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Microsoft finally brings availability zones to the Azure cloud
Microsoft Corp. last week switched on the first availability zones for its Azure cloud platform, providing new backup and reliability options for customers running workloads in its data centers in Iowa and Paris. The move follows an announcement last year that the company was introducing availability zones in preview. In a blog post Friday, Tom Keane, ...
No flash in the pan: Memory chip revenues could see record growth in 2018
The global semiconductor industry recorded its best year in more than a decade in 2017, with annual revenue jumping by 22 percent over the previous year, to $429.1 billion. That’s according to new data from the U.K.-based analyst firm IHS Markit Ltd., which attributed the rise to a massive spike in demand for processing power ...
CNCF adds 3 new open-source projects aimed at boosting container security
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation has announced it’s taking three new open-source projects under its protective wing. The new projects include the Secure Production Identity Framework For Everyone, or “SPIFFE,” and the SPIFFE Runtime Environment, known simply as “SPIRE.” The other new project is called the Open Policy Agent or OPA. All three are said to ...
Microsoft Excel gets smarter with new rich data types
Microsoft Corp. is enhancing its Excel spreadsheet software with two new “rich data” types that provides a better way to access information on companies and places. The geography and stocks data types allow users to pull information from Microsoft’s extensive Knowledge Graph and insert it inside their spreadsheets. The general idea is to make Excel ...
IBM announces Microclimate development platform for cloud-native apps
IBM Corp. is reaching out to software coders with a new application development environment called Microclimate that supports multiple cloud platforms. IBM reckons that Microclimate has everything a developer needs to simplify and speed up application creation and deployment. Microclimate is an “end-to-end framework” that can be used in every stage of the development process, ...
Microsoft’s Bing search engine uses FPGA chips to provide more intelligent answers
Microsoft Corp. has posted an update about how its Project Brainwave deep learning acceleration project is being used to power Bing’s search service. Project Brainwave is an extension of Microsoft’s development work on field programmable gate arrays, which are processors used in data centers that can be reprogrammed in real time for different computing tasks. ...
Software-defined networking project OpenContrail rebrands as ‘Tungsten Fabric’
Juniper Networks Inc.’s open-source OpenContrail project to create a software-defined network is being rebranded. The project, housed by the Linux Foundation, has been renamed as “Tungsten Fabric” in an effort to encourage more outside developers to contribute. Tungsten Fabric is designed to be a scalable, multicloud platform that provides a single point of control, observability ...
Cisco and Microsoft fight for dominance in enterprise collaboration software
The worldwide market for enterprise collaboration software hit a new all-time high in the fourth quarter of 2017, growing by just under 10 percent for the year, according to new data from Synergy Research Group. Synergy’s latest report, released today, shows that revenue from collaboration software, which encompasses enterprise voice, unified communications applications, telepresence, email and ...
Google adds 3 free application monitoring tools to its cloud platform
Google LLC is making the same software it uses to test the performance of its internal applications in production available on the Google Cloud Platform. The new products, introduced today, are designed to help developers spot any issues with their apps running in production, the company said. Without these tools, Google said, it can be ...
Web hosting firm GoDaddy to go all-in on Amazon Web Services
Always keen to show off its marquee customer signings, Amazon Web Services Inc. took the chance to highlight another big win with the news today that web hosting company GoDaddy Inc. is going all-in on its public cloud. GoDaddy said it intends to move the “vast majority” of its information technology infrastructure to AWS as ...