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SAP Expands Cloud Partnership with Google, More from SAPPHIRE
ORLANDO, Fla. — SAP expanded its cloud partnership with Google with new certification of SAP technology and applications on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Company officials made the announcement this week at the company's 30,000-attendee SAPPHIRE NOW and ASUG Annual Conference here at the Orange County Convention Center.
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Welcome Amazon Connect, the AWS Call Center Platform
Amazon Web Services (AWS) just released Amazon Connect — its "simple, scalable and reliable service" for running call centers. The service uses automatic speech recognition and artificial intelligence, some of the same technology used by Amazon.com’s own customer service system, to route and manage calls.
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How Your SaaS Company Can Survive a Cloud Outage
As a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company, a big part of the user experience (UX) for our customers is keeping our software up and running 24/7. Yes, design, ease of use, user interface and many other pieces of the puzzle are important as well.
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Amazon AWS S3 Outage Knocks Websites Out of The Cloud
Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) experienced substantial technical issues today — and thousands of websites paid the price. According to Amazon’s AWS service health dashboard, the S3 outage was due to “high error rates with S3 in US-EAST-1.” Whatever that means.
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Accenture Expands Partnership With AWS
Accenture is expanding its business group that helps companies migrate to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Accenture made the announcement today at AWS re:Invent, the annual AWS customer conference.
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Alfresco Offers Its Platform as a Managed Service on AWS
Alfresco, a provider of enterprise content management (ECM) and business process management (BPM) software, has announced the early availability of its platform as a managed service hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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This Big Data Archives Project Dates to 1848
Yes, we all know: this is the era of "turning big data into actionable insights." But imagine your organization's data traced back to 1848. That's the challenge for the Associated Press (AP), the global news agency that for three centuries has supplied publishers with stories and photographs. The Associated Press
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Solodev CMS Launches on AWS Marketplace
Solodev's recently released update of its enterprise web content management solution touts new features as well as a new cloud-hosting option. The Orlando, Fla.-based provider said Version 8 of its CMS is re-engineered for Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud hosting and distribution.
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Google Price Cuts, Amazon Restructuring Shake Up the Cloud
An information technology research firm has announced a decline in its cloud price index (CPI), attributing the fall to price cuts at Google and reductions of up to 43 percent on bandwidth by Amazon Web Services (AWS). 451 Research's Cloud Price Index fell 1.
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Outage Outrage As Microsoft's Azure Stumbles
Microsoft is trying to recover from a widespread outage that affected its Azure cloud platform across multiple regions. The company acknowledged that 11-hour issue, which started last night, affected customers with virtual machines in all regions other than the new Australian data center.
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Was Amazon Web Services the Winner in Xen Cloud Reboot?
A cloud portfolio management provider has done some Monday-morning quarterbacking through cloud hosting customers affected by the recent Xen hypervisor problem and reboot for major cloud players. The winner? If you go by Rightscale's numbers released today -- they surveyed about 449 customers of Amazon Web Services, Rackspace and SoftLayer
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AWS Message is Clear: Get Your Head Into Cloud for Agility
The attendance at last week's AWS Summit 2014 held in New York City may be an indication that the tide is finally turning. The event drew a record attendance and claimed to have more than 10,000 registrations.
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Google Targets Amazon, IBM, Microsoft with Broader Cloud Platform
After more than a year in preview, Google has finally made its Google Compute Engine (GCE) Generally Available (GA). The GA release also comes with a 10 percent price cut for standard instances and a guaranteed uptime of 99.95 percent. The announcement, which appears in a blog post by Ari Balogh,
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Take Your Seats: Microsoft Revs Up IaaS on Azure, Challenging AWS
Grab some popcorn. Microsoft has thrown down the proverbial gauntlet for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), upgrading its Azure cloud service for direct competition with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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