http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-my-activity-shows-everything-that-company-knows-about-its-users-and-there-s-a-lot-a7109256.html If you dare to check this service, you will see that Google knows a lot. →
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/09/microsoft_freebsd/ Makes sense to have their own FreeBSD for Azure cloud use. Good addition after their own Linux distribution http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/2016/03/10/microsoft-has-released-a-debian-linux-switch-os-repeat-a-debian-linux-switch-operating-system-%e2%80%a2-the-register/ →
How the Internet works: Submarine fiber, brains in jars, and coaxial cables | Ars Technica http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/05/how-the-internet-works-submarine-cables-data-centres-last-mile/ But how does Interner work? Take a deep dive into Internet infrastructure and visit to a subsea cable landing site. This article is simply not talking about the wonders of TCP/IP or pervasive Wi-Fi hotspots, though those are vitally important →
Telecom operator Sonera rents equipment locations, equipment space and related services in Sonera-managed data centers. Sonera has already a countrywide network of data centers. Sonera is building the biggest open data center in Finland to this location to Pitäjänmäki in Helsinki where they have mined 75 000 cubic meters of rock (4000 truck loads). Sonera →
http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/hardware/ibm-puts-a-quantum-processor-in-the-cloud Interesting. →
The importance of ‘dogfooding’ in the cloud article from InfoWorld tells that Amazon.com runs entirely on AWS EC2 and Microsoft runs Office365, Skype, and XBox Live on Azure. But Google doesn’t run any of its products on GCP. Here’s why it matters. The term “dogfooding” is used to describe companies using their own products. The →
I have already written several posting on Google data centers, but it does not hurt to post a new one when some new interesting material pops up. Take a virtual tour of Google’s Oregon data center article tells that the GoogleDalles data center in Oregon is open for a digital tour. Google is trying to →
For the iPhone, if you take a look inside you’ll find a number of Samsung parts, and if you use iCloud, well that data is likely being stored on servers run by Microsoft (Azure), Amazon (AWS), and most recently Google. It has been revealed this week that Apple just signed a deal with Google to →
In the spirit of waste not, want not, cars will no longer simply sit idle when their owners jet off to other cities or spend all day in office buildings. Engineers want to use your Internet-connected car as a cloud computing resource. Cars’ powerful on-board computers, ample storage, reliable wireless Internet connectivity, will be put →
The REAL reason Slack became a billion dollar company and why its business model is evilly brilliant, Twitter is going nowhere and how you can replicate that success for your product. Slack is a dream for every startup founder, investor and VC. It’s the fastest growing startup ever, which is amazing considering it’s a SaaS →