Author: yourinfotech
For many people, Facebook is the internet, and the number of its users is still growing, according to Meta Platforms Inc.’s latest financial results. But Mark Zuckerberg isn’t just celebrating that continuing growth. He wants to take advantage of it by using data from Facebook and Instagram to create powerful, general-purpose artificial intelligence. Sounds great and Meta is well positioned to do it, but his billions of users may end up paying the price with their privacy and more. Here’s how Zuckerberg teased his next move in AI on Thursday: “The next key part of our playbook is learning from…
While Amazon Web Services has first mover advantage when it comes to building a compute and storage cloud, it would be a mistake to believe that the division of the world’s largest online retailer can rest on its laurels. AWS has to work hard every day to make its cloud cheaper and better, and that is because both Microsoft and Google are gunning for it. And the threat is ever-present, and has been for the past several years, which is why you see the AWS share of the cloud revenue stream hovering around a third. At some price and some…
Global professional services Deloitte announced today that it has expanded its alliances with enterprise cloud data management software provider Informatica and business data and reporting solutions provider Workiva, providing a new ecosystem aimed at helping clients accelerate ESG deployment and reporting with accurate data. According to Deloitte, the expanded alliances aim to help simplify ESG enablement and implementation for clients at scale, addressing client concerns around ESG data management, with surveyed senior executives often citing difficulty in measuring their organizations’ environmental impact as a top barrier to their sustainability efforts. ccording to the companies, the new ecosystem will combine Informatica’s AI-powered Intelligent…
Amazon Web Services’ stronghold over the global cloud market is showing some vulnerability as AWS’ cloud market share dropped 2 points, while Microsoft’s cloud share increased by nearly 2 points year over year during fourth-quarter 2023. Enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services reached $73.7 billion in fourth-quarter 2023, representing a 20 percent increase compared with $61.6 billion in fourth-quarter 2022, according to new data from IT market research firm Synergy Research Group. “This was a banner quarter for the cloud market,” said John Dinsdale, vice president and chief analyst for Synergy, in an email to CRN. “As the market continues to grow strongly, Amazon, Microsoft and Google still account for…
Some news you expect, some you don’t. I’ll be honest — I didn’t expect this and would have bet against the idea if someone told me about it. HPE is acquiring Juniper Networks. I’ve had a couple days to process it, and during that time, I had an epiphany. Thinking back to early 2023 at Aruba’s Atmosphere conference, it hit me why HPE is making this move, which is a very different approach from Aruba’s past. Aruba’s founders — Keerti Melkote and Pankaj Manglik — and the CEO credited with their rise, Dominic Orr, grew the business by challenging the fat…
Long term investing can be life changing when you buy and hold the truly great businesses. While the best companies are hard to find, but they can generate massive returns over long periods. For example, the Dev Information Technology Limited (NSE:DEVIT) share price is up a whopping 808% in the last half decade, a handsome return for long term holders. If that doesn’t get you thinking about long term investing, we don’t know what will. On top of that, the share price is up 19% in about a quarter. But this move may well have been assisted by the reasonably buoyant market…
Disgruntled VMware users contemplating the open source cut of XenCenter as an alternative need to think again. In December the Cloud Software Group quietly canned the offering with an update to the project’s README file. “Please note that as of December 2023 this copy of the XenCenter repository is considered archived,” the December 14 GitHub README states. “As such it will not reflect the latest state of XenCenter development, and any pull requests will not be reviewed/merged. If you have any feedback regarding XenCenter, please send it to feedback [at] xenserver.com.” Good luck getting any feedback. In the past year The Register has asked…
Google CEO Sudar Pichai said that the company’s Google One cloud storage service is ” just about to cross” 100 million subscribers. Speaking during Alphabet’s Q4 2023 earning call, Pichai added that the company is looking to add more AI-powered features to the Google One service. The search giant first launched Google One in 2018. Since then the product has evolved and has extra perks including Google Photos editing features such as magic eraser, portrait light and portrait blur, color pop, and sky suggestion. Google One Plans start from $1.99 per month, which gives you 100GB of storage shareable with five…
Taking cloud costs into consideration, more businesses today are adopting a hybrid or multi-cloud strategy to leverage the benefits of different deployment models for different parts of their applications. Deciding whether public cloud, hybrid, or private makes the most sense for an organization isn’t just a cost decision. For some, moving to a private cloud is a more appealing – and feasible – option. To put the issue into perspective, a report by 451 Research found that 54% of businesses surveyed had moved all or part of their workloads back from the cloud to local infrastructure. While research from IDC found that planned and unplanned…
The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has admitted to buying internet browsing records from data brokers to identify the websites and apps Americans use that would otherwise require a court order, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden said last week. “The U.S. government should not be funding and legitimizing a shady industry whose flagrant violations of Americans’ privacy are not just unethical, but illegal,” Wyden said in a letter to the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Avril Haines, in addition to taking steps to “ensure that U.S. intelligence agencies only purchase data on Americans that has been obtained in a lawful manner.” Metadata about…