by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 5, 2025 | Cloud
Shortly after Reuters broke the news that Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram, had signed a $10 billion, multiyear cloud deal with Google, a CIO friend called me with some questions: “David, should we be doing something like this? Are these mega...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 5, 2025 | Cloud
In January, assumptions around AI were shaken up by DeepSeek, a small Chinese company that nobody had heard of. This week it was Switzerland’s turn to stir things up. Apertus (Latin for ‘open’) is a brand new large language model (LLM) that its creators, a group of...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 4, 2025 | Cloud
Support for multiple address prefixes in a subnet is now generally available in Azure Virtual Networks. Azure Virtual Network subnets supported only a single address prefix, which limited the scale out for certain applications when the address space was...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 4, 2025 | Cloud
Google has introduced Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, an image generation and editing model enabling capabilities including the blending of multiple images into a single image. Developers can use the model for multimodal creativity for visual apps. Introduced August 26 and...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 4, 2025 | Cloud
An update of the HTTP Client API, supporting the HTTP/3 protocol, has been added to Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, due in March 2026. Officially announced on September 3, the HTTP/3 for the HTTP Client API feature is being targeted for JDK 26. This short-term release...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Sep 4, 2025 | Cloud
Announcing general availability support to enable Trusted launch on existing Azure Gen1 VMs by upgrading the Gen1 VM to Gen2-Trusted launch. This will help improve the foundational security of existing Azure VMs. Trusted Launch VMs provide foundational...
