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			            - By Paul  Schnackenburg
- 05/30/2018
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Amazon Transcribe is used to create a written transcript of audio or video files that you upload.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Pivot3 Intelligent Hybrid Cloud gets expanded disaster recovery and workload mobility capabilities. 
                    
			            - By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 05/22/2018
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Based on the OpenStack Queens release, VMware Integrated OpenStack 5 is now generally available.
                    
			            - By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 05/22/2018
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Spiceworks survey finds Microsoft OneDrive most popular cloud storage service, among other interesting findings. 
                    
			            - By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 05/22/2018
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Be sure to document objects as they're created to avoid confusion later on. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Today Intel Corp. officially announced its Open Visual Inference & Neural Network Optimization (OpenVINO) toolkit, formerly known as "Intel Computer Vision SDK." 
                    
			            - By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 05/16/2018
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Isilon was acquired by EMC in November 2010 for $2.25 billion. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Expected to start shipping in mid-June, AWS DeepLens gives developers the chance to expand their machine learning skills.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Red Hat Inc. announced the general availability of Red Hat 4.2, its KVM-powered virtualization platform.
                    
			            - By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 05/14/2018
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Red Hat plans to focus on the hybrid cloud sector by expanding the company's relationship with technology juggernaut IBM Corp.
                    
			            - By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 05/10/2018
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Oracle this week announced Oracle Autonomous Analytics Cloud, Oracle Autonomous Integration Cloud and Oracle Autonomous Visual Builder Cloud, three Platform-as-a-Service databases that the company says  will "automate and eliminate key tasks" for enterprises thanks to built-in algortithms.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    A combination of server hardware and cloud infrastructure software that's designed to offer datacenters "ultra-low latency support for time-critical applications."
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Juniper Networks, having turned over its open source, software-defined networking Open Contrail project to The Linux Foundation, has come out with an expanded commercial enterprise offering based on the software.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Organization using the VMware Cloud on AWS service are being targeted by JetStream Software with a new offering to help them migrate their on-premises virtualized workloads from to the AWS platform.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    With so much to take in in only three days, I spent the trip back home decompressing and reflecting on everything I learned and experienced. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    The event covered a lot of ground -- here's my disjointed overview of the conference. 
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Cisco said it will add new support for the open source Kubernetes container orchestration platform in its offerings for application performance monitoring and cloud systems management.
                    
		            
                
                    
                    
                    
                 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    VMware Inc. announced its Virtual Cloud Network and the new NSX solutions on which it will run. 
                    
			            - By Wendy A. Hernandez
- 05/01/2018
 
            
                
	                 
                    
                                        
		            
                    Azure Container Instances, a serverless runtime that aims to help developers spin up containers on Microsoft's public datacenter infrastructure, is now generally available.