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Cloud computing is among the disruptive technologies that continues to reign the world. The advent of Covid-19 pandemic saw the increased demand for cloud services. Cloud computing gravitates around the storage of programs and data over the internet. Traditionally, data and programs used to be majorly stored in the computer’s local disk and accessed whenever demanded. But currently technology has taken over for safety reasons and sensitive and important data is no longer stored in the local hard disk. Cloud computing involves the delivery of on-demand computer services that range from applications to processing and storage over the internet (cloud) and on a pay as you go basis. Cloud service providers, such as Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web services (AWS) Cloud , rent access to applications, processes and storage. The benefit of cloud computing is that they reduce the cost and complexity of owning a computing infrastructure or data center, and instead compani...

Cloudflare has unveiled a new feature that enhances privacy-focused web analytics to meet its clients’ metric targets. The tech firm opened the first brand of its new “privacy-first web analytics last December.” In order to meet the demands of its customers, Cloudflare released three new features, on Monday. According to Cloudflare blog post , the requested features which have been availed include: supporting Single-page Applications, adding multiple websites to an account and showing Core Web Vitals in web Analytics. The new release is based on the feedback that was received after the launch of the “privacy-first analytics.” The Company offers popular analytics to businesses with the aim of tracking visitor behavior and retarget them with ads in exchange for free analytics. The new dispatch allows webmasters to use web analytics to add up to 10 websites. In previous release, web analytics was only used to measure one website. The service has the option of using web analyti...

Cloud computing is credited for helping to keep NASA Perseverance Mars Rover on track. Lead cloud provider, Amazon Web Services (AWS) , has demonstrated how cloud computing is deployed in transforming the data that is sent to the earth from NASA’s Perseverance explorer on Mars. NASA Perseverance Rover reached the red planet on February 18 after traveling for a period of 100 days. Its mission on Mars will be processed and hosted in AWS . Since the rover touched the red planet, the team has been receiving numerous images every day from the cameras. According to AWS, the cloud will help NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to collect samples, store and then process and distribute huge volume of data. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a roaming smartphone packed with sensors, a camera and a microphone that is used to collect data. “The rover requires visibility to drive, so it is important for the team to be able to send the next batch of instructions back to the rover within a speci...

The global cloud infrastructure grew by 32 percent increase in the last quarter of 2020. The expansion was attributed to increased demand for cloud services to support e-learning, remote working, online games, content streaming and e-commerce. Most organizations embraced cloud infrastructure for the gradual recovery and economic resilience. According to a report that was published by Canalys, Amazon Web Services (AWS) led the list of the most sought cloud provider. AWS accounted for 31 percent of the total amount spent on cloud services. Other cloud providers which benefited a lot during the Covid-19 were Microsoft Azure , Google Cloud and Alibaba Cloud. Azure controlled 20% of the market share while Google Cloud controlled about 7 %. The study revealed that the global cloud services market surged by $10 billion in the last quarter of 2020. Microsoft Azure is marginally closing ranks on AWS’s lead. AWS, Azure and Google Cloud jointly bagged 58 percent of the market revenu...