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Accentures Acquires French Google Cloud AI Consulting Firm

August 3, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

As Google Cloud Next opened today in San Francisco, Accenture announced its intent to acquire Cirruseo, a French cloud consulting firm that specializes in Google Cloud intelligence services. The companies did not share the terms of the deal. Accenture says that Cirruseo’s strength and deep experience in Google’s cloud-based artificial intelligence solutions should help as Accenture expands its own AI practice.… Read more

Google Acquires Cloud Migration Platform Alooma

August 2, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Google today announced its intention to acquire Alooma, a company that allows enterprises to combine all of their data sources into services like Google’s BigQuery, Amazon’s Redshift, Snowflake and Azure. The promise of Alooma is that it handles the data pipelines and manages them for its users.… Read more

Amazon No Longer Building New York Headquarters Due to Backlash

May 30, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Amazon announced Thursday it will not build its second headquarters in New York City amid growing opposition to the project. The online retailer faced opposition from some New York politicians, who were unhappy with the nearly $3 billion in tax incentives Amazon was promised.… Read more

How Yelp Saves 2x more with AWS Spot Fleet on Apache Mesos

May 30, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

The following is a summary of the presentation “How Yelp.com Runs on Apache Mesos in AWS Spot Fleet” delivered by Kyle Anderson, Site Reliability Engineer from Yelp at MesosCon Los Angeles. Anderson helps build and run “PaaSTA”, Yelp’s open source platform-as-a-service built on Mesos, running on a hybrid infrastructure composed of AWS and bare metal servers.… Read more

Apple, IBM heads join White House panel on workforce automation

May 30, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Apple CEO Tim Cook and IBM CEO Ginni Rometty will be among the company executives who will be joining a Trump administration advisory board set to deal with the effects of artificial intelligence and automation on the workforce. According to Reuters, the panel will be co-chaired by Ivanka Trump and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.… Read more

Google will have offices and data centers in 24 states by the end of 2019

May 30, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Google is still closely associated with California to many people (and to a lesser degree New York), but it’s determined to change that reputation. The company is launching a $13 billion expansion in 2019 that will give it a total US footprint of 24 states, including “major expansions” in 14 states.… Read more