#cloud-services

#cloud-services

New EU cloud security labeling proposals could force the three major cloud providers to overhaul their business practices in order to continue operating in the region, according to reports.Draft documents, not yet officially presented to the public, in their current wording suggest providers will be required to engage in a joint venture with an EU-based firm.

Enterprise cloud storage is more flexible and offers more features and performance than ever.Even among the three main cloud services - Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure - there is now a comprehensive range of capacity, availability, performance and security options.However, this choice does not make the IT department's task any easier.

Microsoft cloud services are scanning for malware by peeking inside users' zip files, even when they're protected by a password, several users reported on Mastodon on Monday.Compressing file contents into archived zip files has long been a tactic threat actors use to conceal malware spreading through email or downloads.

Cybersecurity startup SquareX today emerged from stealth mode with $6 million raised in a seed funding round led by Sequoia Capital Southeast Asia.The Singapore company provides a cloud-based solution that integrates with the browser as an extension, and which can keep users safe from malware and allows them to remain private.

American cybersecurity officials have released an early-warning system to protect Microsoft cloud users.The US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released the software, developed in conjunction with Sandia National Labs, to help network administrators spot potentially malicious activity in the Microsoft Azure cloud, Microsoft 365 services, and Azure Active Directory (AAD).

The NIST compliance framework consists of 5 core functions: identify, protect, detect, respond and recover.In my previous column, I mapped threat intelligence capabilities to the NIST core function of Identify.In this column, I will continue the discussion by mapping threat intelligence to the additional functions of Protect, Detect and Respond.

Chinese web and AI giant Baidu has suggested its long experience of working with local regulators means it, unlike others, is ideally positioned to bring artificial intelligence services to the Middle Kingdom.Speaking on the conglomerate's Q1 earnings call, CEO and co-founder Robin Li told investors the recently-released Ernie generative AI chatbot has been well received by customers and regulators alike.

What are the challenges with log monitoring for cloud-native architectures?Historically, log monitoring was easier because most application logs had a consistent structure and format.Transforming this data and aggregating the information was simple, allowing teams to collect and analyze different logs into a single view of the environment's performance.

The Acer Chromebook 516 GE feels like it was green-lit back when Google Stadia was the future of gaming.As someone who lacks a high-spec gaming PC (but has a PS5 and Xbox Series X) the idea of cloud gaming and having access to high-end PC games anywhere is an enticing third-way for gaming.Stadia may have gone but Nvidia GeForce Now, Game Pass, Amazon Luna+ and more platforms exist.

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Grafana Labs today made available an ability to customize what observability data is collected via its managed cloud service.This capability can help reduce storage costs in addition to enhancing the dashboard Grafana provides to make it simpler to track metrics usage.Wayne Jin, vice president of product marketing for Grafana Labs, said both capabilities would make it easier for DevOps teams to track and ultimately reduce the cost of storing the time-series data collected via its cloud platform.

Fears over stalling cloud services growth have hit Amazon's share price, despite the company beating Wall Street estimates in its latest results.Microsoft and Google likewise showed better than expected cloud profit and loss accounts, perhaps indicating that such concerns are misplaced.However, readers who spoke to The Reg have complained that cloud is getting expensive and some experience "sticker shock" after migrating from on-prem.

Back in 2016 Nvidia kickstarted the generative AI revolution as we've come to know it when OpenAI took delivery of its first AI supercomputer, which powers the breakthrough AI ChatGPT.Now with over 100 million users and rising, Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang used his GTC keynote to call 2023 the "iPhone moment of AI".

A public pool in the UK is expected to save £20,000 (about $24,000) and cut carbon emissions by 25.8 tons annually by warming a 25 m and children's pool with waste heat from a data center from startup Deep Green.Data center owners have long tried to limit the impact of heat emanating from their machines, with some going as far as to submerge servers in water and others finding ways to redirect waste heat so it can warm larger areas, like buildings and communities.

Few things evoke a level of disdain on par with computer passwords.They are inconvenient and incredibly insecure.Cybergangs attack them, hack them, and constantly wreak havoc with them.According to industry statistics, upwards of 80% of all breaches involve passwords in one form or another.Even more advanced multifactor authentication (MFA), whether in the form of text codes or rolling numbers on an authentication app, does not address the underlying problem.

https://unsplash.com/photos/BJHN6Do8kjQAs you know, I've been working more with IoT edge use cases around my career.It was going fine with Azure to date, but when we were re-analyzing the architecture, we found a need for cloud-agnostic microservices instead of cloud-native microservices (more precisely with Azure).

Microsoft is bringing ChatGPT, with all its promises and shortcomings, to world-plus-dog as a cloud service in Azure.Redmond this week was "thrilled to announce" ChatGPT will be selectively available as a preview within the Azure OpenAI Service.That service is largely aimed at corporations that want to put large-language models to work in their applications and workflows, such as using Dall-E2 for generating images, GPT-3.5 for text, and Codex for something that resembles code.

Data ingestion is the process of acquiring and putting data into a data warehouse.Discover more about data ingestion now.At its simplest, data ingestion is the process of shifting or replicating data from a source and moving it to a new destination.Some of the sources from which data is moved or replicated are databases, files or even IoT data streams.

Since its release, Kubernetes has become recognized for its ability to revolutionize the way companies of all sizes do business.According to Red Hat's State of Enterprise Open Source 2022 report, 70% of IT leaders have implemented Kubernetes in their organizations.Kubernetes is gaining momentum as one of the most significant enterprise technology today.

Oracle execs are all smiles following a stellar showing for their cloud operations in the latest full quarter, and Larry Ellison is obviously feeling a little dizzy, telling the world - or anyone who would listen - that Big Red's cloud never fails.Founder and CTO of the Texas-based business, Ellison bottles the Koolaid he asks employees to drink, but last night on a conference call to discuss earning for Q2 ended 30 November, he appeared to have a bellyful himself.

Even    has been unable to escape the repercussions of this terrible economy.Amazon posted its fourth-quarter revenue guidance on its end-of-September 2022 report, showing only 2% to 8% year-over-year growth, and as of Dec. 20, the stock had sunk 24% to a 52-week low.Considering market experts think there will be a recession in 2023, you might wonder if now is really the time to buy this stock.

The parent of a tech giant known as Russia's Google' wants to cut ties with the country.A Yandex taxi driving through Red Square in Moscow in 2020.Credit...Sefa Karacan/Anadolu Agency, via Getty Images The parent firm of Russia's most prominent technology company, Yandex, wants to cut ties with the country to shield its new businesses from the fallout of the war in Ukraine, a potential setback to President Vladimir V. Putin's efforts to develop homegrown substitutes for high-tech Western goods and services that have been choked off by sanctions.

An astonishing 98% of cloud services are adopted without any IT oversight.And when your employees act as their own tech professionals to use their favorite chat, cloud storage, and other insecure apps, that's more than just conducting shadow IT, it's directly putting your network at risk.Your challenge?

The cloud has changed the way we think about identity and access management.No longer are businesses bound by the traditional constraints of on-premises infrastructure.Companies can now dynamically provision and de-provision user identities with the cloud as needed.The cloud has also changed how businesses think about a user identity's lifecycle.

Cloud networking outfit Aviatrix has extended its platform with a new capability that monitors network usage to help enterprises more accurately track costs and enable chargeback to individual departments.Aviatrix said that the new feature, called CostIQ, uses distributed telemetry that is built into its cloud network platform to measure the use of shared cloud network resources by customer organizations.