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Intel’s recent announcement that its field programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, would now power the acceleration as a service feature in the Alibaba Cloud shines a spotlight on a changing landscape for the integrated circuit market. FPGAs let customers configure the chip after …
From fourth place to first: Will Alibaba really become the dominant force in cloud?
A Gartner Inc. report places Alibaba Cloud’s (a subsidiary of Alibaba Group), market position in fourth place, and the share (2.6 percent) does not even come within sniffing distance of Amazon (30.3 percent) and Microsoft Azure (13.8 percent). Even third place Google …
Intel’s partnership with Alibaba powers cloud solutions
When Intel Corp. announced last week that its field programmable gate arrays, or FPGAs, would now power the acceleration service for Alibaba Cloud, a subsidiary of Alibaba Group, it was yet another chapter in an evolving collaboration between the chip maker and …
Testing a new product? Try the gaming environment first
When Mary Min (pictured) started with her current company and wanted to test the strength of a new security solution in an application environment, she had plenty of options ranging from healthcare to finance to “internet of things.” But the experienced developer knew …
AR opens new windows for ethnographers and technologists
Although technologies such as augmented reality and virtual reality are considered to be in the earliest stages of consumer adoption, they offer significant potential to reshape brand marketing campaigns. AR on the mobile platform holds major promise as users embrace smartphone cameras, a …
Samsung well positioned for Android developers, says ReadWrite co-founder
When the Samsung Galaxy smartphone was first released in the middle of 2009, it marked the company’s initial step into the Android market. The Korean consumer giant has been all-in with Android ever since, and it has built a sizable developer community …
NetApp focuses on helping enterprises leverage DevOps chops
In the previously siloed world of information technology infrastructure, systems administrators and developers generally came together only when they passed each other in the hallway. Not anymore. Organizations are increasingly under pressure to speed software deployment while managing the complexities of clouds, …
Nomiku teams up with Samsung for foolproof sous-vide cooking
We all know that refrigerators store food, but through enhancements recently introduced by Samsung Electronics America Inc., they can help cook meals as well. The Samsung Family Hub smart refrigerator is now being shipped with an app from the sous-vide circulator Nomiku …
Samsung adjusts to consumer move from software to connected devices
On the opening day of the Samsung Developers Conference in San Francisco, connected devices took center stage as the company announced the consolidation of its SmartThings, Samsung Connect and ARTIK services into one “internet of things”-branded label of SmartThings Cloud. The move …
If data is the new oil, is storage the new refinery?
Just as oil propelled Standard Oil Co. Inc. to a position of dominant industrial power in the late 1800s, data is doing the same for a number of technology firms today. Half of consumer online spending in the U.S. is controlled by …