Google and Microsoft Push for “Good” AI Google announced their latest push for machine learning adoption with their AI Impact Challenge, which will provide $25 million in grant funding to projects addressing world issues such as healthcare, conservation, and natural disasters. Challenge winners will gain access to Google’s AI and cloud experts and will be…
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,…
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…
Oracle Gets a New Major Partner Oracle has announced that it has landed a major new partner in The East Midlands, one of nine official regions of England. The East Midlands Shared Services, or EMSS, will implement the Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning Cloud, meaning they will be migrating their on-premises data systems. EMSS was founded…
Google Cloud Uses AI to Save Energy For data centers to function properly, they need to be kept at the proper temperature. And as we all know, keeping an area cool can come at no small expense. That’s why Google has decided to use AI to cut back on data center energy costs. The Google…
Azure Stack for Government, Just in Time With the Pentagon’s 10 million dollar JEDI RFP deadline looming, cloud providers are scrambling to prove they have what it takes to secure the contract and deliver on the requested services. Microsoft Azure made headlines this week, when they launched Azure Stack for Government. This is a big…
Another Voter Record Exposure on Amazon S3 It’s been a rough year for US Voters when it comes to data security. RoboCent, a political robocalling company, is latest to leave sensitive data unsecured and available to the public. The data breach, if it can still be called that when configuration is at fault, exposed thousands…