AWS allows a Lenovo server to play in its on-prem AI video cloud

• Nvidia-powered ThinkEdge SE70 gets a view of the Panorama CCTV booster

Citrix spreads its Desktop as a Service across Google and Azure clouds

• It’s Q2 2022 – and remote/mixed access is still very much a thing

Amazon to spend $12b on five more data centers in Oregon

• You have died of dystopia

IBM lays out plans for 4,000-qubit chips in updated quantum computing roadmap

• A new roadmap that it says will usher in a new era of large-scale and practical quantum computing.

Red Hat adds more Cloud Services to support OpenShift apps

• Updates aim to ease complexities of building applications for a hybrid cloud environment

Intel debuts new chips for AI workloads, data center acceleration and laptops

• Portfolio with several new chips, including an artificial intelligence processor that it promises will provide twice the performance of Nvidia Corp.’s flagship A100 graphics card.

Dell, Kyndryl tackle the inevitability of cybersecurity breaches

• Preparation is prevention — or at least recovery

Comms giant BT sees $30m+ savings in 5 years with ServiceNow project

• IT and network services to replace 56 legacy workflow systems with ServiceNow

Intel’s ‘Project Amber’ offers remote verification of trustworthiness

• New service to provide organizations with remote verification of trustworthiness in cloud, edge and on-premises environments 

IBM and AWS expand cloud partnership with focus on software

• Expanded partnership make it easier for customers to run its software on the cloud giant’s platform.

Google Cloud launches AlloyDB, a new fully managed PostgreSQL database service

• Fully managed database service is claimed to be 2x as fast for transactional workloads as AWS’s comparable Aurora PostgreSQL (and 4x faster  for the same workloads and up to 100x faster for analytical queries).

Google Cloud unveils world’s largest publicly available ML hub

• Cloud TPU v4, 90% carbon-free energy

Google’s AlloyDB combines PostgreSQL with GCP open structure

• AlloyDB brings speed and more predictable pricing to the table.

Amazon EC2 Now Supports NitroTPM and UEFI Secure Boot

• Available in all AWS Regions, including the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions, except in China

Security Advisory: Insufficient Tenant Separation in Azure Synapse Service

• Service insufficiently robust to protect secrets against other tenants

Rackspace considers selling part of business: ‘Everything’ on the table

• CEO points to two very different multi-cloud markets, says it’s already spoken to potential buyer

Those NitroTPMs Amazon teased now really are coming to AWS EC2

• Yes, give those smartNICs something to do

• IBM migrating the bulk of its business processes to SAP SE’s S/4HANA enterprise resource planning software running on its own cloud infrastructure.

AMD’s Xilinx-enhanced Epycs are right up the alley of datacenter builders

• Same goes for Arm, for the same reason: Power efficiency