Donna Goodison

Google Cloud Unleashes Managed Service Mesh, Serverless For Anthos

by Donna Goodison

‘Anthos quickly rose in popularity as a core service offering for enterprises who want to adopt cloud at their own pace,’ says Arseny Gorokh, head of Google competency for EPAM Systems. ‘As one of the earliest adopters of Anthos and one of a few Services Partners for Anthos, we’ve seen how these exciting new features can further reduce the complexities of managing microservices-based applications for our customers and allow developers to efficiently adopt modern frameworks.’

House Antitrust Committee Requests Info From Tech Giant Customers

by Donna Goodison

'The survey appears geared toward businesses that pay the big technology companies for services such as cloud computing, digital advertising and help selling mobile apps and products online,' the report says. 'It doesn’t appear to focus on general retail consumers that buy products from Amazon or iPhones from Apple.'

Supported AWS Outposts Services Hyped Ahead Of Launch

by Donna Goodison

‘With the reach of AWS extending into the data center, partners like Mission have the ability to provide services and consulting to a new category of customer as they begin their cloud journey,’ says Jonathan LaCour, chief technology officer at Mission, a Los Angeles managed service provider and new AWS Premier Consulting Partner.

EVP Jason Zander On Microsoft Azure ‘Mega-Deals' And Tier-1 Workloads

by Donna Goodison

'When you see those very large deals, you're seeing us also integrate and supply technology and partner very deeply with that,' Microsoft Azure EVP Jason Zander says. 'You need that kind of structural advantage of the cloud and the edge.'

50 Attorneys General Launch New Bipartisan Google Antitrust Probe

by Donna Goodison

‘There's a fine line sometimes between aggressive business practices and illegal ones,” says Utah AG Sean Reyes. “Our investigation will determine whether Google has crossed that line. This is not anti-tech. This is actually for the benefit of the tech ecosystem to help level the playing field.’

AWS’ Roger Barga: ‘Robots Are Part Of A Company’s Digital Transformation’

by Donna Goodison

‘Robots are not just useful for carrying out tasks,’ says Roger Barga, general manager and director of development of Amazon Web Services Robotics and Autonomous Services. ‘They get data digitally about what's going on in your operations, which you can then use to optimize your operations.’

5 Things To Know About Microsoft's HoloLens 2 Mixed Reality Headset

by Donna Goodison

HoloLens 2 shows great potential over HoloLens 1 in terms of better compute power, the Azure Kinect Integration for full hand tracking and potentially object recognition, a larger field of view, eye tracking, USB-C charging and potentially accessories, and its balanced design, according to DataMesh CEO Jie Li, whose company has been testing the mixed reality headset.

Hearst’s Multi-Cloud Strategy Taps AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud

by Donna Goodison

'I tell people all the time if cloud is expensive for you compared to on-prem, then you're not doing it right,’ says Jimmy Shaffer, Hearst’s executive director of cloud and DevOps. 'With cloud, we have huge advantages to be able to tailor the workloads to the environment and be highly cost-effective by doing that.'

Microsoft Expanding Azure VMware Solutions To Eight Regions

by Donna Goodison

The regional expansion of Azure VMware Solutions is based on customer demand and will be across the United States, Western Europe and Asia-Pacific, according to Arpan Shah, general manager of Microsoft Azure.

Microsoft Buys jClarity For Optimizing Java Workloads On Azure

by Donna Goodison

'For us, this is the perfect match,' says John Montgomery, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of program management for developer tools and services. 'The relationship with this team is not new: Since June 2018, Microsoft has sponsored the AdoptOpenJDK project to help build binaries of OpenJDK for different platforms, including Linux and Windows.'

Google Cloud’s Rob Enslin Takes Shot At AWS Multi-Cloud Blackout

by Donna Goodison

‘AWS does not allow or approve use of the terms “multi-cloud,” “cross cloud,” “any cloud,” “every cloud” or any other language that implies designing or supporting more than one cloud provider,’ the inaugural AWS Co-Branding Guide states.

AWS Partners Get New Containers Navigate Track

by Donna Goodison

'We are living in the world of containers in today’s technological terms, and choosing the right container technology and scheduler that are managing workloads can be critical for business,' says Oleksandr Zadorozhnyi, technical director and cloud and transformation lead at Pythian. 'Tailoring technology to customer’s business needs is exactly what AWS is mapping out through the launch of this new program'

Microsoft Wins 10-Year Cloud Services Deal With Indian Telecom Jio

by Donna Goodison

‘Our ambition is to help millions of organizations across India thrive and grow in this era of rapid technological change,’ says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. ‘Together, we will offer comprehensive technology solutions -- from compute and storage, to connectivity and productivity -- to SMBs everywhere in the country.’