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Fox signs deal with AWS to upgrade TV production and streaming services
The delivery of video content to viewers from Fox Corp. will soon have a distinctly cloud flavor to it. On Tuesday, Fox and Amazon Web Services Inc. announced a deal with AWS Media Services for transmission of Fox sports, news and entertainment content to TV and streaming customers. AWS cloud tools will also help run ...
VMware’s partnership with AWS highlights delicate balance as it navigates hybrid world
VMware Inc.’s evolving partnership with Amazon Web Services Inc. has at times resembled the move of a friend into the home of close acquaintance. First there are a few books, then some furniture and finally both are living wholly under the same roof. After officially unveiling VMware Cloud on AWS in 2017, obtainable only through ...
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Greylock investor rides waves of opportunity in wake left by large enterprise cloud players
As Amazon Web Services Inc. continues to roll out new enterprise products and services, it’s tempting to assume that this is yet another tale of a giant tech company gobbling market share and discouraging startup competition. However, one prominent venture investor doesn’t see it that way when he evaluates the AWS portfolio. “If you look ...
AI and digital tech have transformed the competitive landscape for many Accenture clients
Accenture LLP supports 91 of the Fortune Global 100 and three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500 companies. And its message to all of them is simple: Get good at managing data and digital technology, or fall far behind. “Information is the new basis of competition,” said John Matchette (pictured), managing director of applied intelligence platforms ...
Red Hat’s CTO sees open-source as driver of choice and consistency in hybrid environments
A case can certainly be made that Red Hat Inc. and the open-source movement have commoditized portions of the information-technology infrastructure. A much wider range of tools and systems are now available to enterprises than ever before. This trend is just part of the open-source journey, one that Chris Wright (pictured), as the senior vice ...
Refinitiv rides wave of interest in public cloud to deliver financial market data
Financial markets thrive on accessible data, and one company is more than willing to meet that need. Refinitiv Ltd., the global provider of financial markets information and infrastructure, expanded its real-time data delivery service using Amazon Web Services Inc. last year to meet rising customer demand. The company’s move was yet another indicator that financial ...
Built on AWS, Druva helps customers navigate through business and technology change
Being a software-as-a-service platform built on Amazon Web Services Inc., Druva Inc. has come to fully appreciate the change that migration to a cloud infrastructure can bring. Druva relies on the AWS platform to help its customers manage data from end-to-end, and its growth as a company has provided a valuable perspective on the impact ...
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AWS sends message to enterprises that it’s fully stocked for cloud shopping needs
In the annual holiday shopping season, there’s Black Friday, Cyber Monday and now Cloud Tuesday. When it comes to one-stop shopping, Amazon Web Services Inc. is starting to closely resemble its parent company. Over the course of his three-hour keynote on Tuesday at AWS re:Invent, Chief Executive Officer Andy Jassy (pictured) revealed nearly 30 new cloud-related ...
In the new bot economy, cloud robotics and AI transform work and society in far-reaching ways
As the calendar reaches its last month in 2019, the bot is hot. Research firm Tractica LLC has forecast that a combination of cloud-computing and robotic hardware, software and services will propel global revenue in the cloud robotics field from single digits to in excess of $170 billion within the next five years. This is ...
AWS savors commanding position in cloud market as attendees gather for re:Invent 2019
There’s no lack of statistics that show how Amazon Web Services Inc., with 41% of the infrastructure-as-a-service market, remains the winner and still champion of the public cloud. According to data compiled by Visual Capitalist, one-third of the people who access websites every day on the internet are clicking into domains powered by AWS. The ...