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Google Cloud Unveils Roadmap for Intel Optane

Intel’s drive to solidify its stranglehold on the datacenter via its Optane DC persistent memory architecture was on full display this week during the chip maker’s “data-centric” event. Navin ...Full Article

Google Offers Fixed-Price Cloud Storage

Thomas Kurian, who succeeded Diane Greene last November as chief of Google Cloud, has been outspoken about plans to compete more aggressively in the cutthroat public cloud market. ...Full Article

Google Shifts Kubernetes Focus to Datacenters

Google has released a beta version of its cloud platform the incorporates Kubernetes to help build and manage services in hybrid deployments with a particular emphasis on in-house services. ...Full Article

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Azure Gains in Multi-Cloud Shift, But Complexity Grows

Microsoft Azure is benefitting most from the growing adoption of multiple cloud vendors, according to recent surveys of enterprise cloud managers. Perhaps the most revealing is an Amazon Web ...Full Article

Google Cloud: CEO Greene out, former Oracle Exec Kurian in

A two-decade veteran of Oracle, Thomas Kurian, will replace Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene, an apparent casualty of public cloud services market competition in which AWS remains tenaciously dominant, ...Full Article

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Nvidia Accelerates AI Inference in the Datacenter

Nvidia is bringing AI inference to the datacenter with a new platform consisting of an inference accelerator chip--the new Turing-based T4 GPU--and a refresh of its inference server software ...Full Article

Istio Service Mesh Advances to Production

Istio, the “service mesh” intended to connect application components and thereby boost the capabilities of the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator, has advanced over the past year as a way of ...Full Article

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Cloud Revenue Growth at 50% Clip, Top 4 Providers Extend Dominance

Public cloud market growth is a steamroller on steroids. It’s also an industry that, if not winner-take-all, is increasingly dominated by the top quartet of service providers. Second quarter ...Full Article

Google, Iron Mountain Take on the Data Growth-Analytics Gap

There’s an institutionalized, seemingly intractable and ever widening gap in enterprise IT between data growth and HPDA’s (high performance data analytics) ability to access more than a small piece ...Full Article

Google Cloud Adds Another Nvidia GPU

Google continues to add GPU horsepower in tandem with its internally developed deep learning processors to its cloud platform with this week’s announcement that it will soon offer Nvidia’s ...Full Article