Alibaba Launches New Data Centers Alibaba Cloud has officially cut the ribbon at its two new data centers in London. This means the company now has a total of 52 availability zones in 19 regions worldwide. The company just announced the arrival of the data centers last month and is set to have 99.99% availability,…
As you may have noticed, Liftr has been undergoing some construction lately as we grow and adapt to the ever-changing cloud market. Last week we rolled out some of our new branding as a sneak-preview, and adjusted our content format. This week, we have even more exciting updates for you. Liftr Cloud Insights Firstly,…
NVIDIA and Intel are dominant players in datacenter artificial intelligence (AI) acceleration. Xilinx intends to compete against them in the growing field of machine learning as a service (MLaaS). At its 2018 developer forum (XDF), Xilinx announced its new SDAccel integrated development environment (IDE), enabling a larger FPGA development and deployment ecosystem. Xilinx’s SDAccel is up against NVIDIA’s GPU Cloud…
BLOG ENTRY: Xilinx To Compete With Intel, NVIDIA On Datacenter AI Acceleration – Forbes AUTHOR: Paul Teich, Principal Analyst PUBLICATION: Forbes Innovation online PUBLISHED DATE: Oct 15, 2018, 03:49pm CORRECTION-DATE: Oct 16, 2018, 6:00pm CORRECTION MADE: Several paragraphs were changed to reflect NVIDIA’s membership in ONNX. NOTE: Liftr Cloud Insights strives for thoroughness and accuracy. Sometimes we…
AWS Launches Two Edge Locations AWS has announced the launch of two Amazon Cloudfront Edge locations in Dubai and Fujairah expanding to 138 ‘points of presence’ across 29 countries. According to the company, the locations will help customers deliver content faster and improve security. Zubin Chagpar, the head of public sector, MEA for AWS said,…
Former Google Cloud Executive Speaks Out Former Google Cloud product management lead, Amir Hermelin has recently written a post on Medium in which he explains what he thinks the future will hold for the company. Hermelin noted that Google’s two biggest mistakes were spending too much time chasing AWS and Microsoft Azure and taking too…
Alibaba Cloud Opens New Data Center Alibaba Cloud has launched its second data center in India this week with a new availability zone in Mumbai. The data center comes after a push by the company towards data localization in India. It launched its first data center in the country earlier this year in January. The…
Microsoft is taking a very different approach to edge storage than Amazon Web Services (AWS). Azure Data Box Edge and its ruggedized Azure Stack are Microsoft’s first branded enterprise servers. However, under the unassuming faceplate, the two products use a Dell EMC server chassis. They are already enterprise-class servers, not a Microsoft first attempt at designing enterprise-class servers. Branded enterprise…