EU bodies' use of Amazon, Microsoft cloud services faces privacy probes
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EU bodies’ use of Amazon, Microsoft cloud services faces privacy probes

The European Commission and European Parliament are concerned about the transfer of personal data to the United States. They recently investigated Amazon and Microsoft’s use of cloud computing services. In the wake of former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden revelations, the US and EU have taken steps that have led to increased awareness and debate…

Local Government Taking a More Wide-Ranging Approach to Cloud Services

Local Government Taking a More Wide-Ranging Approach to Cloud Services

Over the past 18 months, local governments across the U.S. have experienced a roller coaster ride of fluctuating revenues and cash flow. The combination of the American Recovery Act and the COVID-19 tax cuts has brought many cities and towns back to pre-recession levels. As the economy weakened, many governments started to look for ways…

Tencent Cloud Helps Businesses To Easily Expand Digital Footprint

Tencent Cloud Helps Businesses To Easily Expand Digital Footprint

Tencent Cloud are helping companies to expand their digital footprint with their best in class cloudsolutions and WeChat ecosystem. Cloud computing has been adopted by more businesses around the world, therefore introducing more of their benefits into existing and potential consumers’ daily lives. Undoubtedly, cloud computing has helped the evolution of businesses, especially in their…

Xbox Cloud Gaming Subscriptions expanded through Microsoft and Bango

Xbox Cloud Gaming Subscriptions expanded through Microsoft and Bango

Bango, the data-driven commerce global platform, is the technology company enabling Telecom companies across europe to offer bundled Xbox cloud gaming subscriptions. This is the result of the deepening of the partnership between Bango and Microsoft, first announced in late 2020. The aim is to open-up Xbox subscriptions to consumers through Telco partners. At the time…

AI's Fallibilities Cast Doubt Over the Reliance on the Technology

AI’s Fallibilities Cast Doubt Over the Reliance on the Technology

The technology industry is constantly looking to push AI in their new products and services. AI that can predict users’ preferences, learn from their behaviors and enhance their lives is the area that they are particularly keen to exploit. However, there is mounting evidence that the technology has been unable to deliver on their expectations…

Intel Set to Launch New Cloud Optimizer Tool To Help Partners

Intel Set to Launch New Cloud Optimizer Tool To Help Partners

Intel is looking to introduce a new tool that will enable their partners maximize performance and optimize the cost of ownership of their workloads on their cloud instances that use Intel processors. The new too is called Intel Cloud Optimizer, and is being tested internally but it is intended it will be available to partners…

Why Your Networking Team is Critical for Cloud Adoption

Why Your Networking Team is Critical for Cloud Adoption

The cloud is not a panacea for all companies. While it can offer many benefits, it’s important to understand the challenges that cloud adoption can encounter. Here are four of the most common challenges companies face when adopting cloud: Legacy systems and applications The cloud is designed to run on current technology, so if your…

Google To Push Its Tensor Processing Unit AI Engine

Google To Push Its Tensor Processing Unit AI Engine

Powerful AI is particularly needed for training the large neural networks that run the prediction systems and natural language processing integral to digital commerce today. Google previewed Tensor Processing Unit version 4 (TPUv4) abilities in that area last year when it bench-marked three systems in MLPerf’s v0.7 training set, which was released in July 2020….