Novetta secures US Army CAMO contract
McLean, VA-based Novetta announced May 13 that it was awarded an agreement under the SOSSEC Consortium’s Other Transactional Authority (OTA) Cyberspace Operations Broad Responsive Agreement (COBRA) vehicle for the Cloud Account Management Optimization (CAMO) effort with the U.S. Army’s Enterprise Cloud Management Agency (ECMA). Based on a request for a solution to reinvent their cloud management processes, the Army selected...
Highlights From IBM’s Think 2021 Conference
IBM announced advances in AI, hybrid cloud and quantum computing at its flagship event Think Conference, 2021, on May 11. Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna said, “In the same way that we electrified factories and machines in the past century, we will use hybrid cloud to infuse AI into software and systems in the 21st Century.” IBM plans to invest in partner ecosystem to facilitate deep industry collaboration, he added. Lindsey...
Top 6 Reasons Why Businesses Move to the Cloud
Making the move to the cloud brings a multitude of benefits for businesses, regardless of their size. For most, the change will usually translate in reduced running costs, faster modernisation capabilities and increased security – but there is more. The benefits of moving to the cloud go much further, especially following the climate brought by the global pandemic. The adoption of cloud infrastructure creates a much safer and more...
AT&T to provide private 5G, MEC to USC’s cancer research center
AT&T Business CEO: ‘5G is going to be a game-changer for the healthcare industry’ AT&T is deploying a private 5G network, as well as Multi-access Edge computing (MEC), at the University of Southern California’s (USC’s) Lawrence J. Ellison Institute for Transformative Medicine to support cancer research, treatment and wellness education. The combination of AT&T’s MEC and millimeter wave (mmWave) network, called...
Linux Foundation Collaborates With the CNCF, Vitess 10 Made Generally Available & Quarterly…
Linux Foundation Collaborates With the CNCF, Vitess 10 Made Generally Available & Quarterly Kubernetes Release AbolishedThese news articles were originally published on The Chief I/O Cloud-native news.Linux...
A guide to cloud computing, the multibillion-dollar industry that powers your favorite apps
Cloud computing transmits data to your computer via the internet, rather than letting you download it permanently. MoMo Productions/Getty Images Cloud computing is the delivery of on-demand computing services over...
How to deploy a single Kubernetes cluster across multiple clouds using k3s and WireGuard
Kubernetes is hard enough, and now your boss tells you to migrate your application from AWS to Azure, split your back end and front end between public and private data centers, and deploy to six different environments...
Privacy concerns cause tensions over data localization and data transfers to rise
A recurrent theme on this blog has been the growing importance of controlling cross-border data flows, in part because of concerns about privacy. One increasingly popular approach with governments is to require data localization, whereby a country’s personal data remains within its borders. Although some companies like Facebook have been fighting this tendency, others providing digital services have merely adjusted how they operate....
The Pentagon may axe its $10 billion JEDI cloud-computing contract with Microsoft because of endless litigation from Amazon, a report says
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images The Pentagon may pull its $10 billion cloud-computing JEDI defense contract with Microsoft, the WSJ reported. The contract...