Tag: cloud infrastructure

January 31, 2024

The impact the democratisation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is having on global demand for colocation capacity will force datacentre operators to rethink how they build and run their facilities. That’s according to a 24-page report by commercial real estate […]

January 31, 2024

San Francisco-based Zilliz has released a new version of its database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering, Zilliz Cloud. The company claims the new version offers better performance while reducing cost of ownership compared to its previous version. Zilliz Cloud is built atop the […]

January 31, 2024

The trajectory of cloud and AI are tightly intertwined, with each technology driving growth in the other. “Being in the cloud has been very helpful to build AI,” Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella said, “but now AI is redefining […]

January 31, 2024

Microsoft and Google, who saw cloud revenue slow in recent quarters, are reporting a resurgence of growth due to the proliferation of generative AI (genAI). Both companies on Tuesday reported revenue numbers for the final quarter of 2023. “Google Cloud […]

January 30, 2024

I’ve been asked if generative AI systems are always slow. Of course, I reply, “Slow, as compared to what?” The response I always get is funny. “Slower than we thought it would be.” And the circle continues. Performance is often […]

January 30, 2024

SAP’s strategy to prioritise its RISE cloud customers for the latest innovations, was met with widespread confusion and frustration. It represented a departure from the expectations of a loyal user base that had invested heavily in SAP’s on-premises solutions. The […]

January 30, 2024

Oracle’s annual flagship event, CloudWorld Tour returned to the UAE for the second consecutive year to share the company’s latest AI innovations to power UAE’s Digital Economy and its regional plans. The company that just turned 35 years old in […]

January 30, 2024

As SAP shifted from a licensed on-prem software delivery model to SaaS, some customers balked at the cost, complexity and potential business continuity risks associated with ERP systems modernization. “We had a lot of customers that were faced with a […]

January 29, 2024

Amid the war for global dominance in the AI era, the US administration is considering making it mandatory for prominent global cloud services providers — such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft — to reveal details about the customers developing AI […]

January 29, 2024

Cloud migration is central to Southwest’s modernization effort, according to Jordan. “A lot of what you gain is reliability,” he said, pointing to failover and support systems. “The shift to the cloud is as much a resiliency effort and a […]

January 26, 2024

SAP has put the spotlight on its artificial intelligence (AI) plans in its latest results, but persuading customers to move to the cloud is still the most important part of its strategy. SAP said the full-year revenue stood at €31bn, […]

January 25, 2024

For a growing number of organisations, the default option for new IT projects is the cloud and cloud storage, with even the more cautious businesses have adopted “cloud-first” or “cloud-preferred” strategies. That’s because startups and fast-growing firms can build infrastructure […]

January 25, 2024

Like most enterprise tech vendors, SAP is embracing the generative AI shift and the disruption that accompanies it. While SAP is focused on reskilling internally, the company also anticipates investing nearly $1.09 billion into developing AI use cases for customers […]

January 23, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has expanded its online marketplace to allow the sale of third-party professional services, making it a one-stop-shop for not only software and applications to run on its cloud but also managed services and other offerings to […]

January 23, 2024

I’m often taken aback by how the press frames cloud computing failures. For instance, headlines like “The Cloud Fails to Deliver.” Those might get clicks, but they are misleading. Cloud technology has always delivered on what was promised. The issue […]

January 22, 2024

It took Broadcom 18 months to get all of the requisite approvals needed to finalize its $61 billion purchase of VMware. But once the deal was sealed in late November, CEO Hock Tan moved swiftly, announcing layoffs of thousands of […]

January 19, 2024

Buy a used or new car recently? If you have, you understand the issues with “junk fees” that some dealers insist on tacking on. Junk fees refer to additional charges that car dealers may include in the purchase agreement. These […]

January 19, 2024

Vulnerable Docker hosts are being targeted with an odd cybercrime campaign, whose goal isn’t to steal sensitive data, deploy stage-two malware, or mount devastating Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Instead, this campaign’s goal is to boost website traffic for […]

January 19, 2024

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Friday said it is committing about $15.24 billion to expand its cloud infrastructure in Japan by 2027 in order to meet growing customer demand for its cloud services, including generative AI. The company made its […]

January 18, 2024

IBM on Thursday said that it was acquiring application modernization assets from Advanced in an effort to enhance the mainframe application and data modernization services of its consulting business. Advanced, which is headquartered out of Birmingham, UK, provides mainframe modernization […]