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AWS Infrastructure

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...

Cloud App Management

IBM, BoxBoat | July 13, 2021

IBM unveils plans to buy its 11th company over the past 12 months. Now, it is the DevOps and Kubernetes startup, BoxBoat. The news surfaced within weeks after IBM acquired the application and network performance management star Turbonomic. In 2021, IBM has already spent millions acquiring Salesforce expert 7Summits and Waeg; hybrid cloud consulting firm Taos; myInvenio for AI automation; StackRox for container and Kubernetes security. Since July 2020, IBM has also a...

Amazon Web Services | August 17, 2020

Eight months after unveiling its Amazon Braket quantum computing platform, Amazon Web Services says the cloud-based service is officially open for business. In a video that pokes a bit of fun at the weirdness of quantum concepts, Bill Vass, vice president for AWS technology, says Braket serves as a “launch pad for people to go explore quantum computing.” In contrast to the rigid one-or-zero realm of classical computing, Braket and similar platforms take ...

Cloud App Development

Amdocs | June 28, 2021

Amdocs has declared that now it can deliver PCC (Policy and Charging Control) in the cloud, manage as a service, and on-premise. According to Amdocs, deploying Policy and/or Charging Control "as-a-Service" can fast-track the ability of the service providers to position themselves beyond their legacy core connectivity business. It will also support developing an ecosystem with a new capability ecosystem that rapidly links service requirements to business results. <...