Cloud Computing

Google has opened pre-orders for Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise, a new collection of generative AI features for its cloud-based productivity suite. With this new offering, Google said that it has taken into account the feedback the company received when it announced the Duet AI for Google Workspace public beta at its annual I/O…

Microsoft Dev Box, the company’s new Azure service that provides access to a developer workstation in the cloud is getting new features ahead of its general availability. Following the launch of a public preview back in August, Microsoft announced at its Build developer conference today that Microsoft Dev Box will become generally available in July…

Microsoft is changing its Windows Server 2022 licensing policies to better compete with rivals. Earlier this month, the company quietly updated the Product Terms page with three major changes that should help organizations to reduce costs and drive cloud adoption (via The Register). Microsoft explained that customers no longer need a minimum of 16 core…

In this post, I want to discuss a topic that is getting an increasing amount of attention in Europe: the impact of cloud computing on the energy sector. This was already a concern before the current energy crisis started, but the power consumption of cloud computing is rarely out of the news now. First of…

How should your company select an Azure virtual machine? Aidan Finn lays out what the series and preset sizes really mean and offers guidelines for getting the most for your budget.

Cloud repatriation appears to be one of the new IT hot topics of 2023. For companies that invested time and money into transferring some of their workloads to the cloud, why would it now make sense to bring some of them back to on-premises resources? Well, I’ll explain in this article why cloud repatriation is…

We’ve come a long way since those days and have seen technology evolve to support data stored in business cloud platforms such as Microsoft 365. In recent years, the digital revolution has made data more portable and more accessible, but crucially it has also made that data more vulnerable in many ways. Fortunately, if your organization…

Security ranks pretty high on everyone’s lists nowadays and that’s definitely true for Amazon Web Services as well. Earlier this month, Amazon announced that Amazon EC2 instances now support both NitroTPM and UEFI Secure Boot. The announcement was originally made back in December during Amazon’s re:Invent 2021 event, where the company detailed new innovations coming…

Amazon recently announced the general availability of license-included Visual Studio software on Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances. This means that organizations no longer need to separately purchase and install Visual Studio for their EC2 instances, which are the Amazon Web Services versions of cloud-based virtual machines. “Amazon EC2 provides a broad choice of instances, and customers not…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is without a doubt the world’s leading cloud services provider, and it’s still racing ahead of Microsoft’s Azure cloud and the Google Cloud Platform. However, not everyone may be familiar with AWS and its various services. In this article, we’ll try to answer some of the most common questions you may…