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European watchdogs unit to investigate public sector cloud use
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Worried about privacy 

European privacy watchdog is launching a joint investigation with 22 national regulators into the use of cloud-based services by the public sector to check if they comply with its privacy safeguards.

Microsoft says that there is plenty of growth in its cloud
Published in Cloud


Record profits


Software King of the World Microsoft reassured investors that its cloud business was growing after it reported less-than-stellar growth in its cloud business.

Cloud is starting to break the internet
Published in Cloud
Monday, 20 December 2021 13:23

Cloud is starting to break the internet


I canna hold her captain

Increasing dependence on cloud structures are starting to hurt the internet infrastructure, according to NBC news.

Mainframe based companies want more cloud
Published in Cloud
Thursday, 18 November 2021 12:07

Mainframe based companies want more cloud


Can’t get the staff these days

Faced with staff shortages, companies dependent on mainframes want to lean more on cloud applications.

EU set to discipline Big Tech
Published in News
Tuesday, 26 October 2021 13:00

EU set to discipline Big Tech


Also set to rain on their clouds

Draft EU rules to curb the power of Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook  should also tackle providers of cloud computing services for possible anti-competitive practices, a study said on Tuesday.

IBM sees cloud boost
Published in News
Tuesday, 20 October 2020 11:20

IBM sees cloud boost


Still a little uncertain about COVID-19

IBM surprised the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street with its estimates for quarterly revenue -- thanks mostly to the cloud.

Cloud crucial for post-pandemic recovery
Published in Cloud
Monday, 19 October 2020 11:28

Cloud crucial for post-pandemic recovery


Aggressive cloud move will spike next year

Research experts at Forrester say that the cloud is being the key to business recovery and the aggressive move towards it will spike next year.

Insilico Medicine AI COVID tool uses Xeons
Published in AI
Tuesday, 08 September 2020 18:47

Insilico Medicine AI COVID tool uses Xeons


Intel helps in COVID-19 research

Industry veteran Alex Zhavoronkov who left the PC industry (ATI and AMD) to start the AI longevity focused Insilico Medicine, has announced AI-powered COVIDomic to power the COVID-19 basic and clinical research.

Increased cloud use means more cloudy cyber attacks
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McAfee sees evil cloud

There is a  correlation between the increased use of cloud services and collaboration tools, such as Cisco WebEx, Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Slack during the COVID-19 pandemic, along with an increase in cyber-attacks targeting the cloud.

Alveo U25 SmartNIC turnkey solution for the Cloud
Published in Cloud


Xilinx solution to reduce cloud latency by 80 percent

The datacenter is exploding, and the number of global data center traffic will triple between 2016 and 2021. Datacenter to outside traffic doubled from two Exabytes in 2016 to four Exabytes in 2019, and by 2021 it is expected to grow to six Exabytes. Interestingly enough traffic within data centers is exploding, as it grew from five Exabytes in 2016 to 10 Exabytes in 2019, and by 2021 the expectations are that it will grow to 15 Exabytes.