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Google Vows Stability For Newly Designated Enterprise APIs
by Donna Goodison
‘They are governed by a strict set of requirements about how and when we can make changes to them,’ says Kripa Krishnan, vice president of Google Cloud and technical infrastructure. ‘We make it really hard to cause breaking changes in these APIs that would require our customers to do work.’
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Cloud Contact Center And UCaaS: Better Together Or Best Of Breed?
by Gina Narcisi
Channel partners agree that cloud contact center is one of the hottest areas in IT right now. What isn’t clear is whether a best of breed approach, or a single vendor for all CCaaS and UCaaS needs is the way to go.
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Rackspace Laying Off 10 Percent Of Workforce, With Offshore Plans For Most
by Joseph F. Kovar
Rackspace at the same time is restructuring and hiring to shift its focus towards faster-growing product and services offerings, particularly new cloud services focused on cloud migration, elastic engineering, cloud-native application development, security, and other initiatives.
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AllCloud’s Integress Acquisition ‘Bringing Together’ Expertise In AWS, Salesforce, Snowflake
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘They attracted us from the perspective of actually bringing together a lot of what we‘ve been seeing in the front and back office converging,’ Gil says. ‘The AWS and the Salesforce customer base are seeking assistance in the world of data warehousing, analysis and visualization.’
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Google Cloud’s Healthcare Data Engine Brings Interoperability, Power Of BigQuery To Industry Data
by Donna Goodison
‘Healthcare Data Engine will help unlock the potential for clients to lower operational costs, drive innovation and realize deeper patient engagement, resulting in better outcomes for patients,’ says Gretchen Peters, healthcare practice lead at Maven Wave, a Google Cloud implementation partner for the new offering.
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Google Cloud’s Looker Gets Microsoft Azure Support, Other New Features
by Donna Goodison
‘The new Looker development portal enables developers to focus entirely on deriving insights from an organization’s data estate, creating new value from those golden nuggets while relieving them of repetitive development activities,’ says Paul Lewis, chief technology officer at Pythian Services, Google Cloud’s 2020 Specialization Partner of the Year for Data Management.
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Salesforce Closes $27.7B Slack Acquisition, Preparing For Microsoft Teams Battle
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘Together we’ll define the future of enterprise software, creating the digital HQ that enables every organization to deliver customer and employee success from anywhere,’ Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says in a statement.
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Virtuozzo Acquires OnApp, Targets Full IaaS, PaaS For Cloud Solution Providers
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘Employees all of a sudden realized people work from home, at least part time. It’s the same with the IT stack. Why host anything on-prem?’ says Virtuozzo CEO Alex Fine.
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IBM Q2 Sales Fueled By Red Hat, ‘Credibility’ Working With AWS, Microsoft
by Wade Tyler Millward
‘Who has the credibility to go across multiple public clouds?’ IBM CEO Arvind Krishna asked rhetorically on the call. ‘Microsoft and Amazon are our partners, not only our competitors. And that is an important play that IBM has done for many, many decades, where we integrate across environments that our clients operate in.’
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Amazon HealthLake Is GA Under New ‘AWS for Health’ Banner
by Donna Goodison
‘Cloud providers developing industry-specific solutions is a positive, logical next step in the digital transformation to cloud, especially for healthcare, which has traditionally been behind other industries when it comes to technology and is frequently limited by legacy systems and their constraints,’ says Aater Suleman, vice president of cloud transformation at NTT DATA Services.
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NetApp Spot, CloudJumper Form Complete Windows 365 VDI Infrastructure
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘We’ve developed a service that combines all the automation and cost optimization that Spot has offered for years with the virtualization technology of CloudJumper to offer a VDI infrastructure,’ says Amiram Shachar, vice president and general manager of Spot by NetApp.
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Expedient Brings Cost Optimization To Multi-Cloud, Hybrid Cloud Environments
by Joseph F. Kovar
With Cost CTRL, customers will be better able to set budgets around their cloud spend and analyze workloads to determine the right fit from a cost perspective in terms of where workloads should land, says Michael Fulton, Expedient’s vice president of innovation and strategy.
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Partners See Red Hat OpenShift Momentum Under Steady Hand Of CEO Paul Cormier
by Steven Burke
“OpenShift is the new OS of the cloud,” said Vizuri Senior Vice President Joe Dickman. “Paul’s commitment to Linux and the benefits of Linux in the cloud are driving industry demand for a new computing paradigm. His vision for the next generation of computing is on target.”
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Google Cloud Taps SAP Vet Adaire Fox-Martin As EMEA Cloud President
by Donna Goodison
Adaire Fox-Martin fills the vacancy left by Chris Ciauri, who served in the position for two years before leaving the company in March.
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