DoubleHorn and Liftr News CEO, Tab Schadt, sat down with Eric Simone, CEO of ClearBlade, to discuss ClearBlade’s business and cloud strategy. During this interview they discussed edge computing and how ClearBlade is helping organizations like Stanley Black & Decker run on a multi-cloud approach by utilizing AWS, Google Cloud and IBM Cloud. ClearBlade is also working with BNSF…
Oracle recently announced a plan to build 12 new data center regions throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. In addition, Oracle said it would expand its autonomous capabilities to its entire catalog of cloud services. This announcement, which was made at an Oracle CloudWork event in New York, outlines a new initiative to greatly expand…
CSRA recently secured an $8.5 million award to expand its cloud portfolio in order to offer G Suite and Google Cloud services to the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USU). This potential five-year agreement enables the IT provider to expand its cloud service offerings to the three biggest public cloud providers, Google Cloud, AWS,…
Oracle has announced a new unified cloud-based eClinical platform with the intentions of speeding up the process of bringing new drugs to market. The solution, dubbed “Clinical One” unifies clinical development operations under one centralized cloud-based platform. Bringing drugs to market is a complicated, expensive process. It involves the initial development of the drug, extensive…
Earnings are in! See what we’re talking about on today’s Liftr News Round-Up. Microsoft’s earnings for the second quarter of 2018 are in and Azure revenue growth is listed at a stunning 98% year-over-year. A recent survey from Gemalto found that 35% of British organizations take steps to secure confidential information stored in the cloud.…
Microsoft is offering free OneDrive access to existing business customers of its chief cloud-storage competitors: Box, Dropbox, and Google. The deal applies to business customers with 500 or more users already on competing services. From February 6, 2018, through June 30, 2018, qualifying organizations not already on OneDrive for Business or Office 365 will receive…
A report out of subscription news site The Information states that Google has been working on a cloud-based gaming service that streams games directly to either Google’s Chromecast or a console yet-to-be-announced by the company. The service is reportedly codenamed “Yeti,” and it has been quietly in development at Google for the past two years.…
Chinese e-commerce and technology giant Alibaba announced its financial results for the quarter that ended December 31, 2017. In the report, Alibaba disclosed that it had generated cloud computing revenue of RMB3,599 million (US$553 million) for the quarter. That’s a 104% year-over-year increase from the same quarter in the previous year. In the report, Alibaba…
Cisco has unveiled a new container platform that it hopes will cut the hassle out of managing applications both on and off the cloud. To accomplish this, Cisco has teamed up with Google Cloud to develop its new Cisco Container Platform (CCP), which is based on open source components, including 100% upstream Kubernetes, Docker, Contiv,…
A recent study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, on commission by security firm Gemalto, found that only 35% of British organizations secure confidential information stored in the cloud. This is in sharp contrast to the United States (51%) and Germany (61%). The study, which surveyed more than 3,200 IT and IT security practitioners worldwide, determined…