Cybersecurity company Wiz walks away from Google's $23 billion buyout offer
What will it do instead?
You can move your entire Google Photos library to iCloud with a few clicks using this new tool
A rare handshake between big tech companies
Australia's new "top secret" cloud platform will be built on AWS
Amazon will seemingly provide secrecy, reliability, and interoperability with US agencies
A developer somehow got an entire OS running on Google Drive
No local storage needed
US military can now remotely access powerful supercomputer resources in the cloud
Scientific research and analysis today, HPC electronic warfare tomorrow?
Microsoft is pushing OneDrive backups and integration in new Windows 11 setup by default
Classic Microsoft: OneDrive is Microsoft's cloud storage and file-syncing solution that's baked directly into Windows. However, over time the tool has become increasingly annoying and troublesome, and now Redmond seems willing to make it more so by making OneDrive an opt-out feature.
Microsoft attempts to steer Windows users away from local accounts
The official guide explaining how to convert Microsoft accounts to local accounts is gone
Data waste: According to study, a significant portion of stored server data is never accessed
Unused data might contribute to unnecessary carbon emissions
Redefining event keynotes: HPE's futuristic presentation at the Sphere
HPE's AI-powered future, GreenLake and CEO Antonio Neri's vision
AWS now offers a monster 896-core cloud instance averaging $263 per hour
Serious performance uplift for cloud apps, but priced accordingly
Adobe can scan user-generated content stored in its cloud, and users aren't happy
The scanning practice has been going on for years, Adobe confirmed, so no need to freak out now
GOG will soon start deleting your games' cloud saves if they're too large
Make sure to back up locally
Google discloses how they mistakenly erased $135 billion cloud customer account
Facepalm: One of Google Cloud's worst nightmares came true in early May, when an embarrassing snafu completely erased a customer's account and data backups. The unlucky victim was Australian pension fund UniSuper, which manages a staggering $135 billion in assets for over 600,000 members. The pension fund was essentially frozen for two weeks, unable to fully operate while it scrambled to recover from third-party backups.
AWS plans major European expansion with €7.8 billion investment in sovereign data center
The data centers will let customers keep all their metadata within the EU
Google's Trillium TPU achieves unprecedented performance increase for AI workloads
Google keeps building its "AI Hypercomputer" platform with custom hardware accelerators
Microsoft asks staff in China to relocate amid escalating Washington-Beijing tech tensions
Washington is expected to introduce more restrictions on China soon
The big three cloud providers, Amazon, Microsoft and Google currently make up 67% of the market
AI services and enterprise spending are pushing strongest growth since 2022
Amazon S3 bucket with placeholder-like name leads to $1,300 in charges
Facepalm: Amazon S3 buckets, part of the Amazon Web Services infrastructure, are great for storing and managing huge amounts of data at scale, but they can also become a financial and security risk if used with poor default configurations.
As cloud computing evolves, Amazon's AWS looks for its role in generative AI
Amazon unveils new capabilities in Bedrock for improved AI applications
Gamers are renting out GPU power for AI porn generation in return for Fortnite skins
It's like a GPU mining operation, except you get in-game content instead of cryptocurrency
Spectra Cube offers up to 75 petabytes of tape-based, cloud-optimized storage capacity
An easy-to-use, cost-cutting cold storage solution for enterprises and cloud providers
Microsoft left a server containing employee credentials exposed to the internet for a month
Admins waited 28 days before securing the server with a password
Google enters custom CPU arena with Arm-based Axion processor
Greater compatibility and power efficiency gains for customer workloads
How will AI reshape the data center?
Why it matters: The rise of AI compute is poised to reshape the economics of the data center. That may be as simple as Nvidia displacing Intel, but it could also lead to much wider, systematic change.
Nvidia GeForce Now Ultimate vs. Your Own RTX GPU
Nvidia's GeForce Now has changed a lot in the year since we asked the question: which is better, a new graphics card or a subscription to GeForce Now's Ultimate tier?
