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During Google Cloud Next ’19 (April 9-11, 2019) flurry of announcements, a technical detail with significant business impact surfaced. Google Cloud’s new Anthos hybrid and multi-cloud platform depends on VMware vSphere if an IT shop wants to containerize legacy applications that use local storage. Part of why containers and Kubernetes are so portable and easily deployable is…
IBM spent the past six years building an AI that can hold a structured discussion with a human at an almost human level of achievement. IBM demonstrated its Project Debater AI at its Think event on February 11 in a live on-stage debate with an expert human debater. Project Debater lost the demonstration debate. However,…
Microsoft’s Latest Announcements Microsoft Connect 2018, its annual cloud- and data-focused developer conference, took place last week. Though the event is normally held right before AWS Re:Invent, the company decided this year to hold it a week after. In conjunction with the event, Microsoft unveiled several new products and services. The company announced the general…
Reviewing 2018 by Conferences You’re a busy cloud professional, so you might’ve missed some events. To help you stay informed about the cloud industry, here’s what you might want to know from events I went to in 2018. I attended a few more events, but these stood out by providing key insights into the cloud…
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…
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…
Public cloud revenue is up across the big six cloud giants. Alibaba, Amazon, Baidu, Google, Microsoft and Tencent all had solid double-digit to spectacular triple-digit revenue growth from Q2 2017 to Q2 2018. Tencent almost tripled its public cloud revenue year-over-year*, while Alibaba, Google and Microsoft all roughly doubled their public cloud revenue. Baidu BIDU reported a 64% increase and Amazon was up about 50%.…
The Liftr team is always looking for new ways to measure the successes, failures, and fluctuations in the public cloud market. As new technologies emerge and change the way people purchase and utilize cloud, it is necessary to make minor adjustments to the Index as part of regular maintenance. After months of gathering and analyzing…
Unfairly trained Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems can reinforce bias, therefore AI systems must be trained fairly. Experts say AI fairness is a dataset issue for each specific machine learning model. AI fairness is a newly recognized challenge. The big cloud providers are in the process of developing and announcing tools to help address AI fairness. Facebook announced…