Accelerating Innovation in Cloud & Mobile Computing
Grazed from EEJournal. Author: Bruce Kleinman.
The 1980s witnessed a “golden age” of the computer. While the commercially successful x86 architecture continued to evolve at the microarchitecture level, completely new architectures and instruction sets innovated rapidly and set the stage for intense competition. RISC concepts were refined and expanded in the MIPS, Sparc, Power, PA-RISC and Alpha (to name a few) architectures with great success.
In short, there was a lot of Darwinian action taking place. Interesting in retrospect, the vast majority of these architectures focused on workstation CPUs: by and large, the architectures were optimized for compute horsepower with a focus on integer and floating-point performance. The race was on to build faster and faster compute engines…
Google, like other companies offering online storage, still faces doubts about the security of cloud computing following last summer’s revelations about the reach of the National Security Agency. But it’s doing its best to reassure customers and to attract new ones. Following a declaration this month by Eran Feigenbaum, director of security for Google Apps, that "the cloud can be as safe as — or in many cases, safer than — storing data on-premise," Google is making a financial case for the cloud.
Aaron Levie, the 29-year-old chief executive of Box Inc., walked the red carpet at the Oscars this year in a dark suit and tie, pressed white shirt and his trademark neon blue sneakers. "I asked about the sneaker dress code," said Levie, who like many Silicon Valley entrepreneurs doesn’t like anything slowing him down, least of all a pair of dress shoes. "Apparently it was not a problem."
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (CHKP – Analyst Report) recently announced a partnership with VMware, Inc. (VMW – Snapshot Report) to provide cloud-based security services. With this partnership, Check Point will enrich its virtualization, automation and cloud-based portfolios.
CloudSigma, a public cloud IaaS provider with advanced hybrid hosting solutions, today announced that it has partnered with software analytics company New Relic, Inc. to provide customers with new levels of real-time insight into the health of their applications and server infrastructure. Tightly integrated into CloudSigma’s existing public cloud infrastructure, New Relic’s software-as-a-service application performance management solution gives CloudSigma customers the confidence to deploy more mission-critical workloads into the cloud, knowing that their applications and services are running at peak performance.
With the rapid growth of Sina Weibo, which now has over 350 million registered users around the world, and its affiliated services such as Weibo open API and the WeiGame platform which are now the most popular social and online gaming platform in China, we needed a robust and flexible infrastructure to host those applications and platforms.
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Clustrix, provider of the leading scale-out SQL database engineered for the cloud, today announced a partnership with Joyent Inc., the high-performance cloud infrastructure and big data analytics company. As a result of the partnership, ClustrixDB, the industry’s first and only scale-out database for real-time analytics on live operational data, will be available to Joyent customers who need scale-out SQL and real-time analytics.