Cloud Computing

The stock has soared, and rosy guidance for the new year could keep the stock flying sky-high. Though 2018 ended on a sour note, shares of cloud-computing hardware provider Arista Networks (NYSE:ANET) have been rallying on strong results. It has become a leader in data center and related technology -- including 100G and the new…

Find out how earnings and other good news helped these companies. The stock market jumped on Friday, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average to gains of over 400 points as investors seemed pleased with news out of Washington. The federal government averted another potential shutdown, and building positive momentum made some market participants fearful that…

Amazon is expanding its investments in educational initiatives for school students in the United States. The company has announced that it will be funding computer science courses in more than 1,000 high schools in the United States. The high schools are located in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The courses are funded…

But takes its eye of its core businessprint-edition iconPrint edition | BusinessFeb 23rd 2019THE CHIP-DESIGN business is enjoying a “golden age”, declared John Hennessy and David Patterson, two gurus of computer design, earlier this month (Mr Hennessy chairs Alphabet, Google’s parent company). The shift to cloud computing, the rise of specialised computing tasks such as…

A Google logo is seen at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., November 1, 2018. REUTERS/ Stephen LamBy Paresh DaveSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google has a new cloud computing boss and big ambitions to someday produce more revenue from that business than from advertising.Now comes the hard part: winning over big-spending customers.Alphabet Inc's…

Home   >   News   >   Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing By Boris Landoni on February 13, 2019 David Patterson and Ion Stoica The publication of “Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing” on February 10, 2009 cleared up the considerable confusion about the new notion of…

A woman sits next to a salesperson at a Huawei shop in Bangkok, Thailand, January 30, 2019. REUTERS/Athit PerawongmethaCAPE TOWN (Reuters) - China's Huawei will build two data centers in South Africa from March, it said, as part of plans to expand cloud services across Africa."The company is working with South African partners for the…

First it sold books. Then it added gadgetry, groceries and chipper virtual assistants. But Amazon’s latest expansion will take many shoppers by surprise. Meet Amazon, aspiring military behemoth. In the not too distant future, US soldiers may rely on Amazon-run systems to trade intelligence, relay orders and call for help. Drone footage might be scoured…

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Home Earth Earth Sciences February 6, 2019 February 6, 2019 by Renee Cho, Earth Institute, Columbia University An image of Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA’s Earth-observing research satellite, Suomi NPP. Credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring Earth scientists collect vast amounts of information from the myriad instruments they deploy in the field—drones, sensors, satellites—but…