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The 2019 forecast for cloud computing: Up the value chain they go

Paul Gillin — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 19:27:57 +0000

The year just concluded may end up being remembered as the one in which the final barriers to widespread cloud adoption fell. Finally convinced that concerns about security and stability were more perception than reality, chief information officers flocked to cloud platforms with the rapid adoption of software containers paving the way. Containers make it simple […]

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Oracle takes Pentagon to court over its $10B JEDI cloud computing contract

Mike Wheatley — Thu, 13 Dec 2018 00:52:43 +0000

Oracle Corp. is refusing to give up its fight for a piece of the U.S. Defense Department’s massive $10 billion cloud computing contract. Oracle, along with other public cloud providers, has been squabbling over DoD’s decade-long Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract for most of the year, arguing that the bidding process violates U.S. acquisition regulations. […]

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Developers can now deploy serverless workloads to any cloud on GitLab

Mike Wheatley — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 01:44:21 +0000

Software code hosting provider GitLab Inc. is getting into the serverless computing game. The company said today it’s teaming up with a firm called TriggerMesh Inc. on a new product developers can use to deploy serverless workloads to any cloud platform directly from the GitLab user interface. Serverless computing is an execution model in which […]

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Oracle pitches new serverless computing options for developers

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 16:00:58 +0000

Oracle Corp. is pitching a new serverless computing platform under the umbrella of its Cloud Native Framework services bundle, which was released today. The serverless offering, called Oracle Functions, is based on the open source Fn Project hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The Fn project is a cloud-agnostic serverless platform that’s designed to […]

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Streamlio brings Apache Pulsar to Google’s cloud

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 15:00:23 +0000

Startup Streamlio Inc. is making its Apache Pulsar-based publish-and-subscribe messaging platform available as a cloud-native “Kubernetes application” on the Google Cloud Platform. The Streamlio Community Edition is a fast, highly scalable and low-latency messaging platform that provides a way for software applications to communicate with one another. It runs on commodity hardware and provides both […]

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Iguazio and Google partner on retail inventory tracking system at the cloud’s edge

Mike Wheatley — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 13:00:51 +0000

Data analytics company Iguazio Systems Ltd. is teaming up with Google LLC and Trax Technology Solutions Pte Ltd. to provide real-time supply chain and inventory management services for the retail sector. Iguazio sells a serverless data platform-as-a-service product that’s focused on delivering real-time intelligence at the network edge. It consolidates data into a repository and makes it […]

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Mirantis brings Kubernetes to bare-metal servers

Mike Wheatley — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 17:00:11 +0000

Private cloud infrastructure company Mirantis Inc. today updated its Mirantis Cloud Platform, enabling its customers to run Kubernetes on bare-metal servers or in on-premises data centers for the first time. Mirantis launched its Cloud Platform back in April 2017, delivering OpenStack, the private cloud platform, and Kubernetes, the container orchestration software, as a single integrated package […]

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Twistlock moves to address hybrid cloud security worries

Mike Wheatley — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 14:00:13 +0000

Container security startup Twistlock Ltd. wants to provide more safeguards for enterprises that run hybrid cloud information technology environments. The new Twistlock 18.11 release gives companies a way to discover which cloud-native services they’re running across multiple clouds so they can better protect themselves against threats across these environments. In addition, the company is throwing in some new […]

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Off-the-shelf AWS service RoboMaker aims to bring robots to life

Bev Bellile — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 21:30:43 +0000

Whether robots are helping fulfillment in warehouses, assisting those in need, or acting as security guards, these useful aids are filling niches in more and more places. As a result, software developers are increasingly interested in learning about and building robots. To assist with this mission, Amazon Web Services Inc. recently released a new service called RoboMaker. […]

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What’s missing from Outposts, AWS’ latest hybrid cloud announcement

James Kobielus — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 23:23:17 +0000

At this week’s Wikibon post-re:Invent CrowdChat, one of the questions concerned which, if any, of the many announcements at Amazon Web Services Inc.’s annual conference last week in Las Vegas we would characterize as “ho-hum.” This was how I responded: “AWS Outposts. ‘Ho-hum’ in several senses: 1) it’s not going into GA till late 2019, […]

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AWS’ new satellite scheme throws out the book on edge computing

R. Danes — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 18:52:04 +0000

Know what would really help solve the edge-to-cloud data-transport conundrum? Satellites. Satellites could deliver data to the cloud much more rapidly than internet of things edge devices could. But then there’s the practical impossibility of building a parabolic antenna for most companies. That’s why Lockheed Martin Corp. has collaborated with Amazon Web Services Inc. to offer parabolic […]

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How AWS built its new satellite ‘ground station as a service’

Mark Albertson — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 20:00:26 +0000

Amazon.com Inc. has already commoditized e-commerce and the cloud. Why not satellite data as well? That’s the premise behind Amazon Web Services Inc.’s decision in March to launch a new cloud service in the last week of November that leverages its global network to improve the ability of satellite operators to bring data to Earth. AWS […]

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How AWS plans to move on-premises for hybrid cloud collaboration with VMware

Teryn O'Brien — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 00:00:47 +0000

Since VMware Inc., and Amazon Web Services Inc. announced their partnership in 2016 with offerings such as VMware Cloud on AWS, the two previously fierce competitors have continued to deepen their partnership. As Amazon RDS on VMware — which helps customers deploy managed databases in on-premises VMware environments — begins previewing for customers, Amazon just announced another service called Amazon […]

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Analysis: How AWS’ new Outposts service enables the hybrid cloud

David Floyer — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 23:32:43 +0000

This is a new report from Wikibon, SiliconANGLE Media’s market research company. Introduction AWS is bringing its core technologies into enterprise data centers and to the network edge. This move dramatically increases the reach and range of AWS, and it’s the start of an era of hybrid computing. Wikibon projected that AWS would announce its […]

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Here come AI cloud apps so easy a caveman could make one

R. Danes — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 23:15:08 +0000

Friends don’t let friends build data centers these days. Cloud infrastructure has eliminated on-premises bulk for companies moving into the digital age. Now, anyone building a software as a service application has a new palette of easy, featherweight tools before them. Cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services Inc. are allowing them to easily tack on complex […]

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AWS Outposts sets fire under on-prem competitors’ seats

R. Danes — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 21:17:37 +0000

The march to public cloud is hitting some speed bumps. Companies are learning the hard way that some apps belong at home for convenience, cost, compliance and other reasons. This is where on-premises vendors can come up the side and snatch some of Amazon Web Services Inc.’s customers. Or not. There’s a movement afoot to […]

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Recapping AWS re:Invent’s innovation blitz, CEO Andy Jassy says much more’s on the way

Mark Albertson — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 17:27:15 +0000

In January, Amazon.com Inc. had a total of 562 million products for sale on its e-commerce website. After four days of wall-to-wall new products and services announcements this week at the re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, enterprise cloud watchers could be forgiven if they believed that Amazon Web Services Inc. now offered a similar number. Industry […]

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As re:Invent conference wraps, AWS keeps getting stronger in the cloud

James Kobielus — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 05:57:59 +0000

As its annual re:Invent conference draws to a close, Amazon Web Services Inc. left no doubt in anyone’s mind that it’s investing deeply in the technologies, tools and applications that it will need to stay the clear industry leader in cloud computing. If you attended this year’s re:Invent in Las Vegas, your brain is probably […]

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Will new Amazon chip cause trouble for Intel? Don’t bet on it, analysts say

Mark Albertson — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 00:30:59 +0000

Since Amazon Web Services Inc. kicked off its hit parade of new products on Monday during the re:Invent conference in Las Vegas with the news that it would debut a new cloud chip of its own design called Graviton, speculation has risen that the company’s move could represent a threat to chip giant Intel Corp. […]

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A confident VMware beats earnings estimates and raises 2019 forecast

Paul Gillin — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 00:21:49 +0000

Updated: VMware Inc.’s transition away from a seller of commodity data center infrastructure to a well-rounded solution provider continues apace judging by another strong earnings report today. Third-quarter earnings of $1.56 per share came in a nickel better than consensus estimates and up 26 percent from the same quarter a year ago. Revenues rose 13.5 percent, […]

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AWS expands its serverless capabilities and adds a managed Kafka service

Maria Deutscher — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 21:03:21 +0000

After unveiling a satellite data service, an on-premise infrastructure offering and countless new features in the first two days of its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon Web Services Inc. this morning introduced yet another set of enhancements for its cloud platform. Expanded serverless features Many of the capabilities announced today are rolling out for AWS […]

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Deeper into cloud data: AWS launches a blitz of innovative AI offerings at re:Invent

James Kobielus — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 08:04:12 +0000

Amazon Web Services Inc. made artificial intelligence far and away the dominant theme of its announcements on Wednesday, the second day of re:Invent 2018. As presented in detail in AWS Chief Executive Andy Jassy’s keynotes, the latest announcements fell into the following categories: Driving innovative AI into every cloud application; Building and optimizing diverse data […]

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Amazon launches AWS Security Hub for monitoring security issues

Duncan Riley — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 01:42:36 +0000

Amazon.com Inc. today rolled out a new service for monitoring and prioritizing security issues for Amazon Web Services Inc. customers. Called the AWS Security Hub, the service has been designed to provide AWS users with a comprehensive view of their security state within AWS and to assist them in checking their compliance with security industry […]

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Amazon launches toy car and racing league to encourage reinforcement learning development

Duncan Riley — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 00:48:39 +0000

In a novel offering, Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing company today launched 1/18th scale robotic self-driving cars along with a racing league to go with them as a way to encourage the development of reinforcement learning technology. Called the AWS DeepRacer, the car is being pitched as an “interesting and fun way to get started with reinforcement […]

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Outposts could widen Amazon’s lead in hybrid cloud

Mark Albertson — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 22:13:36 +0000

Wednesday’s announcement by Amazon Web Services Inc. that it would introduce an on-premises data center model that mirrors its own cloud operation will likely cause major heartburn for hybrid competitors, and could lead to a major shift in strategy by companies in the same space. “What Amazon is doing with Outposts is they’re putting the […]

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In blockbuster cloud move, Amazon jumps into the data center with both feet

Robert Hof — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 19:30:41 +0000

In yet another land grab, cloud computing king Amazon Web Services Inc. today took a giant step further into the inner sanctum of customers’ data centers. At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, the Amazon.com Inc. cloud company announced Outposts, an on-premises data center system that’s based on the same hardware AWS uses to run […]

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Amazon debuts Inferentia, a custom machine learning prediction chip

Robert Hof — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 18:06:51 +0000

In another sign of Amazon.com Inc.’s broad ambitions in cloud computing, the company’s cloud company today debuted a new processor chip designed for machine learning. The chip, called Inferentia, will be available via Amazon Web Service Inc.’s EC2 computing service as well as its SageMaker AI service and Amazon Elastic Inference, a new service also […]

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AWS racks up cloud deals with finance heavyweights Guardian Life and Openbank

Maria Deutscher — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 17:09:11 +0000

Two more multibillion-dollar companies have jumped on the Amazon Web Services Inc. bandwagon at the cloud leader’s re:Invent conference this week. AWS today revealed that insurance giant The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America and online banking provider Open Bank SA have chosen to migrate their operations to its platform. The announcement brings the total number of […]

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AWS CEO Andy Jassy on acquisitions: ‘There is nothing off the table for us’

John Furrier — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 13:09:07 +0000

Amazon.com Inc. executives, from Chief Executive Jeff Bezos on down, are famous for refusing to comment about competitors. No such reticence, though, from Andy Jassy, CEO of the retail giant’s cloud unit Amazon Web Services Inc. Earlier this month, for instance, Jassy (pictured) tweeted in an ongoing spat with Oracle Corp. Chairman and Chief Technology […]

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Analysis: New Global Accelerator is part of AWS strategy to move up the stack

Mark Albertson — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 00:13:11 +0000

One of the many announcements made by Amazon Web Services Inc. at the kickoff of re:Invent 2018 in Las Vegas on Monday evening was a network service that automates traffic routing through edge locations. The AWS Global Accelerator will route customers’ network traffic across multiple cloud regions. “What you’re seeing is Amazon recognizing that internet […]

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