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Category: Cloud Computing
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.
[video] @IBMCloud and @NVIDIA #AI Keynote | @CloudExpo #ML #DL #IoT
The accelerating pace of AI development & how IBM Cloud & NVIDIA are partnering to bring AI capabilities to every day, on-demand Bert Loomis was a visionary. This general session will highlight how Bert Loomis and people like him inspire us to build great things with small inventions.
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%.
Data Loss Prevention Meets the Cloud: How Safe Is Your Organization?
Data loss prevention, or DLP, is back in the spotlight. Historically, DLP was primarily utilized in heavily regulated industries, such as health care and financial services, for regulatory compliance purposes.
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.
In the cloud wars with Amazon and Microsoft, Google’s eighth employee …
Google’s Urs HA lzle removes the company’s “Titan” security chip from his earring during a keynote at Google Cloud Next ’17. The cloud computing business is a clash of the tech titans, with heavyweights Amazon, Microsoft and Google all competing for the $294 billion market.
Press Digest – Wall Street Journal – March 9
The following are the top stories in the Wall Street Journal. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
Facebook just fired four more shots into the belly of the $53 billion server market
In just six years, Facebook’s Open Compute Project has become a major phenom in the data center hardware industry that has attracted an almost cult-like following among engineers . Facebook announced that it was giving away four new designs for brand-new types of computer servers invented at Facebook.
AccelStor’s NeoSapphire P710 Empowers …
AccelStor, the software-defined all-flash array provider, is pleased to announce its participation in this year’s Cloud Expo Europe, taking place from March 15-16 at ExCel in London. AccelStor will exhibit in booth number 862.
AccelStor’s NeoSapphire P710 Empowers …
AccelStor, the software-defined all-flash array provider, is pleased to announce its participation in this year’s Cloud Expo Europe, taking place from March 15-16 at ExCel in London. AccelStor will exhibit in booth number 862.
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.
Four Key Elements of an IoT Strategy for Manufacturers
Analyst Insight: When people talk about the Internet of Things, they can mean many different things, even within one industry. For a manufacturer, there are four major areas where IoT may have an impact: the manufacturing plant, the supply chain, service and the product.
W3C Completes Bridge between HTML/Micro-fomats and Semantic Web
The Standards News Portal is updated on a daily basis to bring you the most important news about standards – how they are created, how they affect you – and who’s doing what to whom. The Standards News Portal was launched in February 2002 and currently contains 8422 categorized, searchable articles, perhaps the largest archive of its type in existence.
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.
Data Is the Biggest Challenge for Predictive Analytics
Analyst Insight: The number one challenge to making predictive and prescriptive analytics succeed is data cleanliness and completeness. Until that is solved, predictive analytics programs will struggle to provide value.
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.
Nested Buddy System: A New Block Address Allocation Scheme for ISPs and IaaS Providers
In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science , pp. 51-58, doi:10.1109/cloudcom.2016.0023 To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document.
Nested Buddy System: A New Block Address Allocation Scheme for ISPs and IaaS Providers
In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science , pp. 51-58, doi:10.1109/cloudcom.2016.0023 To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document.
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 Ramps Up Investment in Rooftop Solar
Amazon has not always had the most sterling reputation when it comes to sustainability , transparency and environmental performance. The emissions from those packages alone are just the start, say the company’s critics.
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.
Amazon mystery solved: A typo took down a big chunk of the Internet
Amazon mystery solved: A typo took down a big chunk of the Internet An engineer at Amazon’s AWS incorrectly entered a command Tues morning. Then things went south.
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.
When Amazon’s cloud storage fails, lots of people get wet
Usually people don’t notice the “cloud” – unless, that is, it turns into a massive storm. Which was the case Tuesday when Amazon’s huge cloud-computing service suffered a major outage.
When Amazon’s cloud storage fails, lots of people get wet
Usually people don’t notice the “cloud” – unless, that is, it turns into a massive storm. Which was the case Tuesday when Amazon’s huge cloud-computing service suffered a major outage.
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.
GAWK Receives $7,000,000 Commitment from GHS Investments LLC
The capital will create significant growth capital for GAWK, enabling the execution of its business plan, on favorable terms. Under terms of the agreement, GAWK has the right, but not the obligation to sell, up to $7 million of its common stock to GHS, in an amount that the Company determines.
EP: Govt, science clouds should use open standards, source
The Standards News Portal is updated on a daily basis to bring you the most important news about standards – how they are created, how they affect you – and who’s doing what to whom. The Standards News Portal was launched in February 2002 and currently contains 8411 categorized, searchable articles, perhaps the largest archive of its type in existence.
Cisco accelerates digital network transformation with new virtualization and security technologies
According to a newly released IDC study, organizations around the world are expected to triple the adoption of modern, automated networks over the next two years. To accelerate the journey to these digital-ready networks, Cisco is introducing new technologies that allow customers to virtualize and secure their networks.
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.
Announcing @CAinc ‘Platinum Sponsor’ of @CloudExpo NY and CA | #DevOps
According to NASDAQ description of the company, CA, Inc. is engaged in providing software solutions enabling customers to plan, develop, manage and secure applications and enterprise environments across distributed, cloud, mobile and mainframe platforms. The Company operates through three business segments: Mainframe Solutions, Enterprise Solutions and Services.