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Google Cloud unveils AI-optimised infrastructure enhancements

Google Cloud has announced significant advancements in its AI-optimised infrastructure, including fifth-generation TPUs and A3 VMs based on NVIDIA H100 GPUs.

Traditional approaches to designing and constructing computing systems are proving inadequate for the surging demands of workloads like generative AI and large language models (LLMs). Over the last five years, the parameters in LLMs have surged tenfold annually, prompting the need for both cost-effective and scalable...

29 August 2023 | Digital Transformation

Akamai launches new sites, services and capabilities

Akamai Technologies, a cloud company that powers and protects life online, has opened the doors on three cloud computing sites that bring to life the company’s vision for a new kind of cloud designed to meet the needs of modern applications that require higher performance, lower-latency, and true global scalability current cloud architectures were not built to provide.

The new sites mark the first major step in Akamai’s push to put compute, storage, database, and other...

21 July 2023 | Cloud Computing

GFT and CloudFrame help industries say ‘cheerio’ to COBOL

GFT, a digital transformation pioneer, and CloudFrame, a provider of pathways to digital transformation for large organisations who are running mission-critical applications on COBOL, have partnered to help COBOL users make the transition to more efficient platforms that enable users to reduce their overall mainframe costs.

CloudFrame’s proprietary technology converts COBOL code into more efficient and future-proof Java. On average, the cost of a mainframe process is reduced by...

4 April 2023 | Applications

Petr Svoboda, Stratox Cloud Native: Making life easier for developers

Petr Svoboda, CEO at Stratox Cloud Native, explains how CodeNow is making cloud-native development fast and enjoyable for everyone.

Could you start by telling us a little bit more about CodeNOW?

CodeNOW is a true startup. That means we are working hard to create a platform that simplifies cloud-native software development, especially when based on a micro-service architecture. We are trying to make cloud-native development fast and enjoyable for mere mortals. Especially, I...

19 September 2022 | Cloud Computing

VMware unveils vSphere+ and vSAN+ to simplify operations with Centralised Infrastructure Management

VMware has launched VMware vSphere+ and VMware vSAN+ to help organisations bring the benefits of the cloud to their existing on-premises infrastructure with no disruption to their workloads or hosts.

Introduced at VMworld 2021 as a technology preview known as Project Arctic, these new offerings will help customers enhance their infrastructure by providing centralised cloud-based infrastructure management, integrated Kubernetes, access to new hybrid cloud services, and a flexible...

28 June 2022 | Cloud Computing

Salesforce employees are protesting the company’s NFT plans

Hundreds of Salesforce employees are protesting against the company’s plans to offer non-fungible token (NFT) services, according to the Thomas Reuters Foundation.

More than 400 employees have signed an open letter addressed to Salesforce’s co-CEOs calling for them to abandon their crypto plans.

Marc Benioff and Bren Taylor, the company’s CEOs, revealed intentions to build up a portfolio of services to help companies buy and sell NFTs in a sales call earlier in...

23 February 2022 | Blockchain

Salesforce reportedly working on NFT cloud service

Cloud software specialist Salesforce is working on an non-fungible token (NFT) cloud service, according to a CNBC report.

The plans were revealed by Salesforce co-CEOs Marc Benioff and Bret Taylor during an online sales call, with references made to companies like Pepsi which are making similar NFT plays.

Salesforce, which mostly provides cloud-based software for sales teams, marketing departments, and e-commerce sites, believes it can offer a service for artists to...

10 February 2022 | Applications

Leaving Silicon Valley’s lions for Vultr

I’ve been working and living in Silicon Valley since 2002. At age 21, I joined Oracle as a software engineer. When I met Larry Ellison atop one of the now dormant Oracle towers, he was actually quite friendly, at least to me and some fellow interns.

At 24, I joined a wiki startup called JotSpot, in large part to work with its founders, who had previously created the once-popular Excite search engine. I had an absolute blast working with the...

12 November 2021 | Cloud Computing

Google Cloud cuts its marketplace revenue shares from 20% to 3%

Google Cloud is considerably reducing the amount of revenue it takes from third-party software sales on its cloud marketplace.

The platform’s percentage revenue share will soon be changed from 20% to 3% according to an inside source, which Google has since verified.

As the third largest global cloud infrastructure provider, the move comes as an attempt to increase competitiveness and attract software makers to sell their products on Google Cloud.

Market...

29 September 2021 | Companies

Zoom acquires Five9 in £10.7bn deal

Zoom Video Communications has reached an agreement to acquire Five9, a provider of a cloud contact centre, in an all-stock transaction valued at $14.7 billion (£10.7bn).

Combining Five9’s Contact Centre as a Service (“CCaaS”) solution with Zoom’s broad communications platform is hoped to transform how businesses connect with their customers, building the customer engagement platform of the future.

The acquisition is expected to help enhance Zoom’s...

21 July 2021 | Collaboration