Cloud Computing News, Features, and Interviews

• How Tinder creates better matches using AWS image recognition technology

  Popular dating app Tinder is using image recognition technology from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power its matching algorithm for premium users.

• Australia passes bill to force tech firms to hand over encrypted data

  When it becomes law, Australia will be one of the first nations to impose broad access requirements on technology firms, after many years of lobbying by intelligence and law enforcement agencies in many countries, particularly the so-called Five Eyes nations

• Microsoft, Mastercard pledge to work together on digital identity

  Mastercard will build identity services on Microsoft’s Azure cloud, as part of a new initiative.

• How the NFL is predicting pass completion using AWS SageMaker

  The NFL is increasingly turning to AWS' SageMaker machine learning toolkit to create new, more complex statistics to share with fans in real time.

• AWS gets serious about hybrid cloud with Outposts, so who is it for?

  Amazon Web Services is taking hybrid cloud more seriously through its partnership with VMware and a new product called Outposts.

• NAB to move some core banking systems to Amazon’s cloud

  NAB aims to move more than 300 applications, including some core banking systems, to Amazon Web Services by the end of next year.

• AWS CEO talks up depth of services over rivals, targets Larry Ellison

  AWS CEO Andy Jassy has talked up the depth of its cloud products compared to its rivals, as well as going after an old favourite target in Oracle.

• AWS offers to put its infrastructure in your data centre

  Amazon Web Services has launched a private preview of ‘AWS Outposts’: A new offering that involves the deployment of AWS-designed hardware within a customer’s own data centre.

• AWS adds blockchain and time-series databases

  With three major functional upgrades to existing databases as well, the full complement of purpose-built AWS databases is now 15

• Amazon adds antenna service for satellite data; courts space industry

  Amazon has announced a new antenna service for uploading and downloading data from satellites, in a bid to lure the space industry to the cloud.

• How Trustpilot takes a 'serverless first' approach to engineering with AWS

  Trustpilot has embarked on an ambitious programme to go completely serverless with Amazon Web Services, with a bold aim to completely embrace the modern architecture by the middle of next year, accounting for what the organisation estimates could be a 10x saving on cloud compute costs.

• How DXC Technology supports the UK's Network Rail in managing rail operations

  Network Rail has worked with DXC Technology to create a fully mobile workforce that cut administrative costs by 40 percent and is now working with the IT services company to find further ways to digitise rail operations and maintenance.

• Who is the new Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian?

  Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene has made a shock resignation, with former Oracle executive Thomas Kurian stepping in later this month.

• Red Hat to be ‘Switzerland’ within IBM

  Red Hat will operate as a kind of “Switzerland” within IBM and maintain its commitment to open source at the conclusion of Big Blue’s takeover of the software company, according to Marco Bill-Peter, Red Hat senior vice president of customer experience and engagement.

• Oracle veteran to take charge of Google Cloud

  Former Oracle product chief Thomas Kurian will replace Diane Greene as head of the cloud division at Google in the coming weeks, Greene announced in a blog post on Friday, after a tumultuous year for the business.

• Microsoft puts AI in containers

  Microsoft has announced a preview of container support for a range of its Azure-based AI services.

• Red Hat commits to Openstack for 'at least' 10 years

  While Red Hat understandably wouldn't discuss anything to do with the IBM mega-acquisition - for regulatory reasons - director of product management James Labocki and senior director for product management at Openstack Nick Barcet confirmed Red Hat's commitment to Openstack for at least the next "10 years".

• Christchurch Council deploys SAP cloud to boost citizen services

  SAP has announced that Christchurch City Council is using SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud and the SAP Customer Experience Citizen Engagement Accelerator to reinvent its digital processes and create a better experience for employees and citizens.

• VMware bets on multi-cloud offerings to support global ecosystem

  VMware's CEO Pat Gelsinger shared multiple announcements in support of multi-cloud deployments as he opened VMworld Europe in Barcelona

• Securing the cloud now a top priority

  Gartner has just released its 2018 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers (CASB), which predicts that by 2022 60 per cent of large enterprises will use a CASB to govern cloud services, up from less than 20 per cent today.