AI Skills Among The Most In-Demand For 2020
TensorFlow is the most popular tech skill of the last three years, exponentially increasing between 2016 and 2019 based on Udemy’s Udemy sees robust demand for AI and data science skills, in addition to web development frameworks, cloud computing, and IT certifications, including AWS, CompTIA & Docker. SAP expertise is projected to be the fastest-growing […]
How To Excel At Secured Cloud Migrations With A Shared Responsibility Model
60% of security and IT professionals state that security is the leading challenge with cloud migrations, despite not being clear about who is responsible for securing cloud environments. 71% understand that controlling privileged access to cloud service administrative accounts is a critical concern, yet only 53% cite secure access to cloud workloads as a key […]
The Truth About Privileged Access Security On AWS And Other Public Clouds
Bottom Line: Amazon’s Identity and Access Management (IAM) centralizes identity roles, policies and Config Rules yet doesn’t go far enough to provide a Zero Trust-based approach to Privileged Access Management (PAM) that enterprises need today. AWS provides a baseline level of support for Identity and Access Management at no charge as part of their AWS instances, as do […]
The State Of Cloud Business Intelligence, 2019
An all-time high 48% of organizations say cloud BI is either “critical” or “very important” to their operations in 2019. Marketing & Sales place the greatest importance on cloud BI in 2019. Small organizations of 100 employees or less are the most enthusiastic, perennial adopters and supporters of cloud BI. The most preferred cloud BI […]
Where Cloud Computing Jobs Will Be In 2019
$146,350 is the median salary for cloud computing professionals in 2018. There are 50,248 cloud computing positions available in the U.S. today available from 3,701 employers and 101,913 open positions worldwide today. Oracle (NYSE: ORCL), Deloitte and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) have the most open cloud computing jobs today. Java, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Software […]
By 2020 83% Of Enterprise Workloads Will Be In The Cloud
Digitally transforming enterprises (63%) is the leading factor driving greater public cloud computing engagement or adoption today. 66% of IT professionals say security is their most significant concern in adopting an enterprise cloud computing strategy. 50% of IT professionals believe artificial intelligence and machine learning are playing a role in cloud computing adoption today, growing […]
Lack of emissions reporting from (some) cloud providers is a supply chain risk
We at GreenMonk spoke to Robert Francisco, President North America of FirstCarbon Solutions, last week. FirstCarbon solutions is an environmental sustainability company and the exclusive scoring partner of CDP‘s (formerly the Carbon Disclosure Project), supply chain program. Robert pointed out on the call that there is a seed change happening and that interest in disclosure […]
The Bastards say, Welcome… to the Cloud
In the Pulitzer prize winning “The Soul Of A New Machine”, Tracy Kidder wrote of an ad that Data General produced but never ran. It read “They Say IBM’s Entry Into Minicomputers Will Legitimize The Market. The Bastards Say, Welcome” Jeff Bezos should run a similar ad, as IBM takes aim at Amazon Web Services. […]
Amazon Drops Its Fees
In a move that surprised me, at least, last week Amazon announced that it was lowering its fees for on-demand infrastructure by as much as eighty percent. Should we be rejoicing or is this a sign that something is amiss? Back around the turn of the century something similar happened in at least two situations. […]
Sony’s IP Disaster and Amazon’s Cloud Crash — Rough Times Ahead for Hosted Solutions and Data?
It’s been a challenging few weeks for those dependent on the cloud, despite the continued stratospheric valuations of some companies embracing virtual deployment and network business models. Even though we’re not as likely to be i…
