American internet giants seek changes to India’s proposed new IT rules

• A number of changes proposed to the IT rules including creation of an appeals panel with the veto power to reverse content moderation decisions of social media firms

Google, Oracle clouds still affected by UK heatwave

• Some hard disks appear to have cooked, along with bit barn designers’ best laid plans

Wasabi’s ‘hot cloud storage’ gains traction as data security strategies evolve

• Events during a week in May last year provide a strong case for immutable data storage.

Microsoft harnesses third-gen AMD Epyc processors for locked-down VMs

• Blockchain-based Azure Confidential Ledger rounds out latest additions to confidential computing

Google Workspace earns DOD IL4 authorization

• Important milestone met in ongoing commitment to serving the needs of federal, state, local, and education entities
• Google Workspace receives approval to support more public sector workloads

Small businesses out of pocket after UK heatwave outages at Google and Oracle

• Small businesses lost revenue after record UK heatwave temperatures triggered data centre outages at Google and Oracle.

Memory constrained? Amazon and AMD now offer 1.5TB VMs

• Or about two and a half Chrome tabs

Oracle, Microsoft agree to shared custody of your workloads in the cloud

• Larry gets your database, while Satya will take your apps

Microsoft Teams outage widens to take out M365 services, admin center

• Remember: telephones exist, are handy for collaboration, and usually work

VMware starts tracking use of experimental Arm hypervisor

• By watching how you use it, Virtzilla might figure out how to sell it

Teams down: Microsoft 365 services gradually restored after major global outage

• Services are being restored, the tech giant says, but businesses could still experience disruption.

Anvilogic raises $25M in funding to automate manual cybersecurity tasks

• The platform includes pre-packaged threat detection algorithms that can be implemented quickly

T-Mobile agrees to pay $500M to settle data breach lawsuit

• The exact number of people affected by the data breach is now estimated to be as many as 80 million customers

Japanese space agency to put massive HPC cloud to the test

• If only we’d had this kind of compute before we launched Hubble

DoJ approves Google’s acquisition of Mandiant

• Plus: Ukrainian fake news and Uber admits covering up data breach

Oracle adds new chapter for multicloud story through cloud database service with Microsoft

• Links between the two cloud environments are automatically configured, creating a more seamless experience for users

Google Cloud is coming to Mexico with new region

• It will become the company’s third in Latin America, alongside Santiago in Chile and Sao Paulo in Brazil, joining the 34 it operates globally.

Amazon to acquire primary healthcare provider One Medical for $3.9B

• One Medical, officially 1Life Healthcare Inc., operates a network of primary healthcare clinics throughout the U.S.