Good read: The on-premises empire strikes back at AWS
Anybody who can read a financial report knows they are paying too much for compute, storage, networking, and software at Amazon Web Services. It is as obvious as the sun at noon. And it is also obvious – and increasingly so – that the retailing and media businesses at Amazon are as addicted to the AWS profits and the free compute capacity it gives to the corporate Amazon parent as IBM has ever been addicted to the high price of its vaunted mainframe platforms.
Good read: These Dutch cloud companies take on the reigning tech giants (Dutch article)
For years, Europe has been yearning for a European cloud alternative to the platforms of such reigning tech giants as Amazon, Microsoft, IBM and Google. One in three IT managers is even considering switching to a European alternative. AG Connect spoke with two Dutch cloud providers looking to break the power of big tech.
whitesky.cloud joins the battle against the big tech giants.
Good read: Carrefour Belgium: leading our move to cloud!
With 99,7% of its IT landscape moved to Google’s Cloud Platform, Belgium is the absolute frontrunner within the Carrefour Group when it concerns cloud adoption.
Good read: AV-Comparatives: Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud earns 100% detection rate, zero false-positives
Cloud technology has expanded the attack surface well beyond the confines of the traditional network. Today, cloud security is not only protecting a handful of resources, rather it is maintaining complete visibility over what third-party services and applications are processing or storing sensitive information and developing apps with minimal code issues.
