Oracle Launches Arm-Based Cloud Computing Service Using Ampere Chips

Source:-https://gadgets.ndtv.com/ Oracle on Tuesday launched a cloud computing service powered by data centre chips from Ampere Computing based on technology from Arm, the second major cloud company to offer an Arm-based service after Amazon’s Amazon Web Services. Cloud providers are some of the biggest buyers of chips because they rent out the computing power they generate to thousands of other companies. Until recently, however, almost all the chips cloud services bought came from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices because most

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Microsoft working on Arm-based chips for Azure, Surface

Source:-https://www.crn.com.au Microsoft is reportedly designing Arm-based chips for Azure servers and some Surface PCs, signaling the computer giant’s increasing willingness to lower its reliance on Intel. Bloomberg reported Friday that the Redmond, Wash.-based company is working on in-house processor designs for its own servers that run Azure, mirroring an effort by Amazon Web Services, which has already began offering cloud instances using its own Arm-based server CPUs, Graviton. The news organization, which cited unnamed sources familiar with the plans, said

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Atlassian tech support secrets revealed – less Jira, more poker

Source: crn.com.au Atlassian has revealed it’s tech support secrets, posting insights into how it’s used on gamification to massively reduce bug tracking problems. In a post titled “How to gamify b ug tracking”, the company’s Senior Development Team Lead Andrew Burleson Explain but the company used Statuspage to track bugs.  Most of the resulting reports “ were passed from customer support to the escalation engineer (EE),” Burleson wrote. “Most of the time, the EE would either figure out what was

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