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Liftr Look Ahead: Azure in Space What happened? In August 2019, SES announced that it is adopting the Open Network Automation Platform — ONAP — orchestration platform for scalable, automated delivery of satellite-enabled network services on Microsoft Azure. SES plans to provide global reach and fibre-like high-performance to Azure customers. What does this mean? This…
Liftr Look Ahead: VMworld 2019 What happened? At 2019 VMworld, VMware made it blindingly apparent that it is creating a walled garden for enterprise IT to enjoy a curated VMware-branded multi-cloud strategy. What does this mean? This is a good move for VMware, at least in the short-term, as it tries to capture the “early…
What happened? In recent years, artificial intelligence chip designs have grown in importance at the annual Hot Chips conference. However, this year AI and data center chips dominated, with many vendors unveiling next-generation AI and neural network accelerators not just for data center applications, but specifically designed for large-scale cloud data center deployments. NVIDIA tipped…
What Happened? AMD launched its second-generation EPYC server processor with cloud support from Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Twitter; OEM server support from Dell Technologies, HPE, and Lenovo; Plus, a close collaboration with VMware to support EPYC’s new security and other features in vSphere. What does this Mean? This isn’t just another incremental step in…
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…