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Akamai boosts traffic by 350% but keeps energy use flat thanks to edge computing

Content delivery network gets 23% of global power needs from green sources including two wind farms and one solar array in the U.S. Image: iStock/Arkadiusz Warguła In 2020, Akamai's global platform used 10 times less energy per unit of capacity than it did in 2015, according to the company. At the same time, traffic grew by more than 350%. These gains are due to the company's widely-distributed network and focus on edge computing. By using machine learning, Akamai caches the most relevant data to its edge servers and eliminates the need for repetitive fetches to the origin. This saves on potential space and CPU power...

Microsoft earnings rise as pandemic boosts cloud computing and Xbox sales

Microsoft reported its Azure cloud computing services grew 50 per cent, the second quarter of acceleration in a business that had begun to slow as the global pandemic benefited the software maker’s investment on working and learning from home. The company’s shares rose 5 per cent in extended trading on Tuesday after gaining about 41 per cent in 2020 as Covid-19 shifted computing to areas where the software maker has bet big. It also saw a surprise recovery in sales on the LinkedIn professional social network and navigated a chip shortage that had threaten to hold back its Xbox business. The shift to work from home due to the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated enterprises’ switch to cloud-based computing, benefiting Microsoft and...

Microsoft earnings rise as pandemic boosts cloud computing, Xbox sales

Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) on Tuesday reported its Azure cloud computing services grew 50%, the second quarter of acceleration in a business that had begun to slow as the global pandemic benefited the software maker's investment on working and learning from home.The company's shares rose 5% in extended trading after gaining about 41% in 2020 as COVID-19 shifted computing to areas where the software maker has bet big. It also saw a surprise recovery in sales on the LinkedIn professional social network and navigated a chip shortage that had threaten to hold back its Xbox business.The shift to work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated enterprises' switch to cloud-based computing, benefiting Microsoft and rivals such as Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) cloud unit and Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google Cloud. On a conference call with investors,...

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Akamai boosts traffic by 350% but keeps energy use flat thanks to edge computing

Microsoft earnings rise as pandemic boosts cloud computing and Xbox sales

Microsoft earnings rise as pandemic boosts cloud computing, Xbox sales