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Friction between finance and tech leaders prevents companies from controlling cloud spend

Duncan MacRae — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 10:27:22 +0000

Vertice, an optimisation platform for SaaS and cloud spend, has unveiled the results of its global survey, ‘The State of Cloud Cost Optimisation’, which reveals that organisations are being held back from controlling their cloud spending and gaining ROI because of a lack of alignment between finance and tech leaders. Amidst cloud costs rising by... Read more »

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FAQs: How blockchain and cloud compare – and complement each other

Niamh O’Connell — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 10:48:58 +0000

By Niamh O’Connell, senior business development manager at CasperLabs. Companies have relied on commercial storage providers to house their data since the 1960s – and when cloud services were introduced in the 2000s, early adopters quickly benefited from greater scalability, flexibility, fewer maintenance responsibilities, and improved security. Today, blockchain technology is similarly poised to transform... Read more »

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Salesforce employees are protesting the company’s NFT plans

Fin Strathern — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 11:12:58 +0000

Hundreds of Salesforce employees are protesting against the company’s plans to offer non-fungible token (NFT) services, according to the Thomas Reuters Foundation. More than 400 employees have signed an open letter addressed to Salesforce’s co-CEOs calling for them to abandon their crypto plans. Marc Benioff and Bren Taylor, the company’s CEOs, revealed intentions to build... Read more »

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Salesforce reportedly working on NFT cloud service

Fin Strathern — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 11:00:12 +0000

Cloud software specialist Salesforce is working on an non-fungible token (NFT) cloud service, according to a CNBC report. The plans were revealed by Salesforce co-CEOs Marc Benioff and Bret Taylor during an online sales call, with references made to companies like Pepsi which are making similar NFT plays. Salesforce, which mostly provides cloud-based software for... Read more »

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Ransomware mitigation sees focus from AWS, Azure, Google Cloud

Fin Strathern — Thu, 16 Sep 2021 15:16:00 +0000

Ransomware mitigation strategies have become an increasingly important aspect of major cloud providers’ offering following the pandemic. In recent weeks, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud have all published articles recommending mitigation tactics and best practice in the event of a ransomware attack. A ransomware attack occurs when company files are encrypted... Read more »

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Five leading trends of database innovation: Cloud-native, self-driving, and more

Dr. Feifei Li — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 00:14:22 +0000

In the wake of the pandemic, one trend that emerged is the need for digitalisation, and this will continue – and even grow – in the future. And, while it’s still not clear exactly what that actual economic impact of Covid-19 will be, IDC predicts that the digital economy will accelerate to counter this. The... Read more »

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AWS makes Ethereum generally available on Amazon Managed Blockchain

James Bourne — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 12:07:13 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability (GA) of Ethereum on its managed blockchain service. The open source blockchain joins Hyperledger Fabric as compatible with Amazon Managed Blockchain – in a move which will add power to Ethereum’s offering, but also showcases AWS’ latent ambitions in the space. A preview had been showcased... Read more »

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HSBC moves Corda enterprise blockchain technology to Google Cloud

James Bourne — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 10:43:15 +0000

HSBC has become the first financial institution to move Corda Enterprise onto Google Cloud, promising reduced client onboarding times and costs. The bank uses Corda, from R3, for its custody blockchain platform, Digital Vault. The service, launched in November 2019, digitises the transaction records of private placement assets, from equity, to debt, and real estate.... Read more »

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Google Cloud advertises for blockchain sales manager in China

James Bourne — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:48:04 +0000

Google Cloud is looking for a business development manager based in China focused on blockchain technologies. According to a LinkedIn job advert posted a week ago, the ideal candidate is expected to have a decade of experience selling infrastructure software, databases, analytic tools or applications software, and knowledge of C-suite dealings, among other qualifications. The... Read more »

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Google Cloud teams up with Theta Labs for blockchain-based video delivery

James Bourne — Wed, 27 May 2020 23:16:57 +0000

Google Cloud has brokered another partnership in its exploration of blockchain technologies, with the company joining the enterprise program of blockchain-based video delivery network Theta Labs. Google has joined the grandly-named Enterprise Validator Program, alongside Binance, Blockchain Ventures, and Gumi, which ‘allows enterprises to validate transactions in accordance with Theta’s underlying consensus protocol’, in its... Read more »

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