Following the preview in December, Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances now generally available

• The new instances allow the Mac mini to appear and behave like any other Amazon EC2 instance

Microsoft’s Dublin datacenter to help take pressure off Ireland’s renewable energy

• Grid-interactive UPS tech to feed some power back to the grid from backup energy storage systems… for a price

Global cloud market to reach $1 trillion but 63% of leaders report lack of resources

• The adoption of cloud was a necessity for many companies, but they are now facing security risks.

Capital One sees win-win in selling software built on Snowflake cloud

• Intent on bucking the trend of being a company that were very good at using technology but not as good at making and selling it

AWS and Zscaler expand relationship to help companies move to the cloud securely

• Working together, the companies will deliver customers a unified solution to consolidate and simplify cloud security operations 

Oracle seeks $1b savings, staff prepare for layoffs

• Operating profit crashed 28% in Big Red’s fiscal 2022

Introducing IBM® Db2® pureScale® on Amazon Web Services

• IBM® Db2® pureScale® on Amazon Web Services is now available.

‘Unbreakable’ Oracle Linux 9 is a RHEL rebuild with built-in Btrfs support

• Red Hat dropped the file system in 7.4 but Big Red’s own kernel has kept hold

Amazon Redshift Serverless – Now Generally Available with New Capabilities

• You can now create multiple serverless endpoints
• Amazon Redshift Serverless now available alongside EMR and MSK Serverless big-data services

Older AMD, Intel chips vulnerable to data-leaking ‘Retbleed’ Spectre variant

• Speculative execution side-channels continue to haunt silicon world

New – Cloud WAN : A Managed WAN Service

• New network service that makes it easy to build and operate wide area networks (WAN)

Database startup SingleStore raises $116M in funding

• The database’s core selling point is its ability to perform tasks that usually can be carried out only with multiple software products

Amazon squashes years-old authentication bugs in AWS Kubernetes service

• Three vulnerabilities in one line of code

Amazon AWS announces Cloud WAN, ‘one console to manage everything’

• The cloud giant made a pitch for serverless technologies to help save the planet.

Red Hat names new CEO

• Matt Hicks, Red Hat’s head of products and technologies, is taking over from former CEO Paul Cormier.

Oracle planning sovereign cloud regions for the EU

• Specialized infrastructure for the political bloc will help users deal with GDPR data laws

Amazon’s Ring gave a record amount of doorbell footage to the government in 2021

• An increase of about 65% on the year earlier, up from about 1,900 legal demands in 2020.

Intel and AMD chips open to attack through ‘Retbleed’ vulnerability

• Flaw found in many popular processors could allow hackers to steal encryption keys and other credentials.

MariaDB evolves data storage solutions for easier scaling on demand

• Addressing the problem of scaling on demand, combining the scalability of a NoSQL database with the robustness of a SQL database

Intel plans chip price hikes due to ‘inflationary pressures’

• Customers to start paying more for CPUs, chipsets and other products from October

Bosch to pour $3 billion into European chip fabs and research

• Plans to make auto semiconductors with first tranche of Euro Chips Act cash

Russia fines Apple and Zoom for failure to prove domestic data storage

• Apple received penalty of nearly $34,000 while Zoom and Ookla, which is behind internet access performance tool Speedtest, were fined nearly $17,000 each

Oracle agrees to settle class action over cloud sales tactics for $17.5m

• Big Red denies any malpractice in relation to alleged ‘coercive’ product boosts

Microsoft adds ‘Cloud for Sovereignty’ to its line-up

• Microsoft is looking to expand the Microsoft Cloud footprint to worldwide government customers.

Microsoft boosts hybrid workforces with new additions to Teams, Windows 365 and Viva

• A major issue arising from hybrid work is the need to balance employee demands for flexibility with businesses’ needs

Microsoft exhorts its partner community to seize cloud growth opportunity

• ISV Success Program launch to help its partner community take advantage of trends around digital transformation.

Rocky Linux optimized for Google Cloud arrives

• Looking for a CentOS 7 replacement? Google Cloud suggests you look at Rocky Linux.

Denmark bans Google Workspace over GDPR non-compliance

• Denmark’s data watchdog is the latest to rule that Google’s handling of international data transfers breaches GDPR.

Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in preview

• New offering provides advanced block storage solution designed for a broad range of input/output (IO)-intensive enterprise production workloads

New – Amazon EC2 R6a Instances Powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC Processors for Memory-Intensive Workloads

Offering up to 35 percent better price performance versus the previous generation instances

Google and Oracle suffer outages in UK from record-breaking heatwave

• Eastern England hit 40.3 degrees Celsius (104.5 F), highest ever recorded, causing data centers’ cooling systems to struggle and fail from the heat. 

DHS review board declares Log4j an ‘endemic vulnerability’

• Actively targeted vulnerabilities found in Apache Log4j, open-source software used by numerous companies

Cloud-first operating system Chrome OS Flex emerges from beta for Macs and PCs

• Now available to scale across enterprise fleets

Delta Airlines takes flight with Amazon Web Services

• If you look out the window to your left, you’ll see we’ve outsourced our infrastructure

Google Cloud debuts Arm-based Tau T2A instances and batch processing service

• The service is capable of running artificial intelligence models, chip design software and many other types of applications

FCC chair wishes for 100Mbps down, 20Mbps up broadband minimum in US

• Quite a leap from national baseline of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up