Alphabet soup
Tech jargon is like alphabet soup with acronyms such as NFV, CPU and GUI floating around. With respect to the cloud services industry, their are three acronyms that typically come to mind: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS). When a business is...
Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Intel beat earning expectations
Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft and Intel posted quarterly earnings last Thursday, which reflected a shift away from company-owned data centers and toward the cloud. All of the companies surpassed expected earnings, resulting in a surge in share prices...
Google and Cisco team up on hybrid cloud solution offering
Google and Cisco recently announced they are teaming up to provide a hybrid cloud solution that allows applications and services to be launched, managed and secured over on-premise environments and Google Cloud Platform.
The collaboration indicates...
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...
Docker ends two year Kubernetes rivalry by integrating container orchestration platform
Following a two year rivalry in the container orchestration market, Docker announced Tuesday at its EU conference it is expanding its platform to incorporate Kubernetes. The company said the Kubernetes integration is in beta...
Google wants to be a leader in wireless, however they are struggling in two of three categories. While Google Android is a success, their handset business with Pixel and their service business called Project Fi, have not been hitting the ball out of the...
I have to get something off my chest. While I love what today's smartphones like Apple iPhone, Google Android and Samsung Galaxy do for us, I absolutely hate the hell they put us through with the annual updates to the operating systems (OS). Updates...
Mobile network operators will assist Alphabet
Project Loon, the ambitious project launched by Google parent Alphabet to use balloons to deliver internet service, will get a real-life test in Puerto Rico. The Federal Communications Commission has given Alphabet the green light to use the balloons...
Mirantis Cloud Platform update focuses on making hybrid cloud management easier
Kubernetes continues to serve as the main container orchestration and management platform with updates to Mirantis Cloud Platform (MCP). The latest MCP comes with a new capability to allow multi-cloud self-service Kubernetes clusters...
Oracle releases additional cloud services to compete with AWS, Google and Microsoft
Oracle chief technology officer Larry Ellison debuted a new 18c version of its marquee database software at the company’s OpenWorld conference in San Francisco, Califo., which leverages machine learning to automate the database...
Google takes virtual machines to a different level with nested virtualizations
Google recently announced it has brought nested virtualization on Compute Engine virtual machine instances. The feature takes virtual machines to a meta level, enabling users to run virtual machine instances within a virtual machine...
McAfee representative highlights cyber security issues facing modern-day networks
AUSTIN--Conventional architecture is not sufficient to deal with the onslaught of cyber security issues in the digital realm. That is the insight of Brett Kelsey, vice president and chief technology strategist for the Americas with McAfee....
Technology innovation by chip, device and equipment vendors plus intense competition among national oligopolies of mobile network operators has improved cellular performance and reduced costs to the enormous benefit of consumers. Meanwhile, recent financial gains in the mobile ecosystem are largely accruing to Silicon...
Los Angeles, Calif. -- Actor turned internet entrepreneur Joseph Gordon-Levitt participated at this year’s Open Source Summit North America, delivering a keynote presentation titled “The Difference Between a Crowd and a Community.”
Gordon-Levitt is director of production company HitRecord and more widely known for his...
When considering Apple iOS, which runs the iPhone, or Google Android, there is more than just a different operating system to consider. Apple iOS is much more secure compared with Google Android. These different operating systems account for the vast majority of phones and...
After selling Motorola's smartphone business for less than a quarter of what it paid to buy it, Google is reportedly planning another acquisition in the mobile device space. This time Taiwan's HTC is said to be the target. The company has been an Android...
Another week, another potentially catastrophic hurricane -- is this what the rest of the 2017 hurricane season is going to look like? Let's hope not (stay away, Jose!).
Irma has reportedly taken out all of the cellular towers on some Caribbean islands, on its path...
Myriad X deemed first visual processing unit capable of providing deep learning at the edge
Movidius, an Intel subsidiary that specializes in low-power processor chips for computer vision and deep-learning, recently unveiled a new processing unit that brings artificial intelligence to the edge.
Movidius was acquired...
New Pivotal Container Service promises to simplify container creation and management
Pivotal Software, Inc., VMware Inc. and Google announced at the VMWorld 2017 conference this week they are collaborating on a project that should make it easier for companies to create, deploy and manage containers...
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...
The need for container orchestration
Containers are being embraced by enterprises across the industry. The lightweight technology allows service providers to package applications, along with their dependencies, libraries and other binaries, into isolated environments on an individual server. Accompanying the rise of containers is the...
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...
The words "Unknown caller" on a ringing cell phone may no longer be a sign that the call is going straight to voicemail. Soon those calls may come from friends or family members who have Google's smart home assistant. The company is adding free...
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...
