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
Salesforce Debuts IoT Cloud: For the Internet of Customers
With its newly announced Salesforce IoT Cloud, Salesforce looks to expand far beyond its traditional customer relationship management (CRM) and sales roots to become the central hub for the ...Full Article
It’s Game, Set, Match for Regulating Cloud Data
Like America's love of tennis, the cloud economy is growing exponentially. As organizations aggressively push cloud adoption, more sensitive and regulated data ends up in the hands of outside ...Full Article
VMware Stresses Integration in Hybrid Cloud Platform
VMware unveiled its "unified hybrid cloud platform" this week, stressing "tighter integration" of new public cloud services with a software-defined datacenter approach designed to speed the building and delivery ...Full Article
OpenStack Developer Gets Another Boost from Intel
OpenStack developer Mirantis is on the receiving end of another big investment round led by Intel Corp., which headed a previous $100 million funding round last October in the ...Full Article