AI, the Edge and the IoT Frontier IoT has shifted away from connecting simple everyday devices such as cameras, thermostats and light bulbs to smart assistants, smart appliances and live streaming baby monitors. The data gleaned from the new wave
Serverless computing, or FaaS (Functions-as-a-Service) is a form of cloud compute in which application developers depend on third party services to manage the server-side of operations, allowing them to focus on building applications on a function-by-function basis. The serverless platform
At the AWS re:Invent Conference last week in Las Vegas, a number of new products were launched. These ranged from Elastic Inference and a new machine learning chip in the machine learning space to new cloud computing and serverless capabilities
Cloudflare’s serverless cloud computing program is called Workers. Unlike most cloud computing programs, Workers is unique in that it doesn’t draw on containers or virtual machines to run. Instead, it deploys V8: Isolates. The team at Cloudflare hails this as
Over the last couple of months, Google and Microsoft have each officially launched new game streaming services. Each is still under development; however, tech advances within each project could ultimately impact regular video streaming as well as potentially changing the
Cockroach Labs, the company behind CockroachDB, the global SQL database for building worldwide cloud services, yesterday announced Managed CockroachDB and the latest release of its mainstay CockroachDB 2.1. Businesses are increasingly migrating their workloads to the cloud. However, traditional database
Stateful vs. Stateless – An Overview The key difference between stateful and stateless applications is that stateless applications don’t “store” data whereas stateful applications require backing storage. Stateful applications like the Cassandra, MongoDB and mySQL databases all require some type
Cisco has long made a point of acquiring subsidiaries to extend its specializations into specific tech markets, including in recent years, energy management, machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT) and cybersecurity. In so doing, the multinational tech conglomerate is
Cato Networks was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel in 2015 by Shlomo Kramer, a co-founder of Imperva and cybersecurity/gear firm Check Point and Guy Shatz, a co-founder of Incapsula. The company’s initial focus was on launching its Network Security as
Last week, Google Cloud held its latest Next conference in San Francisco, unveiling new AI features, partnerships, tools and technologies to build out its ecosystem and make its services more attractive to developers. The conference was Google Cloud’s largest to
The Origins of Fastly – from a Startup to Industry-Leading Next-Gen CDN Fastly was founded by technologist and entrepreneur Artur Bergman in 2011 as a CDN. He was previously CTO at Wikia, a Quantcast Top 20 site, where he built
Few days ago, DigitalOcean, a cloud computing platform for hosting applications that prioritizes developers and their teams, named a new CEO in Mark Templeton. Templeton will officially start at the company on July 1, 2018. He will also join the
Fastly, the rapidly-growing CDN, announced three new enterprise services on Thursday designed to help enterprise build on their edge cloud investment and free up IT and engineering resources. The three new offerings bolster Fastly’s existing edge cloud features, supporting further
nuu:bit, the advanced CDN company, recently announced its new Distributed Compute Environment (DCE). The nuu:bit DCE is designed to allow the execution of code at the network edge closest to the end user, aiming to make the development and deployment
Amazon Web Services recently introduced Firewall Manager and a range of other new security tools to help its cloud customers have access to tools that are easier to use, manage and understand. Speaking at the AWS Summit in San Francisco
