Author Archives: Frederic Lardinois

Valimail makes it harder for hackers to impersonate your boss over email

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Valimail, a company that focuses on preventing fake and fraudulent emails from reaching your inbox, today announced that it is extending its anti-impersonation platform with a couple of new features that will make it even harder for hackers to pretend they are somebody they are not. While Valimail’s original focus was mostly on ensuring that […] Continue reading Valimail makes it harder for hackers to impersonate your boss over email→

SolarWinds acquires real-time threat-monitoring service Trusted Metrics

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SolarWinds, the company behind tools like Pingdom, Papertrail, Loggly and a number of other IT management tools, today announced it has acquired Trusted Metrics, a company that helps businesses monitor incoming threats to their networks and servers. This move follows SolarWinds’ acquisition of Loggly earlier this year. Among other things, Loggly also provides a number […] Continue reading SolarWinds acquires real-time threat-monitoring service Trusted Metrics→

Google Cloud’s COO departs after 7 months

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At the end of last November, Google announced that Diane Bryant, who at the time was on a leave of absence from her position as the head of Intel’s data center group, would become Google Cloud’s new COO. This was a major coup for Google, but it wasn’t meant to last. After only seven months […] Continue reading Google Cloud’s COO departs after 7 months→

Microsoft launches two new Azure regions in China

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Microsoft today launched two new Azure regions in China. These new regions, China North 2 in Beijing and China East 2 in Shanghai, are now generally available and will complement the existing two regions Microsoft operates in the country (with the help of its local partner, 21Vianet). As the first international cloud provider in China when […] Continue reading Microsoft launches two new Azure regions in China→

With Cloud Filestore, the Google Cloud gets a new storage option

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Google is giving developers a new storage option in its cloud. Cloud Filestore, which will launch into beta next month, essentially offers a fully managed network attached storage (NAS) service in the cloud. This means that companies can now easily run applications that need a traditional file system interface on the Google Cloud Platform. Traditionally, […] Continue reading With Cloud Filestore, the Google Cloud gets a new storage option→

Microsoft gives Office a refreshed look and feel

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Microsoft today announced that it’s bringing a new user interface design to its Office apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. This new look will be in line with the Fluent Design System the company launched last year and will roll out to both the Office.com online apps and the Office desktop tools over the […] Continue reading Microsoft gives Office a refreshed look and feel→

The new Gmail will roll out to all users next month

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Google today announced that the new version of Gmail will launch into general availability and become available to all G Suite users next month. The exact date remains up in the air but my guess is that it’ll be sooner than later. The new Gmail offers features like message snoozing, attachment previews, a sidebar for […] Continue reading The new Gmail will roll out to all users next month→

Microsoft Azure will soon offer machines with up to 12 TB of memory

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Do you have an application that needs a lot of memory? Maybe as much as 12 terabytes of memory? Well, you’re in luck because Microsoft Azure will soon offer virtual machines with just that much RAM, based on Intel’s Xeon Scalable servers. The company made this announcement in concert with the launch of a number of […] Continue reading Microsoft Azure will soon offer machines with up to 12 TB of memory→

Microsoft promises to keep GitHub independent and open

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Microsoft today announced its plans to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. Unsurprisingly, that sent a few shock waves through the developer community, which still often eyes Microsoft with considerable unease. During a conference call this morning, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, incoming GitHub CEO (and Xamarin founder) Nat Friedman and GitHub co-founder and outgoing […] Continue reading Microsoft promises to keep GitHub independent and open→

AWS launches pay-per-session pricing for its QuickSight BI tool

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Amazon QuickSight, the company’s business intelligence tool for AWS, launched back in 2015, but it’s hard to say how much impact the service has made in the highly competitive BI market. The company has far from given up on this project, though, and today, it’s introducing a new pay-per-session pricing plan for access to QuickSight dashboards that […] Continue reading AWS launches pay-per-session pricing for its QuickSight BI tool→