Lenovo’s New TruScale Services Take AI to the Edge for Rapid Business Deployment

We talk to the GM of Global ThinkEdge at Lenovo to understand how businesses can deploy AI on the edge with the company’s new solutions. Continue reading Lenovo’s New TruScale Services Take AI to the Edge for Rapid Business Deployment

The time Animoto almost brought AWS to its knees

Today, Amazon Web Services is a mainstay in the cloud infrastructure services market, a $60 billion juggernaut of a business. But in 2008, it was still new, working to keep its head above water and handle growing demand for its cloud servers. In fact, 15 years ago last week, the company launched Amazon EC2 in […] Continue reading The time Animoto almost brought AWS to its knees

How Amazon EC2 grew from a notion into a foundational element of cloud computing

Fifteen years ago this week on August 25, 2006, AWS turned on the very first beta instance of EC2, its cloud-based virtual computers. Today cloud computing, and more specifically infrastructure as a service, is a staple of how businesses use computing, but at that moment it wasn’t a well known or widely understood concept. The […] Continue reading How Amazon EC2 grew from a notion into a foundational element of cloud computing

Security for Cloud Services: IaaS Deep Dive

In this, the final post in my series on considerations for managing your security with cloud services, we will be looking at Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). If you haven’t yet read the previous blog entries about SaaS and PaaS, it’s wor… Continue reading Security for Cloud Services: IaaS Deep Dive

AWS announces new bare metal instances for companies who want more cloud control

When you think about Infrastructure as a Service, you typically pay for a virtual machine that resides in a multi-tenant environment. That means, it’s using a set of shared resources. For many companies that approach is fine, but when a customer wants more control, they may prefer a single tenant system where they control the […] Continue reading AWS announces new bare metal instances for companies who want more cloud control

Packet hauls in $25M Series B as customized cloud vision takes shape

In a world where large hyperscale companies like Amazon, Microsoft and Google dominate the public cloud, it would seem foolhardy for a startup to try and carve out a space, but Packet has an alternative customized cloud vision, and investors have taken notice. Today, the company announced a $25 million Series B led by Third […] Continue reading Packet hauls in $25M Series B as customized cloud vision takes shape

Google Cloud announces the Beta of single tenant instances

One of the characteristics of cloud computing is that when you launch a virtual machine, it gets distributed wherever it makes the most sense for the cloud provider. That usually means sharing servers with other customers in what is known as a multi-tenant environment. But what about times when you want a physical server dedicated […] Continue reading Google Cloud announces the Beta of single tenant instances

Cloud Directory Feature AWS® Server Management

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) enables organizations to improve productivity, strengthen security, enhance system speed, reduce operating costs, and provide more time to work on other, value adding projects (Oracle). It’s not surprising then,… Continue reading Cloud Directory Feature AWS® Server Management

G Suite Identity Bridge – Connecting On-prem with the Cloud

As IT admins are shifting their infrastructure to the cloud with solutions such as G Suite®, the question becomes how do you bridge identities between the on-prem world and the…
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