Bringing colocation closer to the edge: A guide to the new paradigm shift

Source:-https://cloudcomputing-news.net Seamlessly reliable and responsive applications are now expected by consumers and businesses: from video conferencing and content streaming to gaming and software distribution. Furthermore, ultra-low latency in the sub 10ms range, and so well below the current 50 – 150ms of Content Delivery Networks, is seen as essential in delivering future 5G and IoT enabled technologies and applications: from driverless vehicles to remote surgery and automated factories. Moving data processing, storage and networking resources closer to users and end

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Micro-fulfilment tech to power e-commerce warehouse services for faster delivery

Source:-https://www.bizcommunity.com The demand for fast order fulfilment and delivery services skyrocketed in the context of the global lockdowns, ushering in a new era of challenges and opportunities for the beleaguered real estate sector. Robotic micro-fulfilment warehouses are now rolling out globally and providing an efficient automated selection of items to enable faster delivery to consumers. Micro-fulfilment centres are much smaller than warehouses, which typically need to be on the outskirts of cities. Instead, micro-fulfilment centres are compact and can be

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Cloud computing is betting on outer space

Source:-livemint On 22 September, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced the preview of Azure Orbital at Microsoft Ignite 2020 in New Orleans. According to Microsoft, Orbital is ‘Ground Station as a Service (GSaaS)’, which is aimed at helping its customers to communicate with, and analyse data from, their satellites or spacecrafts on a subscription basis. The Redmond headquartered company, however, has competition in the skies. Almost five months earlier, International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) had announced a beta of its Cloud

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Dell announces range of VMware integration upgrades

Source:-datacenternews Dell Technologies has announced several infrastructure solutions for VMware environments to manage and support applications across the edge, data centres and hybrid clouds. As VMware delivers its latest releases for vSphere, vSAN and VMware Cloud Foundation to support Tanzu, Dell Technologies is extending support of these technologies across the Dell infrastructure portfolio, with integrated solutions including Dell Technologies Cloud, Dell EMC VxRail, Dell EMC PowerProtect, Dell EMC PowerEdge and more. Dell EMC VxRail, a jointly engineered HCI system with

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An analysis of Kubernetes and OpenStack combinations for modern data centres

Source: cloudcomputing-news.net Editor’s note: This article was originally published on OpenStack Superuser. CloudTech has the author’s permission to re-publish here. For many telecom service providers and enterprises who are transforming their data centre to modern infrastructure, moving to containerised workloads has become a priority. However, vendors often do not choose to shift completely to a containerised model. Data centres have to support virtual machines (VMs) as well to keep up with legacy VMs. Therefore, a model of managing virtual machines with OpenStack and containers using Kubernetes

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