First look: AWS Mobile Hub fills the potholes

Computerworld Cloud Computing November 02, 2015 INSIDER First look: AWS Mobile Hub fills the potholes Developing mobile apps on the Amazon cloud is now significantly easier, at least for iOS and Android clients. READ MORE   Issue highlights 1. Opinion: Can Oracle lead in the cloud? Only if customers follow 2. INSIDER First look: Microsoft Azure Active Directory Domain Services 3. IBM snaps up Weather.com and more in Watson IoT push 4. INSIDER Opinion: Why you shouldn't trust cloud service providers 5. Microsoft, falling behind in mobile, see its future in the cloud 6. Dell and Microsoft announce 'Azure in a box' for $9,000 a month 7. The sun will soon set on HP's Helion Public Cloud   Opinion: Can Oracle lead in the cloud? Only if customers follow Oracle has now fully arrived at the cloud party and is ready to take a leading role. Whether that can happen, however, is entirely up to customers -- and their buy-in is far from guaranteed. READ MORE INSIDER First look: Microsoft Azure Active Directory Domain Services It's a cloud-based method for making sure your apps have full Active Directory services -- and then some. We take you though some of the ins and outs. READ MORE IBM snaps up Weather.com and more in Watson IoT push IBM will acquire Weather.com and other digital assets from The Weather Co. for its new Watson IoT Unit and Watson IoT Cloud platform. READ MORE White Paper: Level 3 Communications Executive Viewpoint: Choosing Your Connection to the Cloud For most private applications driven by things like business continuity/disaster recovery [BCDR], big data analytics or enterprise resource planning [ERP] systems, there are three primary criteria: security, application performance and bandwidth requirements. Learn More INSIDER Opinion: Why you shouldn't trust cloud service providers It's hard enough really trusting your own employees these days. When it comes to employees of cloud service providers, columnist Rob Enderle writes, you definitely shouldn't trust them. READ MORE Microsoft, falling behind in mobile, see its future in the cloud Microsoft's latest financial results show the company's cloud transition is proceeding apace, while its mobile ambitions lag. READ MORE Dell and Microsoft announce 'Azure in a box' for $9,000 a month Dell and Microsoft have teamed up to sell a converged system that combines servers, storage and software in a pre-integrated box which they say can connect easily to Microsoft's Azure cloud services. READ MORE The sun will soon set on HP's Helion Public Cloud Earlier this year HP let slip that the public cloud may not be a place it wants to compete. Now the company has followed through on that suggestion with an announcement that it will shutter its Helion Public Cloud for good. 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