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? 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? 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…
Many companies want to compete with NVIDIA in the cloud. They all want a chunk of the AI-based “Inference-as-a-Service” applications that NVIDIA has enabled over the past few years. Gaining significant market share against NVIDIA is going to be more difficult than most of them realize. Xilinx seems to be in the best position to capture share of cloud instance…
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…
Insights from KubeCon EU 2019 This past week, KubeCon was held in Barcelona from May 20-23. Liftr Cloud’s Principal Analyst Paul Teich was in attendance, sending back interesting insights and key points on the event. According to Teich, machine learning was a hot topic. Discussions centered around not only data science, but also the ability…