Cloud Computing

The Google Cloud Platform won’t box you in

Openness is a core differentiator, says Sam Ramji

Twenty years after Deep Blue, what can AI do for us?

IBM built Deep Blue to win at chess -- but since then has taken a collaborative, rather than competitive, approach to artificial intelligence

Puppet zeroes in on containers, cloud workloads

The devops vendor also is upgrading its Enterprise edition and offering a service to tell users what they have running inside of Docker containers

State of the WAN: 50% of WAN traffic is in the cloud

Aryaka’s 2017 State of the WAN report shows the cloud era has arrived in a big way, making SD-WANs business-critical. Companies must adopt this technology or risk falling behind and hurting business performance.

You really should know what the Andrew File System is

"Model of storing data in cloud and delivering parts of it via on-demand caching at the edge is something everyone takes for granted today," one AFS creator says

Microsoft takes its databases worldwide with Cosmos DB

The update to DocumentDB provides global scale for app data

Microsoft brings customization to its pre-built AI services

Did cloud kill backup?

No, but it does necessitate a reinvention of data protection for the new normal of the multi-cloud world

Why Edward Snowden loves open source

Government hacker believes proprietary software is fundamentally untrustworthy

Video analytics: Coming soon to a smart city near you

Nvidia’s new video analytics platform, Metropolis, uses artificial intelligence and deep learning to help make cities safer and smarter