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What Happened? Hewlett Packard Enterprise, better known as HPE announced last week that they are acquiring the business assets of MapR. HPE will now own MapR’s technology, intellectual property, and domain expertise in AI and machine learning and analytics data management. In related news, a day later, Microsoft announced that it was teaming up with Informatica to…
What happened? AWS, Oracle Cloud, and Tencent Cloud all announced that they brought new regions online last week. AWS added a new Middle East region in Bahrain, Oracle unveiled their Mumbai region in India, and Tencent Cloud has officially entered Japan with their Tokyo region. What does this mean? The battle for cloud supremacy is…
What happened? Last Monday, July 22, Microsoft announced an exclusive partnership with OpenAI, investing $1 billion in the partnership themselves. What does this mean? This means that Azure has now secured a major new AI customer to host on their existing IaaS instance types and Brainwave FPGA-based AI services. Additionally, OpenAI is an AI…
What happened? AWS has added a new major performance-improvement feature to Open Java Development Kit – JDK – through its version, called AWS Corretto, The new feature is the Amazon Corretto Crypto Provider. What does this mean? The feature is designed to speed up cryptographic functions in Java. Why should we care? Java is a…
Amazon Aurora Development Team Wins Award The developers of Amazon Aurora have won the 2019 Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Management of Data Systems Award, otherwise known as the ACM SIGMOD Systems Award. SIGMOD is a community of software developers, academic, and industrial researchers, practitioners, and users specialized in large scale data…
Microsoft’s Load Balancer for AKS Microsoft has introduced its Azure Load Balancer with the ability to work with applications in the Azure Kubernetes Service. The load balancer can be used both internally and externally. If internal, the load balancer makes a Kubernetes service only accessible to applications running in the same virtual network as the…
Cloudflare Introduces the League of Entropy Cloudflare, a business that powers Internet requests for more than 1 billion IP addresses per day, has introduced its solution for, what they say, is a long standing problem in cryptography. The demand for a constant generation of substantially large, unpredictable numbers, used in areas such as cryptography, money…
Amazon Digs at Oracle and Microsoft AWS CEO, Andy Jassy snubbed other providers offering traditional on-premises database services at the company’s 10th annual public sector conference in Washington D.C. last Wednesday. Jassy stated, “I think most people are pretty frustrated with the older database solutions. They’re expensive, proprietary, high lock-in.” Jassy finishes by saying, “It’s…
Microsoft and Oracle Team Up to Take Out Last Wednesday, Microsoft and Oracle announced that they had reached an agreement to create high-speed links between their data centers, making their two cloud computing services work together. This agreement is a major deal for both companies and is the first time we are truly seeing two…
WeWork and Alibaba Cloud Partner In an effort to attract global companies, WeWork and Alibaba, along with the help of enterprise consultancy firm, Softbank Telecom China, announced a partnership late last week. The companies, together, will launch a service platform named “China Gateway” to help foreign companies scale in China. “China Gateway” will provide…