Intel forms graphics lab to make games look more real

• x86 giant hopes for ‘open, collaborative and forward-looking’ relationship with (checks notes) Nvidia and AMD

Cloud spending to scrape $500 billion this year – Gartner

• Growing enterprise demand for more complex cloud-native services carries a higher price tag

Kraft Heinz signs up Microsoft to lift it into the cloud

• Azure trusted with food giant’s sauce code

Zomato Handles Up To 2.5x More Transactions After Migrating Non-Relational Database To AWS

• India-based restaurant aggregator and food delivery company seamlessly transition into the new database service

Ubuntu 22.04 arrives – supports confidential cloud computing and makes compliance easier

• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS arrives on everything from a 2GB Pi to AWS Graviton
• Includes features for cloud security, real-time industrial applications and enterprise compliance.
• Multipass now supports Apple M1 and makes compliance with data privacy laws easier.

Data services and serverless dominate latest announcements at AWS Summit

• As Amazon Web Services Inc. moves further into 2022, the cloud giant is showing a clear focus on data services and serverless computing.

AWS showcases the power of the cloud at NAB Show 2022

• Designed for content creators, rights holders, producers, broadcasters, and distributors, the AWS for M&E initiative aligns these five solution areas with the most purpose-built capabilities of any cloud, including over 20 dedicated AWS services, solutions and appliances, and over 400 AWS partners.

Amazon FSx for OpenZFS is now available in Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) Regions

• AWS Cloud Feed You can now launch Amazon FSx for OpenZFS file systems in three additional AWS Regions

AWS IoT TwinMaker Is Now Generally Available

• A new AWS IoT service that makes it faster and easier to create digital twins of real-world systems

Query 10 new data sources with Amazon Athena

• The release greatly expands the number of data sources supported by Athena.

Announcing the General Availability of AWS Amplify Studio

• Visual interface simplifies front- and backend development for web and mobile applications.

Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is Generally Available

• Instant Scaling for Demanding Workloads

Introducing the Amazon CloudFront Ready Program

• Built for high performance, security, and developer convenience

Microsoft debuts Azure Managed Grafana to simplify IT monitoring

• A new managed service, Azure Managed Grafana, simplifies companie’s ability to find and troubleshoot technical issues in their cloud environments

Microsoft rebrands its compliance and data-governance products as ‘Microsoft Purview’

• Microsoft is bringing together its Microsoft 365 compliance and Azure Purview data-governance products into a suite now known as ‘Microsoft Purview.’
• Purview: cloud-native data governance solution to enable organizations of all sizes to manage and govern their on-premises, multicloud, and software as a service (SaaS) data

Judge dismisses Microsoft’s challenges: ValueLicensing case to proceed in Britain

• UK High Court beckons for Windows vendor and reseller amid claims of on-prem software license skulduggery

Accenture launches sovereign cloud practice

• Organizations can take advantage of disruptive new technologies in the cloud utilising trusted frameworks, services and controls.

Oracle contracts and pricing a ‘challenge’ says Gartner

• While heaping praise on Big Red, analysts find room to criticize licensing, negotiations, and integration

Oracle users fail to get that moving apps to cloud means business transformation – Gartner

• Analyst house warns of unrealistic expectations moving Big Red’s enterprise workhorses to SaaS

AMD E4-based Dense shapes now available for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure VMware Solution

• You can now create VMware ESXi hosts that use the BM.DenselO.E4.128 with 32, 64, or 128 cores. For more information, see VMware Solution Supported Shapes .

VMware cross-cloud services available in Microsoft Azure Marketplace

• VMware has announced the availability of VMware Cross-Cloud services on Microsoft Azure Marketplace

‘IBM is now a very different company’ says CEO as Q1 2022 beats expectations

• Months after spinning out infrastructure service division, IBM not bigger but feeling less blue

IBM ordered to pay $105 million to insurer over tech project’s collapse

• Appeals court takes previous payout ruling and multiplies by six

Samsung leapfrogs Intel as world’s No. 1 chipmaker

• Ongoing shortages in the semiconductor industry helped chipmakers’ revenue jump by more than 26% last year, hitting $595 billion.
• Samsung dethrones Intel as chip sector grows 26% in 2021