Data breaches

• Forever 21 investigates possible breach (link)
• UK-based builders merchant Jewson (link) and pawnbroker Cash Converters (link) announce breaches
  
• Malaysian police identify suspects for recent massive telephony provider breach (link)

Google

• Google Docs goes down for significant number of users for over an hour (link)
• Cloud Spanner goes multi-region across globe (link)
• Chosen by Kroger as cloud provider alongside MSFT to avoid Amazon (link)

Microsoft

• Announces Azure Databricks for high performance streaming analytics (link)
• NCv3 series will utilize Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs for AI optimization (link)
• Releases LinkedIn-powered Office 365 integration called Resume Assistant (link)

Amazon

• Launches new encryption and security features for S3 to help prevent leaks (link)
• Quietly implements new hypervisor based on KVM to replace Xen (link1) (link2)
• Sells $300M in cloud infrastructure based in China for legal compliance (link)
• Pursues power deal in Ohio to build 12 more datacenters (link)
• Chef announces new compliance and application automation capabilities for AWS (link)
• C5 compute optimized instances for EC2 released (link)
• F1 instances for EC2 available in GovCloud (link)
• Improvements to CloudWatch in GovCloud region (link)
• Expanding Private Cloud Services with PrivateLink Endpoints (link)
• EC2 Elastic GPUs support OpenGL 4.2, available in additional regions (link)

IBM

• Bluemix renamed to IBM Cloud, second name since Softlayer (link)

More

• DigitalOcean has fastest growing market in India (link)
• Bitcoin rises to all time high of nearly $8000 (link)
• RightScale forecasts enterprises will waste $10B on cloud spending in 2018 (link)
• Researchers predict 84% of firms will move workloads to cloud in next 2 years (link)