News Web Experience for Azure Machine Learning Studio Now Available By David Ramel 07/10/2020 Microsoft recently announced the Azure Machine Learning studio web experience is generally available. It has been the works since last year, when Microsoft said, “The new web experience enables data scientists and data engineers to complete their end-to-end machine learning lifecycle […]

News Report Sheds Light on Public Cloud Security Incidents By Scott Bekker 07/09/2020 U.K.-based security company Sophos released a report, “The State of Cloud Security 2020,” suggesting that seven in 10 organizations have experienced public cloud security incidents in the last year. The findings are based on responses from more than 3,500 IT managers in […]

News Research: Cloud Tech Infiltrates On-Premises Datacenter Networks By David Ramel 07/08/2020 Even though datacenter networking is still a thing — not yet obviated by cloud computing — cloud tech is increasingly infiltrating on-premises networks. That’s a takeaway from a new Magic Quadrant report from research firm Gartner, which ranks and categorizes the top players […]

News Poised for Post-Pandemic Propulsion: SD-WANs and Big Data Analysis By David Ramel 07/07/2020 The general economy may be slow to recover as the COVID-19 pandemic subsides, but new research reports predict two sectors will be leading the bounce back: software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) and Big Data Analytics, a primary use case for cloud computing. […]

News Google Cloud VMware Engine Debuts in 2 U.S. Regions By David Ramel 07/02/2020 With VMware services already available on the AWS cloud and Microsoft Azure, the Google Cloud VMware Engine is now generally available in two U.S. regions, enabling users to migrate existing VMware-based applications to the GCP, no refactoring or rewriting required. Google […]

News AWS Challenges Google, Azure in Low-Code Cloud Application Development Space By David Ramel 06/29/2020 Amazon Web Services (AWS) has created a new front in the cloud computing wars: low-code (or no-code) application development, announcing Honeycode to challenge existing offerings on Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Honeycode, just announced last week in beta, is described […]

News VMware Boosts SD-WAN with Zero Trust Service Amid Remote Work Surge By David Ramel 06/26/2020 Citing the need for secure access to enterprise applications amid the work-from-home surge caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, VMware is augmenting its software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) offering with a Zero Trust Service. Generally, the Zero Trust model is a […]

News Survey Indicates Cloud Migration Projects Delayed by COVID-19 By David Ramel 06/25/2020 Colt Technology Services published results of a cloud computing survey that measures the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cloud migration projects, finding that most organizations are reporting delays, but aren’t having communication problems. The connectivity specialist that sells software-defined wide-area networking […]

News Hackers Turn Kubernetes Machine Learning to Crypto Mining in Azure Cloud By David Ramel 06/24/2020 When clouds get hacked, it’s often the fault of user misconfigurations. Just ask Amazon Web Services (AWs) about that. Beginning a few years ago or so, the AWS cloud notoriously suffered a long spate of such attacks, most of […]

News Study Shows Upside, Downside of Using Multiple Clouds By David Ramel 06/22/2020 Research firm IDG’s new study on cloud computing reaffirms the cloud is the place to be for enterprises by documenting pervasive adoption trends, but it also shows both the upsides and downsides of some aspects, such as using multiple public clouds. The […]