New Amazon EC2 Bare Metal instances enable customers to run workloads directly on AWS hardware, or bring their own hypervisor or virtualization stack; preview starts today

New Storage Optimized instance family, H1, is designed for high-performance, big data workloads

The next generation of General Purpose instances, M5, deliver even better compute, memory, and networking performance, powered by the latest 2.5 GHz Intel Xeon Platinum 8000 series processors

New intelligent threat detection service analyzes trillions of events per day to identify new and evolving threats and provide simple, tailored, and cost-effective protection for AWS accounts and workloads

GE, Netflix, Autodesk, Twilio, Webroot, and Mapbox among the customers using Amazon GuardDuty

Powered by new Apache Drill 1.11 that natively integrates with MapR-DB, the MapR Converged Data Platform delivers analytic query performance improvements for self-service business intelligence (BI)

According to U.S. finance chief Anthony Mackle (pictured), the distributor has doled out $1.4 billion in new credit to its partners over the last 18 months to help them fund the transition from product reseller to cloud and professional service provider.

Introduced at this week’s Ingram Micro ONE conference, the project management-as-a-service, training affiliate, and employee training programs are designed to help product resellers become providers of professional services and cloud-based solutions instead.

New solution increases organizations’ speed, productivity, and efficiency through seamless deployment, operation, and optimization of resources and workloads

Sennheiser, a leading provider of premium audio solutions for business, brings even greater user flexibility and mobility to its premium Century series of professional headsets with the launch of four new Century Mobile variants. The new variants offer a premium call experience with added mobility for the modern contact-center agent and office workers that need the flexibility to connect to different devices, such as PCs, smartphones or tablets.

Petabyte Scale, Thermally-optimized All-Flash 1U Storage Servers and JBOF support 32 hot-swap NVMe “Ruler” Drives in 1U of rack space

Together with an ecosystem of partners, Microsoft’s cloud offers enterprise customers choice and options for using location data to solve issues such as asset location tracking, fleet management and traffic congestion.

At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, announced that customers can now use AWS PrivateLink to access third-party SaaS applications from their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without exposing their VPC to the public Internet. Customers can also use AWS PrivateLink to connect services across different accounts and VPCs within their own organizations, significantly simplifying their internal network architecture.†