Industry News: August 17-21 – Amazon’s Planned Hiring Spree, Worldwide Public Cloud Growth and Collaborating to Achieve Cloud Cost Savings
Every week we highlight cloud computing and technology news of interest. This week we’re covering Amazon’s plan to add thousands of jobs, cloud projections from IDC, VMware’s plans to simplify multi-cloud management, more ways the pandemic is impacting digital transformation and the need for collaboration between IT and finance teams.
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Amazon is expanding its workforce. The company is planning to invest $1.4 billion to expand tech hubs in several states with additional plans to hire 3,500 employees – including in its AWS cloud computing division. Read more about their plans in CRN here.
This week brought about more good news for public cloud growth. IDC reports that the worldwide public cloud services market grew by 26% last year totaling $233.4 billion. According to IDC, growth has more than doubled since 2016. Dive into a full breakdown of the market in CloudTech here.
For partners looking to simplify multi-cloud management, VMware may have the solution. They’ve just announced plans to improve VMware vRealize Cloud Management offerings. Learn more about the updates and when they’ll be available in Channele2e here.
Many businesses have performed digital transformations during the pandemic as a way to enable remote work. But customer behaviors have changed as well. CIO Dive explains why companies may have to continue adapting technology to thrive going forward here.
When it comes to effectively controlling cloud costs, collaboration may be key. As SearchCloudComputing writes, IT and finance teams need to work together on cloud migration, provider contracts and management prerequisites in order to realize true cost savings. Find out more here.