Category Archives: Computing

Google Cloud gets capacity reservations, extends committed use discounts beyond CPUs

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Google Cloud made two significant pricing announcements today. Those, you’ll surely be sad to hear, don’t involve the usual price drops for compute and storage. Instead, Googe Cloud today announced that it is extending its committed use discounts, which give you a significant discount when you commit to using a certain number of resources for […] Continue reading Google Cloud gets capacity reservations, extends committed use discounts beyond CPUs→

Microsoft and Oracle link up their clouds

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Microsoft and Oracle announced a new alliance today that will see the two companies directly connect their clouds over a direct network connection so that their users can then move workloads and data seamlessly between the two. This alliance goes a bit beyond just basic direct connectivity and also includes identity interoperability. This kind of […] Continue reading Microsoft and Oracle link up their clouds→

How Kubernetes came to rule the world

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Open source has become the de facto standard for building the software that underpins the complex infrastructure that runs everything from your favorite mobile apps to your company’s barely usable expense tool. Over the course of the last few years, a lot of new software is being deployed on top of Kubernetes, the tool for […] Continue reading How Kubernetes came to rule the world→

Microsoft makes a push for service mesh interoperability

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Services meshes. They are the hot new thing in the cloud native computing world. At Kubecon, the bi-annual festival of all things cloud native, Microsoft today announced that it is teaming up with a number of companies in this space to create a generic service mesh interface. This will make it easier for developers to […] Continue reading Microsoft makes a push for service mesh interoperability→

Unveiling its latest cohort, Alchemist announces $4 million in funding for its enterprise accelerator

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The enterprise software and services-focused accelerator Alchemist has raised $4 million in fresh financing from investors BASF and the Qatar Development Bank, just in time for its latest demo day unveiling 20 new companies. Qatar and BASF join previous investors, including the venture firms Mayfield, Khosla Ventures, Foundation Capital, DFJ and USVP, and corporate investors […] Continue reading Unveiling its latest cohort, Alchemist announces $4 million in funding for its enterprise accelerator→

Microsoft wants you to work less

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Microsoft today announced updates to its MyAnalytics platform and a new Outlook feature that are meant to help you work less, find more time to focus on the work that actually matters and, by extension, get more downtime. Until now, for example, MyAnalytics, Microsoft’s tool for helping employees track their productivity, would provide you with […] Continue reading Microsoft wants you to work less→

Microsoft launches a drag-and-drop machine learning tool

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Microsoft today announced three new services that all aim to simplify the process of machine learning. These range from a new interface for a tool that completely automates the process of creating models, to a new no-code visual interface for building, training and deploying models, all the way to hosted Jupyter-style notebooks for advanced users. […] Continue reading Microsoft launches a drag-and-drop machine learning tool→

Microsoft announces the $3,500 HoloLens 2 Development Edition

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As part of its rather odd Thursday afternoon pre-Build news dump, Microsoft today announced the HoloLens 2 Development Edition. The company announced the much-improved HoloLens 2 at MWC Barcelona earlier this year, but it’s not shipping to developers yet. Currently, the best release date we have is “later this year.” The Development Edition will launch […] Continue reading Microsoft announces the $3,500 HoloLens 2 Development Edition→

Microsoft brings Azure SQL Database to the edge (and Arm)

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Microsoft today announced an interesting update to its database lineup with the preview of Azure SQL Database Edge, a new tool that brings the same database engine that powers Azure SQL Database in the cloud to edge computing devices, including, for the first time, Arm-based machines. Azure SQL Edge, Azure corporate vice president Julia White […] Continue reading Microsoft brings Azure SQL Database to the edge (and Arm)→