Cloud providers love to talk about how elastic the cloud is. But what does that really mean? In truth, less than you might think. Elasticity is really about load balancing, or moving processes among ...

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Latency issues with cloud: AI often demands near-zero latency to deliver actions. "Applications requiring response times of 10 milliseconds or below cannot tolerate the inherent delays of cloud-based ...

Complexity continues to be a burning issue in the cloud based on the urge to leverage best-of-breed technologies. For simplicity purposes, having a connective tissue or supercloud across the different ...

After canceling its $10bn JEDI contract with Microsoft last year, the Pentagon has now awarded a new $9bn contract to four tech giants that will build its cloud-computing network. The contract, ...