Donna Goodison

Cloud Hosting Provider iNSYNQ Hit With Ransomware Attack

by Donna Goodison

'iNSYNQ continues to engage cyber-security experts for assistance and are working as quickly as we can to restore access to all impacted data,' the company said in a website post. 'We are not withholding backups. We simply cannot safely access them at this time.'

AWS MSP Mission Assists Boston Celtics’ Hoop Dreams With The Cloud

by Donna Goodison

'Their organization has been around for quite a long time, so we helped them really move from the waterfall software development approach to an agile software development approach,' says Glenn Grant, Mission's co-founder and president of its Eastern U.S. division. 'And we're continuing to work with them to upgrade the infrastructure to keep pace with that.'

Top New AWS Services Unveiled At re:Inforce 2019 Security Conference

by Donna Goodison

‘Extending AWS Marketplace into existing procurement systems is a win for organizations and AWS partners, says Mark Nunnikhoven, vice president of cloud research at Trend Micro. ‘It removes a big roadblock for customers by allowing them to use their existing procurement systems and process, and that will make it easier to test and acquire new technologies.’

Activists Protesting Amazon's ICE Ties Disrupt AWS Summit New York

by Donna Goodison

'I'm more than willing to have a conversation, but maybe they should let me finish first,' Amazon.com chief technology officer Werner Vogels said after protestors interrupted his keynote address multiple times

New Azure Migration Program A 'Wonderful' Partner Opportunity

by Donna Goodison

'What AMP does is try to accelerate the customers' comfort with Azure or even public cloud infrastructure for that matter,' says Jason Rook, vice president of market development for 10th Magnitude, which participated in the AMP pilot. 'That initial phase that every customer goes through – where they made the commitment (to migrate to the cloud), but they're still a bit in tire-kicking or exploration mode -- it's dramatically increased the velocity of that phase of a migration life cycle.'

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels Debuts 4 New AWS Tools At NY Summit

by Donna Goodison

The offerings include a serverless event bus, an open-source software development framework to model and provision cloud application resources using familiar programming languages, the general availability of the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code and the preview of managed spot training for Amazon SageMaker

New AWS Competency For ISVs Migrating Microsoft Workloads

by Donna Goodison

'It's a great way for partners to differentiate, but it's also in a high-demand area,' says Kelly Hartman, AWS' global head of the APN.

Rivals Microsoft And Oracle Partner To Connect Clouds

by Donna Goodison

‘With this partnership, our joint customers can migrate their entire set of existing applications to the cloud without having to re-architect anything, preserving the large investments they have already made,’ says Don Johnson, executive vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

Google Cloud Buying Elastifile To Extend Enterprise File Storage Services

by Donna Goodison

'The combination of Elastifile and Google Cloud will support bringing traditional workloads into GCP (Google Cloud Platform) faster and simplify the management and scaling of data and compute-intensive workloads,' Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian said.

Global IT Salaries Hit New High: 2019 IT Skills and Salary Report

by Donna Goodison

‘The top-paying jobs, industries and certifications are associated with high salaries for a reason—those are the skills most coveted and most needed in IT departments,’ Global Knowledge’s report states. ‘Cloud computing jobs generally pay well because cloud skills are in high demand, and decision-makers can’t fill cloud positions quickly enough.’

CRN Exclusive: New Google Cloud Partner Advantage Program Launches Today

by Donna Goodison

‘We're over 13,000 partners today, and we have not been proactively recruiting,’ says Nina Harding, Google Cloud’s chief of global partner strategy and programs. ‘With the launch of Partner Advantage, it's the first time we're going to start turning on some of those recruitment engines.’

Top Takeaways From AWS Security Chief Stephen Schmidt At re:Inforce 2019

by Donna Goodison

Schmidt’s keynote address touched on the current state of cloud security, building a security culture, tactical security tips and a road map of where the industry and technology are headed.

Google Investing Another 1B Euros In Netherlands Data Centers

by Donna Goodison

The announcement marks the first time that Google has invested in two separate data center sites in a European country. The Netherlands is a ‘digital frontrunner,’ according to Joe Kava, vice president of Google's global data centers, with ‘first-class digital infrastructure, ample sustainable energy sources and qualified staff available.’

FTC, DOJ Queried On Potential Antitrust Probes Of Amazon, Other Tech Giants

by Donna Goodison

‘The significant public interest in and allegations surrounding the business conduct of big tech and the leaks concerning the clearance process relating to potential investigations of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google have made these matters highly unusual,’ seven U.S. senators said in letters to the FTC and DOJ.

Small Tech Firms Fear Retaliation If They Assist Antitrust Probes: Lawmaker

by Donna Goodison

‘If you look at the size of some of the large platforms, their ability to exclude people from the platform can result in closing the business,’ said U.S. Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s Antitrust Subcommittee. ‘That’s sort of the most dangerous consequence of this kind of concentration -- the ability to exclude rivals, put them out of business, diminish innovation, diminish entrepreneurship, diminish choices for consumers.’