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Cloud Computing Starts to Hit Server Market, 2016 Shows 2.7% Decline in Vendor Revenues

Shudeep Chandrasekhar7 years ago7 years ago04 mins

Worldwide server shipments declined 4.2% during the first quarter of 2017, as the growth of cloud computing has started biting…

Shudeep Chandrasekhar7 years ago7 years ago04 mins

A new report from the Wall Street Journal says that supply woes for Nintendo Switch could actually be Apple’s fault….

Shudeep Chandrasekhar7 years ago7 years ago03 mins

Data centers are the backbone of a cloud service provider. The bigger and stronger the network, the faster and more…

Shankar Narayanan7 years ago7 years ago03 mins

The world’s number one infrastructure as a service provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS), has announced its plans to open data…

Shudeep Chandrasekhar7 years ago7 years ago06 mins

Google should have been the cloud industry pioneer, but Amazon pulled the rug from right under them and raced to…

Shudeep Chandrasekhar8 years ago8 years ago08 mins

To say that 2016 set the tone for the cloud computing industry would be an understatement. Any growth in 2017…

Shudeep Chandrasekhar8 years ago8 years ago17 mins

Intel and its x86 processor architecture have long been the dominant duo in backend computing infrastructure, such as datacenters. But…

Shudeep Chandrasekhar8 years ago8 years ago06 mins

In a newly published eBook, IBM has outlined exactly why cloud infrastructure is safer than traditional datacenters. The eBook is…

Shudeep Chandrasekhar8 years ago8 years ago07 mins

When you’re trying to promote a technological solution as a solid, fail-proof alternative to traditional technologies, it’s bad PR if…

Shudeep Chandrasekhar8 years ago8 years ago08 mins

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., simply known globally as Alibaba, has become an official lead sponsor of the Olympic Games until 2028, joining…

Shudeep Chandrasekhar8 years ago8 years ago011 mins

Of all the cloud companies in the industry today, Alphabet’s Google is the one company that had the longest and…

Shudeep Chandrasekhar8 years ago8 years ago08 mins

At Amazon Web Services’ re:invent conference in Las Vegas this November, one of the show-stoppers was a big white 18-wheel…

Shankar Narayanan8 years ago8 years ago06 mins

The cloud computing arm of Chinese retail giant Alibaba – Aliyun, Alicloud or, simply, Alibaba Cloud – announced last week…

Shudeep Chandrasekhar8 years ago8 years ago04 mins

After thoroughly disrupting the social media scene over the past decade, Facebook is now trying to upend the data center…