By David Linthicum, InfoWorld | MAY 2, 2018 A year after planning a big private cloud, the former Yahoo reversed course and is moving to the public cloud. Here’s how you too can chart your path away from the private cloud. Amazon Web Services has announced that Oath, the former Yahoo, has selected AWS as its preferred public cloud […]
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Google is adding features to Gmail, including Snooze buttons and a sidebar with a new task-management system. The company is rolling out new features like Snooze buttons and a sidebar with a new task-management system. Google promises other new features, including new security options, in coming weeks. The Snooze feature will help you declutter your […]
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By Ann Maya – 19 March 2018 via CloudTech. Cloud computing is fast becoming a mature technology with more growth expected. Gartner believes that by 2020, a ‘no-cloud’ policy will be as rare as a ‘no-internet’ policy is today. Over the last five years in particular, businesses have recognised that cloud computing reduces spending on data centres and […]
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By Monica Brink- 29 March 2018. Cloud adoption by UK companies has now neared 90%, according to Cloud Industry Forum, and it won’t be long before all organisations are benefiting to some degree from the flexibility, efficiency and cost-savings of the cloud. Moving past the first wave of adoption we’re seeing businesses ramp up the complexity of […]
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Posted March 15, 2018 By Cynthia Harvey AI as a service is growing. Cloud-based AI services are one of the easiest and least expensive ways to get started with machine learning and cognitive computing. In their never-ending quest to stay ahead of the competition, a growing number of enterprises are looking for ways to incorporate artificial intelligence into […]
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Source: Harvard Business Review (www.hbr.org) Today, many people’s jobs will be taken over by machines and many of the jobs of the future haven’t been invented yet. That inspires fear in some, excitement in others, but everybody will need to plan for a future that we can barely comprehend today. In this new era of […]
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Source: Tech Revolution. (www.techrevolution.asia) Has your company entered the digital revolution yet? If not, you may soon be left behind. Harvard Business Review’s recent prediction about the Asia Pacific region was: “Expect to see the pace of innovation accelerate, with established organisations and startups vying to capture and retain the increasingly tech-savvy consumers driving digital transformation.” […]
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By Gary Eastwood. Cloud computing has already permeated every facet of online activity. However, recent developments in AI and the increasing sophistication of programmers, presages a new age of cloud computing. This article looks at how that technology emerges and how its set to impact our lives. Every tech guru knows about the potential of cloud […]
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Posted Feb 1, 2018 by Jim Carnes It’s Friday afternoon (it always happens on Friday afternoon) and the phone rings — there’s a breach. Your internet provider has called and malware associated with the latest botnet has been detected coming from your corporate network. The incident response plans are triggered and everyone goes into high alert, looking for the […]
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HOW TO BUILD A BUSINESS-FOCUSED “CLOUD-COMMERCE” MARKETPLACE FOR THE LESS SEXY ECONOMY
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Posted Jan 11, 2018 by Ben Johnston (@BHJbenjohnston), Elena Painter (@lainypainter) For consumers, huge new internet marketplaces have upended industries ranging from taxis (Uber) to hotels (Airbnb) and even some types of consumer loans (LendingClub). Now, new types of online marketplaces — we call them “cloud-commerce” companies — are popping up to serve businesses. We think they have the potential to […]