Policymakers must do more to confront the increasing vulnerability critical infrastructure sectors face due to their growing reliance on cloud computing, a new Atlantic Council report urges. The report underscores that the cloud has already allowed malicious actors to spy on government agencies, pointing to the 2020 Sunburst hack in which cloud products, specifically Microsoft Azures Identity and Access Management services, were compromised

To meet the rapid increase in demand for computer processing power of high-end research, Red Oak Consulting, a specialist in high performance computer (HPC) systems, has launched a three-tiered, fully managed service solution to help organisations move their research systems into the realm of cloud-based supercomputers. This, the company says, is applicable for organisations working across a whole host of sectors, where quite literally petabytes of data are required to be processed in milliseconds, where normal computers simply couldnt cope, and the only solution is a high performance, or supercomputer. As this moves increasingly towards cloud-based solutions, the level of support, technological knowledge and expertise moves into a whole new territory.

Cost optimization refers to the process of identifying and implementing strategies to minimize expenses and achieve the most efficient use of resources while maintaining or improving the desired level of performance or service. In the context of cloud computing, cost optimization focuses on reducing the overall expenditure associated with utilizing cloud services, such as compute instances, storage, data transfer, and other resources.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 11 (Reuters) - International Business Machines (IBM) (IBM.N) is considering the use of artificial intelligence chips that it designed in-house to lower the costs of operating a cloud computing service it made widely available this week, an executive said Tuesday. In an interview with Reuters at a semiconductor conference in San Francisco, Mukesh Khare, general manager of IBM Semiconductors, said the company is contemplating using a chip called the Artificial Intelligence Unit as part of its new "watsonx" cloud service. IBM is hoping to take advantage of the boom in generative AI technologies that can write human-like text more than a decade after Watson, its first major AI system, failed to gain market traction