Grazed from Gadgets360. Author: Editorial Staff.

Amazon.com’s cloud business, Amazon Web Services, said that more than 1,000 databases have been moved to the AWS cloud by customers since the beginning of the year. The AWS Data Migration Service, which allows migration of databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, MariaDB and PostgreSQL from on-premises data centres to AWS, is now available to all customers, the company said on Tuesday.

Amazon Web Services said that Expedia, Pegasystems, and Thomas Publishing are among many of the customers who have moved on-premises databases to Amazon Aurora and other Amazon RDS engines. Cloud computing is the fastest growing business for Amazon, which until recently was mostly known as an online marketplace…

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Grazed from MorningStart. Author: Jay Greene.

Oracle Corp. posted solid growth in its cloud-computing businesses in the last quarter, even as it wrestled with the challenge of a strong U.S. dollar. The Redwood City, Calif., maker of business software often is thought of as late to Web-based computing on demand. But it recently has beefed up its cloud offerings, and customers have responded with enthusiasm.

Oracle’s total cloud revenue in the quarter ended Feb. 29 rose 40% to $735 million. Because the company books overseas sales in foreign currencies, quarterly cloud revenue would have gained 44% measured in constant currency. "The world is shifting faster to the cloud, and Oracle is adapting appropriately," said Bill Kreher, an analyst at Edward Jones…

"Intelligent workload management is a crucial component to the success of nearly every IT initiative, from managing a diverse infrastructure to deploying multi- and hybrid cloud solutions," said Shmuel Kliger, President and Founder of VMTurbo. "We continue to add data center entities to our market-based algorithm, transforming a whole new set of infrastructure into an available pool of resources. This release extends our mission to provide control for any workload, across any cloud, any time, anywhere."

Registration is now available for this free cloud training course.

This is the second edX MOOC offered by The Linux Foundation. Its first course, Intro to Linux, has reached more than 500,000 students globally and continues to grow in registrations.

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The continued growth of big data, the ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT), and expanding corporate data lakes is driving companies to move an increasing percentage of data processing to the cloud. In fact, Gartner expects that enterprise iPaaS will continue to grow at a double-digit rate over the next five years. Talend Integration Cloud delivers the fast, scalable, elastic, and secure technology businesses need to keep pace with their growing stores of data and transform that information into real-time insight.

"OpenStack’s 12th release represents a significant milestone in terms of technical maturity and enables even more enterprises to make the move to open, hybrid cloud computing environments," says Grant Kirkwood, Founder & CTO of Unitas Global. "Unitas helps architect and guide enterprise customers through deploying and operating custom OpenStack environments to create open, dynamic and production-grade clouds without the complexity and hassle associated with going it alone."

Grazed from CRN. Author: Kevin McLaughlin.

Alphabet’s Google has quietly scored a major coup in its campaign to become an enterprise cloud computing powerhouse, landing Apple as a customer for the Google Cloud Platform, multiple sources with knowledge of the matter told CRN this week.

Since inking the Google deal late last year, Apple has also significantly reduced its reliance on Amazon Web Services, whose infrastructure it uses to run parts of iCloud and other services, said the sources, who all requested anonymity to protect their relationships with the vendors. Apple has not abandoned AWS entirely and remains a customer, the sources said…

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Zadara Storage, the provider of enterprise-class Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS), and Headwaters Group today announced that Zadara’s award-winning Virtual Private Storage Array (VPSA) platform is now available as part of the Headwaters Group Storage-as-a-Service offering.

Headwaters Group has built a strong reputation for delivering sophisticated technical professional services to enterprise IT channel solution providers and end customers, in the design, implementation and optimization of their storage and data technology infrastructure. As data technologies and complexity increase, both providers and users are recognizing that the traditional approach of allocating capital for large storage array expenditures and then depreciating and maintaining those complex devices has become inefficient and will not scale.