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Granulate Wins Cloud Development Innovation of the Year at 2020-21 Cloud Awards – PRNewswire

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TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Granulate, a leading provider of autonomous real-time computing workload optimization and cost reduction solutions, has been named the 2020 winner of the Cloud Development Innovation category in the Cloud Awards. After a lengthy review process, the announcement occurred at the InternationalCloud Computing Awards program, The Cloud Awards.

Granulate provides real-time computing performance optimization with its AI-driven solution that tailors computing workload prioritization for the unique needs of any company in any industry. With Granulate's solution, companies see rapid and drastic performance improvement, including up to a 5x increase in throughput, 40% faster response times, and a reduction in cloud computing costs of up to 60%. Designed to function in any computing infrastructure or environment, implementing Granulate is simple and fast, requiring zero code changes or R&D involvement, with results within days, if not hours.

"We are honored to be recognized as the Cloud Innovation of the year in the Cloud Computing Awards," said Asaf Ezra, CEO and co-founder of Granulate. "Our optimization solution enables companies of any size to significantly reduce computing costs while improving performance, not only in the cloud, but on-prem as well, with minimal effort. We are excited to receive this honor, and will continue to develop our solutions to further improve computing efficiency for our customers. Optimizing computing power means optimizing business."

The Cloud Awards program celebrates the brightest and the best in Cloud Computing. Open to organizations across the globe, the Cloud Awards is the first and largest recognition platform of its kind.

"Performance and resource usage is often overlooked when deploying to the cloud, as development and product teams focus on the end deliverables. The judges were particularly impressed by the solution offered by Granulate which offers customers huge savings, both in cost and in the environmental impact that can be achieved with next to no effort," said Cloud Award Judge Richard Geary. "Cloud technologies make a good platform for turning around urgent applications rapidly and at scale. This was clearly evidenced in the range of innovative technological solutions that Granulate has offered during the Pandemic."

"Every year, we find ourselves reporting the winners of the Cloud Awards, in simple awe at the scalability and agility of cloud-based solutions. Previous winners have risen superbly to the evolving challenges organizations must face in our increasingly unrecognizable modern world," said Head of Operations for the Cloud Awards, James Williams.

Hundreds of organizations entered the Cloud Awards, with entries coming from across the globe, covering the Americas, Australia, Europe and the Middle East. You can view the full shortlist here: https://www.cloud-awards.com/2020-shortlist/.

About Granulate

Granulateis a real-time, autonomous computing optimization company that delivers reduced compute costs, faster response time, and better throughput, without any code changes required. Granulate's patent-pending next-generation solution provides AI-driven infrastructure and workload optimization for robust compute performance and cost improvements in any computing environment, empowering businesses of any size from any industry by bolstering their computing power while slashing computing costs. Companies that have implemented Granulate have reduced compute expenses by up to 60%, benefitting from a 40% response time reduction and 5X increase in throughput.

Granulate Media ContactRaanan Loew[emailprotected] US: +1-347-897-9276

About the Cloud Awards

TheCloud Awardsis an international program which recognizes and honors industry leaders, innovators, and organizational transformation in cloud computing. The awards are open to large, small, established, and start-up organizations from across the entire globe, with an aim to find and celebrate the pioneers who will shape the future of the Cloud as we move into 2021 and beyond. The Cloud Awards currently offers two awards programs, the Cloud Computing Awards, and the Software-as-a-Service Awards. For more information about the Cloud Awards, please visithttps://www.cloud-awards.com.

Cloud Awards ContactJames Williams Operations http://www.cloud-awards.com[emailprotected]

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Comprehensive Report on Healthcare Cloud Computing Market 2021 | Size, Growth, Demand, Opportunities & Forecast To 2027 | CareCloud Corporation,…

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Dell to invest $50m in Singapore innovation hub – ComputerWeekly.com

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Dell Technologies is investing $50m in a global innovation hub in Singapore to drive adoption of emerging technologies and advance its research and development (R&D) capabilities.

The first of its kind outside the US, the facility is part of the companys efforts to speed up adoption of digital technology and foster innovation in Singapore for global customers and partners, said Amit Midha, its president for Asia-Pacific and Japan.

For a start, Dell will invest $23m this year out of its $50m investment, which will be used to support the development of augmented and mixed reality, data analytics, cloud-native, cyber security and edge computing technologies.

The global innovation hub, home to a specialised team responsible for enhancing user experiences, will also house R&D and hardware prototyping facilities, along with an artificial intelligence (AI) experience zone.

During a media briefing, Midha said the new facility underscores the tremendous role that Singapore plays in Dells global technology delivery, roadmap and strategy, adding that 160 new roles including designers, developers and strategists will be filled by this year.

This is a fantastic way for us harness the talent base in Singapore, the Singapore brand, as well as show our commitment to the country, he added.

Ang Chin Tah, vice-president and head of Digital Industry Singapore, a multi-agency government office to grow the local tech sector, said the global innovation hub speaks to Dell Technologies confidence in Singapore as an attractive R&D location, with access to talent and a vibrant ecosystem of partners across the region.

Dell Technologies will create meaningful jobs for Singaporeans across design, strategy, research and product development. These in turn support our efforts in building a smart nation and strong digital economy, he said.

Amid growing opportunities in the tech sector, Midha said Singapore could take the lead in edge computing, which could dwarf cloud computing in the next decade.

The amount of data that the edge will create and the uses of edge will be multi-fold. And so for us to think about Singapore leading the way in the edge, cyber security, cloud-native and augmented reality really bodes well for Singapore as a nation, he added.

The global innovation hub follows earlier efforts by Dell to train up to 3,000 fresh graduates, mid-career professionals and students in Singapore with knowledge and skills in cloud computing, data protection and management, data science, and big data analytics over the next two years.

This includes a five-week training programme for 1,000 employees at Singapore-based Dells partner and customer firms enrolled in the governments SGUnited traineeship or mid-career pathways programme.

The sessions will equip individuals with relevant skills for job roles such as data protection and management engineer, data analyst, and converged cloud infrastructure engineer.

At the end of the programme, all participants will be evaluated on their technical proficiency and awarded industry-recognised certifications such as the Dell Certified Associate upon passing the examination.

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IBM Is Said to Consider Sale of Watson Health Amid Cloud Focus – Data Center Knowledge

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Nico Grant and Tom Giles(Bloomberg) --International Business Machines Corp. is considering a sale of its IBM Watson Health business, a person with knowledge of the matter said, a move that would help newly appointed Chief Executive Officer Arvind Krishna focus on faster-growing cloud computing operations.

Deliberations are at a very early stage and the company may opt not to pursue a deal, said the person, who asked not to be identified discussing private talks. IBM is exploring a range of alternatives, from a sale to a private equity firm or a merger with a blank-check company, according to the Wall Street Journal, which earlier Thursday reported the possibility of a deal.

Related: Why IBM Is Untethering Watson AI Software from Its Cloud

IBM has been trying toboostits share of revenue from hybrid-cloud software and services, which lets customers store data in private servers and on multiple public clouds, including those of rivals Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp. IBM bought RedHat for $34 billion in 2018 to boost this effort.

As a testament to the companys bet on the cloud, Krishna said in October that he would spin off IBMs managed infrastructure services unit into a separate publicly traded company. The division, currently part of the Global Technology Services division, handles day-to-day infrastructure service operations, like managing client data centers and traditional information-technology support for installing, repairing and operating equipment. While the unit accounts for about a quarter of IBMs sales and staff, it has seen business shrink as customers embraced the shift to the cloud, and many clients delayed infrastructure upgrades during the pandemic. The spinoff is scheduled to be completed by end of 2021.

Related: IBM Watson AI to Help CBRE Manage Client Data Centers

Offloading IBM Watson Health, which helps health care providers manage data, would further Krishnas efforts to streamline the company. The unit generates about $1 billion of annual revenue and isnt profitable, according to the Journal, which cited people it didnt identify. An IBM representative declined to comment.

IBM embarked on Watson with lofty goals, such as revolutionizing health care for cancer patients, but many of its ambitions havent panned out and some customers have complained that the products didnt match the companys hype. IBM has scaled back its Watson ambitions, including through job cuts last year.

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Cloud Computing in Automotive Market Size, Demand, Trends and Growth by Business Opportunities, Latest Innovation, Technology Trends and Forecast 2025…

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NASA Scientists Need to Live and Work on "Mars Time" – Futurism

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The Perseverance rover doesn't care about your nine-to-five.Mars Time

NASAs Perseverance Mars rover is currently approaching the surface of Mars, where its expected to touch down in the next few hours.

Assuming it lands successfully, the Perseverance mission team at NASA is going to need to make some major lifestyle changes, Space.com reports. Most notably? Theyre going to have to start living and working on whats called Mars time, meaning theyll shift their schedule to match whats happening on the Red Planet instead of back home on Earth.

A day on Mars lasts about 24 hours and 37 minutes, meaning that the NASA teams shifts will actually start and end at different Earth times each day, since the two planets arent in perfect sync with one another.

2PM will be our start time and then that will adjust by 40 minutes every day, deputy project manager Jennifer Trosper said during a Tuesday news conference. While it works, we only ask people to do this for three months.

During past rover landings, NASA engineers would often set up cots and sleep at work as they adjusted to their constantly-shifting schedules, Space.com reports. But because of the pandemic, many of the team members will be working from home and have to sort out their calendars on their own.

But thankfully, the engineers will only go through three cycles of Mars time each just over a month on Earth before they can return to a normal working schedule, Space.com reports. Then, theyll finally be able to live on their own planets local time and recover from what Trosper said will feel a whole lot like constant jet-lag.

READ MORE: NASAs Perseverance rover team will have to live on Mars time after landing on the Red Planet [Space.com]

Watch the Perseverance landing: How to Watch NASAs Perseverance Rover Land on Mars

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Jaguar Says All Its Cars Will Be Electric in Just Four Years – Futurism

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Electric Jaguars and potentially even hydrogen-powered ones are coming very soon.Big Shift

British Automaker Jaguar Land Rover Limited announced on Monday that its making an ambitious and speedy transition away from gas-burning cars to go almost entirely electric in the future.

Most prominently, the entire Jaguar brand will go entirely electric within the next four years, according to a company press release about the pivot. In addition, the company will start to launch all-electric Land Rover SUV models in 2024. Both are ambitious timelines, but symbolically important if the iconic automaker can show the switch is possible, it could push the entire industry away from gas-burning cars and toward greener technologies.

Jaguar Land Rover is far from the only company pivoting or at least heavily investing in electric vehicles. President Biden said he wanted to electrify the entire federal fleet of vehicles, and General Motors plans to sell only electric cars, trucks, and SUVs by 2035.

But if all goes according to plan, Jaguar will already be long-done with its electrification by then. The company giving itself just four years to pivot is an ambitious and perhaps lofty goal, so it will be interesting to see how it shakes out.

The cleaner Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles of the future may not be powered by electricity alone, according to the press release. The company is also looking into hydrogen fuel technology as a possible means to power its cars, providing multiple avenues to pursue clean energy.

Of course, these are luxury vehicles that were talking about, so a fleet of electric Jaguars wont do much to make electric car technology more accessible for the average person. That said, progress is progress.

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Elon Musk Collaborated With MIT to Track COVID Infections at SpaceX – Futurism

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More than 4,000 SpaceX employees took part in a study, helmed by Elon Musk, to track the spread of COVID-19 throughout the company.

Musk partnered with researchers from Harvard and MIT to develop the antibody testing program, which required volunteer SpaceX employees to submit to monthly blood tests.

This week, the group published a peer-reviewed study Musk, known as an unusually hands-on executive, carries a byline on it in the journal Nature Communications.

The findings shed new light on how the severity of COVID symptoms impact the amount of antibodies each person has,and suggests those who experienced mild symptoms from the virus are less likely to have long-term immunity.

People can have antibodies, but it doesnt mean they are going to be immune, Dr. Galit Alter, co-author of the study and member of the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard, told The Wall Street Journal.

The findings have the potential to help public health officials identify who is most vulnerable to the coronavirus and then prioritize them for vaccinations. Of course, more research is needed before it can be more widely applied.

To really nail this down at a public-health level would require doing reinfection studies and following people for reinfection, Joshua T. Schiffer, associate professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centers vaccine and infectious-disease division, told the WSJ.

SpaceX is continuing to research, test, and monitor its employees for infection and reinfection each month. As the vaccine is distributed throughout the country, itll also examine the impact the vaccine on antibody production.

Hopefully, their boss has changed his own mind on getting the vaccine.

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Could I Defeat NASAs New Mars Rover in Hand-to-Hand Combat? – Futurism

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Watching NASAs Perseverance rover touch down on the Red Planet this week, it was impossible not to be struck by a sense of awe at humanitys scientific achievements in our race to the stars. The spectacle invited us to dwell on our place in the universe and the countless ways in which we reach toward even the most distant frontiers.

It also brought to mind a pressing question. If I were dropped in Jezero crater with a pressurized spacesuit, could I defeat NASAs mighty rover in hand-to-hand or at least hand-to-robot-arm combat?

In the red corner we have the most technologically advanced robot ever to explore beyond Earth. Its bristling with sensors, armed with a fearsome drill and a laser, fueled by a plutonium power system, and ruggedly constructed to withstand the harsh Martian environment.

And in the blue corner we have me, a physically unremarkable representative of a species which likes to think of itself as the apex predator of the nearby planet of Earth.

In reality, I like to think that Perseverance and I would be the best of friends. The rover is a peaceful scientific investigator, searching Mars for signs of ancient life. And its controlled by humans on Earth, which means its subject to a communications delay of up to 20 minutes. But to make things interesting, lets assume that its been reprogrammed to use every tool in its arsenal for maximum autonomous lethality.

I wanted to know if I stood a chance in such a scenario, so I called up Roger Wiens of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, who led the development of Perseverances SuperCam instrument and is broadly familiar with the rovers capabilities.

Wiens suggested that my best bet might be to flip it over like a beetle on its back. But given that Perseverance is approximately the size and weight of my first car in a recent interview with Futurism, NASA head Steve Jurczyk characterized it as a robot the size of a Mini Cooper Id probably struggle, even with the planets weak gravity.

One advantage I would have is speed. My fitness levels are deeply unimpressive, exacerbated by a year spent alternately sitting at my desk and rewatching old episodes of Star Trek from my couch. But even my dumpy, unathletic body could maintain a leisurely pace of 3 mph enough to easily overtake the rovers glacial top speed of just 0.1 mph.

Even if the rover could crush my squishy organic frame beneath its formidable wheels, it would have to catch me first. And as a lifelong specialist in avoiding confrontation, I can run away like a champ.

One strategy would be to use my cunning and construct a trap. I could build a ramp from Martian rocks and sand and lie in wait for the Mars rover to investigate, hoping the steep terrain would tip it over. But Wiens isnt sure about my chances.

That might be a little difficult, he said. Ive seen a model drive right up over a rock that was nearly one meter tall.

Indeed, the rover can make amazing maneuvers over tricky terrain thanks to its suspension system called, and I swear I am not making this up, a rocker-bogie mechanism which keeps its weight evenly distributed over all six sturdy wheels. It can climb over rocks and through depressions, and the chunky tread of its wheels can handle both soft sand and hard rocks.

Another possibility would be to use my highly evolved monkey brain to perform a sneak attack. In the great tradition of early man, I could locate a hefty Mars rock and try to bludgeon the rover into submission.

Wiens thinks that might work, at least to some extent. Most of the hardware which makes up instruments like SuperCam is custom-built to withstand the extreme forces of launch and landing, not to mention the planets frigid temperatures. But certain components, such as the infrared detectors, are commercially built devices and can contain fragile parts.

We dont really expect any Martians to be attacking the rover, Wiens admitted.

So I might have a chance at harming it, because some parts are a bit sensitive if someone is throwing rocks or small pebbles at it, in Wiens analysis. Theres a glass window in front of the SuperCam instrument, for instance, which he thinks I could smash to disorient the rover.

To do that, though, Id need to get close, and that would be hard due to its keen-eyed sensors. The SuperCam instrument alone includes a camera with a zoom powerful enough to spot a human hair from two meters away, and infrared sensors for studying mineralogy via reflected sunlight, which means it could spot me in the dark. It also has a microphone, which will be the first instrument to record the sounds of Mars, so even my footfalls could betray me.

The rover might defend itself by attacking me with its Ingenuity marscopter, with its whirling rotors, which NASA intends to be the first aircraft to fly on a world other than Earth. And what really scares me about melee combat is Perseverances laser, also part of SuperCam, which is designed to fire in brief pulses of five billionths of a second, focused on an area of just a fraction of a millimeter. The laser can fire at targets more than 20 feet away with great accuracy.

It packs a lot of energy into a really small spot, Wiens explained, to turn little pieces of rock into a high-energy plasma so that the camera can detect the color spectrum they give off, revealing their elemental composition.

Thats awesome for analyzing Martian rocks. But its unclear what it would mean for me as the target of the rovers ire. What would happen, I asked, if I put my hand in front of the laser?

It would make a little burn mark, Wiens said. Dont do that.

I might get some protection from the laser with my spacesuit. But the rover would have yet another weapon in the form of its drill, which is designed to bore into rocks in order to collect samples. The Sample Caching System includes a carousel of no less than nine drill bits for different types of sample, which are attached to a seven-foot arm that reaches out to drill into rock or, terrifyingly, into me.

All told, when even one of the scientists who was intimately involved in the design of the rover is skeptical about my chances, Im not feeling confident. Thats a chilling thought, especially when I imagine Im on Mars and its growing dark, and through the thin atmosphere an ominous whisper carries a distant whirring of gears which tells me my ruthless robotic adversary is out there, just waiting for its chance to attack.

Dan Robitzski contributed reporting.

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Author Talitha Vickers wrote the children's book on the struggles her nephew faced while his father was deployed.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Theyre some of our favorite videos in the Bay area military members reuniting with their families. Author Talitha Vickers says its one of her favorite things to see on the news.

You see the happy reunions. You start crying and saying Oh my goodness, the dad showed up at the baseball game! Vickers said.

But what about the moments when a child's classmates ask hard questions?

People would say Well, wheres your dad? Hes not showing up at school. I dont see him at the football games,' Vickers explained.

Her childrens book, Why My Hero Had To Go, offers some answers.

This book allows children of all backgrounds to understand, you know, why one of their friends may not have a mom or a dad with them all the time," she said. "It also gives other children an opportunity to see a dynamic different than their own.

Vickers family in Port St. Lucie, Florida, is the story behind the story.

My brother served in the Army, Vickers said. It was so difficult, really, for my nephew to wrap his head around this big word deployment at 1 year old and, you know, 2 years old.

And since she couldnt find a book that showed the parallels of life at home and while serving, she decided to write her own.

Inside the book, youll find things like how they can stay connected through things like their daily environment and their daily routines: going out to school, even the way they wake up -- Attention!' is what I hear. While a soft whisper says wake up, dear in your ear, Vickers said.

Of course, military families arent the only ones dealing with being separated from their loved ones at the moment.

Were in the middle of a pandemic right now so were not able to see a lot of our loved ones so the book really resonates two-fold with military families and non-military families, as well, Vickers said.

When it came time to publish her story, Vickers hit some roadblocks.

Some publishing houses and even agents were asking me to tweak and change things I wasnt comfortable with and that was primarily my nephews skin, the color of his skin, Vickers said. The feedback that I got was how about we lighten his skin. That will have bigger mass appeal. We dont have a big, broad appeal or a big market for minority books. I was like what?! I mean, I was just astounded by that. It really stung.

So she took matters into her own hands, saving up for eight years and working with illustrator Keith Hobgood to self-publish Why My Hero Had To Go.

I wanted to be intentional about the people who were inside of this book, to be reflective of our community, Vickers said. I wanted the book to really resonate with people of all backgrounds. Not just say theres a Black child on the book, so its a Black story.

"No, its not, its story that resonates, a universal story with a child who just so happens to have my complexion.

Vickers says more versions of the book are in the works, including one from a mother-daughter perspective, a version for each branch of the military and a Spanish translation. You can read more about the story behind Why My Hero Had To Go on her website talithavickers.com.

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