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10 Hyperscale Data Center Companies To Watch In 2021
by Mark Haranas
From Amazon and Microsoft to Equinix and Nvidia, here are the 10 hyperscale data center companies you need to follow in 2021.
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COVID-19 Spurs Record Data Center Spending By Amazon, Google, Microsoft
by Mark Haranas
‘The hyperscale companies are once again breaking all records for their level of spending, spurred on by business models that have actually benefited from the pandemic,’ says Synergy Research Group’s John Dinsdale.
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Google Cloud Nabs Former Cisco Security Leader Jeff Reed
by Gina Narcisi
Jeff Reed, Cisco’s former SVP and GM of cloud and network security for its security business, has jumped to Google.
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Clumio Provides Air-Gapped Data Protection Against Ransomware
by Joseph F. Kovar
“Air-gapping moves data outside your environment. Our Clumio RansomProtect service is in the public cloud, not on the customer’s network. It includes heavy security: all data is immutable, and there is no ‘delete’ button, even with a password. And the infrastructure is all owned by Clumio,” says Chadd Kenney, Clumio’s vice president and chief technologist.
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AWS: Trump Interference, Errors Enough To Challenge Microsoft’s $10B JEDI Win
by Joseph F. Kovar
AWS is alleging that procedural errors in and changes to the request for proposal lead to the Department of Defense, as well as U.S. President Donald Trump’s interference, to erroneously award the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, contract to Microsoft.
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More Google Woes: Gmail Issues Strike ‘Significant Subset’ Of Users
by Kyle Alspach
It’s the second day in a row of service issues at Google, following a broader Google Cloud outage on Monday.
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10 Ways To Boost Cloud Performance
by Donna Goodison
From block-and-file storage to AI-powered document processing to Kubernetes enrichment for log management, here are 10 offerings from tech’s dynamic cloud sector.
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Google Outage Shows Public Cloud Computing Is ‘Not Invincible’
by Steven Burke
‘There are going to be outages and shutdowns for public cloud,’ says Bob Venero, CEO of Holbrook, N.Y.-based solution provider Future Tech, No. 96 on the CRN 2020 SP500. ‘Corporations that rely solely on public cloud to function and run are putting their businesses at risk for loss of revenue, security vulnerabilities and unexpected losses in productivity. Public cloud is not invincible.’
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Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Cloud Database Management Systems
by Mark Haranas
From AWS, Google and Oracle to Databricks, IBM and Snowflake, here are the top 16 vendors leading the cloud database management systems market, according to Gartner’s new Magic Quadrant.
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Google Expands Anthos 5G Ecosystem With Over 30 New Tech Partners
by Joseph F. Kovar
“When 5G is available to them, enterprise customers can benefit from higher speeds and lower latency, and Anthos makes it very easy for these customers to then deploy an application once and scale it across networks, including to the edge—which is why we call it ‘the effortless edge,’” says Amol Phadke, Google Cloud’s managing director for telecom industry solutions.
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Google To Acquire Actifio To Beef Up Google Cloud Data Protection
by Joseph F. Kovar
‘We know that customers have many options when it comes to cloud solutions, including backup and DR, and the acquisition of Actifio will help us to better serve enterprises as they deploy and manage business-critical workloads, including in hybrid scenarios,’ writes Brad Calder, Google vice president of engineering.
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The 10 Biggest Cloud Outages Of 2020
by Joseph Tsidulko
Here is CRN‘s list of the 10 most significant cloud outages in a year of unprecedented operational distractions.
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VMware Q3: Subscription And SaaS Eclipse On-Premises Licenses - A First
by Donna Goodison
Subscription and SaaS revenue rang in at $676 million, a 44 percent year-over-year increase from the same quarter last year, with better-than-expected growth in the VMware Cloud Provider Program, modern applications and VMware Cloud on AWS.
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10 Future Cloud Computing Trends To Watch In 2021
by Donna Goodison
From serverless, SASE and AI engineering to joint cloud provider offerings, CRN looks at the cloud trends expected to loom large next year.
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