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Why Rackspace's Datapipe Buy Will Disrupt the Cloud Market
Managed cloud services provider Rackspace announced its plans to buy former competitor Datapipe earlier this week. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but San Antonio, Texas-based Rackspace noted it was "the biggest" in the company's history.
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AWS Introduces Macie AI-Driven Data Security, More News
Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled a new security tool for AWS customers called Amazon Macie during its annual AWS summit in New York City. Macie alerts customers to security threats on sensitive content including documents and passwords.
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Why Google Beat AWS, IBM Watson, And Others in Forrester's Insight PaaS Wave
If you’re not familiar with the term "Insight Platforms-As-A-Service," fear not, it’s new. Forrester, the term's creator, thinks Google is the lone leader in the space. In its Forrester Wave: Insight Platforms-As-A-Service, Q3 2017 report (fee charged), analyst Brian Hopkins and colleagues Srividya Sridharan, Dave Bartoletti and Sara Sjoblom, defined
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Has WhatsApp Added Stickiness with File Sharing? More News
Earlier this month CMSWire’s Kaya Ismail made a very strong case for making WhatsApp part of an organization's marketing strategy. WhatsApp is now more than just a messaging app — even if it started life that way — offering a host of functionality that modern marketers will find useful.
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Is Amazon About to Buy Slack?
Amazon has reportedly approached enterprise darling Slack about a potential takeover, according to recent reports. Bloomberg financial news service reported the rumor based on "people with knowledge of the situation," but stated an agreement isn’t assured and discussions may not go any further. Both Seattle-based Amazon and San Francisco-based Slack
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Pegasystems Extends Cloud Partnerships with Azure, AWS
Among the many announcements coming out of PegaWorld 2017 in Las Vegas this week, the news that Pegasystems has partnered with Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services to bring the Pega CRM offering and platform to the cloud stands out. According to the a statement from Cambridge, Mass.-based Pegasystems,
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SAP Expands Cloud Partnership with Google, More from SAPPHIRE
ORLANDO, Fla. — SAP expanded its cloud partnership with Google with new certification of SAP technology and applications on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Company officials made the announcement this week at the company's 30,000-attendee SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference here at the Orange County Convention Center.
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Microsoft Buys Deis to Add Container Muscle to Azure
Microsoft made another play yesterday to improve what Scott Guthrie, EVP for Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group, describes as its “new cloud currency.
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Nipping the AWS Outage Outrage in the Bud
In our Twitter-fueled, Facebook-fed society, it's very easy to get caught up in hype. So after AWS’s outage last week, it was amazing to see all of the anti-cloud pundits coming out of the woodwork to hold AWS responsible for taking down a majority of the internet.
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How Your SaaS Company Can Survive a Cloud Outage
As a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company, a big part of the user experience (UX) for our customers is keeping our software up and running 24/7. Yes, design, ease of use, user interface and many other pieces of the puzzle are important as well.
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Amazon AWS S3 Outage Knocks Websites Out of The Cloud
Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) experienced substantial technical issues today — and thousands of websites paid the price. According to Amazon’s AWS service health dashboard, the S3 outage was due to “high error rates with S3 in US-EAST-1.” Whatever that means.
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Accenture Expands Partnership With AWS
Accenture is expanding its business group that helps companies migrate to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Accenture made the announcement today at AWS re:Invent, the annual AWS customer conference.
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Alfresco Offers Its Platform as a Managed Service on AWS
Alfresco, a provider of enterprise content management (ECM) and business process management (BPM) software, has announced the early availability of its platform as a managed service hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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VMware, AWS Announce Strategic Partnership
They are launching a vSphere-based cloud service that runs on AWS.
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