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SQL often struggles when it comes to managing massive amounts of time series data, but it’s not because of the language itself. The main culprit is the architecture that SQL typically works in, namely relational databases, which quickly become inefficient because they’re not designed for analytical queries of large volumes of time series data. Traditionally, SQL is used with relational database management systems (RDBMS) that are inherently transactional. They are structured around the concept of maintaining and updating records based on a rigid, predefined schema. For a long time, the most widespread type of database was relational, with SQL as its inseparable companion,…

Pricing API will provide an inventory of public services and SKUs along with account-specific custom prices and discounts with additional metadata, down to the SKU level. Google Cloud has released Pricing API for its cloud services in order to help enterprises optimize their cloud expenditure as they continue to face macroeconomic uncertainty. The new API, which is currently in public preview, is an improvement over Google’s existing Billing Catalog API, the company said. While the Billing Catalog API only provides an inventory of public services and SKUs with their list prices, the Pricing API will also provide account-specific custom prices and discounts with additional metadata,…

Chinese tech giant Alibaba has reported tiny revenue growth, but a 106 percent surge in earnings for its cloud services, despite a marked slowdown in demand. The two outcomes are linked: CEO Daniel Zhang told investors who tuned into a Q2 earnings call “The growth rate was negatively impacted by the normalization of CDN demand as usage of video streaming, remote working, and remote learning came down when offline activities resumed after pandemic measures were lifted.” But less traffic meant lower costs. Zhang said Alibaba’s Teams-like collaboration tool DingTalk – which is part of Alibaba Cloud – reported “reduced co-location…

Worldwide cloud market share numbers and rankings are in for Amazon Web Services, Alibaba, Google, IBM and Microsoft as these five cloud leaders, combined, captured over 70 percent of the global market during the second quarter of 2023. “As Amazon and Google share nudged up a bit in Q2, Microsoft share nudged down,” said John Dinsdale, chief analyst at Synergy Research Group, in an email to CRN. “The relative scale of their cloud operations is now Microsoft being twice the size of Google, with Amazon being almost equal to the other two combined.” Amazon, Google and Microsoft all recently reported their cloud financial earnings for Q2…

Extreme Networks is angling for a coup in the enterprise networking sector, waging war against entrenched incumbents Cisco, HPE and Juniper. Already, it’s making significant progress despite fighting on a pitched battlefield of enterprise inertia. But it has a secret weapon up its sleeve: new talent recruited from its rivals who know the chinks in their armor. CEO Ed Meyercord told Fierce Telecom that over the past 12 months Extreme has hired some 650 people to support its growth. About a third of those came from the company’s major competitors. They kind of know where bodies are buried and they…

Oppenheimer, a cinematic marvel by Christopher Nolan was released worldwide in theatres on July 21. While theoretical physicist J Robert Oppenheimer juggles between morality (human rights) and national security, the audiences are compelled to see how technology in the name of security can unleash an insurmountable power in the hands of the state. Similarly, serious concerns are being raised by entrepreneurs, scientists, and political analysts concerning Artificial Intelligence (AI), a kind of superintelligence more powerful than any other technologies of the past. On July 18, the UN Security Council convened its first-ever debate on AI to access its potential impact on global security and…

Businesses big and small are looking for ways to rein in costs as a tough economy fuels uncertainty. An easy target for these cost cuts is cloud computing. The mega-cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure have already suffered a sharp slowdown as customers optimize spending. AWS grew by 12% year over year in the second quarter, while Azure posted 26% growth. DigitalOcean (DOCN -24.79%) focuses on serving developers and small businesses. While this makes its customer base fickler than the enterprise-heavy cloud giants, its customers likely have less fat to cut from their cloud computing bill. An enterprise customer spending millions each year…

Indian IT company Wipro released its State of Cybersecurity Report which highlighted that generative AI and cloud have created gaps in cyber security and are posing big challenges for Chief Information Security Officers (CISO) across global corporations. Tony Buffomante, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Cybersecurity and Risk Services (CRS) at Wipro said, “CISOs are facing unprecedented disruptive changes across the cybersecurity landscape. Just as the cloud adoption journey is starting to mature, the new frontier of generative AI has data flowing faster in an environment without boundaries or developed controls. Wipro is uniquely positioned to help clients navigate this…

Depending on how you look at it, a database is a kind of sophisticated storage system or storage is a kind of a reduction of a database. In the real world, where databases and storage are separate, there is a continuum of cooperation between the two, for sure. There is no question that relational databases drove the creation of storage systems every bit as much – and drove them in very different directions – as file serving and then object serving workloads have. What if you didn’t have to make such choices? What if your storage was a real, bona fide,…

Demand for cloud connects/interconnects is rising as enterprises commit to multicloud and SaaS application environments, and that’s driving greater interest in IaaS cloud networking services, says IDC. As data, applications, and workloads continue to move to the cloud, demand for IaaS networking is surging. The market for cloud-based IaaS networking will reach $19.4 billion in total global revenues this year, according to IDC, with a compound annual growth rate of 28% projected through 2026. Increasing cloud-native application architectures, distributed workloads, and their respective integration needs are the biggest drivers of IaaS cloud networking adoption, says IDC analyst Taranvir Singh. “Traditional network…