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Amazon Web Services is creating its very own space force for cloud computing

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services today unveiled a new business unit devoted to developing data infrastructure and cloud services for the aerospace and satellite industry — and headed by someone who helped set up the U.S. Amazon Web Services facilitates Capella Space’s catalog of satellite radar imagery. AWS Photo).

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Microsoft unveils custom AI chip, with help from OpenAI, playing catch-up with Amazon

GeekWire

Microsoft describes the Azure Maia AI Accelerator as the first designed by Microsoft for large language model training and inferencing in the Microsoft Cloud. One of the Microsoft-designed chips, the Azure Maia AI Accelerator, is optimized for AI tasks, including generative artificial intelligence.

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Seattle Seahawks’ deep dive into analytics starts with a ‘data lake’ built by Amazon Web Services

GeekWire

For the Seattle Seahawks, that dive starts with a “data lake” built with Amazon Web Services. ” Related: Seahawks partner with Amazon Web Services for cloud deal to ‘fuel future championships’ With high-tech rooms at home, Seahawks ready for remote NFL draft and AWS helps power entire event.

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Microsoft earnings preview: Cloud growth promises to deliver another big quarter for tech giant

GeekWire

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Is Microsoft’s cloud growth a temporary blip, driven by the fleeting circumstances of the pandemic, or an enduring trend reflecting a larger change in customer mindset? This includes growth in Office 365, driven in part by adoption of the Microsoft Teams communication and collaboration platform.

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The Best Line of Code is the One You Didn't Have to Write!

Social, Agile and Transformation

This post isn''t about code reuse or developing web services. Surely, you and your development organization understand the benefits of developing modular code, packing it in libraries, developing APIs and web services, insuring that test cases are automated, and hopefully starting to enable continuous delivery.

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Some August 2015 Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure Cloud Updates

Storage IO Blog

Cloud Services Providers continue to extend their feature, function and capabilities and the following are two examples. Being a customer of both Amazon Web Services (AWS) as well as Microsoft Azure (among others), I receive monthly news updates about service improvements along with new features.

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Top 8 IT certifications in demand today

CIO Business Intelligence

The vendor-neutral certification covers topics such as organizational structure, security and risk management, asset security, security operations, identity and access management (IAM), security assessment and testing, and security architecture and engineering.

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