Today, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced that Toyota Racing Development (TRD), the in-house engineering division for Toyota and Lexus motorsports programs, has gone all-in on AWS. Building its race intelligence system on the cloud with the most functionality has helped TRD’s teams win NASCAR races. TRD uses AWS’s industry-leading cloud services to create mission-critical applications that enable its crews to improve precision, consistency, and speed during practice runs and in competition. These race intelligence applications collect data from vehicles and their environments and apply real-time analytics and machine learning to better understand how a vehicle may handle on any track under any circumstance.

HyperCloud software runs fully virtualized within the Azure cloud platform and delivers scalable performance via parallel access across multiple Azure Virtual Machines. As a true bi-modal, multi-cloud, converged solution, data ingested into Azure Blob Storage is stored in native Azure Blob format. This allows stored data to be accessed by the full Azure application ecosystem, such as PowerBI, Azure Machine Learning, or Cortana Analytics.

"Cloudian HyperCloud for Azure is a game-changer for public cloud storage, enabling true bi-modal data storage across multiple cloud environments," said Michael Tso, Cloudian CEO and co-founder. "For the first time, customers have a fully supported, enterprise-ready solution to access their choice of cloud platforms from their S3-compliant applications. Customers can be up and running in minutes by launching HyperCloud from the Microsoft Azure Marketplace."

DXC Technology announced new application and managed service offerings for Microsoft Azure and Azure Stack that provide a wide range of services to accelerate and efficiently scale digital strategies across both public and private clouds. 

"Enterprises and public sector clients are facing increasing business pressures and regulatory changes that are accelerating the need for flexible, scalable cloud solutions," said Dan Hushon, senior vice president, chief technology officer, DXC Technology. "They need to optimize operations and performance across platforms to decrease costs and increase agility – all while maintaining compliance.

"The services we’re announcing today help clients with their Microsoft Azure strategies by providing the specialized tools, methods and skills needed to build, modernize, transform and migrate applications," Hushon continued. "They demonstrate commitment to strengthen our relationship with Microsoft to deliver services for Azure that empower enterprises to thrive in today’s dynamic business landscape."

Caringo announced today the availability of Caringo Swarm Hybrid Cloud for Microsoft Azure, allowing its customers to replicate files from S3, NFS, and HDFS to Azure in the Azure native Blob format. By seamlessly converting files from an S3 object, Caringo object, Azure Blob or NFS accessible file, you can send files to Azure for analysis, protection and long-term archive.

Most organizations are quickly outgrowing their traditional network attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) devices and data growth continues to outpace storage resources and strain budgets. Organizations need to combine the security of a private cloud with the efficiency and additional services of a public cloud. Caringo Swarm Hybrid Cloud for Microsoft Azure provides the flexibility and agility to execute computing tasks, while keeping the most vital components behind your company’s firewall.

Building on four years of customer success with companies including Coatue, DBRS, Eventbrite, Mashable, Monsanto, and Moody’s Analytics, Domino on AWS delivers a superior customer-centric experience spanning the full data science lifecycle. Domino Model Delivery, a new module in Domino’s platform, allows data science teams to weave new and improved models into business processes seamlessly, making a bigger impact without burdening IT or Engineering personnel. Moody’s Analytics recently licensed Domino to create a platform that accelerates the development and deployment of tailored models for its customers.

"Moody’s Analytics selected Domino and AWS to deliver our data and analytics in a way that are tailored to provide our customers with confidence and transparency, " said Jacob Grotta, Managing Director at Moody’s Analytics. "With this new platform, our clients will get access to Moody’s Analytics data, models, and expertise in a collaborative workspace that accelerates model development, validation, delivery, and maintenance. The platform enables clients to combine our modeling processes and data, with their own data and business insight, to create models that fit their unique needs."

Today at Microsoft Ignite 2017, NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the information and communications technology (ICT) solutions business within the NTT Group, announced that it has enhanced its Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) offering by leveraging Microsoft Azure Site Recovery. Providing capabilities previously too expensive or complex for on-premises solutions, the new DRaaS offering enables replication of enterprise workloads to an NTT Com data center or Microsoft Azure, assuring real-time business continuity (BC) in the case of unexpected server failures or planned downtime.

One of the world’s largest cloud, network and data center providers, NTT Com has brought its global IT capabilities to DRaaS; and for the last several years, leading technology analysts have positioned NTT Com as one of the top providers in this space. An automated disaster recovery software solution, Microsoft Azure Site Recovery is built upon the capabilities of Azure, named by Gartner as a leader in multiple cloud categories. The integration of Azure Site Recovery within NTT Com’s managed services platform provides a powerful, flexible and affordable enterprise solution that overcomes limitations and reduces costs.

Today, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced that Randstad, a leading international staffing and recruitment company, will migrate its global data centers to AWS. With this move, Randstad aims to increase efficiencies and align IT infrastructure with its digital vision to provide high-quality service to its customers around the world. AWS’s proven security and operational expertise helps Randstad protect sensitive data and meet its compliance needs. Randstad also has access to the most robust and full-featured set of cloud capabilities with AWS, allowing Randstad to innovate from idea to launch in record time.

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Time-intensive tasks like server maintenance and keeping track of in-house storage can feel like throwing man-hours into a black hole. Human innovation has always been driven by the desire to increase productivity – to perform a task more efficiently in the same amount of time. For businesses today, freeing up an employee’s time to focus on more critical tasks has a huge impact on performance and, ultimately, the bottom line. 

The tech industry is being bombarded by innovations, and the applications of a new technology are rarely fully explored when it first arrives on the scene. The functionality of the cloud dates back to the 1950s, but its applications have been changing and growing. 

The main benefit for a business is the flexibility that cloud computing offers. Instead of purchasing and maintaining servers on which to store data and run applications, businesses can pay for the computing power they need on a network of off-site servers. If a quick scale up, or down, is required, they can just pay for more or less space. 

For today’s tech-savvy businesses, cloud computing offers a number of solutions to other time-intensive tasks by moving them online. It’s allowing marketing teams to collaborate more easily, it’s making points of physical interaction with customers smoother, and it’s becoming the preferred way to handle financial data. 

CloudCheckr, the enterprise cloud management platform, today announced the availability of its software products on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace for AWS GovCloud (US), the platform for public sector software and compliance-focused solutions for regulated IT workloads. AWS GovCloud (US) bolsters the ability of government and government-related organizations to transform and modernize their digital operations using the cloud. The availability of AWS Marketplace in the region allows customers to streamline processes and discover reliable cloud management vendors with advanced security and compliance capabilities. With the announcement of AWS Marketplace for AWS GovCloud (US), customers may access CloudCheckr services in AWS Marketplace.

"Public sector organizations are increasingly gaining operational advantages when moving to the cloud," said Barry Russell, General Manager of Global Business Development, AWS Marketplace and Service Catalog, Amazon Web Services, Inc. "Our customers want easy-to-deploy solutions to drive data-driven operational efficiencies and speed innovation. CloudCheckr has demonstrated deep experience in cybersecurity and cloud management and we look forward to having their solutions on AWS GovCloud Marketplace."

OnApp has launched a new version of its OnApp Enterprise private cloud management solution that adds automated workflow management for enterprise IT departments. Available now in OnApp Enterprise v5.5, a new transaction approval and notification system allows enterprises to require management approval for a range of actions in their OnApp private clouds, helping them improve cloud governance, control costs and manage user access to IT resources.

With the new version of OnApp Enterprise, companies can configure any number of user roles to require approval for actions impacting cost, resource availability and application availability – for example, creating or deleting virtual servers, or adding resources to a virtual server. The new functionality builds on OnApp’s extensive Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) engine, catalog management and self-service UI to enable enterprises to deliver a highly-automated public cloud experience across one or more datacenters, safely within constraints set by IT and business management.