School Of Cloud Analytics Established, Will It Rock?

It is often suggested that that there is a global shortage of software engineers, developers and related disciplines such as data scientists, database administrators and data analytics professionals. Even if there’s not a ‘global’ shortage, it is perhaps reasonable to suggest that there are national and regional imbalances, which often lead to a perceived shortfall.

According to one study from Michael Page recruiters, “The top five most in-demand professions in the world are software engineers and developers, followed by electronics engineers, mechanical engineers, nurses and doctors.”

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Cloud and mobile are the drivers of the future: Sanjay Poonen, VMware

BENGALURU: Cloud, mobile, and security are three priorities for all IT leaders looking to digitally transform their company, Chief Operating Officer of VMware Sanjay Poonen said.

The virtualisation company is a subsidiary of Dell technologies that provides cloud computing and platform virtualisation services. In India, VMware’s software solutions are being used by Bharti Airtel and The State Bank of India (SBI) amongst others to operate and manage their IT.

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How SMBs benefit by moving from cloud-first to cloud-only

The fundamental principles of intent-based networking have been present for years, but only recently has this phenomenon grow to its full size today, where it stands to upend modern industry and business practices. So what exactly is intent-based networking, and is it really so marvelous to warrant the recent renewal in interest and support it’s gained?

A brief foray into intent-based networking shows that, while it’s a very complex technology, it’s rather easy to grasp a basic understanding of it. Furthermore, a look at what some of today’s top companies are doing with this tech, and some ruminations about what they plan to do in the future, shows just how significantly intent-based networking can reshape modern markets.

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Amazon Macie helps businesses protect their sensitive data in the cloud

Amazon’s AWS cloud computing service hosted its annual NY Summit today and it used the event to launch a new service: Amazon Macie. The idea behind Macie is to use machine learning to help businesses protect their sensitive data in the cloud. For now, you can use Macie to protect personally identifiable information and intellectual property in the Amazon S3 storage service, with support for other AWS data stores coming later this year

The company says the fully managed service uses machine learning to monitor how data is accessed and to look for any anomalies. The service then alerts users of any activity that looks suspicious so they can find the root cause of any data leaks (whether those are malicious or not). To do all of this, the service continuously monitors new data that comes into S3. It then uses machine learning to understand regular access patterns and the data in the storage bucket.

The service also automatically detects certain data types like full names, addresses, credit card numbers, IP addresses, driver license IDs (U.S. only), social security numbers and birth dates, but it also can automatically detect different content types (email, SEC forms, data logs, database backups, source code, etc.).

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Amazon is teaming up with its one-time enemy VMware to go beyond the cloud, says report

Amazon Web Services is thinking about building software for corporate data centers as part of its recently formed partnership with VMware, according to a report on Monday.

The work could make it easier for companies to migrate applications between their data centers and Amazon's server farms and make it easier to recover data from Amazon in case of disasters, The Information said, citing an unnamed source.

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Cloud computing looks unbeatable but there is a rival tech that can uproot it

For many, this story would be a spin tale. As for people who do not understand cloud, fog computing can be a foggy affair. For years, we have been relying on hard disks and drives to drive our data consumption, but over the last half, a decade technology has allowed storing massive amounts of data in the virtual space. Not only data companies have been able to run servers in the cloud, they have been doing big data analytics using cloud-as-a-service. That doesn’t mean companies have abandoned cloud altogether. Data servers are still up and running, and if anything companies are adding more might to them. Teradata, a data analytics giant, earlier this year announced a new iteration to both its data servers as well as its cloud technologies. More important, not only did it amalgamate these two technologies, it also allowed for a wider reach to its audiences using the best of both worlds.

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Microsoft's Cloud Focus Could Mean Layoffs: Report

With cloud computing becoming a bigger revenue driver for Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the company reorganized its business earlier this week, which may result in large-scale job reductions at the software company.

A person familiar with the company’s plans told The Wall Street Journal this week that layoffs could be in the thousands range as it moves its sales focus to large enterprises and small and medium businesses. Late last week, the Puget Sound Business Journal broke the news that Microsoft would reorganize its business to focus on a so-called cloud-first strategy that is being led by Azure, its cloud hosting business.

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Sizing up the cloud wars: Three Seattle VCs break down the competition between Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google

When it comes to the public cloud, there are three companies at the forefront of everyone’s mind: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Google. How do they stack up against each other?

Three Seattle venture capitalists tackled that question during our inaugural GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit last month. Frank Artale of Ignition Partners, S. “Soma” Somasegar of Madrona Venture Group, and Sheila Gulati of Tola Capital attempted to describe the current competitive landscape in the public cloud during a discussion moderated by angel investor Charles Fitzgerald.

As is usually the case with a public discussion in the tech industry, everyone was very polite. And part of the reason is that because all the major players are growing so quickly, it’s hard to say that anyone is really losing.

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Microsoft Fends Off 1.5M Cloud Attacks a Day

Cloud security, and securing data as it flows from public to private clouds, is big business, and only expected to get bigger as more workloads and apps move to the cloud. Now, Microsoft is showing how complicated cloud security can get within its own infrastructure.

On any given day of the week, Microsoft fights against 1.5 million cyberattacks and security breach attempts that target its cloud infrastructure, according to a new blog post from the company.

To help combat these attacks, Microsoft uses about 3,500 engineers to constantly monitor its infrastructure and its Azure cloud.

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Turbonomic touts support for AWS and Azure public cloud with new release

Turbonomic, a Boston-based cloud and virtualisation software provider, has announced new support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure public cloud environments with general availability of its 5.9 iteration.

The company says the move will ‘enable customers to confidently accelerate their journey to hybrid cloud’, with support offerings include visibility of all workloads regardless of where they reside, and lowering of public cloud bills by 30% on average.

Other features include being able to migrate to AWS and Azure public clouds through migration planning, workload placement and workload scaling, controlling public cloud workloads, and enforcing compliance across hybrid environments.

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Public clouds woo SAP apps to win the heart of enterprise IT

The three biggest cloud providers have buddied up to SAP as they seek to bring the crown jewels of enterprise IT into their massive data centers.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure have all publicly lauded the German ERP software maker as they compete to win workloads that remain largely on premises. It's a huge opportunity for public cloud providers -- it not only signifies trust in handling sensitive enterprise data, but also because ERP apps are among the most complicated and expensive apps in corporate IT.

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Cloud computing goes beyond tipping point in financial services, says DTCC

Cloud computing has reached a ‘tipping point’ in financial services with capabilities and cost efficiencies moving ahead of on-premise data centre equivalents, according to The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC).

The company, which provides financial transaction and data processing services for the global financial industry, has issued a new report, titled ‘Moving Financial Market Infrastructure to the Cloud’. The tipping point, the report argues, comes from a change in questioning on cloud services; the conversation moves forward from ‘is the cloud safe?’ to ‘what compromises are we making by staying on-premises?’

DTCC itself says it has leveraged cloud services for almost five years, and is therefore looking at methods of expansion, with the proof of the pudding in the eating.

The report goes through the usual rigmarole of outlining software, infrastructure, and platform as a service, as well as discussing benefits such as scale, resiliency, privacy, security and cost. The paper also notes that public cloud vendors have significantly upped their game in recent years.

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