Cloud Computing News, Features, and Interviews

• New Azure IoT offering makes the physical, virtual

  Microsoft will next month launch a public preview of an Azure IoT service that helps businesses build a digital representation of a physical environment.

• 10 hot hybrid-cloud startups to watch

  With few enterprises using purely private or purely public cloud infrastructure, a range of startups has emerged to meet unique hybrid-cloud needs for management, storage and virtualisation

• Gartner sees 28% of spending in key IT segments shifting to the cloud by 2022

  ANZ organisations continue to be among the faster, earlier adopters of public cloud, says Gartner research vice president Michael Warrilow

• Tech upgrade provides Maori Language Commission with seamless finance management

  Achieves highest ever Auditor General ranking following implementation with Endeavour and MYOB Advanced

• Amazon's Jeff Bezos commits US$2B to help homeless, pre-schools

  The new philanthropic effort is called the Bezos Day One Fund, a nod to the executive's management philosophy that organisations must view every day with the fervour of a new start, or face stagnation and decline.

• The anthropologist asking critical questions around AI

  AI is the 21st century steam engine, so how do we manage it? Tech-anthropologist Genevieve Bell talks about the rise of AI and its impact on the future.

• VMware CEO: Why we built the ‘Green Berets’ for CX

  Pat Gelsinger lifts the lid on how the virtualisation and cloud company tackles the non-technology components of digital transformation

• Emirates Team NZ partners with Spark for the 36th America’s Cup

  “As racing becomes more and more driven by technology innovation, the crew on the boat and the team back at the base rely on the immediate availability of real time data to get the best performance on the water,” says Grant Dalton, CEO of Emirates Team New Zealand.

• Be afraid, Dell EMC CTO tells CIOs

  CIOs “have every right to be scared” as they face the challenge of responding to disruptive forces of unprecedented number and magnitude that are transforming enterprise IT, according to Dell EMC CTO John Roese.

• Malala Yousafzai calls for technology to help bridge the education divide

  The Nobel Prize winner and Pakistani activist speaks, for the first time, before a technology conference

• VMware extends digital foundation to edge and IoT

  ‘Customers should be able to focus on building applications for their business rather than the infrastructure beneath it’

• VMware on AWS comes to Australia

  VMware has made its cloud based Software Defined Data Centre available on the AWS Sydney region, a year almost to the day since its launch in the US and almost two years after VMware and AWS announced plans to jointly develop the service.

• VMware Cloud on AWS reaches New Zealand and Australia

  'People are interested in how this will help them differentiate'

• Guidelines for use of personal data by Kiwi firms under review

  A year after the launch of the guidelines, the authors are seeking valuable feedback from the business and technology community

• Google in talks with Tencent, others for cloud services in China: Report

  Alphabet Inc's Google is in talks with Tencent Holdings Ltd, Inspur Group and other Chinese companies to offer its cloud services in the mainland, ​Bloomberg has reported​, citing people familiar with the discussions.

• India cloud panel pushes for data sovereignty requirement

  A panel working on the Indian government's cloud computing policy wants data generated in India to be stored within the country, according to its draft report — a proposal that could deal a blow to global technology giants such as Amazon and Microsoft who offer such services.

• Government to graduates: ‘Help shape the digital future of New Zealand’

  The GovTech Talent programme is searching for 20 participants to work on digital and technology projects for two years

• HSBC looks to ramp up machine learning usage with Google Cloud

  ​Global bank HSBC has taken its first pilot machine learning projects with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) into production and is now looking to ramp up the porting of applications and data workloads onto the vendor’s cloud infrastructure, once Google provides more granular encryption key controls in August.

• What is Istio? The latest open source project out of Google

  Google's latest open source release, Istio is getting a generally available 1.0 version - but what is Istio, what are the benefits and who is using it?

• How Spotify migrated everything from on-premise to Google Cloud Platform

  Spotify announced that it was going all in on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) back in 2016, committing a reported US$450 million over three years. In Spotify, Google got itself an anchor customer, not just because of its brand and scale, but also its reputation as a data driven, engineering-centric company.