Rackspace’s managed service takes an “Elastic Engineering” approach
Rackspace announced a new service model for delivering managed cloud services on Wednesday, to help its clients build and operate their cloud infrastructure with an extensive and scalable approach, aligned with DevOps’ best practices.
This new offering is a type of “elastic engineering,” w...
AWS Aqua generally available: speeds up Redshift queries
Amazon Web Services announced on Wednesday that Aqua, a technology that uses custom chips designed by the cloud service, is now generally available. The tech is used by organizations to run analytic queries faster on Amazon Redshift.
AWS says that Aqua will help customers perform data operations...
Azure lets developers search for prices in different currencies
Microsoft has released a change to its Retail Prices API. Users can now more easily search for all prices for Azure services, including those in foreign currencies.
According to Microsoft, many Azure customers were looking for ways to collect retail prices for all Azure services in different cur...
Stream Analytics to make second season SailGP even more interesting
In the first season of SailGP, participating teams broke the barrier of 50 knots (over 92 km/h) with their foil catamarans. The second season starts on April 24. This year it should all get even better, thanks to the use of Oracle technology, if we are to believe Oracle at least.
You can think o...
New OpenStack version improves security and integrations
The OpenStack Foundation has announced the 23rd release of OpenStack. This release, named Wallaby, introduces new security features, integrations and UEFI capabilities.
New security features include fallback permissions and improvements to role-based access control (RBAC) in Ironic, Glance and M...
Google Cloud opens Warsaw region
The move marks the tech giant's first step to expanding in central and eastern Europe
U.S. tech giant Google today launched a new cloud data hub in Warsaw with an investment of nearly US$2.0 billion. The opening marks Google Cloud’s 25th location worldwide, and the first cloud region in centra...
SAP opens business unit for customers in finance
SAP has announced that it is starting a new business unit aimed at customers in the financial industry. To set this up, the company will receive an investment of over 500 million euros from Dediq.
The efforts should lead to a joint venture with an independent management team. The whole thing sho...
ServiceNow adds support for Oracle OCI
If organizations want to have insight into the use and deployment of resources and services, ServiceNow is one of the go-to suppliers to consider. That vendor's ITOM offering gives you the possibility to monitor and manage this centrally. It's not just about on-premises resources and services; the ...
Microsoft makes MSIX app attach generally available
The release of this key component of Windows Virtual Desktop has been two years in the making.
For the past few years, Microsoft has been teasing us about the imminent release of a key component of Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD). The feature is called MSIX app attach and it promises to improve th...
Robin.io launches pay-as-you-go pricing on Red Hat marketplace
Robin.io this week announced the availability of the pay-as-you-go pricing model for Robin Cloud Native Storage (CNS) on Red Hat Marketplace. Robin.io customers can now pay for hourly usage of Robin CNS when purchased on Red Hat Marketplace. This gives them the flexibility to tie their project budg...
Qualtrics introduces complete platform for experience management
Qualtrics has announced XM/OS. This is supposed to be an operating system in which customer experiences can be collected and examined. In practice, however, it is a platform that runs in the cloud.
Qualtrics told us that XM/OS is a cloud-native platform that allows companies to bring together al...
AWS adds webcam and printer support to its remote desktop tools
The new release of NICE DCV also supports Apple's M1 chips.
This week Amazon Web Services released a set of updates to NICE DCV, their remote desktop and application streaming tool. NICE DCV is oiffered free of charge to AWS cloud customers.
AWS pushes NICE as the best way to use its Amazon E...