Can Intel Gaudi Change the AI Market Dynamics?

Can Intel Gaudi Change the AI Market Dynamics?

GPU maker NVIDIA calls its annual GPU Technology Conference (GTC) “The #1 AI Conference for Developers.” The tagline of Intel Vision 2024 Conference is “Bringing AI everywhere”—a not-so-subtle hint as to who the company is going after. In April, Intel unveiled its own AI hardware, Intel Gaudi, signaling a ram pup in efforts to conquer the …

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Google Stock Near Highs As AI Business Explodes

Google Stock Near Highs As AI Business Explodes

Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL) appears to be forming a bullish three-weeks-tight pattern as it gets poised for its next move. Google stock is dancing around all-time highs after an earnings gap-up. X The IBD Big Cap 20 name saw first-quarter strength in its Search, YouTube and Cloud businesses, with its cloud computing revenue growing 28%. …

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Gartner’s 7 Cloud Computing Predictions for Australia & Globally

Gartner’s 7 Cloud Computing Predictions for Australia & Globally

Cloud computing will account for 70% of global enterprise workloads by 2028, up from about 25% now, according to Gartner, and issues like sustainability, AI computing and data sovereignty will play greater roles in how Australian enterprises use and procure cloud vendors. At the Gartner IT infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference in Sydney, Dennis …

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Ansys Access Available on Microsoft Azure Cloud

Ansys Access Available on Microsoft Azure Cloud

Ansys announced the launch of Ansys Access on Microsoft Azure, allowing users to deploy pre-configured Ansys products on Azure cloud platform infrastructure. Available May 30, 2024, customers using their own Azure subscription with existing Ansys licenses can benefit from a more scalable, secure, and cost-effective approach to running HPC simulations in the cloud, the company says. …

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AWS, Orange to offer cloud computing in Morocco, Senegal

AWS, Orange to offer cloud computing in Morocco, Senegal

By Nqobile Dludla and Supantha Mukherjee JOHANNESBURG/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Amazon Web Services (AWS) plans to offer cloud computing in Morocco and Senegal using its AWS Wavelength platform in partnership with Orange, the firms said on Wednesday. This will be the first time the services will be available in any country without physical AWS infrastructure such …

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Google eyes HubSpot acquisition to challenge Microsoft

Google eyes HubSpot acquisition to challenge Microsoft

The deal, if finalised, would be the largest in Alphabet’s history and a strategic move to bolster its competitiveness in the cloud applications market. Reports of Google’s interest in HubSpot first emerged last month, leading to an 11% surge in HubSpot’s shares. Reuters reported at that time that Alphabet had met with investment bankers to …

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Malaysian Tycoon Lin Yun Ling’s Gamuda Bags $372 Million Deal To Build Sime Darby Data Center

Malaysian Tycoon Lin Yun Ling’s Gamuda Bags 2 Million Deal To Build Sime Darby Data Center

Stacks of computer servers at a data center. getty Gamuda—a Malaysian infrastructure company cofounded by tycoon Lin Yun Ling—said its unit has won contracts worth 1.74 billion ringgit ($372 million) to build Sime Darby Property’s maiden data center near Kuala Lumpur as the race to expand cloud computing infrastructure in Southeast Asia heats up. Under …

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Alibaba’s US$4.5 billion convertible bond sale ‘oversubscribed’, as tech giant builds war chest to fund share buy-backs

Alibaba’s US.5 billion convertible bond sale ‘oversubscribed’, as tech giant builds war chest to fund share buy-backs

Alibaba Group Holding is selling up to US$5 billion worth of convertible bonds to fund its share buy-backs, as leaders of the Chinese tech giant declared e-commerce and cloud computing as its core businesses in a move “towards strategic clarity”. The Hangzhou-based firm, which owns the South China Morning Post, said it expects to raise …

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Redmond Cloud Security Company Averlon Exits Stealth Mode with $8M Seed Round | News

Redmond Cloud Security Company Averlon Exits Stealth Mode with M Seed Round | News

Averlon co-founders Sunil Gottumukkala, left, and Vishal Agarwal, are CEO and chief technology officer, respectively. Photos courtesy Averlon Averlon, a cloud security company based in Redmond, has emerged from stealth mode with an $8 million seed funding round aimed at helping organizations stay ahead of emerging cyberattack threats. Averlon’s latest investment is led by Voyager Capital …

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