This week in the Liftr Cloud News Round-Up: We talk Google adding regions and undersea cables to its Cloud service in addition to a new codeless AI feature. AWS introduced a new multi-service scaling tool to its platform. Medical imaging is heading to the cloud. CES 2018 is over and we examine OneThing Cloud, a…
The Liftr News team had a chance to sit down with Kurt Rathmann, a Certified Public Accountant, founder, and CEO of ScaleFactor at their offices. ScaleFactor is a VC-backed startup based in Austin that uses machine learning to provide small businesses and entrepreneurs with accounting software that automates critical accounting tasks. In this interview, we…
INNOTECH returned to Austin on November 16, 2017 and Liftr was there to cover all the action. The 14th annual event included an array of booths, new topics, speciality IT, data, security tracks and keynote speakers including Rob Platzer, CTO of Bitly, Angela Yochem, CIO and EVP of Rent-A-Center and Doug Reeder, Innovation Leader from…
Google and Salesforce are teaming up to form one of the highest profile cloud computing alliances of the year in a move that could shake up the multi-billion dollar arms race for market share in the public cloud. The partnership, announced on the first day of Salesforce’s annual Dreamforce event in San Francisco, will provide…
One of the largest cybersecuity firms in the world is looking to cut data center costs by moving some of its workload to the Microsoft Azure cloud. Symantec and Microsoft have a reached a deal to deliver the cybsersecurity firm’s consumer products, specifically the Norton product line, from the Azure cloud, the companies announced. More than…
The global public cloud market is growing faster than expected, and is poised to become an industry that generates more than $400 billion annually by 2020, according to research firm Gartner New data released by Gartner this week shows public cloud revenue will jump by 18.5 percent in 2017 to more than $260 billion, an…
Google has released new identity and access management features designed to give enterprises more control and security over cloud services. In a blog post, Google announced the beta release of its “custom roles for Cloud IAM” that provides users with control over more than 1,200 public permissions on Google Cloud Platform. It is intended to…
Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison used the company’s annual conference for developers, partners and customers to set the stage for a familiar act: bashing Amazon. In a keynote speech at Oracle’s OpenWorld conference, Ellison repeatedly ripped the company’s chief rival in the cloud sector while introducing a new autonomous database. The database uses machine learning to…
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…
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…