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Plus, Google was taking Cloud Next virtual – now, not so much. And find out what’s happening with Wipro and Cloudera.
From pressing vendor reactions to COVID-19 to more channel-centric announcements, the week has not lacked for news. Check out what’s going on with AWS, Google Cloud, Wipro and Cloudera.
Research and scientific institutions that use Amazon Web Services could get a piece of the $20 million Amazon is committing to COVID-19 diagnostics, research and testing.
AWS’s Teresa Carlson
“The program will be open to accredited research institutions and private entities that are using AWS to support research-oriented workloads for the development of point-of-care diagnostics (testing that can be done at home or at a clinic with same-day results),” Teresa Carlson, vice president worldwide public sector at AWS, wrote in a blog on Friday. “Given the need, the emphasis initially will be on COVID-19, but we will also consider other infectious disease diagnostic projects.”
The AWS Diagnostic Development Initiative aims to bring about faster testing and earlier, accurate detection of the novel coronavirus that has spread into a global pandemic. One of the key areas where AWS says it can help is in delivering compute power that supports the analytics and machine learning needed to hasten understanding of COVID-19.
AWS already has recruited 35 startups, businesses and research institutions for the DDI.
“This is a global health emergency that will only be resolved by governments, businesses, academia and individuals working together to better understand this virus and ultimately find a cure,” Carlson said.
Likely hampered by San Francisco’s “shelter in place” requirements amid the COVID-19 outbreak, Google has indefinitely postponed the online version of its annual cloud conference.
A few weeks back, Google canceled the in-person event, which was scheduled to start April 6, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The company said it would move forward with a remote replacement April 6-8.
That is not to be, however. This week, Google said it has axed Cloud Next 2020 altogether until “we have a better sense of the evolving situation.”
“Right now, the most important thing we can do is focus our attention on supporting our customers, partners, and each other,” Google said in a blog.
Google did not point to a specific reason for the change other than to reference the need to ensure the health and safety of employees, partners, customers and local communities, and adhere to state and federal decisions. It’s not a stretch to infer that Google is talking about the shelter in place edict in northern California, a restriction that would stymie the ability to record and roll out videos and other content even for a virtual event.
More cloud-centric channel partners are specializing in just one or two vendors, and Wipro is the latest to join the trend.
The India-based systems integrator said this week it has launched its Microsoft Business Unit, built on Azure.
Microsoft and Wipro have worked together for a number of years; Wipro is a Microsoft Gold Competency Partner. Now, it is ramping up investment on the Azure side as it helps enterprise adopt more cloud platform and upgrade their technology.
“With this partnership, we will…
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