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The article discusses highlights of the 2017 Rivest, Shamir and Adleman (RSA) Conference. The keynote speech was by Microsoft president Brad Smith who proposed about a "Digital Geneva Convention" while former chief of the National Security Administration (NSA) Gen. Keith Alexander discussed the benefits of moving to the cloud. Other speakers include Michael Dell of Dell Technologies, Google anti-fraud research team leader Elie Bursztein and Google Android security director Adrian Ludwig.

The article reports that new features and services are announced by Amazon Web Services Inc. as it asks enterprises to move ever more data center workloads to the AWS cloud. The Amazon Aurora service provided compatibility with the open-source MySQL database. The Alexa consumer AI service is being extended to a new commercial service called Lex.

The article discusses the findings of a study by technology conglomerate Cisco which found the steady growth of cloud computing in 2015 which now makes up the majority of data center traffic at 827 exabytes (EB) . Topics covered include data center traffic projected to grow by 14.1 zettabytes (ZB) in 2020, the faster growth of public cloud than private cloud, and the expected growth of hyperscale data centers that help to enable large public clouds and popular social network providers.

The article offers information on the 2016 OpenStack Summit in Austin, Texas on cloud technology.

The article offers brief information on the OpenStack, open-source cloud-computing software platform, from OpenStack.

The article discusses the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit that was organized by electronic commerce firm Amazon.com in New York on July 9, 2015. Topics discussed include presentation by Werner Vogels, chief technological officer (CTO) of Amazon, on trends in cloud computing, improving the security and data utility of services, use of secure application program interface (API) cloud service providers, and forecasts on the cost of cloud usage.

The article offers information on several cloud computing technologies showcased by Amazon Web Services (AWS) at AWS' 2014 Re:Invent conference held from November 11 to 14 including the CodeDeploy application lifecycle management (ALM) tool, the CodeCommit ALM tool and the Amazon Aurora database.

The article talks about the OpenStack Summit of 2014, which was held from November 3 to 7, 2014 in Paris. Other topics discussed include the summit being an opportunity for users and developers to discuss and demonstrate the latest trends and technology in the OpenStack open-source cloud platform and a slideshow projecting the highlights of the summit.

The article presents the highlights of the OpenStack Juno Summit held in Atlanta, Georgia on May 12-16, 2014. OpenStack Foundation executive director Jonathan Bryce gave a keynote speech on the condition of information technology (IT). Ubuntu Linux founder Mark Shuttleworth announced a deal with International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and the launch of its managed cloud services. Various sessions also addressed cloud security measures.

The article reports on a user survey conducted by U.S.-based open source cloud platform OpenStack on open space deployments around the world. Findings include the facts that the U.S. is the top country for deployments, that OpenStack users run different OpenStack releases without always updating to the latest version and that the Ubuntu Linux operating system is the top choice for OpenStack clouds in production followed by Puppet as the leading deployment tool and Grizzly.

The article discusses the highlights of the semiannual Design Summit held by the open-source OpenStack Foundation in Hong Kong, China on November 5-8, 2013. The event discussed topics related to the cloud and emphasized the global nature of the Open Stack cloud platform and the high levels of interest, participation, and deployment of the platform in China. Daniel Lai, government chief information officer of Hong Kong, commented on OpenStack and its global nature.

Several charts are presented that provide information on the open-source OpenStack cloud technology as of November 2013 including its top 10 applications or workloads, the most deployed host operating systems for OpenStack and the top storage choices for OpenStack.