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AWS Launches Amazon Personalize to Bring ML Technology to its Customers

Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, announced the general availability of Amazon Personalize, bringing the same machine learning technology used by Amazon.com to AWS customers for use in their applications – with no machine learning experience required.

Microsoft and Oracle to Interconnect Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud

Microsoft Corp. and Oracle Corp. announced a cloud interoperability partnership enabling customers to migrate and run mission-critical enterprise workloads across Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud. Enterprises can now seamlessly connect Azure services, like Analytics and AI, to Oracle Cloud[...]

How to Implement a Multi-CDN Strategy

Many enterprises are finding it increasingly difficult to deliver a consistently high-quality end user experience to a global online audience using a single Content Delivery Network (CDN). CDN providers have different strengths and weaknesses so it is unsurprising when a single provider does not[...]

What Bad Bots Do (and How You Can Stop Them)

Bad bots scrape data from sites without permission in order to reuse it (e.g., pricing, inventory levels) and gain a competitive edge. The truly nefarious ones undertake criminal activities, such as fraud and outright theft.

Cloud Security Spend Set to Reach $12.6B by 2023

Businesses are expected to spend $12.6 billion on cloud security tools by 2023, up from $5.6 billion in 2018 and with an especially close focus on public cloud native platform security, Forrester reports.

Threat Group Employs Amazon-Style Fulfillment Model to Distribute Malware

A threat group with possible connections to the operators of the notorious Necurs botnet has employed what security vendor Bromium this week described as an Amazon-style fulfillment model to host and distribute malware on behalf of other cybercriminals.

Aqua Security Closes $62M in Funding

Aqua Security, the market leader in protecting container-based, serverless and cloud native applications, announced that it has closed a Series C round of $62M led by Insight Partners. Aqua’s existing investors – Lightspeed Venture Partners, M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund), TLV Partners, and Shlomo[...]

Vendor Revenue from IT Infrastructure Products for Cloud Environments Grew 28% Year Over Year

Vendor revenue from sales of IT infrastructure products (server, enterprise storage, and Ethernet switch) for cloud environments, including public and private cloud, grew 28.0% year over year in the fourth quarter of 2018 (4Q18), reaching $16.8 billion.

Security and Privacy Still the Top Inhibitors of Cloud Adoption

Cloud adoption is gaining momentum, as 36 percent of organizations are currently in the process of migrating to the cloud while close to 20 percent consider themselves to be in the advanced stages of implementation.

Stealing Corporate Funds Still Top Goal of Messaging Attacks

Attackers continue to use many of the same phishing techniques as in the past, but, increasingly, the scams are much more targeted and, in some cases, have moved to mobile devices, according to two reports published today.