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The US Leads In Public Cloud Services, But Other Regions Are Catching Up

Forrester IT

Public cloud services are one of the biggest disruptions in the tech market in the past 15 years. In September 2016, my colleagues Andrew Bartels , Dave Bartoletti , and John R. In response, traditional software and hardware vendors are moving to the cloud via both acquisitions and launches of new cloud services.

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Ex-Apple engineers raise $7.5M for new Seattle data storage startup

GeekWire

A trio of former Apple engineers is leading a new data storage platform for developers building machine learning and artificial intelligence applications. The company is led by former executives at Turi, a machine learning startup acquired by Apple in 2016 for around $200 million in one of the largest acquisitions for a Seattle startup.

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Cloud Storage 2.0 Set To Dominate Market

Cloud Musings

The enterprise data storage marketplace is poised to become a battlefield. No longer the quiet backwater of cloud computing services, the focus of this global transition is now going from compute to storage. An overview of recent storage market history is needed to understand why this transition is important.

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AWS re:Invent 2016 Keynote with Andy Jassy

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the Wednesday keynote at AWS re:Invent 2016. Today’s keynote is led by Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services. In support of this point, Jassy talks about AWS’ extensive regions, availability zones, and the plethora of application services that AWS offers. the storage, and 2x the number of vCPUs.

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Scientists share a wiring diagram tracing connections for 200,000 mouse brain cells

GeekWire

MICrONS was funded in 2016 with $100 million in federal grants to the Allen Institute and its partners from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity , the U.S. The data collection, which is now publicly available online , was developed as part of the Machine Intelligence From Cortical Networks program, or MICrONS for short.

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AWS re:Invent 2016 Keynote with Werner Vogels

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the Thursday keynote at AWS re:Invent 2016. Today’s keynote is led by Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon Web Services. Things like data acquisition, storage, security, access, governance, etc., Lifecycle management and cold storage. S3 storage management, Glacier. Automated data ingestion.

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Weekend Reading: Amazon Aurora: Design Considerations for High Throughput Cloud-Native Relational Databases.

All Things Distributed

That database engine is now known as Amazon Aurora and launched in 2014 for MySQL and in 2016 for PostgreSQL. Amazon Aurora has become the fastest-growing service in the history of AWS and frequently is the target of migration from on-premise proprietary databases.

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