The University of Newcastle (UoN) has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in a decision to exit completely from its on-premise data centre and migrate to the AWS Cloud by September 2020.According to UoN CIO Anthony Molinia, the university's cloud-first strategy was manifested from its digital strategic plan that was released in mid-July 2017."The cloud-first strategy is a principle that we adopted as a desire to transform and as a way to change the organisation not just from tooling perspective and what the cloud offers from a server, compute, and storage capacity, but also from an operating model perspective, as well as a new way of working to deliver value to the organisation," he told ZDNet.Molinia added the decision for the migration was also prompted by demolition plans."There was always the intention to migrate to the cloud but the building in which the data centre resides in is where the Pam Collins precinct is being developed, so the building is being demolished. It … [Read more...] about University of Newcastle to shift all workloads to AWS Cloud by 2020
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How the health care sector can tap into more data in Salesforce's Health Cloud ZDNet's Stephanie Condon talks with TechRepublic's Karen Roby about how health care providers, payers and other parts of the industry can now add "social determinants" to the Health Cloud. Read more: https://zd.net/2By418A Special Feature Special Report: Industry Cloud (free PDF) This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet / TechRepublic special feature, looks at how the industry cloud has taken off and big businesses have been built by the likes of Veeva, Rootstock and others. Read More The movement of data to the cloud has exploded over the past few years, with cloud giants like AWS, Microsoft, and Google taking the enterprise by storm. The global cloud infrastructure services market grew 42% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2019, according to a recent Canalys report."When we use the term 'cloud' and when our clients use the term 'cloud', they typically are thinking in at least three different … [Read more...] about Top 5 industry clouds in the enterprise
Mapping the industry cloud landscape
How the health care sector can tap into more data in Salesforce's Health Cloud ZDNet's Stephanie Condon talks with TechRepublic's Karen Roby about how health care providers, payers and other parts of the industry can now add "social determinants" to the Health Cloud. Read more: https://zd.net/2By418A Special Feature Special Report: Industry Cloud (free PDF) This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet / TechRepublic special feature, looks at how the industry cloud has taken off and big businesses have been built by the likes of Veeva, Rootstock and others. Read More SaaS applications often address broad business functions such as accounting and finance, analytics and business intelligence, collaboration, customer relationship management (CRM), e-commerce, enterprise resource planning (ERP), human resources (HR) and security. Most companies require these functions, and the leading SaaS providers in each area -- most notably Salesforce in CRM -- have prospered as a result. However, … [Read more...] about Mapping the industry cloud landscape
CIO Jury: Two-thirds of tech leaders use industry cloud services
8 cloud computing priorities for CIOs in 2019 Vendor lock-in worries to creating a single version of cloud data: here are some trends to watch for. Special Feature Special Report: Industry Cloud (free PDF) This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet / TechRepublic special feature, looks at how the industry cloud has taken off and big businesses have been built by the likes of Veeva, Rootstock and others. Read More With the majority of organizations moving business-critical applications and processes to the cloud, many are beginning to move outside of cloud giants like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, and toward industry cloud services and vendors, according to a TechRepublic CIO Jury poll.Industry cloud services operate within a vertical space, focusing on specialized processes with tools, technologies, and business services tailored to a specific industry, and are managed by vendors that aim to understand the specific needs of a given … [Read more...] about CIO Jury: Two-thirds of tech leaders use industry cloud services
Play & Manage Your Music Collection With Rhythmbox [Linux]
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