Q&A with Google’s Bill Magro, an HPCwire Person to Watch in 2021

Source:-https://www.hpcwire.com/ Hi Bill, congratulations on being named a 2021 HPCwire Person to Watch! You joined Google last year to lead their HPC strategy. Please give a brief overview of your role and what you’ve been working on. Since joining, I’ve spent a fair amount of time simply discovering and learning. Google is a unique company, and I wanted to take the time to get to know its diverse products, technologies, and people. I’ve of course only begun to scratch the

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At your microservices and service mesh: An infrastructure built for a new standard

Source:-https://www.tmaxsoft.com/ As the one-year anniversary of the pandemic declaration has come and gone, it is getting more difficult to remember what business was like before March 11, 2020. Although we miss the human interaction of office work; some things should be left in the past. Even though vaccinations have created a light at the end of the tunnel, what it illuminates will not be like the past. The top 7 tech trends for 2021 not only reflect the journey to

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Google’s Mission Critical Services offering raises the bar for cloud customer support

Source:-https://siliconangle.com/ Google LLC debuted a more robust customer support service for its public cloud infrastructure platform today called Mission Critical Services, aimed at customers wanting to ensure that their most critical business applications will never fail. Google Cloud Customer Experience Vice President John Jester told SiliconANGLE that some of Google’s cloud customers have extremely demanding environments, and that even a minute of downtime can mean millions of dollars in lost revenue. Jester called out financial services, telecommunications and retail, all

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How the cloud super-providers see the changing landscape

Source – cloudcomputing-news.net Earlier this week, analyst firm Cloud Spectator published its latest report on combining price and performance in the cloud. In the main, its results mirrored previous studies; that the Amazons, Microsofts and Googles of this world may not be the best option for some organisations compared with the high performance, cheaper price specialists. So what of the behemoths, and how are their strategies changing? An illuminating session at Cloud Expo Europe today, featuring IBM, OVH – who bucked

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