Google Cloud Hits Major League Baseball Home Run, AWS Is Out The major cloud computing platforms like to publicize their big customer wins, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) stealing Major League Baseball (MLB) business from Amazon Web Services could be considered a home run. “Google Cloud will become MLB’s Official Read more…
Managing Security and Privacy in the Public Cloud As with any enterprise technology, there are benefits and challenges when creating IT environments in the public cloud. The benefits include cost savings and the ability to easily scale up and down (just to name a few). Challenges present a double-edged sword: Read more…
Microsoft offers startups free cloud tech Technology giant Microsoft has announced access to free cloud technologies for startups keen on solving social and environmental challenges. The free access includes up to Sh12.1 million ($120,000) in Azure credits, along with technical support and guidance. Microsoft Azure is a set of cloud Read more…
Africa’s cloud computing boom creates data centre gold rush International investors are rushing to fund a boom in the African cloud computing market, as the proliferation of smartphones and mass adoption of business software on the continent leads to soaring demand for data centres to power the technology. Africa currently Read more…
Data Centers Are Not The Energy Hogs We Thought Data centers ran 550 percent more applications in 2018 than they did in 2010, but they only used 6 percent more energy to do so, according to a paper published today in the journal Science. Data centers accomplished that, according to Read more…
Cloud vendors jostling for share of IoT analytics ABI Research says cloud vendors are investing in the data and analytics services space as they attempt to get on board the IoT value chain. The researcher forecasts that cloud suppliers will grow their share of IoT data and analytics management revenues Read more…
