Cloud

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  AWS Launches 2nd Phase Of Think Big for Small Business Pilot

  by Donna Goodison

  AWS will be talking a lot about the program as part of its focus on inclusion, diversity and equity, according to Sandy Carter, AWS’ vice president of worldwide public sector partners and programs. ‘Because so many of these businesses are women-owned businesses, black-owned businesses, brown-owned businesses, veteran-owned businesses, you will hear us talk a lot about it, because we do believe that having a set of requirements proportional to a partner‘s size is a great equalizer,’ she says.

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  NetApp Expands Its New Spot Tech For Dynamic Cloud Compute Instances

  by Joseph F. Kovar

  ‘Spot has AI and machine learning in the platform to predict further in advance when a spot instance will disappear. It understands the customer application and resources needed and will use on-demand, reserved and spot instances to lower the costs,’ says John Woodall, vice president of engineering West at NetApp partner General Datatech.

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  VMware Acquires SaltStack To ‘Complete Our Automation Story’

  by Mark Haranas

  ‘SaltStack will help us to complete our automation story, enabling us to extend our automation capabilities beyond infrastructure to the entire application stack,’ says VMware’s cloud leader, Ajay Singh.

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  ‘Massive’ GreenLake Blitz: HPE Is Tripling Channel Investment

  by Steven Burke

  “I have huge expectations for the channel in FY 2021,” said HPE Senior Vice President and GreenLake Cloud Services General Manager Keith White. “But I’m also going to put our money where our mouth is and make sure that they have the resources, tools, enablement, incentives and people to help them be successful. … I think the channel is going to have a huge impact for us in fiscal year 2021.”

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  IDC’s Pucciarelli On Post-Pandemic IT Landscape

  by Joseph Tsidulko

  The work-from-home mandates forced by COVID-19 have spurred a surge in adoption of collaboration, communications, automation, business intelligence and data-driven decision-making solutions. Those will certainly remain with us after the crisis, says an IDC researcher

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  AWS’ Andy Jassy Slams Breonna Taylor Verdict: ‘We Still Don’t Get It’

  by Mark Haranas

  “Can’t let Breonna Taylor death go with no accountability. If you don‘t hold police depts accountable for murdering black people, we will never have justice and change, or be the country we aspire (and claim) to be,” says AWS Andy Jassy on Twitter.

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  Google Cloud Debuts Chronicle Detect For Threat Detection

  by Donna Goodison

  ‘Most analytics tools use a data-query language, making it difficult to write detection rules described in scenarios such as the MITRE ATT&CK framework,’ Rick Caccia, Google Cloud’s head of marketing for cloud security, and Sunil Potti, general manager and vice president of engineering for cloud security, says in a blog post. ‘Detections often require threat intelligence on attacker activity that many vendors simply don’t have. As a result, security tools are unable to detect many modern threats.’

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  Work-From-Home Surge Accelerates Cameyo’s Channel Program Launch

  by Joseph Tsidulko

  The virtualization startup has seen business skyrocket amid the coronavirus crisis, prompting it to introduce its first formal program earlier than originally envisioned. Partners have a unique opportunity to ‘rightsize’ their customers’ virtualization strategies, Cameyo’s CMO tells CRN.

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  Satya Nadella’s 5 Biggest Statements At Microsoft Ignite 2020

  by Kyle Alspach

  Nadella uses his keynote at Ignite to tout Microsoft’s latest launches and momentum across cloud, productivity and security.

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  Oracle’s Cloud Roadmap Features New High-Power Instances

  by Joseph Tsidulko

  Looking to jump into the IaaS leadership pack, Oracle next year will deliver instances powered by cutting-edge chips from Intel, Nvidia, Ampere and AMD that offer unique flexibility in resource allotment.

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  Red Hat Marketplace Delivers Ingredients For Rapidly Building Cloud-Native Solutions

  by Joseph Tsidulko

  A collection of more than 60 certified open source components are already available through the new platform developed with parent IBM. ‘Red Hat Marketplace is the grocery store for app developers to go pick the ingredients they want to build on top of OpenShift,’ IBM Cloud Ecosystem leader Cameron Clayton tells CRN

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  Report: Trump Weighing Approval Of TikTok IPO, With Oracle Taking Nearly 20 Percent Stake

  by Joseph Tsidulko

  A presidential decision should come by Friday, according to CNBC. Walmart would partner with Oracle, and an IPO could clear the stumbling block of Chinese developer Bytedance maintaining a controlling share of the popular app that holds millions of Americans’ personal data.

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  AWS Outposts Ready Launches With 32 Validated Partners

  by Donna Goodison

  Partner interest in the program is a good reflection of the interest that AWS is seeing in Outposts, according to Joshua Burgin, general manager of AWS Outposts since June.

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  Oracle Will Take Minority Stake In New U.S.-based TikTok Owner: Report

  by Joseph Tsidulko

  President Trump tells reporters Oracle co-founder and executive chairman Larry Ellison has been ‘really a terrific guy for a long time’ and his administration is ‘going to take a look’ at the deal prompted by a threatened ban on the app developed by China’s ByteDance

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  HCL Technologies’ Actian Launches Avalanche On Google Cloud

  by Donna Goodison

  ‘On top of the existing performance differentiation we have with the other providers, we were able to deliver a 20 percent superior query performance and a better cost for performance (with Google Cloud) compared to our own performance on AWS and Azure,’ says Raghu Chakravarthi, chief product officer for the Palo Alto, Calif.-based Actian.