computing market according to industry watchers, but they credit Microsoft for closing the gap with Azure and say Google with its Cloud Platform has made considerable strides as well. Gartner says as much in its annual in-depth comparison of these three cloud players based on a list of 234 evaluation criteria.
Webscale Cloud Provider Selects Zayo for Metro Dark Fiber
Holdings, Inc. for metro dark fiber in Chicago. The project will connect six data center locations with 20 diverse segments totaling 280 strands across all segments, with up to 26 strands per segment.
Data is new natural resource; need to be mindful of AI impact on jobs: Satya Nadella
Data is the new natural resource that can empower every citizen in a country like India, Microsoft ‘s India-born CEO Satya Nadella said on Monday during a discussion on the digital world, cloud computing and artificial intelligence. There is need for “recognising that data is the new natural resource instead of looking at it as being unevenly spread” for empowering every citizen of India, Nadella said in a dialogue with Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani.
Amazon to create 5000 full time jobs in UK
Online retail giant Amazon will create more than 5000 new full-time jobs this year at its UK operations, increasing the total workforce in the country to 24,000. As per the company, people with a wide range of skills, education and experience can now apply for the jobs.
Flipkart, India’s leading online retailer, signs cloud partnership with Microsoft
Microsoft has announced its partnership with Flipkart, wherein the latter will adopt Microsoft Azure as its exclusive public cloud platform. Microsoft has just landed a big cloud deal by signing up India’s largest e-commerce marketplace Flipkart, as it battles out with Google, Amazon and IBM for cloud supremacy in the country.
Migrating Autonomic Self-Testing to the Cloud
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Billionaire investor Mark Cuban calls Amazon ‘the greatest…
Mark Cuban, the billionaire investor and owner of the Dallas Mavericks, doesn’t think the greatest startup in the world is Uber or Airbnb. It’s Amazon.
Business Process as a Service (BPaaS) Market – Detailed Analysis and Forecast by 2025
The global Business Process as a Service and cloud business process management market is a multibillion dollar opportunity for IT companies. The market is expected to be one of the top grossing segments for the IT industry in the next few years, expanding at a remarkable CAGR over the report’s forecast period.
Better Buy: Microsoft Corporation vs. Oracle Corporation
But Oracle’s late start — thanks to Ellison’s early dismissal of cloud computing as nothing more than “the latest fashion” — could work in investors’ favor because it translates to tremendous upside from here. Meanwhile, Microsoft’s decision to name Satya Nadella as CEO three years ago has proven to be an absolute game changer.
Apple’s CFO explains the company’s $10 billion R&D budget
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When Is the Official Snapchat IPO Date?
But because of its IPO filing on Feb. 2, 2017, the Snapchat IPO could happen as early as March. Snapchat made a filing with the SEC today , and it plans to price shares between $14 and $16 per share.
Now Available: Micro Server IC Market – Global Forecast to 2022
Micro Server IC Market by Processor , Offering , End User , Application , & Geography – Global Forecast to 2022 The global micro server IC market is expected to be worth USD 1.35 billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 44.00% between 2016 and 2022. The key opportunities for this market are the emerging need for new data centers in less technologically advanced regions.
The Verdict Is In: UCaaS It Is
From Madison Avenue to Main Street USA, innovation is introducing a new era, opening the door to an exciting time to be in technology. Cloud computing is a key component of the ongoing digital transformation at hand, empowering a new generation of services and solutions capable of addressing the needs of today, while also poised to provide support for the demands of tomorrow.
Amazon releases Chime, a new cloud-based UCaaS
Chime is the latest enterprise app from Amazon, which is competing with Microsoft and Google across higher levels of the cloud stack Amazon is entering a crowded market of UC solutions, some of which are already cloud-based and others that run on customer premises. Nevertheless, analysts who track Amazon say the company has an opportunity here.
IDG Contributor Network: DigitalOcean releases its load balancer product
Every time Gartner or another analyst firm publishes a report detailing what is happening in the public cloud landscape, three names rise to the top. Amazon Web Services is always in first place, and it is only the size of the gap between itself and the next place-getter that changes.
Skip The Cloud Computing ETF And Buy This Stock Instead
First Trust Cloud Computing ETF is the first and only ETF to provide exposure to the fast-growing cloud computing industry. Despite the great promise for cloud computing, the ETF has not really performed much better than the S&P 500.
Microsoft adds patent suit protections for cloud customers
This July 3, 2014, file photo shows the Microsoft Corp. logo outside the Microsoft Visitor Center in Redmond, Wash. In a ruling released Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, a federal judge declined to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Microsoft that claims a law that prohibits technology companies from telling customers when the government demands their electronic data is unconstitutional.
Therese Poletti’s Tech Tales: The two views of Snapchat: An app that…
From New York to Silicon Valley to its hometown in Southern California, investors and analysts are sharply divided about Snap Inc. and its potential ahead of a highly anticipated initial public offering. Investors are hoping that the Snapchat parent company’s much hyped IPO , the first from a “unicorn” tech company this year, will revive the moribund market for IPOs.
Why Amazon.com Inc. Is Investing Billions in India
The U.S. e-commerce leader has a unique opportunity in India, but taking advantage of it will continue to be a drain on the bottom line in the near term. India is the world’s second most populous country, its biggest democracy, and its sixth-biggest economy.
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a 70% off all online courses sale
It’s a dog eat dog workforce and the more you can offer a potential employer, the more likely you are to get a competitive job. Fortunately, in the internet age, you don’t have to shell over big money or take out loans to gain an educational edge.
Cloud Analytics Market Studies Research 2017 Detailed Analysis and Forecast by 2025
With a continuous rise in the use of digital tools across every possible application of organizations and the mounting volumes of digital data produced by a vast number of digital terminals, effective ways of storing accessing, using, and analyzing this data to gain rich insights have been long sought. Of the several technologies to have evolved in response to these requirements, cloud computing has established itself as one of the most reliable, flexible, economical, and efficient of the lot.
Data Center Networking Market Trends, Regulations and Competitive Landscape Outlook to 2025
Present-day enterprises are highly dependent on the efficiency of their data center and performance of applications to excel on the fronts of enhances employee productivity, increases revenues and, reduced operational costs. In order to achieve these objectives, simplification of internal networks, virtualization, and consolidation are three crucial aspects that enterprises need to work upon.
Digital Commerce Platform Market to Record a Significant Growth Rate in Next 5 Years
Global Digital Commerce Platform Market: Snapshot The global digital commerce platform market is currently being driven by the rise in use of consumer electronics and internet connectivity, which is the primary factor facilitating the growth of digital media and the ecommerce sector. The global digital commerce platform market is also finding a massive scope of growth due to the evolving cloud computing services that are making it easier and faster for consumers to avail digital content.
3 Stocks You Can Buy and Hold Forever
The “simple” method of buying and holding a stock really isn’t all that simple. Some companies might post stable growth for years, but suddenly be crushed by technological shifts or new competitors.
HPE’s Mesosphere reseller agreement heats up container management market
Hewlett Packard Enterprise this week announced an agreement with container management platform startup Mesophere to resell the smaller company’s flagship product, a data center operating system dubbed DC/OS. The news marks a validation of Mesosphere’s technology given HPE is seeing demand for the product from its enterprise customers, analysts say.
Rackspace Cutting 6% of US Workforce
Rackspace, which is facing pressure from competitors as its tries to stabilize and grow its own cloud computing business, is cutting about 6% of its US workforce, as well as a number of positions overseas. The news comes from a February 7 blog post by CEO Taylor Rhodes, who recently oversaw Rackspace’s $4.3 billion transition from a public to a private company.
Cloud Service Brokerage Market and Large Enterprises – Global…
Cloud service brokerage refers to an intermediary acting between a company or a third party and a potential customer of cloud computing service. Services such as aggregation, integration and customization are provided by the broker to suit the cloud adoption needs of the customer.
Qwilt Reveals Vision for Edge Cloud to Advance Future of Content and…
Edge Cloud Essential for Success of New Applications and Experiences — Such as 4K Live Streaming, AR, VR, 360 Video — that Require High Performance, Massive Scale and Low Latency Infrastructure / EINPresswire.com / — REDWOOD CITY, CA– – Research* by a broad group of institutions and companies including Oculus, Nokia Bell Labs and Valve has unanimously concluded that low network latency is essential for the performance of Augmented Reality , Virtual Reality , 360 Degree Video and compute intensive IoT applications like self-driving cars. These requirements are driving the need for evolution in cloud computing to deliver these applications at scale.
Qwilt launches new Open Edge Cloud Platform
Qwilt, a provider of content delivery solutions, announced today the launch of Qwilt’s Open Edge Cloud platform, a next generation content and application delivery platform for Service Providers that enables a high quality streaming experience for consumers at scale through a managed platform and an open API for commercial CDNs and publishers. Qwilt’s Open Edge Cloud platform creates a massively distributed content delivery solution that supports applications such as 4K Live Streaming, AR, VR, Self-Driving Cars and IoT.
Amazon Shares Dip 3% on Revenue Miss
Fourth-quarter net sales of $3.54 billion fell short of analysts’ estimates but net income rose 55% to $749 million. Amazon shares dropped more than 3% on Friday as a 55% increase in fourth-quarter profit couldn’t offset lower-than-expected revenue growth.
Global Cloud Computing Market in Healthcare Industry to Witness…
The competitive landscape of the global cloud computing market in the healthcare industry is crowded by the presence of a large number of players. The presence of a large number of participants has led to the fragmented nature of the market.
Tips for FMs Who Run Colocation and DCaaS Data Centers
Facility managers that run colocation data centers will find their tasks and responsibilities unique to the DCaaS requirements of their facility. These will revolve around growing and supporting the IoT of their clients.
Data Center As A Service (DCaaS), Colocation Offer Data Center Flexibility, Expandability
According to Cisco, the world now processes 2.5 billion gigabytes of data daily. A large piece of this demand is due to the introduction of Internet Protocol over everything, generally described in the industry as the Internet of Things .
Snap Pays $2B for Google Cloud Services
When Snap Inc. , the parent company of social media app Snapchat, filed its IPO paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on Feb. 2, the company unveiled a number of new details about its inner workings, including how it uses cloud computing to support its business. Specifically, Snap is paying Google and its Google Cloud Platform $2 billion over the course of the next five years for a variety of services, including storage, compute power and bandwidth.
IDG Contributor Network: Beware of the legacy public cloud
Legacy is a scary and bad word in the computing industry. Most enterprises have “legacy” technologies, and all who do wish that they did not.
Global Application Delivery Network (Adn) Market is Forecasted to…
Global Application Delivery Network market is projected to expand at a CAGR of 13.28% over the forecast period to reach US$7.633 billion by 2021, PUNE, INDIA, February 2, 2017 / EINPresswire.com / — Global Application Delivery Network market is projected to expand at a CAGR of 13.28% over the forecast period to reach US$7.633 billion by 2021, increasing from US$4.092 billion in 2016. Application Delivery Network is an advanced traffic management system which provides visibility, availability, security and application acceleration.
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