SaaS (software as a service) is not a new term and has shown continued adoption and growth year on year since the term first appeared fifteen years ago, with its commonality and mass adoption only...
Month : May 2021
The most innovative companies of 2021 according to BCG: Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft all make it
Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Tesla are considered the five most innovative companies, according to BCG’s analysis of the 50 most innovative companies of 2021 Abbott Labs, AstraZeneca, Comcast, Mitsubishi, and Moderna join the top 50 most innovative companies for...
The Israeli Government has penned a $1 billion+ deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google for public sector and military cloud services. The tech giants are thought to have beaten Microsoft, Oracle and IBM...
Containership fleet owner advances digital transformation strategy with Google Cloud
Ocean Network Express (ONE), owner of the world’s sixth largest containership fleet, has selected Google Cloud to help with its digital transformation. The next-generation shipping company hopes to boost its operational efficiency by running its...
La Liga expands Microsoft Azure partnership for OTT services and ML enhancements
La Liga, the foremost Spanish football league, has expanded its partnership with Microsoft Azure to focus on machine learning (ML), over the top (OTT) services, as well as augmented reality. The two companies promise to ‘digitally transform the sports...
Building trust will be “deciding factor in cloud service provider competition” in 2021
Spend on cloud infrastructure services by US-based companies grew 29% in Q1 2021 to a record $18.6 billion (£13.10bn), after global cloud spend consolidated in 2020. Total cloud expenditure in the US increased $4.2bn (£2.96bn)...
NHS Scotland’s track and trace system utilizes Microsoft Azure
NHS Scotland has teamed up with Microsoft to develop a new COVID-19 track and trace system as coronavirus-related restrictions begin to ease. The solution uses QR codes that, when scanned with a device, take the...
How Stream Analyze is looking towards the edge and beyond ‘stale data’ to make AI happen everywhere
Stream Analyze, headquartered in Sweden, describes itself as a provider of ‘AI everywhere’ technology. The company’s story is a fascinating one – and it is using edge computing to deliver on its promise. Co-founders Tore...
Are you dialing in? Best practice for virtual and hybrid presentations
The past year has brought a magnitude of changes for the marketing teams that most people thought would take a decade to take hold. The immediate impact of the pandemic was cancelled events, and sales...
KubeCon Europe roundup: Key developments for Kubernetes on the edge
Kubernetes (K8s) is the key component in the data centres modernising and adopting cloud-native development architecture to deliver applications using containers. Capabilities such as orchestrating VMs and containers together make Kubernetes the go-to platform for...