Cloudera has announced the acquisition of Eventador to improve its real-time stream processing capabilities in its data platform (CDP).
IBM Spin-Off of Managed Infrastructure Services Signals “All-In” on Cloud
IBM surprised the market yesterday by announcing a plan to spin-off its infrastructure managed services business to put more focus on cloud.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Takes the High-Performance Computing Road
OCI significantly bolsters its competitive prospects in the cloud HPC domain, through its agile array of semiconductor and HPC partnerships and clear-cut ability to use price/performance differentiators to win new business. Now AWS, Azure, GCP, and IBM must directly counter the rising OCI threat or risk erosion in their cloud HPC market position.
Microsoft Announces Azure Orbital to Connect Satellites to Its Cloud
Microsoft takes on AWS Ground Station and announces its Azure Orbital, a fully managed ground station-as-a-service that enables satellite communication, control, and data processing directly in Microsoft Azure.
Amazon Luna Launches, The Rise of Cloud Gaming — and What That Means for the Future
Amazon announced the launch of Amazon Luna, the company’s new cloud gaming service. With a play anywhere offering, on devices you already own, there’s every reason to expect Amazon Luna’s invitation for early access will be eagerly snapped up. One of my favorite things about this offering is the Twitch integration that’s purportedly coming to Luna, allowing gamers to broadcast while gaming. This integration will also allow Twitch viewers (who subscribe to Luna) to go from watching a game streaming on Twitch to playing on Luna. Microsoft xCloud, NVIDIA GeForce Now, and Google Stadia are all officially on notice that there’s a new player in the cloud gaming space in town.
New Enterprise Data Cloud Services Released at Cloudera Now
Cloudera hosted a multi day event, Cloudera Now and during this time the company announced the launch of new enterprise data cloud services.
Red Hat Marketplace: A Win for IBM and Hybrid Cloud Adoption
IBM launched the Red Hat Marketplace, a one-stop-shop to find, try, buy, deploy, and manage enterprise applications in hybrid IT environments.
Oracle Returns to Annualized Growth in its Fiscal Q1 as Cloud Grows
After a modest 6% decline to finish its prior period, Oracle reversed its fortunes driving annualized growth and winning important business.
Microsoft Wins Department of Defense JEDI Contract Award Again – For Now Anyway
In a decision handed down Friday, Microsoft was again awarded the Department of Defense JEDI contract. Sort of. Amazon’s AWS has pledged to continue its fight against the fairness of the selection and evaluation process and the claim of undue political influence. What’s ahead? More waiting.
IBM’s New RoboRXN Chemistry Lab Runs on AI, Cloud and Robotics
IBM’s new RoboRXN chemistry lab allows scientists to create new molecules while working remotely using robots, cloud, and AI. The platform accelerates the synthesis process and highlights discovery, which is not only a great boost to the field of chemistry, it’s also an example of innovation and agility we’ll likely see much more of. Most of us think of work as being in an office setting, but the RoboRXN platform reminds us that work can take place in a laboratory, a factory, on a farm, or on a construction site — and technology can play a big role in all those settings.