More on the Intel CPU flaw and a possible Amazon push into Healthcare – Here’s the least you need to know about cloud for the week.
Security
- 22yr old Jann Horn discovered intel chip flaw in summer 2017 (link)
- Indiana healthcare firm Hancock Health pays $55k ransom to hackers (link)
Google
- Planning to open 5 new regions and add 3 undersea cables (link)
- Launches IT support training program with Coursera (link)
- Announced first fruits of Salesforce partnership (link)
Amazon
- Hiring HIPAA Compliance Lead, stirring expectations for entry into healthcare (link)
- Adds 50th availability zone, the third in London (link)
- Introduces AWS Auto Scaling (link)
- Veeam buys EC2 backup and recovery startup N2WS (link)
Microsoft
- Azure Security Center adds support for custom security assessments (link)
- Azure IP Advantage extended to Azure Stack (link)
- Linux Foundation offers training course for Linux on Azure (link)
IBM
- Barclays upgrades IBM stock rating from underweight to overweight, signaling hope for future (link)
- Megaport sees big revenue growth driven by IBM partnership (link)
- Filed more than 1900 cloud related patents in 2017, revolutionary AI chip released (link)
More
- Digital Ocean offers competitive pricing (link) (link)
- Slack plans to utilize AI to improve user experience (link)
- Cloud pricing wars with new models make decisions more difficult – we can help (link)