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Azure Managed Grafana Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of Azure Managed Grafana, a managed service that enables customers to run Grafana natively within the Azure cloud platform. With the managed service, they can connect to existing Azure Services to enhance observability and cloud management.
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Baidu Announces Superconducting Quantum Computer and Integration Solution
Baidu, the company behind the homonymous search engine, has announced its first quantum computing processor, named Qian Shi, along with an "all-platform" integration solution aimed to simplify access to quantum hardware resources via mobile, desktop, and the Cloud.
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Azure Data Explorer Supports Native Ingestion from Amazon S3
Microsoft recently announced the ability to natively ingest data from Amazon S3 into Azure Data Explorer (ADX). The new feature simplifies multi-cloud data analytics deployments, bringing data from Amazon S3 to Azure, without relying on custom ETL pipelines.
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Google Introduces Pay-as-You-Go Pricing for Apigee API Management
Recently Google introduced a pay-as-you-go pricing model for Apigee’s API management to provide customers with more flexibility in using the service and control costs.
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Microsoft Releases SynapseML 0.1.0 with .NET and Cognitive Services Support
Microsoft announced the first .NET-compatible version of SynapseML, a new machine learning (ML) library for Apache Spark distributed processing platform. Version 0.1.0 of the SynapseML library adds support for .NET bindings, allowing .NET developers to write ML pipelines in their preferred language.
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Extended VMware and Microsoft Collaboration with Major Updates to the Azure VMware Solution
During the recent VMware Explore 2022, VMWare announced it would strengthen its collaboration with Microsoft regarding the Azure VMWare Solution. In addition, the solution received several new updates, including extended availability.
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Flutter 3.3 Previews New Rendering Engine
With Google’s UI framework Flutter, users can build natively-compiled applications for mobile, web, and desktop from one codebase. Google just announced the third Flutter release of 2022, version 3.3, and version 2.18 of Flutter’s language Dart. Both releases are refinements without significant new features. A new rendering engine called Impeller is available, but only in preview and only for iOS.
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Java News Roundup: Eclipse GlassFish, Open Liberty, MicroStream, JHipster, WildFly, EclipseLink
This week's Java roundup for August 29th, 2022, features news from OpenJDK, JDK 20, Eclipse GlassFish 7.0.0-M8, Quarkus 2.12.0, Open Liberty 22.0.0.9 and 22.0.0.10-beta, MicroStream 07.01.00-beta2, WildFly 26.1.2, JHipster 7.9.3, EclipseLink 4.0.0-RC1, Hibernate 5.6.11, JDKMon 17.0.35 and Apache Camel Quarkus 2.12.0.
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Azure Virtual Machines with Ampere Altra Arm-Based Processors Now Generally Available
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of virtual machines (VMs) on Azure featuring the Ampere Altra, a processor based on the Arm architecture. In addition, the Arm-based virtual machines can be included in Kubernetes clusters managed using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
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Amazon Introduces Encrypted Communication Service AWS Wickr
A year after the acquisition of the company Wickr, Amazon recently announced the preview of the collaboration suite AWS Wickr. Built on a proprietary encryption protocol, the new managed service provides enterprises and government agencies with security and administrative controls to meet security and compliance requirements.
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Android Cross Device SDK Aims to Simplify Task Handoff and Multi-Device Experiences
Google has announced a developer preview of its new Cross device SDK for Android, aimed to help developers build cross-device experiences using high-level, intuitive APIs. The new capabilities can be used to create multiplayer games, to carry through productivity tasks across different devices, or to enable group experiences.
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NTT Announces a Fully-Managed Edge and Private 5G Offering as a Service
During the VMWare Explore Event, the VMWare partner NTT, an IT Infrastructure company, announced a new Edge-as-a-Service (EaaS) service as the first globally available, fully-managed edge and private 5G offering.
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Accelerated Multi-Account Auditing and Compliance in AWS with Steampipe, HCL and SQL
AWS recently examined the use of AWS Insights Mod, based on Steampipe, an open-source tool that defines over 650 queries and displays their results on 84 dashboards.
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A Distributed System is Knowable: an Impossible Thing for Developers
Failure in distributed systems is normal. Distributed systems can provide only two of the three guarantees in consistency, availability, and partition tolerance. According to Kevlin Henney, this limits how much you can know about how a distributed system will behave. He gave a keynote about Six Impossible Things at QCon London 2022 and at QCon Plus May 10-20, 2022.
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AWS Announced New Feature Fine-Grained Visual Embedding for Amazon QuickSight
Recently, AWS announced a new feature, Fine-Grained Visual Embedding, for its cloud-scale business intelligence (BI) service Amazon QuickSight allowing customers to embed individual visualizations from Amazon QuickSight dashboards in high-traffic webpages and applications.