Amazon Connect forecasting, capacity planning, and scheduling, now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) AWS region

•  Machine-learning powered capabilities make it easier for contact center managers

Ukraine war dominates RSA Conference, but zero-days, government friction and AI loom large

• A storyline of cyber conflict is beginning to emerge that may affect the security industry for years to come

AMD unveils roadmap for next-gen Ryzen chips and Zen 5 architecture

• Ryzen 7000 chips will provide an 8% to 10% increase in instructions per clock

New – Amazon EC2 R6id Instances with NVMe Local Instance Storage of up to 7.6 TB

• R6id instances are designed to power applications that require low storage latency or require temporary swap space

Learn what’s new in Azure Firewall

• Several key Azure Firewall capabilities as well as an update on recent important releases into general availability and preview

HYCU raises $53M to grow its multi-cloud data backup and recovery offering

• The company states that enterprises need simpler data backup and recovery services

Amazon’s mainframe killer helps banks redo legacy apps for the cloud

• New service to deliver a complete, end-to-end migration pipeline that handles development, testing and deployment

Alibaba continues international expansion – adds two data centers and a bank

• Bit barns in Saudi Arabia, all-digital bank in Singapore

MongoDB debuts new encryption tool and analytics features at MongoDB World

• New features that will enable enterprises to query their data without decrypting it and carry out large-scale analytics projects more easily. 

IETF publishes HTTP/3 RFC to take the web from TCP to UDP

• Maps HTTP to QUIC to speed the web

Vanta raises $110M at $1.6B valuation to simplify cybersecurity compliance

• Vanta plans to use the proceeds from its latest funding round to enhance its compliance and cybersecurity capabilities.

Intel to get $7.3b for Germany fab site as TSMC dismisses Europe plans

• x86 giant giddy about making chips on the continent, its foundry rival not so much

Intel offers ‘server on a card’ reference design for network security

• OEMs thrown a NetSec Accelerator that plugs into server PCIe slots

Oracle closes $28.3b Cerner buy amid warnings of commercial challenges

• Database titan ‘does not buy companies and then lowers costs’

Immuta scoops up $100M for its data-level security technology

• Software prevents unauthorized access to data across an organization’s entire computing landscape

SUSE doubles down on security in its latest SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 release

• SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP4 arrives with Confidential Computing and SLSA Level 4 Compliant Supply Chain security certification.

Cable cut blamed for global four-hour internet disruption

• Google Cloud, OVHcloud say everything’s getting back to normal

MongoDB announces columnstore indexing for its document database

• Boost to in-database analytics should help replace some human decision-making, vendor claims

GitLab spots huge opportunity for DevOps platform as revenue soars

• All companies will need to embrace modern software development, says CEO, and we’ll be waiting for them

IBM to acquire offensive cybersecurity startup Randori

• Simulating attacks helps security teams zero in on previously unknown exposure points.

Cisco EVP: We need to lift everyone above the cybersecurity poverty line

• It’s going to become a human-rights issue, Jeetu Patel tells The Register

SaaS security management startup AppOmni raises $70M

• New funding to advance product development, fuel international growth and scale up go-to-market processes.

IBM finally shutters Russian operations, lays off staff

• Axing workers under 40 must feel like a novel concept for Big Blue

The new Google Cloud region in Dallas, Texas is now open

• Dallas location brings a second region to the central United States, the eleventh in North America, global totals 34.

Snowflake introduces new cybersecurity workload for its cloud data platform

• Snowflake is said to be a leader in the security data lake movement