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Daily Cloud Computing News from @cloudfeednet - Aug 3, 2017
Daily Cloud Computing news from @cloudfeednet.
Why is OpenStack making customers’ life easier in Financial Sector?
The most competitive software for running a private cloud is by far OpenStack. OpenStack is an open source software platform for cloud computing, … more.
Microsoft’s new unified log-in experience is now in public preview
Microsoft is redesigning both the Azure AD and MSA sign-in pages so they have a consistent look-and-feel. I saw the new login today going to … more.
Microsoft: How to set Azure PowerShell to a specific Azure Subscription
If you have multiple Azure Subscriptons, when you login you get a default subscription set, so if you try and take any actions on a feature in another … more.
Microsoft Flow Updated with New Connectors, Actions, and Triggers
Microsoft Flow users are getting a new update for the service. … Starting today, Microsoft Flow now supports Azure File Storage, Azure Video Indexer, … more.
Synergy research emphases gulf between higher and lower ends of cloud
ComputerWeekly.com AWS’s revenue has increased year-on-year to $38bn, while Microsoft’s Azure Intelligent Cloud revenue grew by 11% to $7.4bn in the same quarter. more.
Cloud Security Fears Center on Data Protection
Public cloud platform providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform offer plenty of security measures, but … more.
How Apple and Amazon Are Aiding Chinese Censors
On Tuesday, the Chinese firm that runs Amazon’s Web Services in the country told its customers that if they don’t stop using tools that can be used to … more.
Red Hat Acquires Permabit’s Storage Tech
… data centers running private clouds while also incorporating public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Compute. more.
Microsoft Brings Azure Batch Rendering to Public Preview
Microsoft has today announced Azure Batch Rendering is moving to public preview. The company announced the availability as part of its SIGGRAPH … more.
GSX Webinar: Office 365 Performance Using Azure ExpressRoute Fact or
GlobeNewswire (press release) Many companies, large and small are familiar with ExpressRoute a direct connection to Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure. ExpressRoute is frequently … more.
Configuring a new Google Cloud account
access the Google Cloud ML Engine. more.
Public previews are now available for Microsoft account, Azure AD sign in
OnMSFT (blog) As part of the roll out, Azure AD & Microsoft account sign-in experiences to a public preview brings a redesign of the account sign in pages that are … more.
Open source is powering the digital enterprise
JetPack automates the deployment of OpenStack services from bare metal to a fully functional OpenStack environment. We are now preparing to open … more.
Microsoft Previewing Azure Active Directory Sign-In Changes Coming Next
Redmondmag.com Microsoft is previewing yet another sign-in experience for Azure Active Directory and Microsoft account users, giving organizations notice of changes … more.
Waters Rankings 2017: Best Cloud Infrastructure ProviderAmazon Web
www.waterstechnology.com As the winner of the best cloud infrastructure category at this year’s Waters Rankings, Amazon Web Services (AWS) wrests the crown away from last … more.
Amazon’s China Partner Bans Use of VPNs by Customers Amid Ongoing Clampdown
An employee who answered the phone at Beijing Sinnet Technology Co Ltd, which operates Amazon’s cloud business, Amazon Web Services (AWS), … more.
Citrix’s quarterly revenue up 3 percent over year
Citrix also works with cloud platforms Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, which Hsu says provides customers with flexibility and choice … more.
John Cunningham of BCM One Recognized on CRN’s List of Top 100 Executives
BCM One started investing in Microsoft Cloud solutions over three years … Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and the most popular cloud com. more.
Tech Earnings Roundup: Facebook, Google, Amazon, Intel, More
Facebook: Facebook reported strong second quarter results, beating our estimates on both top and bottom lines. Total revenue grew 47%, of which … more.
OpenStack Upgrade from Mitaka to Ocata (across 2 releases!)
we needed to upgrade across two OpenStack releases. It’s not an … more.
Don’t Want to be Crushed By Amazon? Here Are Some Suggestions
In the realm of IT services, Amazon Web Services, the company’s 11-year old cloud computing unit has bulked up service and support both by … more.
Citrix’s quarterly revenue up 3 percent over year
Citrix also works with cloud platforms Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, which Hsu says provides customers with flexibility and choice … more.
Bug #1708190: AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute
http://logs.openstack.org/42/490042/1/check/gate-trove-tox-apiexamples-ubun tu-xenial/97ab5c7/console.html#_2017-08- … more.
Niti Aayog’s Education AI Challenge
… to Niti Aayog and will also be eligible for USD 17,000 in prizes from Omidyar Network, IBM, Google Developer Groups and Amazon Web Services. more.
ShoreTel Reports Financial Results for Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2017
Through the Google Cloud Launcher, ShoreTel will offer developers the ability to integrate inbound and outbound SMS capabilities into new or … more.
Insight reports record revenue and profit in latest quarter
The chatbot was built with Microsoft Azure to help with management and intervention, and optimize health outcomes and patient engagement. more.
Red Hat unleashes RHEL 7.4, now available to download
… applications to start sooner, and support for the Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enable new network capabilities. more.
Tech Earnings Roundup: Facebook, Google, Amazon, Intel, More
He joins other Google executives including co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, chairperson Eric Schmidt and head of Google’s cloud unit Diane … more.
First SAP on Azure deployed in SA
Microsoft’s local presence, coupled with its commitment to delivering the … “Hosting SAP on Azure platform is a perfect fit from a cost and flexibility … more.
Amazon’s China Partner Tells Users to Stop Using Illegal VPNs
An Amazon Web Services spokesman said that to comply with Chinese laws and regulations, the firm had to operate in China through local partners … more.
Microsoft Previews Web Server Security Baseline Tool
It also can be used to scan the Web server security baselines used on Microsoft Azure or “other cloud platforms” that OMS can monitor. OMS is … more.
Amazon Web Services Releases Lumberyard Beta 1.10
Amazon Web Services launched a new version of their Lumberyard game engine at SIGGRAPH. They advertise that the new version, Lumberyard … more.
Amazon’s billowing cloud: Amazon Web Services posts big growth
The cloud business is growing so fast that Amazon is hiring at a faster rate than the overall company’s sales growth. more.
Startupbootcamp is seeking smart energy startups
Startupbootcamp is a Melbourne-based program backed by EnergyAustralia, Amazon Web Services, Cisco and Spotless Group. Startup accelerator … more.
Microsoft prepares to unify its Azure AD and Microsoft Account login
Neowin Microsoft officially announced on August 2 the public preview of its new login experience for the Azure Active Directory and Microsoft Account. more.
Microsoft: We beat Google, AWS to cloudy GPU VMs in Blighty
Microsoft believes they will save Brit customers who need G, H or N instances a little bit of latency time compared to connecting to Azure data centers … more.
What Is the Future of IT Purchasing? Less Hardware, More Services
In February, Cavallo and SBA CIO Maria Roat began migrating applications to Microsoft Azure’s Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering. They expect … more.
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is inaccurate in this way: ______ - [ ] This is a doc addition request. more.
Mauritius to host Microsoft Cloud Camp
Mauritius to host Microsoft Cloud Camp … August by registering on Microsoft Cloud Society and completing any of the available Azure Skills courses in … more.
MazikThings, Comprehensive Digital Transformation Solution, Now Accessible
PR Web (press release) MazikThings, the Mazik Global IoT solution built on Microsoft’s Dynamics 365 and Azure platforms, will bring a seamless remote monitoring, predictive … more.
DE-CIX expands to five Spanish and Portuguese data centres through Itconic
Capacity Media DE-CIX has expanded its Iberian presence through an agreement with Itconic, which runs five data centres across Spain and Portugal. more.
Kropf returns to Velocity, leaves Tarsus On Demand
Kropf will also lead the establishment of the hybrid cloud practice that will oversee the delivery of Microsoft Azure, Azure Stack and Office 365 services. more.
Global Identity Management Software Market 2017- Microsoft Azure, Okta,
First Newshawk Worldwide Identity Management Software Market 2017 presents a widespread and fundamental study of Identity Management Software industry along … more.
Google’s cloud gets a boost as Forrester names it a leader in data
SiliconANGLE News (blog) Google Inc.’s efforts to establish itself as a major player in cloud computing received a small boost Wednesday when it was named by research firm … more.
Amazon joins Apple in Chinese VPN ban compliance
An anonymous member of Amazon Web Services team told Reuters that the company had been instructed to pass on this message to customers by … more.
Microsoft makes containerized applications insanely easy
While products like AWS ECS, Azure Container Service and Google Cloud Container Engine (GKE) insulate users from much of the overhead of … more.
AWS commands corner over cloud market
Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to dominate the worldwide cloud infrastructure services market with nearly $1.2 billion in revenue growth over … more.
Google’s cloud gets a boost as Forrester names it a leader in data
SiliconANGLE News (blog) … kinds of technology providers that meet its definition of Insight PaaS: cloud giants such as Google, Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp. more.
Microsoft bags Gartner magic quadrant leader
Global research company Gartner has identified Microsoft as a market leader in its … by offering a wide variety of options running on Microsoft Azure. more.
Microsoft breaks Office 365 sign-in pages ahead of surprise update
For the “last few weeks”, Microsoft has been quietly rolling out an opt-in redesign for login pages. The change for accessing Azure Active Directory, … more.
CLOUD PROVIDERS The State of OpenStack and Azure Stack
years. We also look at the new Microsoft Azure Stack product for hybrid cloud. more.
Holes close in China’s ‘Great Firewall’ as Apple and Amazon snub apps to
Los Angeles Times On Wednesday, calls to Amazon Web Services’ China office went unanswered. (Amazon founder and Chief Executive Jeffrey Bezos owns the … more.
Q&A with Josh Stella, co-founder and CEO, Fugue
Fugue automates cloud operations, eases public and private sector compliance, and simplifies lifecycle management of the Amazon Web Services … more.
Training start-up ‘destroying existing training paradigm’
The company, called A Cloud Guru, has provided online training in Amazon Web Services (AWS) to more than 250,000 students in 160 countries in … more.
Are enterprises sitting on a data mismanagement time bomb?
… they are able to change the cloud provider itself and move between the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud. more.
MyCloudIT Launches Automated Migration Tool to Support Customers
Press Release Rocket (press release) With MyCloudIT anyone can simplify and automate hosting desktops, applications, and data in the cloud. As an alternative solution to Microsoft Azure … more.
Microsoft Corporation Ditches Mobile For AI Dreams
Through fast-growing platforms like Azure in particular, Microsoft Corporation seems unable to ignore the advantage it holds in the market. And what … more.
Want to be successful with private cloud? Start with your configuration
TechRepublic … but I’d assume that the CMDB of a company like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud consists of custom code and systems. more.
China Holds Drill to Shut Down ‘Harmful’ Websites
… and counts many Western multinationals including Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and HP among its clients. It runs Microsoft’s Azure-based services in China. more.
Google’s cloud gets a boost as Forrester names it a leader in data
SiliconANGLE News (blog) As for Microsoft, Forrester said it was encouraged by its machine learning chops and its addition of new services like Azure Data Lake and Azure … more.
Investec sets new record for account opening
Building on the Avoka Transact platform, hosted in the cloud at Amazon Web Services, Avoka delivered a new account opening application that … more.
Loom Systems Announces New Advances to its AI-Powered Log Analysis Platform
While OpenStack allows organizations to instantly deploy virtual machines (VMs) and other resources in the management of their cloud environment, … more.
Cisco, Google Team Up on ‘Goodzilla’ Cloud Project
Google’s cloud chief Diane Greene. Photo by Bloomberg. Best Stories this Week … more.
Applied Optoelectronics: China Fears Loom Before Earnings
MACOM (MTSI), which in tandem with Fabrinet (FN) secured a design win with AOI’s top client Amazon Web Services (“AWS”), reported second … more.
‘Unreasonable Goals Program’ Hosts Entrepreneurs Focused on SDGs
The inaugural Unreasonable Goals program brought together the companies of 16 entrepreneurs who are working to achieve the SDGs. Each of the … more.
MacB to Showcase Leading-Edge Technologies at TechNet Augusta
A premier partner of Amazon Web Services (AWS), EITC has collaborated with AWS to provide innovative solutions to meet many of the challenges … more.
Primary Data lands $40M to fuel its chase for data management leadership
The platform is said to be compatible with Amazon Web Services, Cloudian, Google, Scality, NetApp, and VMware clouds. The updated version of … more.
Conversational Bot Interfaces for Mobile Applications with Amazon Lex
rights reserved Conversational Bots for Mobile Applications with Amazon Lex … more.
With new releases, Heptio co-founders continue unfinished mission to make
GeekWire That leaves only Amazon Web Services without a formal relationship with the project, although it does allow customers to run Kubernetes on AWS. more.
Apptio Faces Vast Opportunities And Challenges
The proliferation of cloud services such as Salesforce (NYSE:CRM), Workday (NYSE:WDAY), ServiceNow (NYSE:NOW), Amazon Web Services … more.
Delphix Increases Speed and Security of Cloud Deployments with Support for
Marketwired (press release) REDWOOD CITY, CA–(Marketwired - Aug 3, 2017) - Delphix, the company that has changed the dynamics of managing and consuming data, today … more.
Marijuana startup Lemonhaze leverages Bizspark to jump from AWS to Azure
I was recently told an anecdotal story of how Microsoft’s lesser publicized … dispensary Lemonhaze shift its entire business off AWS and onto Azure. more.
Tech connects Skype users with non-Skype users - earns Microsoft
IT Brief Australia It can be deployed to run completely on-premises, in a cloud such as Microsoft Azure, or in a combination of the two. Nick Seagrave, CTO at Modality … more.
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Ditches Mobile For AI Dreams
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Ditches Mobile For AI Dreams … Through fast-growing platforms like Azure in particular, Microsoft Corporation seems … more.
WANdisco to Present at Canaccord Genuity Growth Conference in Boston on
SYS-CON Media (press release) … Google Cloud, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle to resell its patented technology. WANdisco also works directly with Fortune … more.
Insiders say Google was interested in buying Snap for at least $30 billion
Business Insider Snap is one of the largest customers of Google Cloud and uses Google’s suite of apps internally. Google has always wanted to own a hot social … more.
CloudBerry Backup For Linux How To Configure And Run Backup To Protect
Fossbytes … it’ll open a new window that’ll let you choose your cloud storage service, including the likes of Amazon S3, Azure, Google Cloud, OpenStack, etc. more.
Tapinator Launches Big Sport Fishing 2017
NEW YORK, Aug. 3, 2017 /PRNewswire/ – Tapinator, Inc. (OTCQB: TAPM), a developer and publisher of mobile games on the iOS, Google Play, and … more.
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