Industry News: April 13-17 – Amazon Aiding in COVID-19 Diagnostic Tools, the Rise of Cyberattacks, a Look at the Future of Data Centers and More
Every week we highlight cloud computing and technology news of interest. This week we’re covering how Amazon’s cloud service is helping diagnose cases of COVID-19, Microsoft Azure’s Synapse Analytics, how hackers are getting lazy, VMware’s events going digital and a look at the future of data center demand.
Let’s get started…
Doctors racing to develop more efficient ways of diagnosing COVID-19 infections are turning to AI. In order to do so, they need to make lung imaging data available to physicians across the globe. Forbes highlights how Amazon is offering up their cloud computing tools to make that a reality. Read more about how they’re helping combat the disease here.
As ZDNet notes, converging data warehousing, data lakes and data integration into a single cloud service is no easy task. They take us inside Microsoft’s Azure Synapse Analytics service to do just that. Take a deeper dive into the service here.
Cyberattacks and phishing campaigns are surging as threat actors look to take advantage of the pandemic. In fact, CIO Dive reports the number of phishing attacks has risen 667% from February to March. But they’re also finding that some hackers are getting a little careless. Checkout some examples here.
VMware is the latest company forced to make changes to their premier event—but the show will go on. CRN reports that the VMworld conference will take place online for the first time ever. For more on the change, and a glimpse into VMware’s future plans, click here.
In recent weeks, many organizations have had to make digital transformations that were not supposed to take place for several years—and the data center industry must adjust to the new reality. Data Center Frontier spoke to several analysts about the outlook for data centers and cloud computing moving forward. Find out what they’re saying about data center demand here.