Cloud infrastructure spend to crack $90b and overtake non-cloud in 2022

• Buyers other than cloud operators remain the dominant source of dollars

IDC predicts cloud infrastructure spending this year will hit $90.2B

• Strong growth is despite “tight supply of some system components and disruptions in transportation networks.”

Schneider and Dell integrate UPS, HCI for graceful shutdown

• For when the outage lasts so long that your UPS runs out of charge

IDC expects cloud spending to surpass non-cloud infrastructure for first time this year

• Spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments said to surpass that of other scenarios for the first time later this year

UK’s Oxford Quantum Circuits snaps up $47M Series A for ‘QaaS’

• Quantum computing has been making quantum leaps of progress in the last several years

IBM wins National Savings & Investment bank tech and ops deal

• One of four contracts set to replace Atos arrangement going back 20 years

FedEx signals ‘zero mainframe, zero datacenter’ operations by 2024

• Going completely cloud-native will save it $400m a year, CIO estimates

Choose the right size for your workload with NVads A10 v5 virtual machines, now generally available

• Visualization workloads entail a wide range of use cases: from computer-aided design (CAD), to virtual desktops, to high-end simulations

Red Hat follows open-source game plan to drive the enterprise hybrid future

• Companies will have to adopt a hybrid model whether desired or not, and open-source code is driving the future of information technology

EU lawmakers approve two new laws to regulate the tech sector

• Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act, two new laws that will increase regulation of the tech sector

For the second time this year, Marriott has suffered a data breach

• Unnamed hacking group claimed to have stolen roughly 20 gigabytes of data

VMware releases vSphere+ and vSAN+ to assist enterprises in bringing the benefits of the cloud

• Enterprises will be assisted in bringing the benefits of the cloud to their existing on-premises infrastructure while minimizing interruption to workloads and hosts.

Oracle, IBM losing ground to local databases in China, says IDC

• One market down on China’s march toward tech self-sufficiency, a bajillion more to go

Marriott Hotels suffers fresh data breach, 20GB of information leaked

• The hotel chain has played down the attack, but hackers claim to have personal information on guests

IBM buys observability startup Databand.ai to fix ‘bad’ data issues

• Enterprises increasingly reliant on huge volumes of information to inform business decision-making need a way to understand data health

Swimlane raises $70M for its low-code cybersecurity automation platform

• Platform provides the ability to create playbooks through a low-code, drag-and-drop interface

Broadcom takeover deal for VMware faces no rival bids

• Lack of alternative offers means sale may go ahead with expected completion in fiscal 2023

Azure’s capacity limitations are continuing. What can customers do?

• As supply-chain constraints continue to impact Microsoft’s cloud capacity, there are some steps customers can take to try to lessen the impact

IBM expands Power10 line-up with four new systems

• Big Blue chases data-intensive and business-critical workloads, with pay-as-you-go consumption options

Micron Announces Availability Of DDR5 Server DRAM

• The move to DDR5 memory enables up to an 85% increase in system performance over DDR4 DRAM5

IBM acquires Databand to improve machine learning models

• Big Blue makes Israeli company its fifth purchase so far this year as it builds out its AI and cloud offerings.

Microsoft, AWS awarded Ukraine peace prize for cloudy services

• Google has one already, and Ukraine now has a ‘drone army’

California college with 12,500 students knocked offline in cyberattack

• Computer disruption to College of the Desert said to have been caused by a “malware attack”

Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances – “New”

• If you are a Mac developer and re-architecting your apps to natively support Macs with Apple silicon, you may now build and test your apps and take advantage of all the benefits of AWS
• Following preview in December, Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances now generally available

High-performance computing user experience targeted by AMD and HPE

• The partnership is “tied at the hip”

SUSE posts 18% sales growth amid continued enterprise demand

• SUSE “will explore opportunities to acquire companies in high-growth market segments adjacent to its existing focus areas”