Public Cloud
AWS Announces AWS BugBust—The World’s First Global Competition To Find And Fix 1 Million Software Bugs
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced the AWS BugBust Challenge, the world’s first global competition for developers to collectively eliminate one million software bugs. With just a few clicks, developers from around the world can join the challenge by creating an AWS BugBust event for their organization in the …
Are We There Yet? Thoughts On Assessing An SRE Team’s Maturity
One facet of our work as Customer Reliability Engineers—Google Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) tapped to help Google Cloud customers develop that practice in their own organizations—is advising operations or SRE teams to improve their operational maturity. We’ve noticed a recurring question cropping up across many of these discussions, usually phrased along the lines of “is what …
Texas A&M-Purdue Researchers Bring “Digital Agriculture” Into Oracle Cloud
Advanced data technologies are poised to revolutionize farming in a way that enriches the world with greater food security and sustainability. With collaboration between Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension and Lyles School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University, Drs. Juan Landivar and Jinha Jung’s Digital Agriculture team is at the forefront of combining age-old …
Technology Collaboration To Close The Digital Divide
What’s new: As part of Intel’s $50 million Pandemic Response Technology Initiative to combat COVID-19, Intel, AWS and Megh Computing today announced a collaboration to deploy a Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) private network solution that will cover a three-quarter-mile area and enable remote learning with broadband access as an essential service for an underserved community in Sacramento, …
DevOps On Google Cloud: Tools To Speed Up Software Development Velocity
Editor’s note: Today we hear from ForgeRock, a multinational identity and access management software company with more than 1,100 enterprise customers, including a major public broadcaster. In total, customers use the ForgeRock Identity Platform to authenticate and log in over 45 million users daily, helping them manage identity, governance, and access management across all platforms, including on-premises and …
13 Best Practices For User Account, Authentication, And Password Management, 2021 Edition
Updated for 2021: This post includes updated best practices including the latest from Google’s Best Practices for Password Management whitepapers for both users and system designers. Account management, authentication and password management can be tricky. Often, account management is a dark corner that isn’t a top priority for developers or product managers. The resulting experience …
Nutanix Helps Public Sector Adopt Cloud Smart Strategy With Clusters On AWS GovCloud
Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX), a leader in private, hybrid and multicloud computing, announced the Nutanix cloud platform now extends to AWS GovCloud, providing a unified cloud platform across Nutanix on-premises and bare metal Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud region. This new solution helps enable U.S. public sector …
6 Database Trends To Watch
In a data-driven, global, always-on world, databases are the engines that let businesses innovate and transform. As databases get more sophisticated and more organizations look for managed database services to handle infrastructure needs, there are a few key trends we’re seeing. Here’s what to watch. Source Google Cloud Blog
Alibaba Cloud Named A Leader In FaaS Platforms Report By Independent Research Firm
Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, has been named a Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) leader in The Forrester Wave™: Function-As-A-Service Platforms, Q1 2021 report. According to the report, FaaS platforms give developers a quick way to build cloud-native microservices by abstracting away the complexities of managing and scaling clusters of containers or …
How Businesses Can Realize The Benefits Of The Cloud
Businesses are increasingly leveraging cloud technologies to increase scalability, security and efficiency. But progress has been lacking at achieving impact at scale. Cloud transformation requires deep expertise and operating model change. More than 90% of businesses are leveraging cloud technologies and have started migrating applications to leverage the scalability, security and efficiency that the cloud provides. But …