Illumination-driven Mesh Reduction for Accelerating Light Transport Simulations

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 »

Microsoft Edge Browser Supports WebDriver Site-Testing Standard

In another developer-friendly move, Microsoft announces that its new Edge browser supports the WebDriver automated site-testing technology. Read more »

Big Four IaaS Providers Now Own Half the Market

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 »

Google Launches Nearline Storage Service, Boasting Fast Data Access

The new service combines the cost efficiency of cold storage with the speed of online data access, Google claims. Read more »

LinkedIn’s Nurse Provides 24/7 System Health

LinkedIn relies on an auto-remediation tool called Nurse to ensure the health of its systems that support 364 million users. Read more »

Intel Kicks Off Broad Effort to Grow Enterprise Cloud

The initiative includes a partnership with Rackspace to create an innovation center where developers can bring enterprise features to OpenStack. Read more »

Google Launches Click-to-Deploy Video Streaming With Wowza

The full suite of Wowza Media Systems’ Streaming Engine functionality is now available to Google Compute Engine users. Read more »

Yahoo Revenue Stable, But Q1 Profit Chilled by Q2 Loss

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 »

Foundation Launches to Unify Open-Source Cloud Efforts

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 »

Microsoft, GE Ink 300,000-Seat Office 365 Contract

General Electric will rely on Microsoft's globe-spanning cloud to bring productivity and collaboration services to its massive workforce. Read more »