Megan Crouse, Author at TechRepublic

Megan Crouse

Bio

Megan Crouse is a senior staff writer for TechRepublic's edge beat. Her writing has appeared at Manufacturing.net, FierceWireless, Military & Aerospace Electronics, and more.

Latest from Megan Crouse

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Cloud

Top 5 confidential computing uses in healthcare

Big data meets private data in a perfect storm for healthcare. Confidential computing providers say they’ll make the cloud safer for medical data.

Cloud

Comparing Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud

Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud both offer cloud solutions. This guide outlines the differences between the platforms and includes tips for your evaluation.

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Edge

General Dynamics, Amazon and more form 5G accelerator coalition

The GDIT 5G and Edge Accelerator Coalition reflects U.S. Department of Defense interest in 5G wireless applications.

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Cloud

Google Cloud looks forward to confidential computing but eyes hardware changes

Google Cloud, AMD and Intel collaborated on a roundtable to discuss the past, present and future of confidential computing.

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Cloud

NVIDIA unveils supercomputing and edge products at SC22

The company’s products seek to address real-time data transport, edge data collection instruments.

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Cloud

What is confidential computing?

Trusted execution environments shield proprietary data against the very cloud providers that host it. See how confidential computing works today.

Edge

Sustainability and IoT ‘bricks’ top list of Forrester’s 2023 edge computing predictions

Forrester's latest IT report looks ahead to the way economic downturns might strand IoT devices among other trends.

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Cloud

IBM targets cloud and edge action with embeddable AI expansion

Technology developed for IBM Watson trickles down into consumer projects for IBM partners.

Cloud

How financial services can benefit from cloud computing

In financial services, trust is key. See how cloud computing can make a difference to your customers and your business.

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Cloud

NVIDIA’s speedy AI applications top Oracle Cloud updates

At last week’s CloudWorld conference, Oracle announced collaborations with NVIDIA, J.P. Morgan and FedEx. See their automation products that span industries.

Determining how and when to renew support contracts can be tedious and time-consuming. Our vendor contract renewal planner will help you schedule support renewals and budget the related costs. From the planner: Some companies schedule their support contract renewals to take effect all at once, such as on January 1. This provides a convenient renewal ...

Without appropriate access management controls, businesses are at significant risk from the loss or theft of both physical and digital assets. Access management controls establish who is allowed the appropriate level of access in order to do their jobs, while reducing the potential for damage or harm to the company. The purpose of this policy ...

IT pros typically have access to company servers, network devices and data so they can perform their jobs. However, that access entails risk, including exposure of confidential information and interruption in essential business services. This policy from TechRepublic Premium offers guidelines for governing access to critical systems and confidential data. From the policy: SUMMARY IT ...

Megan Crouse

Top 5 confidential computing uses in healthcare

Comparing Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud

General Dynamics, Amazon and more form 5G accelerator coalition

Google Cloud looks forward to confidential computing but eyes hardware changes

NVIDIA unveils supercomputing and edge products at SC22

What is confidential computing?

Sustainability and IoT ‘bricks’ top list of Forrester’s 2023 edge computing predictions

IBM targets cloud and edge action with embeddable AI expansion

How financial services can benefit from cloud computing

NVIDIA’s speedy AI applications top Oracle Cloud updates

Vendor contract renewal planner

Access management policy

IT staff systems and data access policy

Windows administrator’s PowerShell script kit