Progressive light transport simulations aspire a physically-based, consistent rendering to obtain visually appealing illumination effects, depth and realism. Thereby, the handling of large scenes is a difficult problem, as in typical scene... Read more »
In another developer-friendly move, Microsoft announces that its new Edge browser supports the WebDriver automated site-testing technology. Read more »
As of Q2 2015, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, IBM and Google as a group control 54 percent of the worldwide cloud infrastructure service market. Read more »
The new service combines the cost efficiency of cold storage with the speed of online data access, Google claims. Read more »
LinkedIn relies on an auto-remediation tool called Nurse to ensure the health of its systems that support 364 million users. Read more »
The initiative includes a partnership with Rackspace to create an innovation center where developers can bring enterprise features to OpenStack. Read more »
The full suite of Wowza Media Systems’ Streaming Engine functionality is now available to Google Compute Engine users. Read more »
A major part of Yahoo's expense issues involve traffic acquisition costs, which soared to $200 million -- up from $44 million in Q2 2014. Read more »
Google's Kubernetes joins a host of vendors and projects as part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, a new Linux Foundation-backed effort. Read more »
General Electric will rely on Microsoft's globe-spanning cloud to bring productivity and collaboration services to its massive workforce. Read more »