Category: Service Models

July 15, 2024

Amazon Web Services has been seriously bolstering its network to handle the increased demands associated with its AI-based applications and services. In a recent blog post, Prasad Kalyanaraman, vice president of infrastructure services at AWS, offered a glimpse into what […]

June 7, 2024

Apple is expected to have one of its most groundbreaking Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynotes on Monday, as the company plans to add major artificial intelligence (AI) features to its operating systems. But rather than unveiling a slew of flashy […]

June 4, 2024

Data centers could consume upwards of 9% of US electricity generation by 2030, more than double the amount currently used, although the role AI contributing to the demand, a new study has found. In its white paper, “Powering Intelligence: Analyzing […]

June 3, 2024

Singapore is looking to carve out a global footprint in artificial intelligence (AI) with the release of international standards for large language model (LLM) testing and investments in quantum computing and new data center capacity. Quantum has the potential to […]

May 29, 2024

SAP is expanding its AI ecosystem with a partnership with AWS. Such AI partnerships are important for SAP, said Chief Technology Officer Jürgen Müller, pointing to other cooperations, for example with IBM, the chip manufacturer Nvidia and various universities. In […]

May 9, 2024

This isn’t the first time IBM and SAP have forged common ground in the enterprise technology stack. The partnership between the mainframe giant and ERP behemoth dates back 52 years to the pre-cloud days of massive on-prem IT estates. The […]

May 8, 2024

An Australian pension fund provider has attributed a week-long service outage to “an unprecedented occurrence” related to provisioning by Google Cloud, its cloud service provider (CSP). A disruption in UniSuper services that caused members to lose access to online access […]

May 7, 2024

Oracle is the latest provider to join an established trend among enterprise technology vendors. The rise of generative AI enthusiasm led to a proliferation of coding tools powered by large language models. The coding companion push hasn’t fully percolated throughout […]

May 3, 2024

In the competitive realm of artificial intelligence, dominated by Nvidia’s formidable GPUs, a bold newcomer is betting on a different contender. Nscale, a little-known GPU cloud provider based in Norway, has launched a new AI Cloud Services platform built around […]

April 29, 2024

Remember when FinOps was just a trendy term? Fast forward to today, and it’s a booming $5.5 billion market, with a projected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 34.8% between 2023 and 2025. The trend towards adopting a cloud FinOps, […]

April 25, 2024

Buzz is building around the idea that it’s time to claw back our cloud services and once more rebuild the company data center. Repatriation. It’s the act of moving work out of cloud and back to on-premises or self-managed hardware. […]

April 23, 2024

As I’ve been saying for the past year or so, cloud conferences have become generative AI conferences, as have data center conferences, databases conferences, and you name it. It’s clearly more than just a trend—it’s a game-changing push. But we’ve […]

April 22, 2024

Most applications are built to rely on the cloud. However, many organizations are beginning to realize that cloud dependency has drawbacks. The challenges of cloud over-dependency are most apparent in industries such as aviation, quick-service restaurants, e-commerce, and healthcare, where […]

April 19, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has slowly and silently phased out its Snowmobile service—an offering launched at its annual AWS re:Invent conference in 2016 to help enterprises move data from their on-premises servers to the cloud provider’s data centers to accelerate […]

April 19, 2024

In the world of data protection, the cloud has emerged as a popular destination for backups. The appeal is obvious: Offload the complexities and costs of backup infrastructure to a provider, and rest easy knowing your data is safe in […]

April 15, 2024

Lapses in wired connectivity result in significant downtime, but barriers to adoption keep businesses from relying on 5G to solve their connectivity concerns. Wired network connectivity isn’t as reliable as U.S. businesses need, according to a recent survey, which shows […]

April 15, 2024

Tools that manage changes to source code, programs, documents, or other collections of information are known by a variety of names: version control, revision control, source control, or source code management are all common descriptors. Regardless of what we call […]

April 11, 2024

In a cloud market dominated by three vendors, once cloud-denier Oracle is making a push for enterprise share gains, announcing expanded offerings and customer wins across the globe, including Japan, Mexico, and the Middle East. But with Amazon Web Services […]

April 9, 2024

Google Cloud is adding capabilities driven by its proprietary large language model, Gemini to its database offerings, which include Bigtable, Spanner, Memorystore for Redis, Firestore, CloudSQL for MySQL, and AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, the company announced at its annual Next conference. […]

April 5, 2024

Microsoft has updated its Azure AI Search service to increase storage capacity and vector index size at no additional cost, a move it said will make it more economical for enterprises to run generative AI-based applications. Formerly known as Azure […]