AWS Outposts – AWS Moves into the On-Premises Hardware Space Amazon Web Services is making its latest push into yet another part of the IT space with its imminent move into the on-premises hardware business. At re:Invent last month, AWS
Serverless computing, or FaaS (Functions-as-a-Service) is a form of cloud compute in which application developers depend on third party services to manage the server-side of operations, allowing them to focus on building applications on a function-by-function basis. The serverless platform
Over the last couple of months, Google and Microsoft have each officially launched new game streaming services. Each is still under development; however, tech advances within each project could ultimately impact regular video streaming as well as potentially changing the
Microsoft has decided to open source the code behind ONE, the system that emulates the global network powering the Azure cloud to help reduce network outages. What is ONE or the Open Network Emulator? The system is called the Open
The big cloud trio has each entered the Internet of Things (IoT) space and are each spending significant sums on new services and investing in their IoT platforms. All three are betting on the long-term potential for significant margins. The
Microsoft just launched Azure Sphere with the goal of protecting IoT devices. Its new custom silicon is a Linux-based embedded OS and cloud service, aimed at securing edge devices for microcontrollers (MCU). The MCU is “the brain of the device”,
Shopify is moving its infrastructure to Google Cloud. The Alphabet Inc. unit’s cloud service will host the e-commerce company’s online stores. It’s the latest win for Diana Greene, Google’s cloud chief, and the latest loss for Amazon. A series of
AV1 compression is finally here with a release from the Alliance for Open Media (AOMedia) and its industry partners who are dominant players across the codec development, video encoding, delivery and playback ecosystem, including Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft. AOMedia
Microsoft announced last week that it was integrating Azure Security Center with its Web Application Firewall (WAF) to give its business customers better security. Shalini Pasupneti, senior program manager, Microsoft, wrote in a blog post that web applications are under increasing
Bloomberg news reported yesterday that Akamai has brought on Morgan Stanley to conduct a strategic review to evaluate its options, including a recommendation for a potential sale. Last month, Elliott Management disclosed it had acquired 6.5 percent of Akamai shares.
Serverless computing, or FaaS (Functions-as-a-Service) lets developers focus on building event-based applications on a function by function basis while it takes care of deploying, running and scaling the code. It doesn’t mean that no servers are involved, but rather that
Earlier this month, nuu:bit, a digital content and revenue acceleration company, announced its successful integration of its own CDN Edge Compute Platform with Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB. The service combines CDN Edge Compute with a multi-model, flexible big data store
Earlier this month, Intel announced the delivery of a 17-qubit quantum chip, in partnership with QuTech, its quantum research partner based in Holland. The new chip is significantly different to the one that has been used by phones, PCs and
AWS and Microsoft have joined forces to announce Gluon, a new open source deep learning interface, giving developers accessibility to easily and quickly build machine learning models for their apps and other services.
Microsoft has unveiled Azure Bot Service, a public cloud bot-service built on Microsoft Bot Framework and Azure Functions, which is meant to foster the spread of bot creation within the developer community at large. It provides serverless bot service that
