New Safe Harbor Worries Over Data Privacy Could Push Business to Cloud
October 6 was quite an interesting day for consumer privacy. After 15 years in place, the Safe Harbor agreement was declared invalid by Europe’s highest court, the Court of ...Full Article
Cost Worries Grow Along with Cloud Adoption
More data points emerged this week about cloud adoption rates as well as the reasons behind application delivery snafus in the cloud and virtual platforms. The findings emerged in ...Full Article
VMware, New Dell Unit, Refreshes Cloud Platform
VMware rolled out a batch of upgrades to its hybrid cloud management platform a day after it was merged as part of EMC Corp. with Dell Inc. VMware (NYSE: ...Full Article
AWS Launches Container Services, DevOps Tools Follow
Amazon Web Services (AMZN) beefed up the Docker application container infrastructure this week with the roll out of a container registry and interface tool designed to scale and rapidly ...Full Article
Stormy Seas Ahead for Safe Harbor Users
When Europe's top court declared the Safe Harbor data-transfer agreement invalid, it should not have come as a surprise to those who follow the continent's privacy rulings. But now ...Full Article
IBM Expands Bluemix With ‘Local’ Security
The steady enterprise shift to the hybrid cloud infrastructure brings with it greater requirements for managing that infrastructure while moving data and applications securely between on-premise platforms and public ...Full Article
Microsoft Unveils Azure Containers
Microsoft filled in the details of its application container strategy with the unveiling of its Azure Container Service based on partnerships with Docker and datacenter OS and container orchestration ...Full Article
Private Cloud Cures Rehab Provider’s Tech Overload
The Watershed Addiction Treatment Programs gives substance and alcohol abusers the tools they need to recover from once overpowering addictions. Yet the fast-growing treatment center's small IT team did ...Full Article
Healthcare Shift to the Cloud Quickens
Among the emerging use cases for cloud and other IT platforms is the digitization of health records, an application with strict regulatory guidelines but a crying need for modernization ...Full Article
AWS Back in Business, but Enterprises Can Learn from Outage
Amazon Web Services appears to have recovered from an outage that disrupted customers including Tinder, Netflix, and IMDb on Sunday. And while the service's disruption should not dissuade businesses ...Full Article