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Daily Cloud Computing News from @cloudfeednet - Sep 1, 2017
Daily Cloud Computing news from @cloudfeednet.
Google updates Stackdriver, its suite of cloud application monitoring tools
… of updates to Stackdriver, its integrated monitoring, logging and diagnostics suite for cloud-based applications on Google Cloud Platform and AWS. more.
AWS partnership big news for VMware. The Google Cloud deal? Not so much,
SiliconANGLE News (blog) They discussed announcements involving Amazon Web Services Inc. and Google Cloud, the new VMware Foundation and competitive battles that … more.
Chrome Enterprise: Easing Google Chromebook Management for Business?
Chrome Enterprise could ease Google Chromebook management within large businesses. MSPs may also see upside, according to itopia CEO … more.
Serverless Kubeless Framework Gains Kubernetes-Native Support
The Serverless.com tool supports Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) Lambda, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and IBM OpenWhisk. The Bitnami … more.
Microsoft Alters Azure Active Directory Refresh Token Settings
Microsoft has changed the default settings for Azure Active Directory refresh tokens, but just for new tenancies. Refresh token expirations were causing … more.
Amazon’s Whole Foods acquisition may prompt Target move to Azure
Microsoft Azure is among the rival cloud vendors vying to nab Target’s cloud business, said the sources, who asked not to be named because the … more.
VMware Brings MDM to PCs, Macs and Chromebooks
… Horizon 7 VDI and virtual application platform will be available on Microsoft’s Azure cloud service in October. VMware, which announced its plans to … more.
Bootstrapping Kubernetes Google Cloud Platform without scripts
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way/tree/1.7.4&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTMjY3MjQ5NDE0MDE3NzUxMjcwNTIaMGEyOGVhNTg4YmJlMzZmZDpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNH-q7i4m5szUx-Z_OzOP3ZNn09aMg Google Cloud - Host static and dynamic websites using… Host static and dynamic websites using Cloud Storage. Justin Monteza shares how: Launch Your Static Website on Google Cloud - Justin Monteza - … more.
Amazon Web Services Could Pay A Steep Price For Amazon’s Retail Arm
Several years ago I sat on panel where each member was asked to weigh in on whether or not retailers would utilize a payment program conceived … more.
Jim Cramer Reveals One Challenge Facing Amazon Web Services
Amid Amazon’s (AMZN) move into the grocery space with Whole Foods, TheStreet’s founder and Action Alerts PLUS Portfolio Manager Jim Cramer … more.
Microsoft just made it easier for programmers to use archrival Amazon’s
CNBC … Foundation Server on-premises software and its Visual Studio Team Services cloud service can hook into various Amazon Web Services tools. more.
Microsoft and Amazon will link Cortana and Alexa in surprising
GeekWire … increasingly competitive in recent years, especially in the public cloud, where Microsoft’s Azure is going after market leader Amazon Web Services. more.
Report: Walmart doubles down on Nvidia chips
Barron’s Trip Chowdhry reports Walmart is building a “GPU farm” that will be about a tenth of the size of rival Amazon Web Services’ GPU cloud. more.
VMware’s Hybrid Cloud and SaaS Performance in Fiscal 2Q18
Hybrid cloud and SaaS offerings now constitute more than 9% of VMware’s overall revenues on the back of vCloud Air Network and AirWatch SaaS. more.
Socionext and SoftIron Announce Partnership to Build ‘HyperCast’, a
SYS-CON Media (press release) SUNNYVALE, Calif., Aug. 31, 2017 /PRNewswire/ – Socionext Inc., a leader in advanced SoC technology for video and imaging systems, is in a new … more.
GCX, P&O Maritime announce expansion plans
Cloud X Fusion, part of our innovative Cloud solutions portfolio, helps customers connect their networks to providers like AWS & Microsoft Azure … more.
Latest OpenStack Release Delivers Composable Infrastructure
The OpenStack community released the sixteenth version of its open source software, called Pike. Release highlights include allowing users to pick … more.
Report: Target to leave AWS after Amazon buys Whole Foods
The company began experimenting with OpenStack in 2014, and was a major presence at the summit in Boston in May, where it was sponsoring the … more.
Inspur signs up to ONOS project for stronger data center SDN
The company is a member of the OpenStack open source cloud computing project. It has also released InCloud OS 5.0, a cloud data center operating … more.
Google Cloud Key Management Service (KMS)
Google Cloud Key Management Service (KMS) is a cloud service for managing encryption keys for other Google cloud services that enterprises can … more.
Google in the clouds for 18 hours
Google Cloud’s load balancers suffered a connectivity problem for 18 hours, affecting virtual machines across the US, Europe and Asia. The incident … more.
This Holiday Season, Don’t Forget to Monitor Your APIs
As the summer draws to a close and back-to-school sales wind down, retailers will soon be focusing their attention on the holiday shopping season. more.
AWS Adds 2nd Watch as Service Delivery Launch Partner for Management Tools
… AWS Service Delivery Launch Partner status for three Amazon Web Services (AWS) Management Tools in the AWS Service Delivery Program: AWS … more.
How one marketing company used a cloud solution to address project-related
TechRepublic Traffic bound for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the internet was then sent out through a central connection to the public internet. Backhauling … more.
Cramer: Fantasy Shmantasy – Let’s Get Real With These Stock Picks
Look, Amazon is a flex play in that it’s got a running back business, Amazon Web Services, that consistently delivers points and is a total red-zone … more.
Karnataka becomes first state to fast-track 100 startups with equity and
YourStory.com … Ravi Gururaj and Ravi Narayan and industry partners such as PWC, Google Amazon Web services, Digital Ocean, Zoho, Axis Bank and Kotak Bank … more.
Walmart creating own cloud with Nvidia
… infrastructure and it’s now licensing the tech to other companies that perhaps don’t want to use a big player like AWS, Google and Microsoft’s Azure. more.
Create your own pfSense on Azure
commercial version of pfSense, but for some open-source fans, they’d like … more.
Alphabet Inc. (GOOG) Lifted to Strong-Buy at Vetr Inc.
The Google segment includes its Internet products, such as Search, Ads, Commerce, Maps, YouTube, Google Cloud, Android, Chrome and Google … more.
Microsoft Azure: 8 Ways to Save on Cloud Storage
Data storage vendors are pairing up with cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure as a way to broaden their offerings and lower storage costs for their … more.
BizVibe Examines the Partnership Formed by Walmart and Google to Compete
SYS-CON Media (press release) Google and Walmart are forming a new partnership to challenge Amazon’s dominant position in the US e-commerce market. This partnership … more.
Sony Electronics Announces Pricing and Availability of New Portable
SYS-CON Media (press release) Sony’s new GTK-XB60/XB90 EXTRA BASS portable wireless speakers and MHC-V90W High-Power Audio System will be available this fall, … more.
New Application Load Balancing via IP Address to AWS & On-Premises
I told you about the new AWS Application Load Balancer last year and showed you how to use it to do implement Layer 7 (application) routing to EC2 … more.
How VMware’s Partnership With Amazon Could End Up Backfiring
Andy Jassy, chief executive officer of web services at Amazon.com Inc., speaks during the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit in San Francisco, … more.
Microsoft Chasing European Startups for Future Cloud Business
Microsoft’s Azure cloud-computing service generates just 27 percent of the revenue Amazon reaps from Amazon Web Services, though it’s picking up … more.
Sword Active Risk sees enthusiastic take up of new SaaS delivery options
EIN News (press release) The new SaaS option that utilizes Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been enthusiastically greeted by customers. ARM customers now have the choice … more.
A mixed bag of FAQs around Windows 10 and Azure template deployments
With Windows AutoPilot a new machine is registered with the organizations Azure AD by using the machines hardware ID via Windows Store for … more.
Walmart Resorts To Nvidia Corp’s Chips As It Drifts Away From Amazon’s
CCT News Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure both stick out as viable alternatives to AWS for lot businesses. Walmart also employs a cloud computing … more.
Automation of Azure Analysis Services with Service Principals and
Azure Analysis Services presents considerable opportunities for automation of administrative tasks including server provisioning, scale up/down, … more.
Sold out Raspberry Pi kit for building Google AI assistant goes back on
TechRepublic An online guide walks users through how to build the assistant and how to link it to the Google Assistant SDK and Google Cloud Speech API that … more.
Walmart Resorts To Nvidia Corp’s Chips As It Drifts Away From Amazon’s
CCT News Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure both stick out as viable alternatives to AWS for lot businesses. Walmart also employs a cloud computing … more.
Microsoft Hits 52-Week High on Amazon Alliance, Robust Azure
Moreover, strong Office 365 and Windows 10 adoption as well as robust performance from Azure are helping the stock to gain momentum as evident … more.
Microsoft (MSFT) Marries Amazon For Greater Online And Cloud Services
Seeking Alpha points out that Microsoft might also get a boost in regards to more user noticing Microsoft azure. That said, such exposure works both … more.
An Azure virtual machine that runs an older Linux kernel version does not
You have a Microsoft Azure Linux virtual machine that is running one of the … the Linux virtual machine does not communicate with the Azure host. more.
Micro Focus Completes Merger with HPE Software Business, Announces
SYS-CON Media (press release) TYSONS, Va., Sept. 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ – Micro Focus (LSE: MCRO.L, NYSE: MFGP) today announced the completion of its merger with Hewlett … more.
China’s Largest 3C Product Manufacturer Pisen Files Lawsuit Against Apple
SYS-CON Media (press release) CHENGDU, China, Sept. 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ – Guangdong Pisen Electronics Co., Ltd. on August 28, 2017 filed a lawsuit with the Beijing … more.
Stadium Goods Expands To Europe With Exclusive Zalando Partnership
NEW YORK, Sept. 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ – This Fall, STADIUM GOODS will expand into the style-conscious European market through an exclusive … more.
Contrarian: Amazon Is One Of The Weakest Retailers There Is
The firm thinks the outperformance of the company’s shares has been due to its growth story, particularly its Amazon Web Services, or AWS, business. more.
Sword Active Risk sees enthusiastic take up of new SaaS delivery options
ResponseSource (press release) Maidenhead, UK - Sword Active Risk, a supplier of specialist risk management software and services, has extended its delivery options for Active Risk … more.
OpenStack Pike release bites hard on microservices and scale
With the release of OpenStack Pike, the OpenStack Foundation has focussed on making the foundational software-defined networking environment … more.
VMware details updates during VMWorld 2017
VMware Integrated OpenStack has been updated to version 4 with compliance for the OpenStack Foundation’s 2017.01 interoperability guidelines. more.
Walmart Resorts To Nvidia Corp’s Chips As It Drifts Away From Amazon’s
CCT News Walmart also employs a cloud computing technology based on OpenStack to serve its wide array of computing needs. The other additional retailers … more.
OpenStack Pike and all new updates to the Cloud Archive
announced the release of OpenStack Pike. Pike represents the 2nd release … more.
Microsoft Dynamics Partner Roundup: P2P alliance; African CSP; D365 field
MSDynamicsWorld.com … services, code transformation, provisioning on Microsoft Azure, certification for Microsoft Dynamics and more, according to company officials. more.
HARTING MICA certified for Microsoft Azure for IoT
requirements of Microsoft’s Microsoft Azure Certified for IoT … more.
IFA 2017 - Global Leading Consumer Electronics Show Opens in Berlin
IFA in Berlin is the world’s leading trade show for consumer electronics and home appliances. It takes place from September 1 - 6 at the Berlin … more.
Houston Tech Firm Donates Text Services to Businesses and Organizations
SYS-CON Media (press release) HOUSTON, Sept. 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ – alive5, a Houston-based technology firm, announces it will donate SMS/texting services to organizations … more.
Military Robots Market Worth 30.83 Billion USD by 2022
The report “Military Robots Market by Platform (Land, Marine, Airborne), Application (ISR, Search and Rescue, Combat Support, Transportation, EOD, … more.
Cloud stock to watch: Nutanix Inc(NASDAQ: NTNX)
… with Google to blend the Nutanix environment with the Google Cloud Platform, offering new functionality targeting challenges of the multi-cloud era. more.
How to configure Microsoft RDS Personal Session Desktops
Microsoft has found a balance for virtual desktops in Windows Server 2016. … Session Desktops give IT the option to deploy VDI in Microsoft Azure. more.
What Is Azure Virtual Machine Accelerated Networking?
Most workloads in Azure will probably never find networking to be the … SR-IOV was a feature introduced in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V. Microsoft … more.
Behind the Scenes: How ABUS connects its security devices to the Azure
Microsoft - Channel 9 (blog) ABUS recently teamed up with Microsoft to create a cloud-based management and control solution that provides a central secure gateway for all … more.
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