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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 …
Watch live: AIOps transforms IT at Broadcom’s Virtual Forum
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 …
Latest container moves by AWS signal customer preference for a hybrid and serverless world
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 …
AWS reels the Mac mini into its cloud and disrupts niche market
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 …
Opening keynote at re:Invent 2020 highlights AWS plans for hybrid, edge, business intelligence and global expansion
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 …
Cloud First initiative and embracing change lead agenda for Accenture Executive Summit at AWS re:Invent
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 …
AWS positions for next decade and a changed world in advance of re:Invent 2020
When Amazon Web Services last held its re:Invent conference one year ago, the process of digital transformation was making slow but steady progress. Then the world was suddenly turned upside down and shaken vigorously. A global pandemic, a huge shock to the …
New perspectives on diversity, growth, security and hybrid storage shaped KubeCon 2020
When Google partnered with the Linux Foundation to create the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2015, the new group launched with 18 members. At the time, the founders issued a call that they were open to adding more organizations. Over the five …
Cloud monitoring, security and IT efficiency among key topics for discussion at AIOps Virtual Forum
There is a saying attributed to Confucius that states that “life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” The 6th century BC Chinese philosopher never saw the age of enterprise computing, but if he had, the solution to life’s …
Focus on Data Cloud and mesh networking powers Snowflake’s expanding platform
Over the years, Snowflake Inc. has built its reputation as a cloud data management and warehouse provider. Yet, as the company builds out its Data Cloud, Snowflake has emerged as playing a much more central role in how enterprises will ultimately manage …