This week’s cloud news round-up focuses a lot on how the International market influences the cloud. Whether it’s Russia’s actions to block a single app from its citizens, a sizable government contract being announced in the United States, or the European Union’s approaching deadline for GDPR compliance, the actions of the government bodies around the…
The first week of April 2018 has been a big one for the Cloud. New announcements and products from Alibaba, AWS, and Google Cloud have influenced their standing in the cloud market. Alibaba Approves Cappasity for Create@Alibaba Cloud Chinese cloud giant Alibaba has approved Cappasity for its Create@Alibaba Cloud program. The program focuses on enabling…
Microsoft announced a massive reorganization of its business, bringing AI and its Azure cloud platform to the forefront of its focus. Part of this shift means splitting the core Windows team into different pieces. It’s a move that indicates Microsoft is going all-in on its cloud and AI platforms, while moving away from Windows as a…
This week on the Cloud News Round-Up on LiftrNews.com, Haptik, India’s leading chatbot platform, has struck a deal with AWS to enable it to take advantage of AWS’ AI and Polly text-to-speech services to create a more natural conversation-driven experience for its users. A recent scorecard released by The Software Alliance has listed the United…
Microsoft announced plans to open new data centers in Europe and the Middle East. These announcements are the latest in a series of data center projects undertaken to expand on Azure’s global reach in recent months. Two new data centers have also come online within the past few days in Central and South France. New…
Cloud analysts often refer to the “big three” public cloud providers when referring to the big players in the cloud market. What many of us in the United States haven’t heard much about is Alibaba Cloud, a rapidly-growing public cloud provider with a strong International presence that is quickly approaching that of its chief rivals.…
On this week’s Cloud News Round-Up on LiftrNews.com, Microsoft wants Azure to be the platform of choice for healthcare companies coming to the cloud. File storage and sync company Dropbox has spent the last two years building its own infrastructure to store client data for its 11 million users. Dropbox’s primary cloud provider, is still…
Dropbox has announced a new partnership with Salesforce, bringing the two SaaS leaders together to bolster Salesforce’s Commerce and Marketing Cloud services with Dropbox integrating with the Quip productivity suite. Strategic partnerships in the cloud industry are becoming commonplace, and Dropbox is no exception. Just days after word about its successful move away from AWS…
The 2018 BSA Global Cloud Computing Scorecard created by The Software Alliance (BSA) has listed the United Kingdom as one of the top four leading IT economies worldwide. The UK, which previously ranked ninth as recently as 2016, has invested heavily in security and accessibility, implemented a number of privacy rules, and encourage private and…
Popular Indian chatbot platform Haptik has teamed up with Amazon Web Services to bring the cloud giant’s AI portfolio together with Haptik’s platform. Chatbots are a growing area of business with the advancement of more natural, ai-powered interaction and a desire for companies to cut costs and provide faster customer service turnaround. When it comes…