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Google veteran Urs Hölzle steps down as manager in cloud shakeup: Report

Urs Hölzle joined the company, now the key unit of parent Alphabet Inc., in 1999 as its eighth employee, and will now transition into a role as a Google Fellow, the company said

IIT Kanpur successfully conducts test flight for cloud seeding: Report

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur has successfully conducted a test flight for cloud seeding, a statement issued by the premier institution said on Thursday. Cloud seeding involves the utilisation of various chemical agents such as silver iodide, dry ice, common salt, and other elements with the aim of enhancing the probability of rains, it said. The project was initiated a few years ago and is headed by the Computer Science and Engineering Department of IIT Kanpur. The flight went up to an approximate height of 5,000 feet. It landed on the IIT Kanpur lab airstrip after successfully completing the test ride on Wednesday. The experiment was conducted with due approval from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). A Cessna aircraft was flown from the flight laboratory of IIT Kanpur with cloud seeding attachments procured from a manufacturer in the US. The modifications in the aircraft were approved by the manufacturers of the aircraft and the DGCA. The test flight spre

Daniel Zhang to step down as Alibaba CEO, Eddie Wu Yongming to succeed him

Daniel Zhang to focus on Alibaba Cloud Intelligence Group as chairman and CEO; change will take effect September 10

Cloud remains long-term investment priority for 70% corporations: TCS study

75% respondents say they invested in AI, machine learning capabilities in the past two years

RAMP Global inks partnership with Hala Mobility to foray into EV biz

RAMP Global, a cloud-based ecosystem for automotive aftermarket services, has inked a strategic partnership with Hala Mobility to foray into the electric vehicles' maintenance, management, leasing and tracking business. As part of this collaboration, RAMP will automate Hala's complex backend operations for maintaining an EV fleet of approx 15,000 vehicles, bringing in improvement in operations and enough growth opportunities, the company said in a statement. The company said the tie-up is its first move that aims to drive efficiency and reliability of solutions for EV adoption as a clean mobility alternative. RAMP provides comprehensive automotive aftermarket solutions for enterprises operating large fleets, extending their expertise to electric vehicles. "Our solutions are capable of handling any kind of fleet including two, three and four-wheelers, commercial vehicles and construction equipment fleet. We already manage more than three million fleet on our platform. We are now ...

ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel selects IBM for cloud-powered transformation

ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India, a joint venture between ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel, has selected IT major IBM to drive cloud-powered transformation, a statement said on Tuesday. ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India (AM/NS India), the joint venture of the two leading steelmakers, is an integrated flat steel manufacturer with over 600 steel grades and serves multiple industries and key markets through its India, Indonesia, and Dubai business entities. With capacity expansion plans on a roll, the company recognised that its core business processes will require the necessary scalability and flexibility to support growth. Towards this, AM/NS India tapped into IBM Consulting's cloud-powered business transformation capabilities and expertise in the metals and mining industry prevalent in India. "IBM today announced that ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel India...has collaborated with IBM Consulting to reinvent mission-critical processes in order to boost agility, and efficiency with digital ...

98% senior IT leaders struggle with increasing cloud complexity: Report

Top challenges in optimising multi-cloud environment are lower in the US, UK, India, finds NetApp

Gizmore launches new smartwatch 'Cloud' with 1.85-inch display at Rs 1,199

Homegrown smart accessories brand Gizmore on Monday launched new smartwatch "Cloud", which comes with a 1.85-inch curved IPS display.

Dell acquires Israel's cloud services start-up Cloudify for $100 million

Dell Technologies has acquired Israeli startup Cloudify that is known for cloud orchestration and infrastructure automation

Web Werks broadens Executive Leadership team with the appointment of Amit Agrawal as Chief Business Officer

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We'll return to pre-Covid rhythm next year: TCS COO N Ganapathy Subramaniam

We are executing well, gaining market share in vendor consolidation and revenue will start coming in from next few quarters and we are actively participating in the growth and optimization deals

Cloud gaming platform Google Stadia to shut down operations on Jan 18

Google Stadia, the company's cloud gaming service, will shut down on January 18 after the game failed to gain the traction with users the company had hoped for

India public cloud service market to be worth $13 bn by 2026: Report

BFSI and manufacturing among leaders in public cloud adoption, as demand grows from other sectors

Microsoft to buy 4% of LSE Group as part of $2.8-billion cloud deal

The partnership will speed up the migration of its markets to the cloud and allow it to develop new products and services

Cloud more important in hybrid work; doubled capacity in 20 mths: Peesker

Satya (Nadella) pays special attention to the work that we're doing here…. When it comes to investing, India is top of mind, says Microsoft's Kevin Peesker

Aversion to the cloud for engineering operations is fading, shows data

Cloud adoption for engineering and manufacturing grew 2.5x times vis-a-vispre-pandemic levels

Google Cloud joins hands with DSCI for boosting cloud adoption

"Secure with cloud" initiative will also provide industry best practices and frameworks with Start-up and mobile app ecosystems on privacy and security

Reliance Jio Cloud-linked laptops likely to cost less than Rs 10,000

Jio is working on JioBook that will have an embedded 4G chip; it is expected to be priced below Rs 20,000

Baidu's Q2 revenue contracts, but beats estimates on cloud business growth

Total revenue shrank by 5% to 29.65 billion yuan ($4.43 billion) in the second quarter, compared with analysts' average estimate of 29.30 billion yuan, according to Refinitiv data

Engineering company Fabrication Bazar raises Rs 7 cr in seed round

Fabrication Bazar, which was founded in 2016 by Dwaipayan Dutta and Mohit Garg, has developed a cloud fabrication and tracking platform for manufacturing