Qualcomm And Ericsson Complete World-First Interoperability Milestone To Drive 5G Carrier Aggregation
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and Ericsson announced the completion of key interoperability tests to enable global operators and OEMs in implementing 5G carrier aggregation – a critical feature in 5G specifications to lift performance, capacity, and coverage in the rapidly expanding 5G networks. The companies successfully completed the world’s first interoperability tests for 5G standalone (SA) …
Introducing Swift Cluster Membership
It is my pleasure to announce a new open source project for the Swift Server ecosystem, Swift Cluster Membership. This library aims to help Swift grow in a new space of server applications: clustered multi-node distributed systems. With this library we provide reusable runtime-agnostic membership protocol implementations which can be adopted in various clustering use-cases. Background Cluster membership …
Rackspace Technology, Along With University Of California, Irvine, Scientific Systems, And Plan4Co Introduce New COVID-19 Forecasting Model
Rackspace Technology™, a leading end-to-end multicloud technology solutions company, announced it has partnered with University of California, Irvine, Scientific Systems Company, Inc., and Plan4Co to work on a project that underscores the effectiveness of Amazon Forecast in creating COVID-19 forecasting models with greater accuracy. Forecasting models have the potential to assess the disease trends, including …
Cosmic Rays May Soon Stymie Quantum Computing
The practicality of quantum computing hangs on the integrity of the quantum bit, or qubit. Qubits, the logic elements of quantum computers, are coherent two-level systems that represent quantum information. Each qubit has the strange ability to be in a quantum superposition, carrying aspects of both states simultaneously, enabling a quantum version of parallel computation. …
Redis Labs Raises $100 Million From Bain Capital Ventures And TCV To Help Companies Win In The Data-Driven Economy
Redis Labs, the company behind Redis, the most popular open source database and the provider of Redis Enterprise, announced it has closed $100 million in Series F financing at a company valuation of more than $1 billion. This investment was co-led by Bain Capital Ventures and TCV, with participation by the company’s existing investors Francisco Partners, Goldman Sachs Growth, Viola Ventures, …
Ubisoft: Driving Innovation In Gaming With Kubernetes
What is Ubisoft? Ubisoft is the world-renowned video game pioneer responsible for some of the biggest gaming titles in history — Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, the Tom Clancy series and, of course, Just Dance. In its own words, Ubisoft is a creator of worlds, committed to enriching players’ lives with original and memorable gaming experiences. Founded …
Digital Realty Adds Renewable Energy, Expands Colocation Capacity In Dallas Portfolio
Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of carrier- and cloud-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced it is expanding its renewable energy capacity in Texas with a new long-term power purchase agreement to source solar power for the company’s Dallas-area data center portfolio from Pattern Energy’s 82.5 MWac Phoenix Solar Project located …
Qualcomm Small Business Accelerator Program To Provide Transformational Technology And Services To 33 Selected Small Businesses: From Music Teaching To Cleantech Engineering
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced selections for the Qualcomm® Small Business Accelerator Program, which is designed to help small businesses transition to a mobile-first digital work environment to thrive in today’s business climate and set-up for success in the long-term. The comprehensive program was created to provide small businesses with products powered by Qualcomm Technologies solutions, …
Kubernetes Troubleshooting: 7 Essential Steps For Delivering Reliable Applications
A step-by-step guide for delivering more reliable software in today’s increasingly complex and fast moving environment. This post is based on a recent webinar created in collaboration with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, together with Brandon Groves and Ben Morrise from the OverOps engineering team. If you think of the shift to microservices and containers …
Understandability: The Most Important Metric You’re Not Tracking
The Basics of Understandability What is understandability? In dev terms, it means that the dev who creates the software is able to effortlessly receive the data from their software that allows them to easily comprehend what is happening in it. In essence, the more that a system is understandable, the easier it becomes for the developers …