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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
NSF Partners With VMware on IoT, Launches Computing Efforts
The National Science Foundation has launched a partnership with VMware to advance edge computing infrastructure required for the Internet of Things (IoT). Separately this week, NSF unveiled a $30 ...Full Article
High Performance Computing: The Power Behind AI Transformation
It wasn’t too long ago that AI was a futuristic concept, seen only in movies. Today, cognitive computing applications, such as machine learning and deep learning, are transforming industries ...Full Article
Blockchain and Biometrics Could Produce Paperless Global Travel, Boost Border Security
A wonderful week in Italy is coming to an end, and now it’s the heartbreak of leaving the life of the Med. But you're imbued with the spirit of ...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
2 DoD Cloud Contracts Total Nearly $1 Billion
Migration of government agencies’ legacy applications to public clouds is a two-headed monster: one head is the procurement process, which can take months or years. The other is the ...Full Article
Chip Market Soared on Memory Demand
Global spending on semiconductors jumped a hefty 17 percent in 2017, driven by demand and corresponding price hikes for memory in datacenters and early industrial deployments of the Internet ...Full Article
Deep Learning Portends ‘Sea Change’ for Oil and Gas Sector
The billowing compute and data demands that spurred the oil and gas industry to be the largest commercial users of high-performance computing are now propelling the competitive sector to ...Full Article
