AWS Launches New Chips for AI Training and Its Own AI Chatbot

At AWS re:Invent, NVIDIA contributed GPUs to Amazon’s cloud efforts and added a retriever system to its AI Enterprise Software platform on AWS Marketplace. Continue reading AWS Launches New Chips for AI Training and Its Own AI Chatbot

Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure – April 2020 Edition


Looking for a recap of some of the Azure announcements? Here’s what you need to know.

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Google Compute Engine goes a little crazy with up to 96 CPU cores and 624 GB of memory

 If you’ve got a resource-hungry app, Google Compute Engine’s latest offering has you covered. It lets you dial up to 96 CPUs and an other-worldly 624 GB of memory. Remember Bill Gates allegedly asking who would ever need more than 640K of memory. He obviously didn’t see this coming. If you think that’s a lot, you aren’t kidding, and believe it or not it’s a… Read More Continue reading Google Compute Engine goes a little crazy with up to 96 CPU cores and 624 GB of memory

AWS now offers a virtual machine with over 4TB of memory

 Earlier this year, Amazon’s AWS group said that it was working on bringing instance types with between 4 to 16TB of memory to its users. It’s now starting to fulfill this promise as the company today launched its largest EC2 machine (in terms of memory size) yet: the x1e.32xlarge instance with a whopping 4.19TB of RAM. Previously, EC2’s largest instance only featured just… Read More Continue reading AWS now offers a virtual machine with over 4TB of memory

SAP Updates Two-Year-Old Patch for TREX Vulnerability

SAP has issued an updated patch for a code-injection vulnerability affecting the TREX search engine integrated into more than a dozen SAP products. Continue reading SAP Updates Two-Year-Old Patch for TREX Vulnerability

Google announces significant partnership with SAP at Google Cloud Next Conference

 Google announced onstage today at Google Cloud Next a partnership with SAP to deliver SAP HANA, the company’s in-memory database on Google Cloud Platform. It’s a big deal for a number of reasons. First of all, it gives Google a major enterprise customer for its cloud platform, something that it’s trying to promote in big way. Secondly, it gives them an established… Read More Continue reading Google announces significant partnership with SAP at Google Cloud Next Conference

SAP beats analysts’ expectations, reports “record-setting” revenue and profit

Bill McDermott, chief executive officer of SAP AG, poses for a photograph during the software company's annual general meeting in Mannheim, Germany, on Wednesday, May 21, 2014. McDermott, who becomes the German company's sole chief executive officer today, is counting on the leadership change to speed decision-making at the software maker trying to accelerate growth. Photographer: Martin Leissl/Bloomberg via Getty Images German IT services and enterprise giant SAP reported encouraging numbers for Q2 2016, beating analysts’ expectations and spiking its share price by nearly five percent in pre-market trading Wednesday as its non-IFRS EPS increased 2 percent to €0.82 ($0.90). Analysts had predicted a quarterly EPS of $0.78. The leap is owed in part to the strength of the company’s… Read More Continue reading SAP beats analysts’ expectations, reports “record-setting” revenue and profit