Cloud Computing News, Features, and Interviews

• How Google Cloud and Stella McCartney aim to make fashion more sustainable

  Google Cloud has started working with Stella McCartney, as it aims to use machine learning and data analytics to improve its sustainability efforts.

• Cisco connects with IBM to simplify hybrid cloud deployment

  Cisco and IBM are melding data centre​ and cloud technologies to help customers build and support on-premises and hybrid cloud​ applications.

• How Trustpilot pivoted to infrastructure-as-code and serverless first

  Massive Danish consumer website Trustpilot contains roughly 60 million user generated reviews spanning 230,000 companies - and attracts more than 3 billion reviews read in just a single month.

• Microsoft, Oracle team up on cloud services in jab at Amazon

  Microsoft and Oracle have reached an agreement to make their two cloud computing services work together with high-speed links between their data centres, targeting big business users and uniting against cloud leader AWS.

• Google faces outage affecting YouTube, Google Cloud and G Suite

  ​Google is experiencing high levels of congestion in the eastern United States, affecting multiple services in Google Cloud, G Suite and YouTube, the company ​says.

• How the English Football Association is building a player analysis tool with Google Cloud

  The FA has entered a long-term technology partnership with Google Cloud to centralise the data it holds on footballers across all levels of the game.

• Follow these tips to enhance your Google Hangouts experience

  Google Hangouts is a communication tool developed by Google that allows individual users to keep in touch via video calls, voice calls or text chats.

• Network monitoring in the hybrid cloud/multi-cloud era

  Most enterprises now use two or more cloud service providers, and 35% use up to five monitoring tools to keep tabs on hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments. What’s the best approach to full network visibility?

• Auckland University gives researchers Dropbox access

  The University of Auckland has signed a four-year agreement with Dropbox that will give all researchers at the University access to the Dropbox Business (Enterprise) service to support their research efforts.

• Microsoft, Sony partner on streaming games, chips and AI

  Microsoft and Sony say they have struck a strategic partnership in which Sony will use Microsoft's cloud for streaming games and media and the two will work together to develop new image sensors.

• IBM 'cloudifies' mainframe software pricing, adds hybrid, private cloud services

  IBM brings mainframe to cloud consumption model; adds Docker container extensions

• HPE’s CEO lays out his technology vision

  In an exclusive interview, HPE CEO Antonio Neri unpacks his portfolio of tech initiatives, from edge computing to tomorrow’s memory-driven architecture.

• Red Hat CTO Chris Wright: We're creating an autonomic platform

  With the latest release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift being packed with Kubernetes-friendly features, Red Hat is looking to create what its CTO Chris Wright calls the "autonomic computing platform".

• Microsoft launches Azure ExpressRoute in NZ

  Microsoft has announced what it says is “much-anticipated” Azure ExpressRoute availability in New Zealand.

• Is unified billing the elephant in the room when it comes to SaaS?

  According to its 2019 Business @ Work report, identity management platform Okta found that large enterprises have on average of 163 enterprise applications in their estate. This highlights the prevalence of a culture shift over the past decade away from monolithic license agreements with vendors like Oracle, SAP and Microsoft, towards the adoption of a plethora of best-of-breed software as a service (SaaS) tools.

• How does OpenStack fit in to a newly independent SUSE?

  Some of the most prominent messaging that emerged from the recent SUSEcon event, held in Nashville last month, was that it was now the world's largest, independent open source company (particularly in wake of the Red Hat-IBM deal). But what does this spell for its relationship with OpenStack?

• Cloud-based integration streamlines data handling for HESTA

  The rollout of a cloud-based integration platform has helped HESTA move away from a point-to-point integration approach and cut manual handling of data, according to the super fund’s IT manager Michael Collins

• How to staff the hybrid cloud

  IT leaders share their advice for getting network and infrastructure teams ready for hybrid cloud environments.

• Much ado about what to do: Microsoft wants Azure to help decide

  Microsoft has used its Build developer conference to announce a new Azure Cognitive Services category: ‘Decision’. The category groups together Azure’s Content Moderator and Anomaly Detector services, as well as a new service called Personalizer, which is currently in preview.

• Microsoft ‘doubling down’ on blockchain

  ​Microsoft has unveiled Azure Blockchain Service, which the company’s head of corporate communications, Frank Shaw, said “simplifies the formation, management, and governance of consortium blockchain networks, allowing businesses to focus on workflow, logic, and app development.”