Google Restructures, Seeking Bigger Slice of Enterprise Cloud Pie
Google Cloud’s focus on larger enterprise customers has resulted in a restructuring that will cut jobs in its cloud operations as it seeks to attract more large corporate customers ...Full Article
Last-Minute Court Order Halts JEDI Rollout
A day before the Pentagon planned to “go live” with its department-wide cloud deployment, a federal judge has ordered a pause in implementation of a hotly contested $10 billion ...Full Article
Oracle Touts AI Apps, Expands Cloud Partnership with Microsoft
Corporate finance and IT departments along with supply chain managers are the largest benefactors of AI technology, according to an emerging technologies study released this week by Oracle. Separately, ...Full Article
Trading Data Added to Google BigQuery
A huge batch of tick data, used by financial traders to track the minimum upward or downward movement of stock prices, has been added to Google Cloud Platform, allowing ...Full Article
AI Computing: A Unified Hardware Standard for Mixed Accelerator Platforms
Today, one need only turn on a TV to be inundated with commercials touting the benefits and potential of AI. Applications that could hardly be envisioned a short time ...Full Article
AWS Wants to Question Trump, DoD on JEDI Bias
The Pentagon cloud wars continue to escalate as Amazon Web Services expands it protest of a $10 billion DoD cloud contract to rival Microsoft with a court filing seeking ...Full Article
Microsoft Launches $40M AI for Health Initiative
Even as AI has become pervasive across many tech-heavy industries, the medical industry has moved with a characteristically slow pace, and functional AI implementation in healthcare remains relatively rare. ...Full Article
New Scheduling Tool Designed to Boost Microservices
Computer scientists at the University of Michigan have come up with a faster way to schedule cloud microservices via a new algorithm running on a custom processor. The platform, ...Full Article
NVMe, Single Tiering, Data Awareness and Other High Performance Storage Trends for 2020
High performance storage is changing as data (particularly unstructured data) volumes grow, data management becomes increasingly complex, diverse file types proliferate and AI/machine learning is more broadly adopted. According ...Full Article
AMD Reports Record Revenue but Lowered Forecast Hits Share Price
Wall Street’s ardor for Advanced Micro Devices cooled somewhat today as the company’s shares, the stock market's top performer the last two years, fell nearly 6 percent to $47.51 ...Full Article