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Amazon launches AWS instances powered by Habana’s AI accelerator chip
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s cloud services division, today announced the general availability of Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) DL1 instances. While new instance types generally aren’t particularly novel, DL1 (specifically DL1.24xlarge) is the first...
How to become financially stable as a remote freelancer
Switching from traditional full-time employment to contract work can be a bit of a transition — especially if you’re also throwing in remote work at the same time. A lot is happening in the world right now and for many, going into contract work may offer more from a...
Linux Company SUSE Outbids Competitors for Fast-growing Startup Rancher Labs
SUSE, a Linux distribution company controlled by private equity firm EQT, has agreed to acquire Rancher Labs, a start-up with technology that helps organizations run software in virtual containers across many servers. From a report:The companies announced the deal...
AWS Snowcone: A Small, Lightweight, Rugged, Secure Edge Computing, Edge Storage, and Data Transfer Device
Last month I published my AWS Snowball Edge Update and told you about the latest updates to Snowball Edge, including faster storage-optimized devices with more memory & vCPUs, the AWS OpsHub for Snow Family GUI-based management tool, IAM for Snowball Edge,...
Optimizing a multimillion-dollar cloud bill
In December 2019, A Cloud Guru acquired our largest competitor, Linux Academy — along with a $2.7 million USD annual AWS bill. Prior to the acquisition, cloud spend was a proportionally small expense for ACG. After all, we’re the people who identified as the...
MSP360 – Evolving Cloud Backup with AWS for Over a Decade
Back in 2009 I received an email from an AWS developer named Andy. He told me that he and his team of five engineers had built a product called CloudBerryExplorer for Amazon S3. I mentioned his product in my CloudFront Management Tool Roundup and in several subsequent...