Cloud crucial for post-pandemic recovery
Aggressive cloud move will spike next year
Research experts at Forrester say that the cloud is being the key to business recovery and the aggressive move towards it will spike next year.
Insilico Medicine AI COVID tool uses Xeons
Intel helps in COVID-19 research
Industry veteran Alex Zhavoronkov who left the PC industry (ATI and AMD) to start the AI longevity focused Insilico Medicine, has announced AI-powered COVIDomic to power the COVID-19 basic and clinical research.
Increased cloud use means more cloudy cyber attacks
McAfee sees evil cloud
There is a correlation between the increased use of cloud services and collaboration tools, such as Cisco WebEx, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Slack during the COVID-19 pandemic, along with an increase in cyber-attacks targeting the cloud.
Alveo U25 SmartNIC turnkey solution for the Cloud
Xilinx solution to reduce cloud latency by 80 percent
The datacenter is exploding, and the number of global data center traffic will triple between 2016 and 2021. Datacenter to outside traffic doubled from two Exabytes in 2016 to four Exabytes in 2019, and by 2021 it is expected to grow to six Exabytes. Interestingly enough traffic within data centers is exploding, as it grew from five Exabytes in 2016 to 10 Exabytes in 2019, and by 2021 the expectations are that it will grow to 15 Exabytes.
Microsoft is the most popular supplier of public cloud services
Amazon still makes the most cash
A Goldman Sachs survey of technology executives at large companies last month showed that Microsoft remained the most popular supplier of public cloud services, while Amazon leads the market overall in terms of revenue.
Data centres are not environmentally sustainable
High impact on the climate
The huge numbers of data centres and internet-connected technology are demanding more power than the planet can safely supply, according to experts.
Amazon makes its cloud quantumy
Cool for quantum cats
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is helping to bring quantum computing to the cloud, with the company lifting the lid off three initiatives at AWS re: Invent in Las Vegas.
Amazon comes up with data centre processor chip
Who needs Intel and AMD?
Amazon’s cloud computing unit has designed a second, more powerful generation of data centre processor chip.
Google launches Stadia
Cloud-based gaming
Google launched Stadia, a cloud-based service that allows users to stream games including “Assassin’s Creed Odyssey” and “NBA 2K20” on the Chrome web browser.
Azure Sphere microcontroller out in February
Branding out now
Microsoft officials said the company's Azure Sphere microcontroller (MCU) and associated cloud security service will be generally available in February 2020.