The Hidden Costs of Cloud Adoption
Cloud adoption brings with it a paradox, a market analyst finds: Enterprises primarily embrace the cloud to reduce operating costs but end up spending more on inexpensive access to ...Full Article
Microsoft Expands Azure Cloud for Government
Microsoft is releasing new cloud services as part of its public-sector push that would allow military and government users to share sensitive and classified data across internal and cloud ...Full Article
Startup Seeks CAE Shake Up with Cloud HPC Solvers-as-a-Service
Coming out of stealth, a startup is out to overturn the CAE industry with a combination of AWS-based HPC capabilities and what it says is superior multi-physics design simulation ...Full Article
Cloudian Partnership Expands Its Object Storage Platform
Seeking to capitalize on the growth of object storage and the reluctance of companies to delete data that could one day prove useful, cloud object storage specialist Cloudian has ...Full Article
Start-up Aims AI at Automated Tuning of Complex Systems
There was a simpler time when system tuning consisted of adjusting a relatively few number of knobs, a manual and not overly demanding task that brought out the best ...Full Article
Amazon’s Diversified Patent Portfolio Expanding
Amazon has long eschewed profits, preferring instead to plow capital expenditures into product innovation in sectors ranging from online retail to cloud computing. That aggressive strategy has made it ...Full Article
Crypto-Miners’ Latest Target: Containers
The crypto-currency mining craze has now extended from hijacking supercomputers and public computing resources to include application containers, according to a security vendor. Researchers at Aqua Security said this ...Full Article
Cloud-Native Group Promotes Rules for Serverless Computing
Serverless computing, a cloud framework in which a host provider allocates resources as needed rather than charging upfront for dedicated capacity, is emerging as a viable enterprise option for ...Full Article
Arm Launches ML Processors for Edge Devices
Arm Ltd., the U.K. chip intellectual property vendor, is rolling out a machine learning platform designed to boost the functionality of devices at the network edge, beginning with an ...Full Article
AI Cloud Competition Heats Up: Google’s Cloud TPUs, Amazon’s AI Chip
Competition in the white hot AI (and public cloud) market pits Google against Amazon this week, with Google offering AI hardware on its cloud platform intended to make it ...Full Article