Tag: IaaS

March 19, 2018

Having been focused in the cloud sector for more than 12 years now, I have experienced much fast paced change and continued assumptions, misunderstanding and over-promising of cloud as the saviour of all ills. Cloud is used as a generic […]

January 11, 2018

Google announces the beta release of Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) attached to Preemptible Virtual Machines (VMs) in their cloud Platform. Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers can now attach NVIDIA K80 and NVIDIA P100 GPUs to Preemptible VMs for respectively 0.22 […]

January 5, 2018

The global cloud computing market is now worth $180 billion in vendor revenues with the market still growing by 24% annually, according to the latest note from Synergy Research. The industry is put into six different buckets. Infrastructure as a […]

August 30, 2017

The latest Garter Magic Quadrant report for cloud infrastructure is out. Usually, the release of a Magic Quadrant means I have to correct its findings when talking to my clients. Enterprises take these as gospel, managing by Magic Quadrant—and as […]

May 10, 2017

Recently I was involved in a migration of an enterprise IT portfolio—made up of infrastructure and applications—to the cloud. I noticed we were too focused on the infrastructure aspects and downplayed the cloud’s impact on applications themselves. I believe that […]

May 8, 2017

Google announced their Cloud Speech API has reached General Availability (GA). The Cloud Speech API allows developers to include pre-trained machine learning models for cognitive tasks such as video, image and text analysis in addition to dynamic translation. The Cloud […]

December 29, 2016

This past November, Microsoft launched, what it is calling, the “Industry’s First Cloud Bot-as-a-Service” platform. Bots, and more specifically conversational apps, have been a very popular subject of late with both Amazon and Google also having recent deep learning announcements. […]

December 28, 2016

Enterprise cloud usage has been in the forefront of big players for the past few years. Amazon, IBM, Google and Microsoft are expanding their offerings to serve better the enterprise users and their needs. Google announced a set of machine […]

December 27, 2016

At the Amazon re:Invent conference, Amazon announced Lex, a deep learning service that is based upon the technology used by Alexa in Amazon’s portable Bluetooth and Wi-Fi enabled Echo speaker. Shortly after Amazon’s announcement, Google has introduced Actions on Google […]

August 11, 2016

An easier and secure way has been found for encrypted data to be processed and worked on in the cloud without having to be decrypted first, according to Microsoft researchers. The researchers’ proposed Secure Data Exchange (SDE) protocol is based […]

December 3, 2015

AppLovin is a 4-year old marketing platform that places advertisements in mobile apps. And it’s a data-intensive business to say the least. When AppLovin learns of an advertising opportunity in an app, the company has 100 milliseconds to decide if […]