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Descartes Labs | June 29, 2021

Descartes Labs, Inc. has announced the latest achievement of cloud supercomputing with a TOP 500 run on AWS of 9.95 petaflops using virtualized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. The TOP 500 organization utilizes the LINPACK Benchmark—an assessment that involves solving a compact system of linear equations—to rank the performance of the 500 most robust commercially available computer systems. Descartes Labs enhanced its previous cloud record of 1.926 petaflops set i...

techcentral.ie | March 03, 2020

Quick, can you spot the common link between MongoDB, DataStax, Redis Labs, Percona, Couchbase, and EnterpriseDB? If you said, “They’re all open source database vendors,” you would be mostly correct. (Not all offer databases governed by an open source license.) But if you said, “Each offers an increasingly popular database-as-a-service cloud offering,” you would be spot on. Indeed, while we have spent a few years with erstwhile open source vendors changing the...

cloudcomputing-news.net | April 09, 2020

Software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) has been all the rage for a number of years. We’ve all heard about the benefits Optimising transport cost with Internet connectivity instead of MPLS. Application visibility. Simplified network management.To be sure, they are real. According to Gartner, by the end of 2019,more than 50% of new managed WAN deployments incorporated SD-WAN and IDC expect that 80% of enterprises will define their SD-WAN strategy within the next 24 months.While most ...

Microsoft | July 23, 2020

Microsoft posted revenue of $38 billion, up 13%, beating Wall Street’s expectations for its fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30. The COVID-19 pandemic and related stay-at-home orders boosted the company’s productivity, cloud and gaming businesses, including subscription versions of Microsoft Office, and the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. Revenue from Xbox content and services was up 68% for the quarter. However, traditional Office software licensing continued to suffe...