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A growing complexity of services is hampering enterprises’ multicloud strategies
Enterprises are increasingly adopting multicloud deployment strategies, but few are seeing any benefits thanks to the growing complexity of cloud service providers’ product portfolios. 451 Research Inc.’s latest Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud Transformation Study shows there’s a growing appetite for the mix-and-match approach towards cloud services, with 69 percent of enterprises showing an interest ...
Baffle enables cloud-based apps to use encrypted data without breaking
Data encryption-as-a-service company Baffle Inc. is beefing up its product suite with a new data protection service for applications running on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. The idea is to ensure those cloud-based applications can run while using encrypted data without breaking. Baffle’s main encryption-as-a-service software is designed to ensure that data breaches remain ...
CloudPassage adds new tools to plug leaky software containers
Cloud infrastructure security specialist CloudPassage Inc. is attempting to plug leaky software containers with the latest update to its Halo platform, which provides security controls across data centers, private and public clouds and virtual machines. The company today announced general availability of Container Secure, which provides a range of compliance and security controls for container ...
Sumo Logic intros new monitoring capabilities for Docker and Kubernetes
Log management and analytics startup Sumo Logic Inc. is the latest company to fall under the sway of software application containers. Today it announced a new unified logs and metrics feature for its platform that provides intelligence into applications running on the Docker Engine and Kubernetes. Software application containers are used by developers to abstract their ...
Amazon jumps into virtual reality with Sumerian for building VR apps in the cloud
Immersive technologies such as virtual reality and augmented reality could soon become much more commonplace thanks to the launch early Monday morning of a new development platform by Amazon Web Services Inc. The public cloud computing giant took the wraps off its new Amazon Sumerian service, which provides a platform for developers to create realistic ...
With new AWS Elemental Media Services, Amazon ups its video production game
Amazon Web Services Inc. is stepping up its video production capabilities as it bids to become the platform of choice for companies focused on creating video-based content. The company announced early Monday at its AWS re:Invent event in Las Vegas that it’s expanding the scope of its popular AWS Elemental Media Services suite with five new services designed ...
GE Healthcare speeds up medical image processing with help from Nvidia and Intel
General Electric Co.’s healthcare business is teaming up with chipmakers Nvidia Corp. and Intel Corp. to speed up the time it takes to process medical images by taking advantage of their latest artificial intelligence systems and graphics processing unit chips. GE Healthcare said on Sunday it’s partnering with Nvidia to update more than 500,000 medical ...
Samsung to open new research center focused on AI and machine learning
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is stepping up its artificial intelligence game with the opening of a new research center focused on machine learning. The move doesn’t come too soon, because Samsung is generally perceived to be trailing its rivals when it comes to AI. The plan is for the new AI research center to be operated ...
VMware says it won’t support its virtualization software on Microsoft Azure cloud
Virtualization giant VMware Inc. has lashed out at Microsoft Corp.’s effort to steal some of its customers away, saying it won’t provide support for those that run its software stack on the Azure cloud. The statement follows Microsoft’s launch of the Azure Migrate service this week, which the software giant touted as an easy way ...
Big-data company Qubole brings Apache Spark to AWS Lambda
Big-data company Qubole Inc. is beefing up Apache Spark, making it more flexible and easier to use by giving its customers the ability to run Spark applications on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s AWS Lambda service. Apache Spark is one of the most popular big-data processing engines around, designed to execute streaming, machine learning or SQL ...