Leon Yen

It’s official: the cloud is now above the clouds. Microsoft recently announced the connecting of Azure to the International Space Station (ISS), enabling crew onboard to leverage public cloud resources for AI-powered capabilities, advanced processing, and best-in-class cloud computing services. This availability will enable a myriad of critical in-space activities, from scientific research and weather […]

2020 was a watershed year for cloud service providers: for the first time since the advent of cloud computing, enterprise spending on cloud services dwarfed on-premises spending, marking what pundits believe is an accelerating, inexorable shift away from physical data centers. Notwithstanding, on premises is not likely to go anywhere any time soon. In fact, […]

With global data creation increasing at unprecedented rates, collection is more often a trivial task: computers, smartphones, and any number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices — 30.9 billion at last count — make these efforts akin to drinking from the proverbial fire hose. Despite the deluge, extracting insights is a delicate affair that requires considerable […]

When famed mathematician John W. Tukey postulated that advanced computing would have a profound effect on data analysis, he probably didn’t imagine the full extent to which this yet-to-be-named field would become embedded in all facets of future society. This was in 1962, three years before Intel co-founder Gordon Moore famously authored the eponymous “law” […]