{"id":19498,"date":"2018-01-25T18:55:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T14:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/?p=19498"},"modified":"2018-01-25T18:55:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T14:55:38","slug":"comcast-selects-amazon-as-its-preferred-public-cloud-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/2018\/01\/25\/comcast-selects-amazon-as-its-preferred-public-cloud-provider\/","title":{"rendered":"Comcast selects Amazon as its preferred public cloud provider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, has announced that Comcast Cable has selected AWS as its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider. Comcast Cable will expand its use of AWS by migrating material workloads and building new applications on AWS.<\/p>\n<p>AWS provides important infrastructure and services to Comcast as it focuses on building cloud-native products and services on AWS that adapt and evolve to meet the needs of customers. That focus is reflected in the class-defining X1 Platform, award-winning voice-control technology and Xfinity xFi; Comcast\u2019s personalised Wi-Fi experience that gives customers pinpoint control over their home networks. Comcast\u2019s primary businesses, Comcast Cable and NBCUniversal, are currently running workloads on AWS which has enabled these businesses to become more nimble and launch new, revenue-generating initiatives in the competitive entertainment industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have deepened our strategic relationship with AWS, making the industry\u2019s leading cloud our preferred public cloud provider,\u201d said Jan Hofmeyr, Chief Network and Operations Officer and Senior Vice President at Comcast Cable. \u201cOver the years, we have leveraged the breadth and depth of AWS\u2019s services, including compute, storage and analytics. In that process, we\u2019ve found AWS to be extremely customer-focused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor industry leaders like Comcast Cable, the quest to anticipate and exceed consumers\u2019 media and entertainment needs is never ending,\u201d said Mike Clayville, Vice President, Worldwide Commercial Sales at AWS. \u201cComcast Cable\u2019s goal has always been to stay a step ahead of the competition. In order to do that, they wanted solutions that were agile, flexible and ready for what\u2019s next. Together, AWS and Comcast Cable collaborated to enable them to confidently move core business workloads, build new applications with ease and gain the agility they required by using AWS.\u201d    \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com company, has announced that Comcast Cable has selected AWS as its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider. Comcast Cable will expand its use of AWS by migrating material workloads and building new applications on AWS. AWS provides important infrastructure and services to Comcast as it focuses on building cloud-native products and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":19505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,140],"tags":[1094,5130,5131,5132,5133,5134,5135],"class_list":["post-19498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","category-more-news","category-networking","tag-amazon-web-services","tag-aws","tag-cloud-infrastructure-provider","tag-cloud-native-products","tag-comcast-cable","tag-x1-platform","tag-xfinity-xfi"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}