Four US firms rule the world's cloud infrastructure

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Network World Cloud Computing Alert Aug 02, 2016 Four US firms rule the world's cloud infrastructure There are plenty of companies vying for a piece of the worldwide cloud infrastructure market, but the top four -- all in the U.S. -- currently dominate by such a wide margin as to effectively leave their competitors in the dust. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Cloud computing and the 'last mile' • Gartner: Amazon's cloud storage is 1.6x bigger than all other competitors combined • Oracle to buy cloud software provider NetSuite for $9.3 billion • Cloud computing just had another amazing, awesome, over-the-top good week • IBM's Cloud CTO: 'We're in this game to win' • Amazon's cloud business continues upward march • Anticipating Black Hat • $1 trillion in IT spending to be 'affected' by the cloud • Verizon aims to pump up its IoT presence with fleet management deal White Paper: IBM Corporation Architecting A Platform For Big Data Analytics In this digital age, 'disruption' is a term we hear a lot about. It can be defined as "A disturbance that interrupts an event, activity, or process" In the context of this paper it means competition appearing from unexpected quarters that rapidly takes business away from traditional suppliers. Read More ▶ Cloud computing and the 'last mile' While cloud computing has moved applications and data out of the corporate data center, it hasn't fulfilled the promise of a highly distributed infrastructure. Read More ▶ Gartner: Amazon's cloud storage is 1.6x bigger than all other competitors combined Gartner this week released its Magic Quadrant for public cloud storage and Amazon Web Services is the clear market leader, while Microsoft Azure comes in a close second place. Read More ▶ Oracle to buy cloud software provider NetSuite for $9.3 billion Oracle has entered into an agreement to buy NetSuite, which provides cloud-based accounting, enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, and other business software packages, for US$9.3 billion. Read More ▶ Cloud computing just had another amazing, awesome, over-the-top good week Record earnings and huge acquisition mark major new milestones in the ongoing ascent of cloud computing. Read More ▶ IBM's Cloud CTO: 'We're in this game to win' An industry focus is one of the key factors IBM is betting will set it apart from cloud competitors including Google, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services. Read More ▶ Amazon's cloud business continues upward march Amazon reported another surge in revenue for its cloud business last quarter, though the growth is slowing as the division gets bigger. Read More ▶ Anticipating Black Hat The Black Hat conference heads to Vegas next week, with a big interest in anti-ransomware, endpoint security, security analytics, cloud and IoT security. Read More ▶ $1 trillion in IT spending to be 'affected' by the cloud Gartner analyst: In the next few years, a 'shift to cloud' will become 'one of the most disruptive forces of IT spending since the early days of the digital age.' Read More ▶ Verizon aims to pump up its IoT presence with fleet management deal Verizon Communications plans to buy cloud-computing-focused fleet management firm Fleetmatics Group, in a deal that will pump the telecom carrier's internet of things portfolio. Read More ▶ Video/Webcast: Google Citrix Customers Put Google Chromebooks to Work Work is no longer where we go in the morning, work is what we do - what we get done. Watch this Citrix and Google webcast to learn how you can implement a secure, fast, simple and sharable solution within your organization today. Read More ▶ Join The Network World Communities As network pros you understand that the value of connections increase as the number of connections increase, the so called network effect, and no where is this more evident than in professional relationships. Join Network World's LinkedIn and Facebook communities to share ideas, post questions, see what your peers are working on and scout out job applicants (or maybe find your next opportunity). Network World on Facebook ▶ Network World on LinkedIn ▶ SLIDESHOWS Superman VR roller coaster in pictures 25 surprising facts about Google Read More ▶ Most-Read Stories 1. iPhone 7 release date and pre-order date leaked 2. The CIA, NSA and Pokémon Go 3. 10 ways to celebrate Sysadmin Day 4. Black Hat: 9 free security tools for defense & attacking 5. 19 free cloud storage options 6. JavaScript keeps its spot atop programming language rankings 7. Baguette vending machine is the greatest invention since sliced bread 8. iPhone 7 Rumor Rollup: 1 Billion reasons to care; Sept. 16 looms large 9. 7 free Wi-Fi stumbling and surveying tools for Windows and Mac 10. Microsoft releases 'service pack 2' for Windows 7

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