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Daily Cloud Computing News from @cloudfeednet - Nov 16, 2016
Daily Cloud Computing news from @cloudfeednet.
Microsoft To Support Windows Azure Pack Through 2027
Microsoft’s Windows Azure Pack solution is “far from being dead,” Microsoft said this week after updating the product’s lifecycle support information.
Elon Musk-backed AI startup OpenAI and Microsoft sign cloud agreement
OpenAI is an early adopter of Microsoft’s Azure N-Series Virtual Machines service, which will be generally available from December.
Google’s Cloud Platform will get GPU machines in early 2017
Google’s Cloud Machine Learning service launched earlier this year and, already, the company is calling it one of its fastest growing product areas.
Google cloud consulting service a two-way street
The rebranded Google Cloud pulls together various business units, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the renamed G Suite set of apps, …
Retrospect, Inc. Expands Google Cloud Platform Integration To Google Cloud
HostReview.com (press release) This new addition deepens Retrospect’s integration with Google Cloud Platform and allows customers to leverage Retrospect’s hybrid data protection …
Top Google, LinkedIn execs say tech companies must address role in election
CNBC Those discussions were indeed happening behind closed doors at Alphabet’s Google, Diane Greene, senior vice president for Google’s Cloud …
35 percent of cloud computing spending is wasted, says RightScale
… over provisioned and not optimized, according to RightScale, which manages multiple services such as Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services.
Google Translate Gets Neural Machine Translation for Better Accuracy,
NDTV Further, the company’s cloud public cloud service, Google Cloud Platform, has made the system behind Neural Machine Translation available for all …
Google and Facebook pledge to stop their ads reaching fake news websites
Google and Facebook have both announced they’ll try to stop their ads making it onto fake news sites. Fake news has become a post-US-election …
Announcing GPUs for Google Cloud Platform
machines in the cloud are terrific for general purpose computing, but …
Google Cloud Machine Learning family grows with new API, editions and
Posted by Rob Craft, Group Lead for Google Cloud Machine Learning Google Cloud Machine Learning is one of our fastest growing products areas.
OpenAI will use Microsoft’s cloud, as Azure gains more features
Microsoft’s continued investment in artificial intelligence and machine learning technology is paying dividends. The company has partnered with …
accurate, fluent sentences in Google Translate
cloud service, offers Machine Learning APIs that make it easy for anyone to …
Apache jclouds 2.0, a Java Multi-Cloud Toolkit, Arrives
… and communities such as Amazon Web Services, Backblaze B2, Apache CloudStack, Docker, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, OpenStack, …
Microsoft teams up with Musk’s $1 billion OpenAI project
Microsoft, Microsoft A.I, Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Elon Musk A.I, Microsoft Azure OpenAI is the billion project co-founded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Google Cloud will finally add GPU services in early 2017
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and IBM’s Bluemix all already offer GPU as a service. Google may be seeking to distinguish itself, however, …
Neural Machine Translation Brings Huge Improvements to Google Translate
Google has also announced that starting today Google Cloud Platform is making the system behind Neural Machine Translation available for all …
Azure N-Series: General availability on December 1
of Azure Virtual Machines as of December 1, 2016.
Microsoft’s Azure Bot Services make it easy to build your own bot
Yesterday, Microsoft announced the launch the industry’s first bot-as-a-service capability, called Azure Bot Service. The service leverages the existing …
Google reveals cloud machine learning strategy
Google will start to roll out AMD’s FirePro S9300 x2 GPUs in 2017 and will be applied to the Google Compute Engine and Google Cloud Machine …
Hortonworks Data Cloud for AWS Now Available
Hortonworks on AWS is directed specifically at doing more to serve customers that have a strong preference for Amazon Web Services, providing an …
Elon Musk spurs AI development with Microsoft’s Azure
Microsoft is teaming up with Elon Musk’s OpenAI to help it build better artificial intelligence experiences. The two companies will work together, using …
Google’s cloud GPU undercuts, outperforms AWS, Microsoft
Starting next year, Google will offer GPU instances for both Google Compute Engine and Google Cloud Machine Learning users, with GPU profiles …
UTM 9 as an HVM Instance for Amazon Web Services (AWS)
when UTM 9.4 will be available to users from an Amazon AWS AMI?
Cloudinary Offers SaaS Subscription Product on AWS Marketplace
… enabling customers to easily purchase Cloudinary from AWS Marketplace and pay for usage as part of their existing Amazon Web Services (AWS) …
NVIDIA and Microsoft announces partnership to accelerate AI in the
MSPoweruser Using the first purpose-built enterprise AI framework optimized to run on NVIDIA Tesla GPUs in Microsoft Azure or on-premises, enterprises now have …
AMD adds GPU firepower to Google’s cloud services
For most of the past few years, HPC computing, general purpose GPU computing, and deep learning have all primarily been an Nvidia play (or an …
Google Introduces App to Digitize amp; Save Photos in Cloud
Android and iPhone users can now preserve their old memories through Google’s cloud photo storage and sharing service. The company launched a …
AWS sets its sights on the BI market as it makes Amazon QuickSight
ZDNet Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made its data analysis tool Amazon QuickSight available to all customers. The new cloud service is designed to …
American Heart Association Makes Moves for Precision Medicine
The cloud-based repository, developed in partnership with Amazon Web Services, will further support precision medicine by allowing clinicians and …
Advancing our ambition to democratize artificial intelligence
platform, to help advance their research and create new tools and …
OpenAI Adopts Microsoft Azure for AI Research
“We’re also excited that OpenAI chose Microsoft Azure as their primary cloud platform, to help advance their research and create new tools and …
SparkPost Announces Availability in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ –SparkPost, the most performant cloud email delivery service available, today announced its …
Google’s cloud GPU undercuts, outperforms AWS, Microsoft
First came Amazon, offering GPU-powered instances in its cloud back in 2010. Then, more recently, Microsoft Azure and IBM Softlayer each provided …
Cloud lessons: Five tips for firms moving to AWS
But what strategies can companies adopt in order to get the most of public cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS)?. At the recent AWS …
Trianz is a Proud Sponsor of AWS re:Invent 2016, Las Vegas - the Flagship
Broadway World AWS re:Invent is the largest gathering of the global Amazon Web Services community, enabling attendees to connect with peers and cloud experts.
Google’s musical AI experiments include a rapping smartphone and an
The Verge This basically combines a few different tools, including a machine learning-powered image recognizer (powered by Google’s Cloud Vision API), …
SparkPost Now Available On Microsoft Azure
SparkPost’s cloud-based email delivery service is now available in the Microsoft Azure marketplace, thanks to an integration announced on Tuesday.
Microsoft just got its Linux Foundation platinum card, becomes top level
The Register Now one-third of the virtual machines (VMs) in Microsoft’s Azure cloud run Linux, according to director of program management Corey Saunders.
Code Dx Selected by Bitnami for Microsoft’s Azure Government Cloud
PR Web (press release) With Code Dx now available in the Azure Government Cloud Marketplace, public entities are able to easily launch their broad application security …
‘copytruncate’ as a default logrotate option for OpenStack Platform
Why was the copytruncate logrotate option introduced as default for some OpenStack Platform services? What are the implications of removing that …
Solano Labs Announces New SaaS Subscription Offering for Solano CI on AWS
Business Wire (press release) … today announced the availability of its flagship product, Solano CI, on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace as a SaaS Subscription product.
Core Informatics Announces Validated Cloud Infrastructure for Regulated
IT Business Net 15, 2016 /PRNewswire/ –Core Informatics today announced a new validated cloud infrastructure offering, built on Amazon Web Services (AWS), …
Parasoft Continuous Testing within Microsoft VSTS and Azure Helps
Business Wire (press release) The combination of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft VSTS, and Parasoft Service Virtualizationoperating natively within the Microsoft environmentis …
Amazon Confronts Microsoft, Google, IBM In Cloud Computing Wars
Alibaba Cloud launched in 2009; Microsoft Azure in 2010 and Google Cloud in 2011. For Q3, Amazon reported Amazon Web Services revenue rose …
How do containers scale on OpenStack?
two years since the Paris Summit. Containers are now alive and well …
Parasoft Continuous Testing within Microsoft VSTS and Azure Helps
Microsoft Azure Marketplace and Microsoft VSTS Marketplace. Service virtualization (an extension of “API Virtualization”) helps organizations …
Amazon Confronts Microsoft, Google, IBM In Cloud Computing Wars
Launched 10 years ago and now with annual revenue above $10 billion, Amazon Web Services has a dominant market share of 54% in the cloud …
Amazon Confronts Microsoft, Google, IBM In Cloud Computing Wars
Alibaba Cloud launched in 2009; Microsoft Azure in 2010 and Google Cloud in 2011. For Q3, Amazon reported Amazon Web Services revenue rose …
Google Translate is tapping into neural networks for smarter language
Macworld Google’s cloud intelligence isn’t just for the company’s consumer services. It’s a major component of its enterprise effort by infusing machine learning …
Microsoft’s open source love fest continues as it joins Linux Foundation
Microsoft also launched the public beta of SQL Server on Linux, the … Linux developers can also start working with a beta of Azure App Service, which …
Microsoft CEO pushes the importance of AI
He also announced that OpenAI, the non-profit AI research organisation associated with Elon Musk, has chosen Microsoft Azure as its primary cloud …
Free local development using the DocumentDB Emulator plus .NET Core support
which provides a local development experience for the Azure DocumentDB …
Google Cloud to join .NET Foundation Technical Steering Group
Platform (GCP) team has worked hard to ensure that .NET has first-class …
AMD Radeon Technology Will Be Available on Google Cloud Platform in 2017
available to Google Cloud Platform users worldwide. Starting in …
Orlando’s Solodev gets early boost from new Amazon service
An Orlando tech company is among the first 21 pushed by Amazon Web Services in a new offering that helps connect consumers with so-called …
Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN): Here is why this Analyst see 22% upside
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the most remunerative and fastest improving business segment of Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN). To be held on …
Google forms artificial intelligence group for Google Cloud
Diane Greene, who leads Google’s cloud business, announced the team at an event at the company’s facilities in San Francisco. The group will be led …
Microsoft announces the general availability of Azure Data Lake Analytics
MSPoweruser Microsoft today announced the general availability of Azure Data Lake Analytics and Data Lake Store. Azure Data Lake includes all the capabilities …
GPU services coming soon to Google Cloud in 2017
While CPUs are commonly used for versatile, general purpose computing problems, GPUs contain hundreds of times as many computational cores …
Microsoft Fortifies Commitment to Open Source, Becomes Linux Foundation
Yahoo Sports Microsoft already contributes to several Linux Foundation projects, … John Gossman, Architect on the Microsoft Azure team, will join The Linux …
Amazon Web Services Offers To Handle Billing For Software Vendor Partners
Amazon Web Services is looking to make software developed by its technology partners more accessible by allowing customers to pay those …
Microsoft Joins Linux Foundation As Platinum Member: Company Realizes
The Inquisitr As part of the partnership, John Gossman, the architect on the Microsoft Azure team, will sit on the foundation’s Board of Directors. He will also help …
Dive into Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on Microsoft Azure
Principal PM Boris Baryshnikov will demo how to deploy OpenShift in …
Microsoft Azure and HPC - Ignite Innovation
is a platform that offers superior security and reliability for cloud …
After Microsoft joins Linux, Google Cloud joins .NET Foundation
It has been a day for software surprises first Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation, and now Google is joining the Technical Steering Group of the .
AMD Radeon Technology Will Be Available on Google Cloud Platform in 2017
AMD announced that Radeon GPU technology will be available to Google Cloud Platform users worldwide. Starting in 2017, Google will use AMD’s …
Amazon Web Services 101: What’s Driving Companies to the Public Cloud?
cloud infrastructure market, serving the needs of small businesses and …
Microsoft announces General Availability of Azure Functions
The majority of the organizations are leveraging the power of the cloud to accelerate their business and transform for the future. Microsoft Azure has …
AMD Stock Surges on Google Cloud Deal
Shares of Advanced Micro Devices (NASDAQ: AMD) surged on Wednesday, with the stock up 11.2% at its peak. News that Alphabet’s (NASDAQ: …
AWS looks to add ‘bill collector’ to its list of cloud offerings
Amazon Web Services has opened a store that will allow customers to purchase additional software-as-a-service products and pay with their monthly …
Can’t find way to activate Google Cloud Messaging in Google
The link on Google’s API library opens a new window with documentation …
Microsoft Aligns With OpenAI To Drive Benevolent Artificial Intelligence,
CRN Microsoft took steps to make broader artificial intelligence capabilities accessible to partners Tuesday with the introduction of Azure instances geared …
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