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Will ‘easiest-to-use’ please stand amid multicloud muddle?
Cloud infrastructure and services are more popular than ever — but are they any easier to get a handle on? The Amazon Web Services Inc. Marketplace now has more than 4,000 listings for customers to sift through. And let’s not get started on managing workloads across multiple clouds. Can anyone reign all this complexity with a human-friendly ...
Homebody apps keep data centers kicking in multicloud
Companies take one look at some software applications and decide to keep them on-premises because of legacy baggage, security or what-have-you. Then, there are brand new apps they opt to build the cloud-native way thanks to modern microservices. But often, apps aren’t so easily sussed out; they might require a seasoned hand to help them pick ...
‘Internet of everything’ needs new infra layer to gel, says deep tech entrepreneur
What is Web 3.0? Ask the blockchain folks, and they might say it’s the internet of value. Others say it’s the semantic web, or the internet of intelligence, or the Metaverse of virtual and augmented reality. A comprehensive yet simple answer might determine it’s all of those things and more; bringing Web 3.0 into being requires a new ...
Rome wasn’t built in a day, so stop freaking about crypto crash
What’s the takeaway from a week in which cryptocurrency prices crashed to alarming lows and a blockchain conference attracted a slew of tech industry stars (and Larry King)? Perhaps it’s that Rome wasn’t built in a day, and fidgety market analysts are too myopic to see blockchain and crypto’s unfolding grand plan. There were some ...
Peer-to-peer blockchain could disrupt or even destroy the cloud
Anyone who still thinks blockchain’s encrypted ledger technology is just an account book for cryptocurrencies is in for a squirt of high-octane disruptive diesel in the eye. Its potential to decentralize businesses and organizations could be the biggest technology wave to crash since cloud computing infrastructure. Erasing the middleman from all kinds of transactions could create a ...
The GPU takeover: AI screams for more, more, more cores in the data center
The niche technology once developed to boost PC gaming is all grown up. Specialized graphics processing units are gaining popularity in enterprise-grade computing for their ability to aid in artificial intelligence, thanks to their parallel processing muscle. Some say that as the trend barrels forward, GPUs will essentially become the new central processing units in data centers of enterprises and ...
Dell EMC jam packs all things AI into on-prem Ready Solutions
When will audible cha-chings finally ring out from end-of-the-line data intelligence in action? Businesses are pinning their hopes on artificial intelligence — presently the “holy grail” of big data — to make it happen. What’s the vessel for this golden goose? A cloud-native open-source project or crypto-funded software as a service startup? No, it’s a big metal box ...
Can serverless win the multicloud Twister game?
Businesses are craving means to effectively leverage multiple clouds in the modern era of computing. In response, loads of vendors are rushing to market with multicloud management tools of questionable efficacy. For software developers, building applications that draw on a number of clouds might be easier if they construct them out of serverless architectures to dynamically ...
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AWS holds the advantage in serverless computing, says cloud economist
We’re in the wee hours of serverless computing. There’s no dog-eared bible to turn to, but we might nab some how-to notes from heavily invested vendors and practitioners. At least we can discern some of the quickest routes to serverless for those impatient to capture the cost-cutting benefits of this modern model in dynamic, cloud-computing allocation. “The ...
Cisco and Google land future of work straight on your browser
G Suite — the cloud computing, productivity and collaboration tools from Google LLC — is familiar to workers everywhere. Likewise, Cisco Systems Inc.’s portfolio of technologies for meetings and collaboration has picked up lots of enterprise fans. Fittingly, the two companies have teamed up to usher in the cloud-and-AI-enabled future of work. Google Cloud Platform ...