A buzzword among coders
Microservices is a coding buzzword, which has come to prominence over the last few years. The technology rose to fame as a way to help developers who were having difficulties managing large scale, monolithic applications. While much ink has been spilled...
Google announces five new cloud computing regions and three submarine cables
Google announced Tuesday it is expanding its global infrastructure with the addition of three new submarine fiber-optic cables and five new cloud computing regions to be launched later this year.
The five new areas Google...
Amazon launches next Linux server OS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently launched Linux 2, with access to the latest 4.9 LTS kernel. According to the company, the newest version “provides a high performance, stable, and secure execution environment for cloud and enterprise applications.” The system...
Alibaba Cloud announces Indian data center
Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, announced its first India data center based in the city of Mumbai is set to open in January 2018. The company originally announced plans to establish two new data centers in Mumbai,...
You love the idea of buying an AI and IoT device like Google Home or Amazon Echo for the holiday season. You want to speak and have it deliver a song or weather report or sports score. You’ve seen it. You’ve used it. Sounds...
Amazon Web Services said new offering allows customers to manage, protect, and perform analytics on IoT devices
Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced six new services and capabilities for connected devices. AWS said the new offering includes AWS IoT 1-Click, AWS IoT Device Management, AWS IoT...
Microsoft and SAP compete against Amazon in cloud market space
In an effort to compete with Amazon in the cloud market space, Microsoft announced it is expanding its partnership with German enterprise software company SAP. The companies will deploy each other’s cloud solutions internally, and...
AT&T has more IoT devices on its wireless network than any other U.S. carrier, and the company sees partnerships as a key driver of its success. The carrier has leveraged its relationships with the world's biggest providers of cloud services to create new partnerships...
AT&T says many of its customers are on a "journey to the cloud" and the carrier wants to provide the networking environment to get them there. To that end, AT&T is deepening its cloud partnership with Amazon Web Services. Last week at the AT&T...
IBM launches new Cloud Private software built on Kubernetes
IBM rolled out its new Cloud Private software platform Wednesday aimed at tech-companies that want on-premise cloud capabilities to deploy and launch applications.
Many companies intend to migrate to the public cloud, but are hesitant to abandon...
HPE ceases to offer low-end server offerings to tier 1 service providers
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) is bowing out of the cloud server game after announcing it is no longer providing low-end commodity servers to tech giants like Amazon, Google and Microsoft.
Last Wednesday, HPE President Antonio...
Editor’s Note: RCR Wireless News goes all in for “Throwback Thursdays,” tapping into our archives to resuscitate the top headlines from the past. Fire up the time machine, put on the sepia-tinted shades, set the date for #TBT and enjoy the memories!
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The internet of things may someday deliver a world of robots and intelligent machines that control all manner of devices, but for now, most connected devices are ultimately controlled by humans. Humans need information - we demand data, and then we want data about...
The connection between cloud native infrastructure and DevOps
Austin, Texas -- The shift from classic non-virtualized hardware to cloud native space has played a major role in shaping DevOps driven environments, according to Robert Starmer, a founder at Kumulus Technologies. Companies need a platform for...
Microsoft wants to make sure its Cortana personal assistant isn't dropped at the door when users get home from work. The software giant is partnering with Amazon to integrate Cortana with Amazon Echo, the retail giant's smart home device. Users will be able to...
Google just announced the ability to make telephone calls from its Google Home speaker. At first, calling will be limited to outbound calls. Amazon was first to bring outbound and inbound calling capability to its Echo speaker device.
The most important outbound call...
Two of the biggest business success stories in U.S. history are joining forces, as Google and Walmart team up to enable the purchase of hundreds of thousands of products via smartphones and Google Home. The new service, set to launch in late September, will...
Verizon teams up with Amazon to deliver virtual services at global scale
Verizon announced it has made its Virtual Network Services available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. AWS cloud provides building blocks that can be assembled quickly to support workloads. Businesses leverage AWS...
Recently I was invited to give a speech looking at the changing wireless industry and where we are heading. Wireless is an incredible industry. I’ve been a wireless analyst for 30 years. Over the last four decades I have watched it change time and...
Capto Consulting sees IT and marketing coming together in new ways
Like every industry, the telecommunications, media and entertainment (TME) marketplace is seeing significant disruption. Established TME companies are under threat almost everywhere they turn, forcing the biggest players to make significant acquisitions and present...
Two makers of internet of things software are joining forces in order to make it easier for connected appliances to communicate with one another. Dallas-based Prodea, founded and run by former astronaut Anousheh Ansari, is buying Silicon Valley's Arrayent for an undisclosed amount.
Prodea has...
The inside-out deployment model could be the key to unlocking the benefits of IoT
In the race to own the emerging internet of things (IoT) market, IoT networks, and IoT applications, it is widely accepted that new low-power wide-area networks (LPWANs) are required for many...
Nine summers ago Chuck Grindstaff got a call from Wally Rhines, chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics. As president and CEO of Siemens PLM Software, Grindstaff was running a company that could use Mentor's chip design expertise to set itself apart, Rhines reasoned. Mentor...
The grass is always greener at the edge of the network, according to Amazon. Greengrass is an Amazon Web Services platform that allows customers to run code at the network edge in the same way they do on the AWS cloud. This week Amazon...
