Category: Cloud Offerings

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. We held our first NIST Workshop, titled “Architecting for FedRAMP High and NIST Workloads in AWS GovCloud (US),” where customers gained hands-on experience with our AWS Quick Start tools, learned how to automate compliance in AWS GovCloud (US), and discovered partner solutions from Telos and Trend Micro.Through workshops and other AWS resources, you can become familiar with the tools to make your job easier while strengthening the security posture of your cloud computing environment. We want you to be confident in the security processes and technical approaches to creating secure and ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Frank Weigel. Today marks the release of Microsoft BizTalk Server 2016. This is an important milestone that not only reinforces strong on-premises application integration capabilities, but also provides flexibility and control to our customers to adopt cloud applications as and when it makes sense for the business. We realize that every company is undergoing digital transformation with the proliferation of applications, data and services. Whether your applications run in the cloud or on-premises, you should have the flexibility to seamlessly connect applications, unlock data and automate business process anywhere. Earlier this year, I shared our ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Ashish Makadia. Today, we are excited to announce general availability of the S3 tier of service! The S3 tier of Azure Search is designed to handle large volumes of documents and heavy traffic. Identically priced and backed by the same high performance CPUs and SSD storage, the S3 tier comes in two configurations: S3 and S3 High Density (HD). S3 The standard S3 tier of Azure Search is suited for customers with large numbers of documents and can handle many hundreds of queries per second. With each partition supporting 120 million documents (or 200 GB), ... Read More

Feed: Databasejournal.com - Feature Database Articles. Author: . By Seth Proctor, CTO, NuoDB Today, organizations are spending a lot of time trying to simplify, align development with operations, and manage commodity or virtualized resources on-demand. This helps to reduce costs, improve efficiency and evolve solutions in a more agile fashion. Over the past few years, I’ve been having conversation after conversation with architects, developers, and CTOs around Docker and container computing. As a long-time Sun Microsystems engineer, these are familiar topics, but the recent popularity is still impressive. These conversations are with large companies and small, in virtually every industry, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Randall Hunt is a Technical Evangelist for Amazon Web ServicesA few weeks ago, 2nd Watch (a leading cloud native Systems Integrator) wrote the Benchmarking Amazon Aurora post, analyzing Google’s benchmark of their Cloud SQL database service against AWS’s Amazon Aurora. In that analysis, 2nd Watch found that Aurora outperforms Cloud SQL consistently and that Google’s benchmarks were incorrect and misleading. 2nd Watch also pointed out the peculiar aspects in Google’s approach (i.e., artificially constraining database threads to remove Aurora’s advantage of much better performance at high thread counts—something most Aurora customers take advantage of). 2nd ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. The AWS Cloud impacts all corners of your campus and beyond. The cloud sparks education innovation by helping to reduce costs, improve service delivery, and increase student access to their education. Take a tour of how education uses AWS campus-wide, from classrooms to dorm rooms and beyond. With so many connected devices around the world, you are probably already on the cloud – and your campus may be, too. AWS has over 7,000 education customers globally using the cloud to solve challenges they face including: disaster preparedness, scaling web applications during ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Kate Miller. BlazeClan is a born-in-the-cloud consulting company who provides customers around the globe with advisory, cloud migration, Big Data and analytics, product development, and cloud managed services. The company is dedicated to helping customers embrace agility and automation to transform their businesses on the cloud. Headquartered in India, BlazeClan also has a strong presence in ASEAN, Europe, and North America.BlazeClan’s journey on AWS began as a startup in India in 2011. “We became a customer of AWS when we started our organization,” says Varoon Rajani, Co-Founder & CEO, BlazeClan. As a startup, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Hector Garcia Tellado. For businesses, choosing the best device for a new IoT solution can be one of the most challenging tasks in early deployment. There are a lot of things to consider: from how the device will connect to the internet and which sensors may work with it to the industry protocols it is capable of processing. One year ago, we launched the Azure Certified for IoT program to help customers ensure their device of choice was tested to work with Azure IoT technology. Since then, our customers and partners have embraced the benefits ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. Posted by Eric Schmidt, Developer Advocate When the World Series starts tonight, I'll be watching the game as a fan and also through the lens of a Google Cloud Platform developer advocate. As a data wrangler, I want to see if I can get a bit closer to the micro-moments of the game in near real-time. Baseball is one of the most statistically driven sports. But fans, announcers, coaches and players also talk about “letting the game talk to them” to get insights beyond stats like Batting Averages, ERAs, and WHIPs. What ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Platform Blog. Author: GCP Team. Posted by Jim Przybylinski and Chris Smith, Software Engineers Google Cloud Storage is pretty amazing. It offers near-infinite capacity, up to 99.95% availability and fees as low as $0.007GB/month. But storing data in the cloud has always had one drawback: you need to use specialized tools like gsutil to browse or access it. You can’t just treat Cloud Storage like a really, really, really big hard disk. That is, until now. Navigating Cloud Storage with Cloud Tools for PowerShell The latest release of Cloud Tools for PowerShell (included with the Cloud SDK ... Read More