Today was “Partner Day” for Amazon Web Services Inc.’s virtual re:Invent conference, and much of the focus was on delivering a key message: Build the abstraction layer for the cloud, and everyone will win. An example of this could be seen in this week’s announcement by AWS partner Okta Inc. that it would provide infrastructure ...

There has been some positive news this year around Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s GreenLake on-premises cloud service, with hopes for the current trend to translate into stronger financial results over the long term for the company. Recent earnings results, which were released on December 1, showed that net revenue of $7.2 billion was flat from ...

There is a word that begins with the letter “C” that is uppermost on the minds of many people these days, and it isn’t COVID. It’s “collaboration,” and the term has become essential to getting basic work done, from the mundane to the highly complex. A global pandemic has placed significant emphasis on the use ...

When it comes to equipping employees with the digital tools to make informed business decisions, there are leaders and there are laggards. In which category an organization belongs will likely determine its success in the months and years ahead. Leaders and laggards in the complicated business of making informed decisions with the right information are ...

Amid the rolling tide of announcements from Amazon Web Services Inc. this week was a set of enhancements to abstract away infrastructure and make the lives of developers easier. The bigger story was a continued march toward the programmable cloud. AWS announced the next version of Aurora Serverless, which makes it easier to migrate from ...

The American essayist Charles Dudley Warner once wrote that “simplicity is making this journey of life with just baggage enough.” His motto could have easily covered movement of today’s IT community toward AIOps, with a keen desire to shed as much operational baggage as possible. A single cloud migration can create new layers of operational ...

The container-focused announcements from Amazon Web Services Inc. today contained one very important word: anywhere. The cloud provider announced Amazon ECS Anywhere and Amazon EKS Anywhere as new hybrid container capabilities that can be run on-premises and in the cloud. While EKS is Kubernetes-specific and ECS handles general container orchestration, the most recent news from AWS recognizes that customers want ...

The stakes were raised considerably this week for industry players in the Mac mini hosting market. Amazon Web Services Inc. announced on Monday that it would bring the Mac mini into its cloud. This means that Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Mac instances will allow customers to run on-demand macOS workloads in the AWS cloud for ...

For the better part of the past year, there have been plenty of news stories around how major cloud players were eating into the market dominance of Amazon Web Services Inc. While not addressing this directly, AWS Chief Executive Andy Jassy used his opening remarks at AWS re:Invent to offer a different perspective. AWS’ leader made the ...

For some companies, a highlight during the year might be the kickoff of a rebranding campaign. At other firms, a significant annual milestone could be the launch of a multi-billion-dollar investment in client initiatives. Over the course of only 30 days in 2020, Accenture PLC managed to do both. In September, Accenture announced the formation ...