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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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Amazon puts Fire TV Cube to work, repurposes streaming device for desktop computing

GeekWire

Amazon Photo) At a company famous for turning doors into desks, it only made sense for Amazon’s cloud division to find its first desktop productivity device in one of its consumer division’s existing streaming media products. Muneer Mirza, AWS general manager of End User Computing. .

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Fortinet upgrades for better cloud, SD-WAN protection

Network World

Fortinet has rolled out a new version of its FortiOS operating system that gives customers the ability to manage security capabilities across their cloud assets and software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) environments. With FortiOS 5.6,

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Top 8 IT certifications in demand today

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s a vendor-specific certification that will benefit anyone who is tasked with working directly with AWS products and services or looking to make good on the high demand for cloud skills today. To earn your CompTIA A+ certification you’ll have to pass two separate exams.

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Mesosphere Partners with Typesafe on Spark

Data Center Knowledge

Partnership provides support for an instance of Spark that can be deployed on top of the Mesosphere Data Center Operating System (DCOS) running in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Read More.

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Cloud Technology: Beyond Data Storage

Galido

Information Technology Blog - - Cloud Technology: Beyond Data Storage - Information Technology Blog. Cloud in people’s view is picturized as never-ending white colour in the sky. The fact that clouds are never-ending is the core concept behind Cloud Technology. But today cloud is much more than data storage.

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Amazon details cause of AWS outage that hobbled thousands of online sites and services

GeekWire

A “relatively small addition of capacity” to the Amazon Kinesis real-time data processing service triggered a widespread Amazon Web Services outage last week, the company said in a detailed technical analysis over the weekend.