Centre proposes subsidy for MSMEs

New Delhi: The government has proposed subsidy up to Rs 1 lakh for micro and small enterprises to encourage them to use cloud computing for information and communications technology applications. In cloud computing, MSMEs use Internet to access common as well as tailor-made IT infrastructure, including software, for managing business.

Alibaba Is a Great Long-Term Pick

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. ‘s downturn started after reaching its all-time highs in late 2014. The e-commerce company, however, managed to regain its lost upward momentum in 2016 as the stock was up nearly 15%.

Nvidia, Microsoft take on cloud-based AI with HGX-1

The HGX-1 GPU accelerator chassis is made up of eight Tesla P100 GPUs, all of which utilise the new Pascal architecture, according to Nvidia. To accelerate the deployments of AI-oriented technologies, Nvidia has teamed up with Microsoft and Ingrasys to develop a “hyperscale” GPU accelerator chassis.

NetApp Names Anthony Lye to Lead Cloud Business Unit

Cloud computing represents a significant opportunity for NetApp as enterprises embrace private, hybrid and hyperscale delivery options to improve agility, insight and innovation. Lye, who reports to NetApp CEO George Kurian, drives the strategy and execution necessary to create a profitable cloud business for NetApp and establish the company as the undisputed leader in managing data in a cloud-integrated world.

Research: Cloud Impacts ‘Data Management Solutions for Analytics’

The latest Gartner Inc. report about the “Data Management Solutions for Analytics” market is still dominated by big, traditional vendors with on-premises legacy-like solutions, but cloud computing companies are making disruptive headway. In the for-pay ” Magic Quadrant for Data Management Solutions for Analytics ” report, cloud vendors figure prominently and are “gaining traction,” according to Gartner.

W3C Completes Bridge between HTML/Micro-fomats and Semantic Web

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IBM, Salesforce Agree to Partner on Artificial Intelligence

International Business Machines Corp. and Salesforce.com Inc. agreed to mingle their artificial-intelligence technologies in a bid to boost sales of data-analytics offerings. The companies Monday announced plans to offer integrated AI services that weave the broad human-like conversation and learning capabilities of IBM’s Watson with Salesforce’s more sales-oriented Einstein technology.

African leaders gather to discuss digital transformation in public sector

Microsoft is confirming its commitment to digital transformation in the public sector in Africa, by bringing together government decision makers from across the continent in Nairobi, Kenya. The event will address Microsoft’s mission to empower sectors like agriculture, health, justice, transport, public finance and shared services, through digital transformation.

Washington’s “Cross-Pollination” of Business Blossoming

Construction cranes define the Seattle-area skyline, where luxury apartments squeeze between offices of major tech corporations, as part of a recent growth explosion that has attracted newcomers from around the world and helped transform Washington state. The boom, which extends beyond the urban economic hub to out-state areas as well, has in part over the years readjusted the way state and local leaders consider higher education, infrastructure and innovation.

High Performance Computing Market: Global Industry Analysis, Size,…

Zion Market Research, the market research group announced the analysis report titled ‘ High Performance Computing Market: Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecasts 2016-2024 ‘ Global High-Performance Computing Market: Overview High-performance computing technology is the use of advanced processes in order to increase the performance and efficiency of the desktop workstation or computer for solving the problems related to engineering, science, and business in comparison to the conventional computing technologies. The high-performance computers have more than one processor with different nodes that range in size from 16 to 64 nodes.

Amazon’s huge cloud computing outage tracked to bad keystrokes

Amazon is back with an apology and an explanation for a high-profile malfunction that caused websites across the internet to grind to a halt for hours on Tuesday. The online retail giant, which runs a popular cloud computing platform for sites such as Airbnb, Netflix, reddit and Quora, is blaming the outage on a simple – and perhaps somewhat amusing – employee mistake.

AWS’s S3 Brought Down by Single Typo in a Server Command

The problems Feb. 28 caused more than 150,000 websites and apps to become unavailable, while others indicated broken links and images. A single mistyped server command during a routine debugging of its billing system in Amazon Web Services’ northern Virginia data center turned out to be cause of a huge outage Feb. 28 that stilled an estimated 150,000 websites and/or business services for about half the day.

AWS Outage: Implications for Internet, Enterprise Cloud Customers

Yesterday’s hours-long Amazon Web Services outage provided a vivid illustration of how much large parts of the Internet depend on the cloud service. It also presented a puzzle for many users: because the AWS health dashboard itself depends on the cloud service, the status messages failed to indicate any signs of trouble throughout the outage.

Amazon web service outage affects thousands of US companies

Thousands of US websites and applications have been affected by a failure of Amazon’s cloud-computing service known as AWS , that has been impacted by “increased error rates.” Amazon Web Services identified and is repairing a problem in its web storage system that experienced a blackout affecting numerous US entities, the company said via Twitter.

TechTarget Research Reports All Flash Array and HyperConverged…

Purchase intent-driven marketing and sales services company TechTarget, Inc. today announced the availability of its Q4 Post Purchase Data Reports for 20 Information Technology market segments. Of note, the All Flash Array and HyperConverged Infrastructure markets have experienced strong growth in volume of transactions over the past several quarters , demonstrating a growing demand for these technologies amongst Global 2000 and mid-size enterprises.

Amazon cloud storage failure causes widespread disruption

Amazon’s cloud-computing service, Amazon Web Services, is experiencing an outage in its eastern U.S. region, causing unprecedented and widespread problems for thousands of websites and apps. Amazon is the largest provider of cloud computing services in the U.S. Beginning around midday on the East Coast, one region of its “S3” service based in Virginia began to experience what Amazon, on its service site , called “increased error rates.”

Amazon Web Services says it’s working to repair disruption

Amazon.com’s cloud-computing service was beset by “high error rates” on parts of its S3 data-storage system, disrupting many internet sites and mobile applications that rely on the company for their online presences. “We are working hard at repairing S3, believe we understand root cause, and are working on implementing what we believe will remediate the issue,” the company said on its website at 11:35 a.m. in Seattle.

EP: Govt, science clouds should use open standards, source

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ZTE Signs Cooperation Agreement with Intel for IoT Innovation

Both parties will jointly establish an innovative lab for research and development of future key IoT technologies, including experimental verification, evaluation, and research and development of related technologies, thereby providing integrated market-oriented IoT solutions. ZTE is committed to becoming an industry leader in the commercial use of IoT and 5G in the IoT field.

CCC Begins Next Phase of Innovation with Advent International

CCC Information Services Inc. , a leading Software as a Service provider to the automotive, insurance, and collision repair industries, announced today that it has selected Advent International , a global investment firm with deep experience in the technology sector, as its next equity partner. Advent will purchase equity assets from CCC’s previous owners Leonard Green & Partners and TPG Capital .

Nexenta, the Leading Open Source-Driven Software-Defined Storage…

Nexenta , the global leader in Open Source-driven Software-Defined Storage , announced today that CRNA , a brand of The Channel Company , has named Nexenta to its 2017 Data Center 100 list. This annual list recognizes technology suppliers that excel at powering, supporting and protecting the complex and demanding data centers on which today’s businesses rely.