Qualcomm among queue of suitors chasing a stake in Arm

• Chipmaker interested in forming a consortium for purchase – and so is SK hynix, Intel

Shanghai lockdowns to end, perhaps easing tech supply chain woes

• China needs this as much as the rest of the world

Microsoft Azure to spin up AMD MI200 GPU clusters for ‘large scale’ AI training

• Windows giant carries a PyTorch for chip designer and its rival Nvidia

Despite ‘key’ partnership with AWS, Meta taps up Microsoft Azure for AI work

• Someone got Zuck’d

Red Hat helps US Department of Energy containerize supercomputing

• You might say the US agency needed an OpenShift in mindset

If you’re having problems with Microsoft Azure AD today, this is probably what’s causing it

• Microsoft just rolled out a hotfix for a Azure Active Directory (AD) glitch that caused long delays in logging data for more than 12 hours.

Immersion cooling no longer reserved for the hyperscalers, HPC

• With increasing density in a smaller footprint, small shops finally have datacenter dunking dibs

Azure NC A100 v4 VMs for AI now generally available

• These VMs improve the performance and cost-effectiveness of a variety of GPU performance-bound real-world AI training and inferencing workloads. 

Amazon EMR Serverless Now Generally Available

• Run Big Data Applications without Managing Servers

AMD nearly doubles Top500 supercomputer hardware share

• Intel loses out as Instinct GPUs power the world’s fastest big-iron system

MySQL Database Service

• Available in UK Gov South (London) and UK Gov West (Newport) regions

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

• New region in Paris, France

Monitor E-Business Suite with Application Performance Monitoring

• You can use Application Performance Monitoring to monitor Oracle E-Business Suite applications, and provide deep tracing capabilities

Researchers claim quantum device performs 9,000-year calculation in microseconds

• In Gaussian boson sampling at least, quantum supremacy is here

Datacenter boom going bust over labor, materials shortages

• Two years on and there’s still not enough stuff to go around–or people

Google Cloud plans to bring more AI capabilities into the data center

• Google Cloud brings a selection of AI, ML and database capabilities directly to customer data centers. 

Atlassian: Unpatched years-old flaw under attack right now to hijack Confluence

• One option: Take the thing offline until Friday patch applied

QuintoAndar becomes largest housing platform in Latin America with help from Google Cloud

• Housing marketplace connects property owners, residents, brokers and agents in Brazil

Ampere: Cloud biz buy-ins prove our Arm server CPUs are the real deal

• Startup teases 128+ core chip, disses Xeon and Epyc, unsurprisingly

Microsoft delays next Exchange Server release to 2025

• Four years later than planned – maybe that’s how long it will take to make it secure?

XPO Logistics taps Google Cloud to build faster, more efficient supply chains

• XPO to leverage Google Cloud’s expertise in areas such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analytics to build faster and more efficient supply chains.

Taiwan bans exports of chips faster than 25MHz to Russia, Belarus

• Doom it is, then, Putin

Snowflake introduces new cybersecurity workload for its cloud data platform

• New cybersecurity workload to help organizations more effectively protect their technology environments from cyberattacks.