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Oracle CTO Larry Ellison touted “impenetrable barriers” and “autonomous robots” that guard Oracle’s second-generation cloud platform in his opening keynote for Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco Monday
• The robots refer to automated threat detection an… Continue reading Ellison Touts Hardware “Barriers” and “Robots” Guarding Oracle’s Cloud
Apple and AWS CEOs have called on Bloomberg to retract its story that alleges their hardware has been compromised by a malicious Chinese spy chip
• Apple’s Tim Cook called for the retraction in an interview with BuzzFeed Friday
• AWS CEO Andy Jassy did… Continue reading Apple, AWS CEOs Say Bloomberg Should Retract the Spy Chip Story
WikiLeaks published what it said was a list of all Amazon Web Services data centers, including their addresses
• If accurate, the list would be the most detail the public has ever seen about the world’s biggest cloud provider’s infrastructure
• The lea… Continue reading WikiLeaks Publishes What It Says Is a List of Amazon Data Centers
Snowflake Computing, developer of a cloud-based data warehouse solution, has raised $450 million in venture funding
• This is its second funding round this year, bringing its pre-money valuation to $3.5 billion
• A study has shown that enterprises have… Continue reading Cloud Data Warehouse Unicorn Snowflake Raises $450M in Its Second Round This Year
Microsoft said Monday it plans to launch public trials of its videogame streaming service next year
• The company said it currently has one rack of hardware designed for the xCloud running in a data center
• Each xCloud server blade contains components… Continue reading How Do You Play 'Halo' on a Phone? Stream It From an Azure Data Center Nearby
Cloudera and Hortonworks, best known for being top enterprise Hadoop distributions, have agreed to merge
• The combined company, they said, will bring to market an end-to-end enterprise data management solution
• The solution will span customers’ own d… Continue reading Cloudera and Hortonworks to Merge and Roll Out End-to-End Data Platform
Amazon, Apple, and Supermicro issued statements Thursday denying central claims in a report by Bloomberg BusinessWeek about an alleged chip covertly planted onto motherboards destined for US companies’ data centers
• The chips, according to the report,… Continue reading AWS, Apple, Supermicro Attack Bloomberg’s Spy Chip Report
Palo Alto Networks announced an agreement to buy RedLock for $173 million
• The deal will expand Palo Alto’s cloud security capabilities
• It is part of Palo Alto’s broader strategy to combine cloud security and compliance into a single solution Continue reading Palo Alto Networks Buying Cloud Security Firm RedLock for $173M
Says will open-source hardware platform, including network switch, power shelf, and cabling system, in coming weeks and months. Continue reading LinkedIn Says Its Open19 Server Design Is Ready for Prime Time
A lightning strike exposes a glaring hole in Azure cloud’s availability strategy. Continue reading Azure Outage Proves the Hard Way that Availability Zones are a Good Idea