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Daily Cloud Computing News from @cloudfeednet - Aug 16, 2017
Daily Cloud Computing news from @cloudfeednet.
Microsoft Acquires Cycle Computing for HPC in Azure
The Cycle team can’t wait to combine CycleCloud’s technology for managing Linux and Windows compute & data workloads, with Microsoft Azure’s … more.
Google Calendar: New desktop designs show cleaner look that’s coming soon
The new-look Calendar shows a cleaner layout, new fonts, a hamburger menu, and the signature red floating action button at the bottom of the screen. more.
Barracuda Backup Gains Amazon AWS Cloud Replication
… is an AWS Advanced Technology Partner and has gained attention with its virtualized firewalls running on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. more.
Azure Time Series Insights API, Reference Data, Ingress, and Azure Portal
Similarly, Microsoft is also using Time Series Insights internally with innovative services like Microsoft IoT Central and Azure IoT’s Connected Factory … more.
Amazon Web Services announce Amazon Macie
Amazon Web Services announced a new security service called Amazon Macie at an event in NY on Monday. AWS will charge by the GBs of S3 … more.
Uber agrees to 20 years of audits after FTC raised privacy, security
CNET … complaint include giving all engineers a single access key to all the data Uber stores with Amazon Web Services, lacking multifactor authentication … more.
Barracuda Adds AWS Support to Backup Product
Barracuda Networks on Tuesday expanded support for its Barracuda Backup Intronis MSP Edition to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Up until now … more.
Movers & Shakers: IBM Sues CIO, IT Execs Change Industries
Smith signed on with Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s leading cloud storage company and direct competitor to IBM. The suit alleges Smith is … more.
Cloud computing decision guide: Breaking down 7 top solutions for
Healthcare IT News Microsoft Azure has supported healthcare through its cloud infrastructure platform since 2011. Today it has 40 data centers and the company says it … more.
Mid-Day ETF Update: ETFs, Stocks Turn Negative Despite Easing of Tensions
Nasdaq Microsoft (MSFT) was down 0.1% after it said it has acquired Cycle Computing, a cloud service provider, to help Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform serve … more.
Why your organization needs an Azure Stack Operator
datacenters, bringing both the greater power of Azure and responsibility for … more.
Microsoft Gets HPC Boost with Cycle Computing Buy
… the three largest public clouds: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Cycle Computing says its software … more.
Microsoft Gets HPC Boost with Cycle Computing Buy
Microsoft on Tuesday announced its acquisition of Cycle Computing, a provider … However, “future Microsoft versions released will be Azure-focused. more.
IT Brief Australia - Interview: Microsoft on what the new Azure regions
IT Brief Australia Techday had a chat with James Kavanagh, Canberra-based Microsoft Azure engineering lead for Australia and Greg Boorer, chief executive officer of … more.
Cloud computing decision guide: Breaking down 7 top solutions for
Healthcare IT News Examples are AWS, Google Cloud Platform, IBM Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Hybrid cloud: A platform providing infrastucture-as-a-service that … more.
Outage outed: Bing dinged, Microsoft portal mortal, DuckDuckGo becomes
The Register Microsoft’s Bing fell over on Tuesday morning, Pacific Time, causing a … to impact other Microsoft services, including Azure, Xbox Live, and Office365, … more.
New Amazon Web Services Extends CloudTrail to All AWS Customers
I have exciting news for all Amazon Web Services customers! I have been waiting patiently to share this great news with all of you and finally, the wait … more.
Uber Agrees to Privacy Audits in Settlement With FTC
The F.T.C. also said that Uber had not done enough to protect consumer data stored with a third-party cloud vendor, Amazon Web Services. Uber’s lax … more.
Consider how the DevOps process impacts infrastructure
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure can scale to almost any workload you throw at them. But what about the cost? The cloud is usually not as … more.
DevOps competency growth hindered by IT skills shortage
“If you have people who already love playing with AWS [Amazon Web Services], or who love building internal tools to make their colleagues more … more.
My advice to anyone awaiting results is not to stress over it
I’m lucky enough to work in technical recruitment at Amazon Web Services so basically my job is to find, attract and hire top network engineers into our … more.
Microsoft to launch two cloud regions for Aust govt
… Azure public cloud, rather than other public clouds, such as the market-leading Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Alphabet’s Google Cloud Platform … more.
Microsoft to open two new Azure regions in Australia
Microsoft has announced the opening of two new Azure regions in Australia for serving highly-secured government data. Partnering with the local … more.
How Alphabet Is Tackling Its Cloud Competition
Alphabet (GOOGL) is working to catch up to Amazon (AMZN) and Microsoft (MSFT) in the cloud vendor market in terms of market share. According to … more.
Expect service providers to ease Azure Stack deployment
Microsoft is about to release Azure Stack, after two years and many bumps in the road. Despite the hoopla, it’s unclear just how many customers will … more.
AWS launches ‘Macie’, its newest machine learning security service
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has welcomed the newest addition to its portfolio, a machine learning security service called Amazon Macie. So far … more.
Rackspace Brings Encryption to the Cloud
… with Pivotal to offer a managed version of Pivotal Cloud Foundry and one with Google to offer managed services support for Google Cloud Platform. more.
Azure Stack will need special sysadmins, says Microsoft
As the image atop this story ( or here for m.reg readers) shows, Microsoft thinks that going hybrid with Azure will also need you to hire the following folk … more.
Amazon Web Services joins Microsoft at CNCF
AWS’s move comes on the heels of Microsoft joining the CNCF as a platinum member last month. AWS hopes its move will help to accelerate the … more.
How Alphabet Is Tackling Its Cloud Competition
According to Synergy Research Group, Amazon’s cloud unit, Amazon Web Services (or AWS) holds a commanding lead in the cloud, controlling more … more.
Google’s speech recognition now supports Urdu
Google’s Cloud Speech API can convert spoken words into text for the following languages, bringing the grand total of supported dialects to a … more.
Managing your resources with Azure Cloud Shell
… On today’s Microsoft Mechanics, Rick and I demonstrate how within your … more.
Uber FTC settlement requires 20 years of privacy audits following 2014
SC Magazine … names and driver’s license numbers that Uber stored in a datastore operated by Amazon Web Services, according to an Aug. 8, FTC press release. more.
Equinix to open $32m datacentre in Hong Kong in Q4
Equinix’s Cloud Exchange offers private access to a range of cloud providers such as from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Microsoft … more.
AWS Holds Customers’ Attention With New Enterprise Cloud Services
NEWS ANALYSIS: Amazon Web Services continues to add new data services to help smooth the way for its enterprise customers to move their … more.
RH OpenStack Platform - BGP Dynamic Routing Agent support
tenant networks outside OpenStack Platform to other BGP speakers, … more.
FICO, a Premier OpenStack User, Goes to the AWS Dark Side
provides credit ratings and business analytics as a service, took the stage … more.
Microsoft to open new Azure regions in Australia in public sector push
Microsoft will open two new regions for its Azure cloud computing service in Australia that will handle protected and unclassified government data, … more.
Image is not available when launch instance
Images under admin 2. Create public image of any type 3. push [Launch] … more.
Equinix to open $32m datacentre in Hong Kong in Q4
Equinix’s Cloud Exchange offers private access to a range of cloud providers such as from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Microsoft … more.
Equinix to open $32m datacentre in Hong Kong in Q4
… Cloud Exchange offers private access to a range of cloud providers such as from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Microsoft Azure, … more.
Growing allies in the OpenStack community
Google memo, says Women of OpenStack member Amy Marrich. Here’s how … more.
Love cloudy HPC? Microsoft does, slurps Cycle Computing
Announcing the acquisition in this blog post, Microsoft Azure veep Jason Zander plugs Cycle’s tight fit with Microsoft’s cloud infrastructure, InfiniBand … more.
How are you feeling today? Don’t tell us, save for it this handy
The Register To understand Trump’s tweets, the code relies on Google’s Cloud Natural Language API, which ingests text and returns a variety of data about it. more.
Pexip Infinity Fusion Earns Interoperability Certification for Microsoft
CommsTrader The system can be deployed to run entirely on-premise, or in a cloud such as that offered by Microsoft Azure. Additionally, there are options available … more.
Bug #1710908 scheduler.utils.merge_resources allows zero value …
can result in a sum of zero, or one of the provided keys has a value of zero … more.
Get Catalog Information Using the Cloud Billing API
Management to: Get a list of all public services including relevant metadata … more.
No longer proprietary - IBM Storage Driver for OpenStack
future development of the IBM Storage Driver for OpenStack. For over 4 … more.
PeopleStrong selects Amazon Web Services as preferred
PeopleStrong today announced the selection of Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud infrastructure provider. PeopleStrong is one of the … more.
Microsoft Bolsters Azure With Cloud HPC Deal
Cycle Computing, which in the past has had strong ties to Microsoft’s cloud rival, Amazon Web Services, has also played a key role in transforming … more.
Microsoft announces ‘Coco Framework’ for blockchain networks
Microsoft announces ‘Coco Framework’ for blockchain networks … build, and implement blockchain solutions using Microsoft Azure Blockchain. more.
Cloud Services Market Global Report 2017
LONDON, Aug. 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ – The word ‘cloud services’ refers to delivery of information technology resources and applications … more.
AWS debuts data security tool Amazon Macie
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of Amazon Macie, a new security service that uses machine learning to help customers … more.
Microsoft boosts cloud HPC strategy with Cycle Computing acquisition
Cycle Computing is described by Microsoft Azure VP Jason Zander in a blog post as being a leader in cloud computing orchestration, to help make it … more.
SADA Systems Once Again Named to the Prestigious Inc. 5000 List, Inc.
GlobeNewswire (press release) The firm is a Google Cloud Premier Partner, a Microsoft National Solutions Provider and a Facebook Workplace Service Partner. Last month, SADA … more.
Shooting Down The ‘AWS Growth Is Slowing’ Myth
Amazon Web Services plays a huge morale-boosting role for Amazon (AMZN). Apart from the steady increase in revenue, the high-margin nature of … more.
Microsoft boosts Azure power with new cloud acquisition
Microsoft has announced its plans to buy HPC company Cycle Computing in order to allow its customers to do more in the public cloud. According to … more.
Microsoft boosts Azure power with new cloud acquisition
Cycle Computing’s software currently works with Azure as well as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud to orchestrate workflows, manage data … more.
Uber Settles FTC Data Security Claims
The FTC also accused Uber of failing to adequately protect personal information stored with Amazon Web Services, a third-party cloud provider, … more.
Microsoft acquires cloud firm Cycle Computing
Microsoft has acquired cloud firm Cycle Computing in a move which it claims … Its software is compatible with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services … more.
Microsoft acquires Cycle Computing to rival Amazon Web Services & Google
Blasting News Microsoft does not want to lose the competition between other public clouds, such as Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform. more.
Top 5 Vendors in the Global Web Real Time Communications Market from 2017
SYS-CON Media (press release) Technavio has announced the top five leading vendors in their recent global web real time communications (WebRTC) market 2017-2021 report. more.
Tintri Extends its Enterprise Cloud Platform to Amazon Web Services and IBM
Business Wire (press release) BUSINESS WIRE)–Tintri, Inc. (NASDAQ: TNTR), today announced the extension of its enterprise cloud platform to Amazon Web Services and IBM … more.
Why Amazon is Poised to Kick the Media Industry’s Ass
Meanwhile, let’s not forget Amazon’s real 800-pound gorilla: Amazon Web Services (AWS). The division last year lifted Amazon’s profit to a record, … more.
Inside Verizon’s virtual networking services deal with AWS
As a result, Verizon just announced a deal with Amazon Web Services Inc. to offer virtual networking services within the AWS environment for … more.
Too many big online brands allow terrible passwords
Turning to enterprise sites, things improved slightly but even here Amazon Web Services (AWS), Freshbooks, scored 1⁄5. With MongoDB and … more.
Duke Energy seeks 500MW wind capacity for Carolinas in US
That facility came online earlier this year and supplies electricity long-term to Amazon Web Services. Duke expects wind energy from the RFP will help … more.
Microsoft launches Azure Event Grid, a fully managed event routing service
Microsoft announced a new product in its Azure line-up in preview today that will make it easier for developers to build event-based applications. more.
Microsoft continues its push into serverless tech with Azure Event Grid
Microsoft is making a big bet on serverless technologies this year, and it continued that push Wednesday with the release of Azure Event Grid, a new … more.
Microsoft announces ‘Coco Framework’ to remove complexities of blockchain
Firstpost With a rise in the adoption of blockchain technology, Microsoft on Wednesday announced ‘Coco Framework’, a first-of-its-kind innovation that aims to … more.
12 Microsoft Power BI success stories
Microsoft Power BI provides organizations with self-service business … Microsoft SQL Server 2016-based data warehouse hosted on Microsoft Azure. more.
Oracle expands database offering to its cloud services
… offer its database services as a cloud service and has upgraded it considerably to compete with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. more.
5 Technologies to Investigate at VMworld
OpenStack. OpenStack systems products are continuing to grow as an important player in the cloud OS market, and VMware is embracing it with … more.
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