India extends deadline for compliance with infosec logging rules by 90 days

• Helpfully announced extension on deadline day

Siemens to buy SaaS provider Brightly for $1.9bn to boost smart infrastructure play

• The deal is the latest in a string of investments by the engineering giant to boost its smart infrastructure division

Micron debuts new data center SSD based on 176-layer flash technology

• New solid-state drive for data centers 

VMware reveals vSphere-as-a-service – but not the price

• Cloudy vSphere+ can manage multiple on-prem environments but not VMw-powered public clouds … for now

Google Cloud Armor adds rate limiting, bot management, threat intelligence and more

• New capabilities being added to ward off the growing sophistication and intensity of cyberattacks against its cloud customers

HPE GreenLake expansion aimed at blurring lines between public and private clouds

• The new private cloud offering is delivered with soup-to-nuts SLAs

VMware unveils vSphere+ and vSAN+ to simplify operations with Centralized Infrastructure Management

• Organizations now bring the benefits of the cloud to their existing on-premises infrastructure with no disruption to their workloads or hosts.

HPE unveils Arm-based ProLiant server for cloud-native workloads

• Looks like it went with Ampere’s Altra and Altra Max processors

AMD investigating the alleged theft of 450 GB of data

• Hacking group RansomHouse claims on its darknet site that it breached AMD on Jan. 5 and got the data thanks to the use of weak passwords

VMware accelerates transition to SaaS ahead of Broadcom takeover

• Multi-cloud virtualization software is being made available on subscription as VMware gets SaaS-y.

Alibaba launches ‘Data-as-a-Service’ firm Lingyang

• “Data-as-a-Service” (DaaS) business will offer solutions to enterprises that were initially developed for Alibaba

Introducing IBM Wazi as a Service to Accelerate Innovation with IBM z/OS Dev and Test

• Get started with a z/OS dev and test virtual server in under six minutes with IBM Wazi as a Service

AWS adds bare metal support to EKS Anywhere

• And throws some cold water on the ‘K8s works best inside a VM’ argument

Supply chain blamed amid claims of Azure capacity issues

• Microsoft says it’ll move to ‘restrict trials and internal workloads to prioritize growth of existing customers’