Google Working To Build Quantum Speed Computer Processors
Grazed from MediaPost. Author: Laurie Sullivan.
The Google Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab has announced that John Martinis and his team at UC Santa Barbara will partner with Google to build new quantum information processors based on superconducting electronics. The hardware project, led by Martinis, aims to make quantum computers a reality. Think of the Web as the world’s largest catalog to better understand why Google would want to bring quantum speeds to humanity.
Quantum speeds would increase the ability to index and process information not only across the Internet, but on servers supporting cloud computing and business intranets. It would make finding and serving information that much faster, which is especially critical as the amount of content continues to grow…
AT&T has launched a cloud-based storage solution that is designed to meet the security requirements of federal government agencies. The new release, AT&T Synaptic Storage-as-a-Service (STaaS) for Government, enables federal government agencies to store information in the cloud.
The U.S. Open is one of the premier global sporting events and generates a lot of revenue for everyone involved. But even in the U.S. Tennis Association (USTA) has to deal with budget limitations. To help overcome those limitations, the USTA has enlisted IBM (IBM) not only to provide cloud computing services but also to design and build the analytics applications available on the Web and via mobile computing devices.
August is over, but consolidation in the backup and disaster recovery (BDR) is spilling over into September. Acronis this week said it has acquired BackupAgent, a cloud-based backup platform provider headquartered in Holland. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. As a result of the acquisition, Acronis will acquire all of BackupAgent’s employees and customers.
OpenStack has been finding its way into a variety of verticals for cloud deployments, but most of the deployments are focused, either solely or mostly, on devops. But in the growing cloud telecommunications market, OpenStack has found a new function—specifically, network functions virtualization (NFV), according to Mirantis.
When you’re building a multi-national cloud computing platform that involves some of the leading scientific research organizations in Europe, more than a dozen commercial partners and numerous data centers across the global, federated identity management becomes a crucial pillar.
Google has renamed its Enterprise division as ‘Google for Work’. The name change reflects both the search giant’s increasing ambitions to win corporate accounts, as well as the changes gripping workplaces. In a blog post, Eric Schmidt wrote: "Work today is very different from 10 years ago. Cloud computing, once a new idea, is abundantly available, and collaboration is possible across offices, cities, countries and continents.
Avnet Technology Solutions, the global IT solutions distribution leader and an operating group of Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), today announced that it has significantly expanded its cloud offerings in Latin America. As a part of this, Avnet will now provide business partners in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Venezuela with products and services from SoftLayer, a cloud infrastructure provider and an IBM company. The addition of SoftLayer to Avnet’s cloud portfolio will help Latin American business partners accelerate the development of their cloud offerings with a scalable, secure base for the delivery of cloud services, spanning IBM’s infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and software as a service (SaaS) solutions.