Coming soon to Chicago: A potential threat to Amazon Three companies — Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Alphabet Inc. — quietly dominate the world of cloud computing. With more more than 100 giant data centers worldwide, they rent out computing power to all manner of customers, making billions of dollars Read more…
Data-Center Market Is Booming Amid Shift to Cloud Data centers are hot properties, even as many businesses are shedding them to shift their information-technology operations online, to the cloud. The warehouse-sized facilities that house racks of servers and other hardware can be costly and inefficient to manage. But some are Read more…
Trump expressed concerns about Pentagon cloud-computing contract President Trump recently demanded more information about how the Pentagon crafted a massive cloud-computing contract it’s poised to award to Amazon.com Inc. or Microsoft Corp., in order to decide whether he should intervene. The Defense Department is set to award the contract, worth Read more…
Virginia universities partner with Amazon on cloud computing degree George Mason University and Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) announced in June a cloud computing degree pathway program in conjunction with AWS Educate, Amazon’s cloud technology education initiative. Students in the program will take cloud-based courses at NOVA to prepare for Read more…
Amazon And Rival Retailers Are Much Tighter Than You Think Amazon as the largest ecommerce giant may be feared and deemed an enemy by retailers of all kinds with its proven disruptive impact. But when it comes to Amazon as the parent of its AWS cloud-computing service? There’s actually plenty Read more…
Finding the right balance of cloud computing resources Researchers in the School of Management have developed a solution to manage cloud computing resources more cost-effectively. Forthcoming in Information Systems Research, the study develops strategies for virtual resource management in cloud data centers by integrating concepts and methods from computer science, Read more…
With Amazon Web Services dominating the burgeoning cloud computing business, industry rivals have come together in order to wrestle the crown from the former. Former rivals in the cloud business Microsoft and Oracle, made an announcement last week that they would be linking their cloud computing services. Oracle Cloud and Read more…
Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy supports federal regulation of facial-recognition technology After widespread criticism of Amazon Web Services’ decision to sell cloud-based facial-recognition technology to law enforcement agencies, CEO Andy Jassy said Monday evening that he is open to federal regulation regarding use of the controversial technology. Speaking at Read more…
Microsoft, Oracle team up on cloud services in jab at Amazon Microsoft Corp and Oracle Corp on Wednesday said they reached an agreement to make their two cloud computing services work together with high-speed links between their data centers, targeting big business users and uniting against cloud computing leader Amazon.com’s Read more…
Gmail, Snapchat, Apple services went down due to Google Cloud issues The “Cloud” has become the de facto method of delivering Internet services and apps. There are a small number of cloud providers around but the most popular have been Amazon and Google. Even Apple, which has its own cloud Read more…
