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Google’s Migrate for Anthos service is now generally available
Google LLC announced at its Cloud Next UK 2019 event the general availability of a new tool that makes it easier for enterprises to migrate their applications from on-premises and public cloud environments to its Anthos hybrid cloud platform. Launched earlier this year, Google Anthos runs atop the Kubernetes container orchestration software. It’s designed to host ...
AWS updates its storage portfolio with a raft of new features
Hosting its inaugural Storage Day in the run-up to its annual re:Invent cloud computing conference in early December, Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced a number of updates to its portfolio of storage services. Fast Snapshot Restore in Amazon EBS Top of the list is the new Fast Snapshot Restore feature in Amazon Elastic Block Store. Amazon ...
Intel warns of ‘extremely tight’ chip supply despite building up production
Computer chipmaker Intel Corp. took the rather unusual step Wednesday of providing an update on its ongoing chip supply issues. In a letter to its customers and partners, the company said it’s increasing its reliance on contract chip manufacturers to try to expand production to meet demand for its products. Even so, Intel warned that ...
Google adds more security features to its cloud services
Google LLC wants its cloud customers to have more control and visibility over their data, so today it announced a raft of new capabilities around data encryption, network security and security analytics. The most significant of the updates, which were announced at Google’s Cloud Next UK event in London today, is a new External Key ...
Big tech firms join the Open Invention Network to fight against patent trolls
IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and the Linux Foundation are teaming up with the Open Invention Network to help protect open-source software projects from so-called patent assertion entities, more colloquially called “patent trolls.” The OIN is a “patent non-aggression community” that cross-licenses patents to its members on a royalty-free basis. It also has its own patents, ...
Google launches a more predictable pricing model for its BigQuery analytics service
Google LLC today announced a new reservation system for its BigQuery service that helps ensure more predictable pricing for enterprises that use it regularly. BigQuery Reservations helps enterprises to predict their analytics spending more easily because they can purchase capacity in bulk and then allocate it as desired. Google said that should appeal to many ...
Cloud data backup company Clumio raises $135M Series C round
Enterprise data backup provider Clumio Inc. is enjoying some strong momentum if its latest funding round is anything to go by. The company said today it has raised $135 million in a Series C round of funding, which is an enormous amount of cash for a company that only emerged from stealth mode in August. ...
Western Union plans big migration to Amazon’s cloud platform
Amazon Web Services Inc. has landed a major new customer in the financial services sector. The Western Union Company said today it has chosen Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing company as its “preferred long-term strategic cloud provider” and will press ahead with plans to move “a significant portion” of its computing infrastructure to the public cloud ...
IBM ships out two new open-source tools for Kubernetes developers
Taking center stage at the Kubecon + CloudNativeCon co-located events in San Diego today, IBM Corp. announced two new open-source tools for the Kubernetes ecosystem, as well as updates to two of its existing projects. The new tools include Kui, which is meant to ease the oftentimes “chunky experience” developers have to deal with when ...
Intel unveils graphics chip and software for high-performance computing and AI
Intel Corp. is turning its attention to the convergence of high-performance computing and artificial intelligence with the launch late today of a new general-purpose graphics processing unit that’s optimized for both types of workloads. In addition, Intel announced its oneAPI initiative, which aims to provide a simpler programming model for developing HPC and AI applications that can run ...
