CloudTalk

Alibaba Cloud releases new products and pledges $1 billion to boost global alliances

• Alibaba Cloud announces its commitment to push for more global partnerships with technology innovations and fiscal incentives.

Ethereum Merge signals end of GPU shortage, but not necessarily high prices

• What a mine field

Hadean raises $30M to build out metaverse infrastructure

• Bridging the gap between the physical and virtual worlds

Alibaba Cloud unveils strategic roadmap for international business

• Supporting technology innovation among enterprises

Google Cloud adds new performance optimization feature to speed up applications

• Helping companies improve the performance of the workloads they deploy on Cloud Functions and Cloud Run

Saudi Arabia turns to HPE for AMD-powered Cray supercomputer

• The Beast of the Middle East: up to 20 times faster than predecessor, that’s 884,736 CPU cores across the system

Intel’s 13th-gen CPUs are hot, hungry, loaded with cores

• X86 giant’s 24-core i9 doubles as a space heater

SAS launches first cloud app with pay-as-you-go pricing

• Viya analytics platform is now available on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace

Intel updates Developer Cloud and builds out a more open chip foundry ecosystem

• Promises made to reduce manufacturing headaches and lower costs, opening up new possibilities for interoperable system and chip package architectures

AWS lays out plans to increase storage sustainability

• Can cost be effectively saved without giving up convenience and simplicity?

Introducing support for GPU workloads and even larger Pods in GKE Autopilot

• Being fully managed doesn’t mean that you need to be limited in what you can do

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17 arrives

• Red Hat continues to support the open-source OpenStack cloud for the simple reason that telecom giants such as Verizon depend on it

Intel targets ‘true magicians’ with developer cloud launch

• Intel unveils a new set of developer solutions for cloud development, mobile-PC connectivity and open programming

$250m Wasabi Technologies funding will ‘usher in the future of cloud storage’

• Driving expansion into additional vertical markets and geographies, enhancing Wasabi’s channel partnerships, and scaling the company’s go-to-market team and global brand strategies

IBM merges its data storage offerings with Red Hat’s OpenShift and Ceph

• Delivering a more consistent application and data storage experience across on-premises and cloud infrastructures

New unpatched zero-day Microsoft Exchange vulnerability under ‘active exploitation’

• A pair of zero-day exploits can give hackers access to on-site Exchange servers. Microsoft is working on a patch

AWS Local Zones Expansion: Taipei and Delhi

• Working to bring Local Zones to 33 cities in 27 countries including 6 in Latin America

70% of tech infrastructure will be cloud-based within three years

• The study is designed as the first step in a five-year investigation designed to help companies understand cloud migration and ongoing management of costs, value, performance, and experience

Linux: AWS now offers Ubuntu virtual desktops for developers and engineers

• Amazon Web Services now offers Ubuntu virtual desktops from $23 a month

Biden signs executive order to implement EU-US data privacy agreement

• The executive order will also add further safeguards to U.S. signals intelligence activities

Walmart blazes trails with its enterprise ‘supercloud’

• Principal goals: To build a multi-cloud environment that fits the business size and agility with the freedom to choose the best services from the cloud providers rather than being locked to one