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• AWS rolls out Outposts for on-premises hybrid cloud

  Cisco, Aruba and Juniper are supporting Amazon's Outposts hybrid-cloud service supported by hardware in customers' private data centres.

• Cisco goes deep into AWS Outposts with SD-WAN, data centre, security support

  Cisco took its integration with AWS to a new level by integrating its SD-WAN, network services and security with Outposts.

• VMware tightens AWS cloud integration

  RDS on VMware is available for customers running VMware vSphere 6.5 or later and supports Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MySQL.

• Back-up the data in AWS Elastic Block Store

  A recent Amazon outage resulted in a small number of customers losing production data stored in their accounts.

• Public cloud winners take all

  It’s earnings season for the public cloud vendors and the chatter over who’s winning is heating up.

• Free Amazon Web Services -- and how to make the most of them

  If you avoid some gotchas and keep a close eye on resource usage, you can have a handy server in the Amazon cloud for free

• Serverless in the cloud: AWS vs. Google Cloud vs. Microsoft Azure

  With AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Microsoft Azure Functions, a little bit of business logic can go a very long way

• Oracle’s cloud bravado masks its database despair

  Oracle is a fantastic database for yesteryear’s enterprise applications, but is a poor fit for modern, big data applications

• Open source innovation is now all about vendor on-ramps

  AWS, Microsoft, and Google are all racing to figure out how to turn their innovations into open source on-ramps to their proprietary services

• The critics are wrong about AWS’s open source approach

  Open source contributions aren’t selfless charity but a virtuous intersection of corporate, user, and community benefit. Which is how AWS approaches open source

• If AWS is serious about Kubernetes, here’s what it must do

  Amazon’s new membership in the CNCF isn’t matched by actual code contributions to the Google-driven container project. That could ultimately hurt AWS

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  TechnologyOne Uses NetApp to Optimize Cloud Services

  TechnologyOne is Australia’s largest enterprise software company. The company had two world-class data centres in Brisbane but after a three-day outage caused by the 2011 floods, it moved away from having its own data centres, opting instead to buy Infrastructure-as-a-Service from Amazon Web Services (AWS). After four years of developing innovative cloud services, TechnologyOne saw that cloud storage was becoming a critical issue for its customers. So it called in NetApp to help it find the most cost-efficient, scalable and agile data management solution.

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  The Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Planning Guide

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  Migrating to AWS: Best Practices and Strategies