Category: Wireless & Cloud

September 15, 2020

If you subscribe to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, you likely now have access to Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming abilities, and can immediately jump into one of more than 150 games — today is the official launch of Microsoft’s xCloud service. […]

September 11, 2020

The notion of edge computing typically conjures an image of a device in a factory someplace, providing rudimentary computing and data collection to support a piece of manufacturing equipment. Perhaps it keeps the factory temperature and humidity optimized for the […]

September 9, 2020

Recently Microsoft and VMWare both announced the general availability of Azure Spring Cloud, a fully-managed service for Spring Boot apps. The service allows enterprises to deploy JARs or code to it, and the service automates the process of wiring the […]

August 31, 2020

Kubernetes isn’t even six years old, but it’s already everyone’s favorite container orchestration program. Datadog, a cloud and infrastructure monitoring company, found Kubernetes dominating the container space: “Roughly 45% of Datadog customers running containers use Kubernetes.” Other container orchestration programs, […]

August 26, 2020

Today, everyone uses the cloud. According to Flexera’s State of the Cloud 2020 Report, 98% of businesses are using at least one public or private cloud. The other 2% are fibbing or still running Windows XP. The No. 1 reason […]

August 25, 2020

The T-Mobile-Sprint merger finally closed on April 1st, 23 months after being announced by the carriers’ CEOs at the time, John Legere and Marcelo Claure. T-Mobile wanted to make the purchase in order to obtain Sprint’s mid-band 2.5GHz spectrum. This […]

August 21, 2020

It’s become a familiar refrain by now – a carrier claiming coverage just to be snubbed by another carrier on process or measuring techniques. T-Mobile boasts the widest “5G availability,” Verizon brags with the fastest 5G, all the while AT&T […]

August 20, 2020

Google’s suite of cloud-based productivity services are experiencing technical difficulties, with users across Europe known to be experiencing issues with sending emails and uploading attachments. The search giant first acknowledged the service disruption at 6.29am on Thursday 20 August 2020 […]

August 17, 2020

Running large numbers of containers to deploy an application requires a rethink of the role of the operating system. Google’s Container-Optimized OS and AWS’s Bottlerocket take the traditional virtualization paradigm and apply it to the operating system, with containers the […]

August 14, 2020

Nissan Motor Company has committed to moving its on-premise high-performance computing (HPC)-based performance and engineering workloads to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The motor manufacturer is prepping to migrate a mix of latency-sensitive workloads to Oracle’s infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) as part of […]