Oracle Fights the Pentagon Cloud Contract The Pentagon’s JEDI cloud computing contract winner is set to be chosen in one month’s time and things have been heating up. With $10 billion dollars on the line how could they not? With that heat comes tension between the cloud providers. Oracle has filed its second bid protest…
360insights Moves to Azure 360insights, a global channel incentives leader offering features such as channel insights and consumer and channel rebates, announced this week that they have successfully migrated their Software as a Service Channel Success Platform to Microsoft Azure. The platform is intended to serve the needs of large enterprises who go to market…
Google Cloud Uses AI to Save Energy For data centers to function properly, they need to be kept at the proper temperature. And as we all know, keeping an area cool can come at no small expense. That’s why Google has decided to use AI to cut back on data center energy costs. The Google…
Azure Stack for Government, Just in Time With the Pentagon’s 10 million dollar JEDI RFP deadline looming, cloud providers are scrambling to prove they have what it takes to secure the contract and deliver on the requested services. Microsoft Azure made headlines this week, when they launched Azure Stack for Government. This is a big…
Another Voter Record Exposure on Amazon S3 It’s been a rough year for US Voters when it comes to data security. RoboCent, a political robocalling company, is latest to leave sensitive data unsecured and available to the public. The data breach, if it can still be called that when configuration is at fault, exposed thousands…
WTT Achieves AWS Advanced Partner Status Hong Kong based ICT service provider WTT HK Limited announced Tuesday that it has achieved AWS Advanced Consulting Partnership status. This makes it the only comprehensive ICT service provider in Hong Kong to obtain said status. Achieving this status proves the company’s success in providing quality AWS Cloud Enablement…
Google Wants in On Oil Google Cloud is looking to strike big with a partnership in the oil industry, stating that they can handle data storage, movement, and AI-based data analysis better than the oil companies can. The company has even created a group called the Oil and Gas Unit that is designed to court…
Walmart and Microsoft Team Up Walmart announced earlier this week that it’s officially making Microsoft its preferred cloud provider. The two companies have signed a 5 year strategic cloud partnership that will see a number of changes for the retail giant. Walmart has stated that its key focus is machine learning and artificial intelligence. company…
Datameer Partners with AWS Datameer, a leader in big data management for analytics, has recently become an advanced technology partner with AWS. The partnership, which the company states they are very excited for, will make Datameer Express available immediately for use on the AWS marketplace. The data management platform delivers insight in a shorter time…
The Liftr team is always looking for new ways to measure the successes, failures, and fluctuations in the public cloud market. As new technologies emerge and change the way people purchase and utilize cloud, it is necessary to make minor adjustments to the Index as part of regular maintenance. After months of gathering and analyzing…