Software as a service: Advantages and disadvantages of SaaS

For years, the acquisition of data through Software as a Service, or SaaS for short, has been gaining ground in the market. The continuous positive economic development, the willingness to invest in new IT solutions and the growing competitive pressure will continue to make rental software the focus of attention for SMEs, with all the … Read more

SaaS, IaaS or PaaS, which grows faster?

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According to Gartner, the global market for public cloud services will grow by 17 percent in 2020 to a total of 266.4 billion US dollars, compared to 227.8 billion US dollars in 2019. The adoption of cloud computing has now become established, said Sid Nag, vice president of research at Gartner. This means higher spending … Read more

IaaS Development: End of 2019 Trends Forecast a Bright Year Ahead

If you don’t want to operate a costly on-site data center, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, or IaaS for short, offers the right alternative in the cloud. In addition to significantly reducing investment requirements and maintenance costs, IaaS’ scalable services also stand out for their ability to adapt to the future. The prospects for IaaaS providers are good: In … Read more

Open Titan: Google and partners work on open security chip

lowRISC C.I.C., the open-source silicon, and tool technology partner, announced today that it is working with ETH Zurich, Google, G+D Mobile Security, Nuvoton Technology and Western Digital on OpenTitan. These are benchmark design and integration guidelines for open source hardware (RoT) trusted anchors that enable chip manufacturers and platform providers to create high-quality hardware RoT … Read more

MariaDB moves to the Cloud: portrayed by SkySQL

MariaDB Corporation announced the launch of the MariaDB SkySQL database, available as a cloud service – database-as-a-service (DBaaS). The new service is based on the MariaDB platform optimized for cloud systems. MariaDB SkySQL can be used for transactions or for collecting and storing analytical data. The company calls its solution a “new generation service”: it … Read more

Google Cloud Anthos now supports AWS workloads

Google Cloud has announced that Anthos, its software for deploying and managing Kubernetes workloads across multiple on-premise and cloud environments, now supports workloads on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform and must follow Microsoft Azure support, which is still in the pipeline. Google Cloud attributes the delay in Azure support to internal engineering resources … Read more

Microsoft claims that Xbox Series X and xCloud works best in combination

This week Microsoft began testing the Project xCloud game streaming service for Windows 10 PCs, and the preview version, which allows streaming Xbox games to PCs via the cloud, has now become available to all Microsoft employees. The Verge journalists received exclusive screenshots and learned more about how xCloud works on their PCs. Microsoft has … Read more