Cloud Computing

Unilever's cloud-only approach will improve resilience, strengthen security

It will also help Unilever to identify trends and make decisions faster

US-based cloud computing firm Rackspace to lay off 4% of workforce

The company said that it will provide severance and other resources to those employees who are laid off, the report mentioned

Cloud-interviewing firm Karat sees Indian candidates setting the bar

Karat offers a data-enabled technology platform and combines it with human interviewers

Cloud computing, virtual networks, fibre rollout to check call drops: HCL

Cloud computing-based telecom network with virtualization of its various elements and rollout of optical fibre network closer to the homes will be able to help solve call drop problem in India, a senior HCL Technologies officer said here. While speaking with PTI at the Mobile World Congress, HCL Tech Chief Technology Officer Kalyan Kumar said that post-pandemic, demand for data has jumped significantly high and telecom operators are gradually moving towards cloud computing systems to manage capacity in the network. "Fiber infrastructure going pretty much as close to the home, cloudification of the telco and virtualization of the network. These are the three things that will solve the call drop problem. We cannot solve the problem by just addressing one point," he said. Taking a serious note of call drop-related complaints and service quality issues, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India last week directed telecom service providers to submit service quality reports for each State

Tech Mahindra to open its first data, AI and cloud centre in Saudi Arabia

The CoE will combine academic and socio-economic goals to build national hi-tech talent capacity, create quality jobs, promote digital innovation, and upscale SMEs

Memory chip crisis threatens to wipe out earnings, destabilise suppliers

It's been a swift descent from the industry's pandemic sales surge, which was fueled by shoppers outfitting home offices and snapping up computers, tablets and smartphones

Dell acquires Israel's cloud services start-up Cloudify for $100 million

Dell Technologies has acquired Israeli startup Cloudify that is known for cloud orchestration and infrastructure automation

Microsoft to add OpenAI's bot ChatGPT in Azure cloud services soon

The service gives Microsoft's cloud customers access to various OpenAI tools like the GPT-3.5 language system that ChatGPT is based on, as well as the Dall-E model for generating images from text

TMS Ep344: Foreign universities, foreign waste, gold, cloud computing

Is India ready to welcome foreign universities? Why is India the final destination for foreign waste? Will gold outshine equity and debt securities in 2023? What is cloud computing? All answers here

Cloud a big game changer; tremendous momentum in its adoption: Nadella

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday said there is a tremendous momentum in cloud adoption, as he termed cloud a "big game changer". Nadella, who is currently in India, addressed Microsoft Future Ready Leadership Summit in Mumbai on Tuesday. He is also scheduled to visit Delhi and Bengaluru this week, and will be meeting key customers, startups, developers, educators and students during his India visit. Nadella, in his address on Tuesday, listed cloud and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as imperatives that can be helpful in driving economic growth. "Cloud has been a big game changer... cloud is in early-to-intermediate innings...," Nadella said and noted the "tremendous momentum in cloud adoption." Hyderabad-born Nadella also lauded the way in which India is building public infrastructure.

AWS to invest $4.4 bn in India by 2030 through new Hyderabad region service

Google Cloud has two Cloud regions in India, one of which was opened in Mumbai in July last year

Google Cloud joins hands with DSCI for boosting cloud adoption

"Secure with cloud" initiative will also provide industry best practices and frameworks with Start-up and mobile app ecosystems on privacy and security

R-CAT: Global firms Oracle, Cisco involvement in Rajasthan govt's IT push

According to the official, over 80 training programmes are being run in R-CAT

Microsoft's GitHub hit $1bn annual recurring revenue, Cloud $25bn: Nadella

Microsoft-owned GitHub has an annual recurring revenue of $1 billion with over 90 million active users, said Satya Nadella, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft

Oracle bets big on multi-cloud offerings for Indian govt, public sector

The company aims to be the preferred cloud provider for the Indian organisations, both in the private and public sectors

Jio Cloud PC: Will it be a game changer for small and medium businesses?

Analysts believe India would finally usher in the home broadband segment

Amazon, Google slam Microsoft over changes in cloud computing rules

Amazon, Google, Alibaba, and Microsoft's own cloud services will be excluded from the deals

Microsoft outlines changes in European cloud-licence terms after complaints

The changes will make it simpler for customers of rival cloud-service companies in Europe to move their existing software to these other networks, Microsoft said

TechM, Mahindra University to set up lab for Metaverse, quantum computing

Tech Mahindra already has 10 Makers Lab across the world and the new unit at Mahindra University will be the 11th facility globally and second in Hyderabad.

IT firms seek talent with strong foundation as they move to smaller town

The demand is for skills that can address new technology demands such as AI/ML, data analytics, cloud etc, which may not be easily available in these cities