Finding the perfect server size for your cloud deployment
Saturday, November 24, 2018 by Bill Supernor
Serving sizing in the cloud can be tricky. Unless you are about to do some massive high-performance computing project, super-sizing your cloud virtual machines/instances is probably not what you are thinking about when you log in to your favorite cloud service provider. But from looking at user data, it certainly does look like a lot of folks are walking up to their nei...
Artificial Intelligence in the public and private sectors
Thursday, June 7, 2018 by Richard Harris
You're not the only one nervous about AI -in light of rapid AI growth and adoption, the U.S. Government recently held three Subcommittee Meetings designed to understand the implications posed by the widespread adoption of AI technology in the public and private sectors. So why is the US Government concerned about AI in society, and what role should it be considering...
AI computing and HPC just got better with the HGX2 cloud server
Thursday, May 31, 2018 by Richard Harris
NVIDIA has introduced HGX-2, a unified computing platform for both artificial intelligence and high-performance computing in the cloud. The HGX-2 cloud server platform helps provides unique flexibility to support the future of computing. It allows calculations using FP64 and FP32 for scientific computing and simulations, while also enabling FP16 and Int8 for AI training...
GoDaddy is Now Offering Cloud Hosting Services
Tuesday, April 26, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
GoDaddy is now offering new open source cloud hosting services including its Cloud Servers solution and Bitnami-powered cloud applications. The new offerings are designed to help individual software developers, tech entrepreneurs and IT professionals quickly build, test and scale cloud solutions.GoDaddy Cloud Servers solution offers 54-second or less provisioning so tha...
Google Expands Beta for the Android Based Brillo Connected Device OS
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Google is expanding the access for developers to preview its Brillo and Weave solution for building connected devices. In May, Google opened up the Brillo operating system (OS) and Weave communication platform to early access partners and now is extending that availability to more developers as part of an invite program. Brillo offers a lightweight embedded OS base...
WyzBee Offers a New End to End IoT Platform for Device Makers
Tuesday, August 25, 2015 by Richard Harris
Redpine Signals has launched the WyzBee platform, a new IoT platform for device makers that includes a flexible hardware platform, development environment and cloud software and services framework. The WyzBee IoT platform provides the opportunity to reduce the time it takes to develop and bring to market new IoT devices by providing integrated sensing, computing, c...
TestPlant Releases to Test User Experience for Network Conditions
Thursday, March 5, 2015 by Richard Harris
TestPlant, the maker of the eggPlant range of software quality tools, has announced the launch of eggPlant Network which allows test and operations teams to emulate network conditions as part of the test and measurement of real user experience for digital services.The eggPlant platform is a set of tools which supports the design, development, testing and management of s...
Fresvii Releases Open Beta of AppSteroid Mobile Game Platform for iOS, Android and Unity
Tuesday, October 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
Fresvii has announced the open beta for the company’s AppSteroid mobile cloud platform. The AppSteroid SDK version is (0.2.1) for iOS, Android and Unity.Fresvii's AppSteroid is a mobile cloud platform designed for smartphone game developers to facilitate the integration of gaming components, reducing development costs without worrying about game server management. Servi...
Big Week for App Developer Events
Monday, October 21, 2013 by Richard Harris
It’s a big week for app developer conferences. Apps World Europe is kicking off in London tomorrow, October 22, and on the same day the HTML5 Developers Conference will begin in San Francisco.
Apps World has become a huge affair, with an almost Disney World like array of exhibits, speakers, seminars and more. It’s a catch-all of everything app related where the center ...
Google Launches Cloud Based Backend Tools for iOS App Developers
Monday, October 14, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Google is trying to bring iOS app developers closer into its fold with the announcement of iOS tools in the Google Cloud Platform.
For the uninitiated, mobile backends enable developers the opportunity to create connected mobile apps without writing server-side code. Google’s offering for server-side development for iOS developers is its new Mobile Backend ...
