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Updated: Microsoft reports 775% spike in a slice of cloud services traffic
Updated: Microsoft Corp. said its cloud services have seen a massive spike in usage since countries began enforcing social distancing and other measures in response to the coronavirus outbreak. The company said Saturday it has seen a 775% increase in the use of services such as Microsoft Teams, Power BI and Windows Virtual Desktop in ...
Kubernetes ships out version 1.18, with a focus on stability
Developers of the popular container orchestration platform Kubernetes have just shipped out version 1.18, the first release of the year. The release, issued Wednesday, is being called “fit and finish,” which suggests this is more of a complete product than previous versions. “Significant work has gone into improving beta and stable features to ensure users ...
US mulls new rules to crack down on Huawei’s chip supply lines
The U.S. government is reportedly planning to impose new restrictions on China’s Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. aimed at cutting it off from its main suppliers of advanced semiconductors. Top officials from the Trump administration reportedly met Wednesday to discuss a new rule that would require an export license for semiconductors that are produced using U.S.-designed ...
AWS brings its Outposts hybrid cloud service to GovCloud users
Amazon Web Services Inc. said today its public sector customers can now connect its AWS Outposts service to its GovCloud regions and access the full range of cloud services to build and run on-premises applications. AWS Outposts is a hybrid cloud service that was first announced in late 2018. The service extends native AWS or ...
Micron reports strong earnings on growing demand for remote work devices
Computer chipmaker Micron Technology Inc. is forecasting current-quarter revenue above Wall Street’s estimates as it benefits from the shift to working at home that has been forced on thousands of workers thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. The forecast followed what was a strong second quarter for the company, which reported a profit of 45 cents per share ...
Cloud cost optimization firm Spotinst rebrands as Spot
Israeli cloud infrastructure optimization startup Spotinst Ltd. today announced it’s rebranding itself as Spot and debuted a new product called Cloud Analyzer that helps enterprises to spot inefficiencies with their cloud computing operations more easily. Spot launched in 2015 with a service that helps companies to optimize their cloud computing spending across multiple providers in order to save ...
Juniper’s Mist Systems debuts premium network analytics service
Juniper Networks Inc. subsidiary Mist Systems Inc. has launched a new service called Mist Premium Analytics that offers enterprises greater visibility into their networks, along with more contextual, location-based information about customer and employees. Mist Systems said the service is meant to give enterprises a more comprehensive view of disparate networking, security and location domains ...
Oracle to help US government test malaria drugs for coronavirus treatment
Oracle Corp. is lending its expertise to help the U.S. government run clinical trials on two malaria drugs to gauge their effectiveness in treating COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus. The New York Times said Oracle was currently in talks with the White House about providing a “platform” for the testing. Officials are ...
Google’s new SEED RL framework reduces AI model training costs by 80%
Researchers at Google have open-sourced a new framework that can scale up artificial intelligence model training across thousands of machines. It’s a promising development because it should enable AI algorithm training to be performed at millions of frames per second while reducing the costs of doing so by as much as 80%, Google noted in ...
Sysdig integrates with Prometheus for better container monitoring
Container security startup Sysdig Inc. said today it’s integrating its platform with the popular open-source monitoring tool Prometheus. The idea is to help address some of the challenges around scale, data retention and enterprise access controls that are preventing some companies from fully adopting Prometheus. Sysdig sells tools that help companies to secure container environments, which ...
