Platforms
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Empowering builders with the new AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region
Builders are at the heart of AWS. As Amazon’s CTO, one of the most rewarding parts of my job is meeting with builders from across the world to better understand the unique challenges that they’re encountering while building on AWS. Most recently, I traveled to Southeast Asia to dive into the region’s rising builder culture.…
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Globe Collaborates with Red Hat Open Innovation Labs to Modernize IT Infrastructure for Greater Agility and Scalability
Red Hat OpenShift facilitates the development and deployment of cloud-native applications, enabling an improved customer experience and more MANILA, PHILIPPINES AND RALEIGH, N.C. – August 19, 2024 — Globe and Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced a collaboration to modernize Globe’s IT infrastructure with Red Hat Open Innovation Labs for greater…
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Huawei Cloud Goes Live in Egypt
Huawei Cloud Becomes First Company to Open a Public Cloud in Egypt, Industry AI Accelerates Digitization in Egypt and Northern Africa [Cairo, Egypt, May 24, 2024] Huawei launched a Cloud Region in Egypt on Tuesday, making it the first company to establish a public Cloud in the region. The Cairo Region will deliver Huawei Cloud’s…
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Asteroid Institute And Google Cloud Identify 27,500 New Asteroids, Revolutionizing Minor Planet Discovery With Cloud Technology
With advanced computational methods, the companies scanned billions of detections, discovering within weeks as many asteroids as were found worldwide in an entire year MILL VALLEY, Calif. and SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Asteroid Institute, a program of B612 Foundation, and Google Cloud today announced the most significant results of their partnership to date: identifying 27,500 new,…
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IBM To Acquire HashiCorp, Inc. Creating A Comprehensive End-to-End Hybrid Cloud Platform
$6.4 billion acquisition adds suite of leading hybrid and multi-cloud lifecycle management products to help clients grappling with today’s AI-driven application growth and complexity HashiCorp’s capabilities to drive significant synergies across multiple strategic growth areas for IBM, including Red Hat, watsonx, data security, IT automation and Consulting As a part of IBM, HashiCorp is expected…
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Canonical Delivers Secure, Compliant Cloud Solutions for Google Distributed Cloud
Today, Canonical is thrilled to announce our expanded collaboration with Google Cloud to provide Ubuntu images for Google Distributed Cloud. This partnership empowers Google Distributed Cloud customers with security-focused Ubuntu images, ensuring they meet the most stringent compliance standards. Since 2021, Google Cloud, with its characteristic vision, has built a strong partnership with Canonical. This…
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Redis Moves To Source-Available Licenses
Cloud service providers hosting Redis offerings will no longer be permitted to use Redis source code free of charge, the company said. Starting with Redis 7.4, all future versions of Redis software will be dual-licensed under the Redis Source Available License (RSAL 2) and the Server Side Public License (SSLPv1), Redis announced. The popular NoSQL database will no longer be…
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6 Ways Generative AI Helps Improve Accessibility For All With Azure
In the rapidly evolving world of technology, generative AI stands out, especially in its potential to transform the lives of people with disabilities. The past year has witnessed unparalleled advances in this domain, catalyzing significant breakthroughs in accessibility. The excitement surrounding generative AI is not just about the convenience it offers to the general populace,…
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Chess.com Boosts Performance, Cuts Response Times By 71% With Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus
Editor’s Note: Launched in 2007, Chess.com is a premium platform for online chess and one of the largest of its kind. A Cloud SQL for MySQL shop, it transitioned to Cloud SQL Enterprise Plus edition, improving the user experience, cutting costs, and significantly reducing response times, decreasing p99 latency response from 14ms to 4ms. Read…
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How To Fail At Platform Engineering
A team of DevOps professionals working at DevOpsX had high expectations from the platform their organization just launched. The platform had promised to revolutionize workflows related to Git, CI/CD, testing, and a few others that the team used along with simplifying the entire process. The organization launched it with much fanfare, but the platform turned…
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Zain KSA and Huawei Sign New Strategic Collaboration on 5.5G
[Barcelona, Spain, February 29, 2024] At MWC Barcelona 2024, Zain KSA, the leading telecommunications and digital services provider in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Huawei, to promote 5.5G technology applications. The MoU’s ultimate goal is to create a full-fledged suite of smart solutions for individuals and businesses under…
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10 Reasons For Government & Education To Join Google Cloud Next ’24
Google Cloud Next ‘24: Your launchpad to navigate the tech landscape, equip yourself with cutting edge tools, learn from real-world case studies and connect with fellow public servants shaping the future of government. Are you ready to bridge the digital divide, deliver citizen-centric services, and future-proof your agency in 2024? Public sector technology is evolving…
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Waldo’s Dollar Mart Streamlines Retail Operations With Oracle Cloud
Retailer unifies business processes to support agility, reliability, and growth with Oracle’s finance and retail cloud solutions Austin, Texas and Lerma, Mexico—February 20, 2024 Mexican retailer Waldo’s Dollar Mart is using Oracle Cloud finance and merchandising applications to manage its complex, multi-format business model while continuing to scale to offer customers more choices in products…
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Harmonizing AI-Enhanced Physical And Cloud Operations
Azure’s adaptive cloud approach builds on our work with Azure Arc to make it easier for customers to accelerate their adoption of cloud innovation throughout their entire IT estate. In my last blog, I talked about how our adaptive cloud approach unifies siloed teams, distributed sites, and sprawling systems with a collaborative innovation and operations platform—enhanced by AI—across…
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New IBM LinuxONE 4 Express To Offer Cost Savings And Client Value Through A Cyber Resilient Hybrid Cloud And AI Platform
– Newest IBM LinuxONE system is engineered to deliver cybersecurity, resiliency, scalability and AI inferencing for hybrid cloud environments. – Moving Linux workloads from a compared x86 system to an IBM LinuxONE 4 Express can save over 52% on the total cost of ownership over 5 years.(1) ARMONK, N.Y., Feb. 6, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — IBM (NYSE: IBM) today…
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AWS Is Readying LLM-Based Debugger For Databases To Take On OpenAI
AWS researchers have published a paper that pitches a proprietary LLM-based debugger, dubbed Panda, against OpenAI’s GPT-4. AWS researchers are working on developing a large language model-based debugger for databases in an effort to help enterprises solve performance issues in such systems. Dubbed Panda, the new debugging framework has been designed to work in a manner…
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Samsung And Google Cloud Join Forces To Bring Generative AI To Samsung Galaxy S24 Series
Google’s Gemini Pro and Imagen 2 to deploy in production new text, voice, and image features on the new Samsung Galaxy S24 series SEOUL, Korea and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Jan. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd and Google Cloud today announced a new multi-year partnership to bring Google Cloud’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology to Samsung smartphone users…
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Simplify Speech Analytics With BigQuery, Powered By Vertex AI
Businesses generate massive amounts of speech data every day, from customer calls to product demos to sales pitches. This data can transform your business by improving customer satisfaction, helping you prioritize product improvements and streamline business processes. While AI models have improved in the past few months, connecting speech data to these models in a…
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Microsoft Releases Azure Migrate Assessment Tool For .NET Application
AppCAT application and code assessment tool helps to identify issues .NET applications may have when moved to the Azure cloud. Microsoft has unveiled AppCAT, an Azure Migrate tool intended to assist users in migrating their on-premises .NET applications to the company’s Azure cloud. Introduced January 3, the Azure Migrate application and code assessment tool for .NET, or AppCAT…
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New Cloudflare Report Shows Organizations Struggle to Identify and Manage Cybersecurity Risks of APIs
Insights reveal that while APIs account for the majority of Internet traffic, they remain largely unsecured San Francisco, CA, January 9, 2024 – Cloudflare, Inc. (NYSE: NET), the leading connectivity cloud company, today published its inaugural API Security and Management Report. Findings from this year’s report reveal that APIs, a technology that underpins today’s most used sites and apps,…
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FinOps From The Field: Cloud Cost Forecasting
Cloud computing has become an essential part of many businesses and, as a Technical Account Manager, I have seen firsthand how cloud computing can help businesses save money and improve their agility. However, one of the challenges that businesses face when moving to the cloud is forecasting their cloud costs. If you are not careful,…