Google Cloud is extending its infrastructure to the edge, bringing its cloud hardware and software into telecom networks and customer data centers, including on-premises facilities.
Microsoft is shipping a data centre in a 40-foot container. What s inside, and what s it for? Microsoft s Azure Modular data center brings computing on the edge.
Microsoft s container-based Azure MDC (Modular Data Center) is designed to be easily deployed wherever power and connectivity are available. Image: Microsoft
If there s one thing you can rely on, in today s world, it s change. And change often happens fast, leaving you chasing wave after wave of information. Sometimes that change is good: a sudden surge in business demand, or a new scientific discovery. Sometimes it s bad: a natural disaster, or a global pandemic. But whatever the nature of the change, we ll need as much compute capacity as we can get in an increasingly information-driven world.
SpaceX Gets Connected: Satellite Broadband Meets the Data Center
Satellite company Telesat is preparing to deploy its Lightspeed network of low-earth orbit (LEO) satellites to provide broadband Internet from space. (Photo: Telesat)
Doug Mohney is the Editor in Chief of Space IT Bridge, which tracks the business of space-based satellites. He has been working in and writing about IT and satellite industries for over 20 years.
SpaceX, OneWeb, Telesat and Amazon are all moving forward with plans to deliver low-latency high speed broadband across the globe, leveraging the advantages of low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites. Both SpaceX and OneWeb are filling out their constellations of hundreds and thousands of spacecraft this year, while Telesat and Amazon plan to start launching their first satellites within two to three years.
NASA Fits Orbiter Camera With AI to Track Changes on Mars
Plus, drones that can plant thousands of trees in a day, mobile Microsoft data centers designed to set up in remote or hazardous locations, and a five-story building in Shanghai that “walked” itself down the street.
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Scientists are applying AI to space exploration to track changes in celestial bodies over time. Researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory fed an algorithm 6,830 images taken by the Context Camera that’s part of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to train it on what to look for, then gave it 112,000 images to analyze, revealing new craters on the Red Planet they think were made between March 2010 and May 2012.