Cloud
Google Cloud NEXT: AI for Workspace, BigQuery; compute, storage innovations, an Arm CPU...
199 pages of embargoed press releases; where do we start?
Redis
AWS, Google, Oracle back Redis fork “Valkey” under the Linux Foundation
"Valkey will be community-driven without surprise license changes that break trust and disrupt a level open source playing field" says the Linux Foundation.
open source
Stick a fork in me, I'm done: Redis slaps MongoDB’s SSPL licence on its OSS core, blames cloud, complexity
The kiss of death for open-source Redis? A reasonable commercial decision? The end of a community?
Cloud
Scoop: Fujitsu spilled private client data, passwords into the open unnoticed for a year
It takes a special kind of stupid to export a LastPass vault and dump it into a public bucket along with a bunch of AWS keys. How do these people win critical government contracts again, please?
AWS
AWS throws customers (and regulators) a bone on data exit/cloud transfer costs
Cross-AZ traffic, NAT gateways, elastic IPs, overprovisioning: Hell for your CFO. Jumping ship? Now a little cheaper.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes clusters are typically using just 13% of CPU: CIOs could save a small fortune
Overprovisioning CPU and memory will keep the lights on, but it is costly. Underprovisioning them risks CPU throttling and out-of-memory kills, which cause applications to perform poorly or even crash."
SAP
Deutsche Börse Group overcomes “hesitant stakeholders, cautious regulators” moves ERP to GCP
"From adding new legal entities following M&A, through launching products such as swap types, to simple requests to improve our workflows, the system couldn’t keep up. Just a simple launch request would take as much as nine months"
AWS
AWS invests $15 billion in Japan - as Oracle mops up big customers
AWS is expanding its operations in Japan by building on its infrastructure capacity in Tokyo and Osaka.
fedramp
FedRAMP is 14 years old – and Feds are still relying on unauthorized cloud services
Some CSPs also moaned that its was “costly and time consuming” to meet FedRAMP’s technical and process requirements...
Cloud
Google Cloud is NOT magicking away data egress fees
GCP's somewhat limited move to drop "cloud switching" charges is aimed squarely at Microsoft.
Post Office
As “Mr Bates” stirs police over Horizon, Post Office burns £31 million on failed cloud migration
Cloud migration "impairment" writes off the equivalent to 81% of the Post Office's annual restructuring costs.
Cloud
UK gas utility eyes "high-risk" shift to Azure, frets over ICS security
"A requirement to bring unmanaged and unsupported ICS devices under proper governance and control..."