Amazon was brought down by new servers
Too many threads brought down the cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has revealed the actual cause of the massive outage that impacted thousands of online sites and services, including Amazon's own services, last week.
Norse start worshipping clouds again
Frig back in business
Public cloud adoption in the Nordic countries is surging according to a new report published today by the Information Services Group (ISG).
Softbank buys into Sinch
Takes ten percent of the Swedish cloud provider
Softbank-owned SB Management has bought a 10.1 percent stake in Swedish cloud computing services provider Sinch, acquiring stakes from some major shareholders and participating in a directed share issue.
AMD launches AMD Instinct MI100 accelerator
HPC computing on Azure
AMD launched the new AMD Instinct MI100 accelerator with ROCm 4.0 open ecosystem support and has been showing off its list of AMD EPYC CPU and AMD Instinct accelerator based deployments at this year’s SC20 virtual tradeshow.
Xilinx and Samsung announce Adaptable Computational Storage Drives
Industry's First
What the smart NIC did for the networking industry might be what SmartSSD powered by Xilinx FPGA might do for the storage industry. The company just announced its fully customizable and scalable SmartSSD computational storage platform. The general idea behind it moves to compute closer to storage for accelerated data processing speed and efficiency.