Amazon continues crushing competition in the public cloud market, but analysts expect the tech giant’s market share dominance to steadily dwindle in the coming years as competitors such as Microsoft, Google and Alibaba keep gaining traction. Research firm Gartner concludes in a new report that the market for cloud services is growing faster than virtually…
Google has acquired a company that will help it better manage enterprise cloud customer implementation, a move analysts say will help the tech giant compete against Microsoft and Amazon in the cutthroat cloud market. Financial terms of the deal between Google and identity management firm Bitium were not immediately disclosed. Founded in 2012, Bitium gives…
This week’s Cloud News Round-Up features AWS’s expansion to the Middle East, Microsoft adds capacity to all of it’s data centers, Public cloud adoption is still hampered by security concerns, Deloitte takes on a cyber attack, the upcoming Oracle World Conference is on the horizon and more! This week’s hosts are Shaylee Webb and Corey…
Following in the footsteps of Amazon Web Services, Google has announced that it will now start billing customers by the second for its cloud computing service — the latest front in an ongoing tug of war among major cloud competitors over pricing. Google has actually billed by the second since 2013 for its persistent disk…
Google is planning to launch its first cloud data centers in India by the end of the year, the latest in a global arms race between the three major cloud providers to expand data center facilities and lure new customers. The announcement comes just one day after Amazon Web Services said it is expanding its…
The lack of qualified IT professionals with cloud expertise is at the root of massive financial losses at organizations around the globe using the cloud — and the problem is expected to persist into the near future, according to a new report sizing up an ongoing cloud skills gap in the tech world. A survey…
The cloud has arrived in the Middle East. Amazon Web Services said Monday it is expanding its data center footprint into Bahrain by early 2019, making it the first of the three major cloud providers to open data centers in the region. As the global cloud market intensifies, AWS’ move is aimed at attracting new…
Public cloud adoption is soaring across all industries but security concerns continue to hamper widespread migration, as organizations remain concerned about lacking internal skills to maintain their cloud or having an expert partner to rely on for security. That’s the key takeaway in a new report from Barracuda Networks that surveyed 300 IT decision makers…
Corporate data stored in the cloud is accidentally being exposed to the public in some cases because of simple configuration errors, an unexpected byproduct of the cloud’s explosive and unchecked growth. Nonprofit GDI Foundation estimates there have been at least 175,000 instances this year of misconfigured software and services in the cloud that could have…
On the heels of Amazon Web Services announcing plans to start charging its customers by the second, Oracle is shooting back at AWS with its own new flexible pricing model. The moves represent a new burgeoning front in the battle to lure customers to the cloud as adoption has been stymied at many organizations because…