Platforms
Google Cloud Named A Leader In Latest Forrester Research IaaS Platform Native Security Wave
The adoption of cloud services has created a generational opportunity to meaningfully improve information security and reduce risk. As an organization moves applications and data to the cloud, they can take advantage of native security capabilities in their cloud platform. Done well, use of these engineered-in platform capabilities can simplify security to the extent that …
Projects For Coordinating COVID Vaccination Campaign Rely On Retarus Communications Platform
In recent months it has become clearly evident, just how crucial it is for IT processes to function well and reliably communicate with patients. Now key healthcare projects have entrusted Retarus with contributing to the success of their vaccination efforts with its Transactional Email Services and Enterprise SMS Services. Following promising advances in the development …
Connecting Urban Environments With IoT And Digital Twins
As urbanization continues to take hold and cities face challenges to become more sustainable and livable, urban planning and operations strategies must adapt. The current pandemic has changed the way we live, accelerating cities’ future vision as a necessity of the present and what it means to live in a connected and resilient urban environment. …
Doing Your Holiday Shopping Online? Here Are 10 Tips For Avoiding Scams
The holiday season is already a booming time for online shopping. The COVID-19 pandemic only increases the likelihood that when people shop this holiday season, they will choose online shopping over brick-and-mortar stores. However, this also means there is likely to be a boom in online scams. Already, multiple companies from outside the U.S. are …
Retention: How To Set Up An Effective Strategy
Historically the focus of the app industry has been user acquisition (UA). Standard tactics and best practices are now widely available, which anyone can use to refine their strategy. As UA becomes more expensive, however, and conversion strategies are already highly optimized, there has been a shift in focus towards stronger engagement with existing users and retaining …
Interxion: A Digital Realty Company Continues To Extend Global Platform With Expansion Project In Zurich
Interxion: A Digital Realty Company (NYSE: DLR) and a leading European provider of carrier- and cloud-neutral colocation data centre solutions, announced it has begun construction on a major expansion project in Zurich. The new facility will be developed in three phases and is expected to support the delivery of over 11,000 square metres of total …
Built With The Google Maps Platform Gaming Solution
On June 15, 2020 we announced the general availability of the Google Maps Platform Gaming solution, including the Maps SDK for Unity and Playable Locations API, to officially bring our knowledge of the world to all games built with Unity for the first time. The goal of the Gaming solution is to enable developers to build real-world and location-based …
DevOps + Serverless = Event Driven Automation
Does Cloud Native technology replace older DevOps tools, like Kubernetes replacing configuration management? Or does it supplement it instead? Replacement is a popular narrative, but it’s much more effective to use the new technologies to enhance and rebuild the older ones. In our case, we’re going to explain how we use Kubernetes, CloudEvents, and Knative …
Financial Services Companies Are Starting To Use The Cloud For Big Data And AI Processing
The financial sector has historically been nervous about allowing its data to go off premises, making it harder to scale. Now it’s allowing for some data in the cloud to speed AI and data management. Financial services companies are and continue to be focused on maintaining a majority of their mission-critical systems on premises, where they …
ABB Information Systems Selects Google Cloud To Expand Its Cloud Footprint
Google Cloud announced it has been selected by ABB to further expand the cloud footprint of its Information System (IS) services. The Swiss-headquartered global technology leader has chosen Google Cloud as part of the organization’s ‘Rationalizing IT Operations’ (code named: Program RIO) initiative, which seeks to further increase the scalability and resilience of its infrastructure …