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Submission + - Google To Open 12 More Data Centres In Major Cloud Expansion

Submitted by Mickeycaskill on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @06:24PM

Mickeycaskill writes: Google is to open 12 new data centres in the latest stage of a bitter war with rivals Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure.

The first two facilities to open will be in Oregon and Tokyo, both of which will open next year. The rest will follow in 2017.

Google says the new locations will allow customers to run applications closer to home, boosting latency, and of course benefiting from any local data protection laws.

At present, Google has just four cloud regions, meaning this expansion will quadruple its sphere of influence.

“With these new regions, even more applications become candidates to run on Cloud Platform, and get the benefits of Google-level scale and industry leading price/performance," said Varun Sakalkar, Google Cloud’s product manager.

Submission + - Is this software's industrial revolution?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 03, 2015 @10:31PM

An anonymous reader writes: Tech company, Code Valley, makes a bold claim that a software industrial revolution may be imminent. They propose to shift developers from the code-domain (current software development practice) to a 'design-domain,' where the emphasis is no longer on writing code, but is on decentralised design – code becomes simply a by-product of this collaboration. In this design-domain, software programs are designed (and built) by a peer-to-peer supply-chain of software vendors, each owned and managed by a software engineer. Code Valley claims that their technology allows each vendor to operate with complete physical IP-protection. They envisage a global supply-chain of these software experts, fuelled by bitcoin, capable of reliably delivering immensely complex software programs – a “design-domain of limitless potential, software’s industrial revolution.”

Comment Re: Wait a minute (Score 1) 248

by codevalley on Friday January 16, 2015 @10:11PM (#48836377) Attached to: SpaceX Landing Attempt Video Released

The hydraulic system used on the main engines uses pressurized fuel fed from the fuel turbo-pump and returned to the low pressure manifold. Thus it is impossible to run out of hydraulic fluid if the engine is running. The grids only operate for a few minutes and mostly when the main engines are off and thus require a separate system. The lightest system is a pressurized tank of hydraulic fluid which in this case was a tad too small. Close but no cigar.

Apple Orders 10 Million Tablets? 221

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 04, 2010 @03:11PM from the pricepoint-better-be-right dept.

Arvisp writes "According to a blog post by former Google China president Kai-Fu Lee, Apple plans to produce nearly 10 million tablets in the still-unannounced product's first year. If Lee's blog post is to be believed, Apple plans to sell nearly twice as many tablets as it did iPhones in the product's first year."

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