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HPE to offer cloud computing service for artificial intelligence

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co (HPE) announced the launch of a cloud computing service intended to support artificial intelligence (AI) systems similar to ChatGPT.

While the service is currently being used by a few customers, it is expected to be more widely available in North America by the end of this year and in Europe next year.

This move puts HPE in direct competition with major cloud computing providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, as they all strive to adapt their data centers to the growing demand for AI-based services like chatbots and image generators.

The increasing focus on AI is reshaping the cloud computing market, as data centers must be designed differently to handle AI workloads. Traditional cloud computing data centers divide a single physical server into multiple virtual machines for rental to customers.

However, AI data centers take a different approach, aiming to connect hundreds or thousands of computers together to create a unified, powerful computing system.

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HPE has been working on such technologies for years, particularly in the development of supercomputers like the Frontier supercomputer, currently the world’s fastest.

Justin Hotard, Executive Vice President and General Manager of HPE’s high-performance computing and artificial intelligence unit, stated that the company will leverage its expertise in supercomputers to offer a service specifically tailored to large language models, which underpin services like ChatGPT.

Hotard emphasized that HPE’s offering is distinct from its cloud competitors, being neither easily accessible nor trivial in nature.

HPE’s entry into the cloud computing service for artificial intelligence (AI) places the company in direct competition with major industry players like Amazon.com, Microsoft, and Alphabet Inc’s Google.

These technology giants are all striving to adapt their extensive data centers to meet the increasing demand for AI-powered services such as chatbots and image generators, which have gained immense popularity and attracted millions of users.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is a global technology company that provides a wide range of enterprise solutions and services. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) already had a presence in the cloud computing market with its HPE GreenLake platform.

One of its prominent offerings, this platform is a hybrid cloud service that allows organizations to consume IT resources on-demand while maintaining control over their infrastructure.

HPE GreenLake is designed to provide a flexible and scalable cloud computing experience, allowing customers to leverage a variety of workloads and technologies. This includes traditional enterprise applications, virtualized environments, big data analytics, and more.

By adopting a consumption-based model, GreenLake offers a pay-per-use pricing structure, where customers only pay for the resources they actually consume.

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Xunlei – One Of The Top Internet Companies In China.

Xunlei is a publicly-traded Chinese multinational technology company that was founded in 2003. Based in the technology sector, the company is mainly a provider of online services. It is one of the most widely used internet brands in the country but it is primarily famous for computing and blockchain technology. The headquarters of Xunlei is based in Shenzhen, China. It also has a subsidiary called Shenzhen Xunlei Networking Technologies Co Ltd. Xunlei offers products and services to both individual and enterprise users and the solutions include cloud computing, download acceleration, blockchain, etc. It has also received several awards and accolades for its digital technology, and innovative products, and for consistently being one of the top internet companies in China.

Story of Xunlei

Although Xunlei was officially founded in 2003, the company’s first prototype emerged in Silicon Valley, the USA in 2002. After one year, when Xunlei was established, Thunder 2 was released for the first time. Within the next year, the company witnessed an increase in the number of users and eventually released Xunlei 3 and Xunlei 4. In 2005, the company hosted a funding round in which it successfully raised $10 million approximately. In the same year, it also released Mini Thunder and Thunder 5. 2006 was a benchmark year for the company as it crossed 100 million users. Moreover, the company’s download-acceleration software became a software with the largest user scale. In 2007, Xunlei signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement with Google in Beijing. The company also incorporated many implementations in the cross-protocol download section.

Expansion

In 2008, the company released a chain of new products together including Thunder Software Assistant, Thunder Game, Thunder Security Assistant, and many more. Later that year, the company held a press conference regarding China’s internet content distribution. Again in 2009, a lot of new products and upgraded versions of some products were released. For example, Xunlei released its Home Digital Entertainment products and along with that launched Thunderbolt Heroes Web Game. In 2010, the number of Xunlei users exceeded the 300 million mark, and paid users reached 1 million. The company also released Thunder 7 that year, thus opening a new era for internet downloads.

In 2011, it finally released its products for iPad, and the Mac version for Thunder was also released. The company’s online video site, Xunlei Kankan became the first online video site in China to achieve high definition on the whole network. In 2013, the total Xunlei users reached 460 million and the paid users reached 5.2 million. Earlier in 2014, the company received a huge amount of funding of $200 million from Xiaomi followed by which it went public and got listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange. After the investment, Xioami also partnered with Xunlei to jointly release Star CDN. In 2017, it occupied 42nd place in the list of China’s top 100 internet companies. Recently, the company has released its BaaS platform such that users can deploy their chain with a click, thus making the process much more convenient.

Jinbo Li – CEO of Xunlei

In April 2020, Jinbo Li became the Chairman and CEO of Xunlei. Li comes with industrial expertise of more than 20 years exclusively in China’s internet and technology sector. He is associated with the company from the very beginning as he helped in establishing and running the core R&D team of the company from 2004 to 2009. In 2010, Li left the company and worked for two other internet ventures for the next four years followed by which he founded Itui International Inc, a mobile application development company. Jinbo Li went to Shandong University followed by Peking University.

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Appian Corporation – Developer Of Cloud Computing As Well As Enterprise Software.

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After the internet, cloud computing is one of the best technology that is most beneficial for every business. The very technology has reduced the hectic work of managing the storage for the businesses and just buying some subscriptions, the data is readily available for every user of the data through the cloud. Hence, the technology is now adopted by almost every company in the world that deals with data and the internet. To process the data on the cloud, some software is required. This software helps the companies manage, deploy and access the data on the cloud. Appian Corporation is one of the leading software development companies known for its enterprise cloud software development. Appian creates software that helps other organisations to build applications for mobiles, desktops, and even the cloud on their own. The company has been in the business for over twenty years and has become a prominent name in the cloud software industry.

About Appian Corporation

Appian Corporation is the developer of cloud computing as well as enterprise software. The company was founded in 1999, and the team of founders included Michael Beckley, Matt Calkins, Robert Kramer, and Marc Wilson. The company headquarters is based in McLean, Virginia, United States, and apart from that, the Appian Corporation has its offices in fifteen different locations globally. The company is home to over 1500 employees, and according to the 2021 FY report, it made annual revenues worth $369.3 Million. The company is known for its low-code automation platform and has developed multiple apps for its customers.

Founding Appian Corporation

Michael Beckley, Robert Kramer, Marc Wilson, and Matthew Calkin founded Appian in 1999. The idea behind the company was to gather talented people and use their knowledge and skills to get amazing results. This way, Appian was established to offer its employees the liberty to make their decisions to fulfill the company goals most innovatively. It was Calkin’s idea to build such a company, and other co-founders joined in later to found the company.

The company introduced its first product, a web-based enterprise information service for the US army, named Army Knowledge Online, in 2001. The very service was also regarded as “the world’s largest intranet” at that time.

The downturn of the economy during 2008 affected Appian too, but the leaders working for the success of the company had made a plan B for the company too. This time, Appian brainstormed over the concept of building software that would reduce most of the work for the organizations. So the company built a platform based on the “low-code technique”, which would allow the organizations to create their software on their own, without being a tech geek. The platform was a hit, as it was secure and could be used on any device, mobile, desktop as well as on the cloud.

The success of Appian’s new software platform brought it more success and investments. In 2014, New Enterprise Associates invested a sum of $37.5 million in Appian. In May 2017, the company went public on NASDAQ and started to trade with the ticker name APPN. With the release of Appian AI, the company introduced the integration of Artificial Intelligence to its platform in 2019. In the following years, Appian also made some acquisitions, including Novayre Solutions SL and Lana Labs.

Today, Appian offers its software services to industries like Automotive, Education, Finance, Government, Healthcare, Insurance, Life Sciences, Retail, Telecom, Transportation, etc. In fact, with the rise of the Covid-19 pandemic, Appian launched apps that helped businesses with their work, like tracking the workforce’s health and safety, helping companies reopen their offices, and helping banks manage Paycheck Protection Programloan applications, etc. This way, those apps helped businesses to continue their work during the pandemic.

The CEO at Appian Corporation

Matt Calkins is one of the founders and the CEO of Appian. He is an Economics graduate from Dartmouth College. In fact, he was the topper of his class. In 1994, he joined MicroStrategy as the Director of Enterprise Product Group and left the company in 1999 to found Appian. Matt has been the CEO of Appian from the very beginning and has led the company to be the leading enterprise software developer. He is also known as the author of several award-winning board games.

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OVHcloud – Journey Of Cloud Computing Started By A 24-Year Old Octave Klaba.

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OVHcloud is a French cloud computing company that was founded in 1999. Octave Klaba is the founder and Chairman of OVH and the current CEO of the company is Michel Paulin. OVHcloud offers various cloud-based services like web hosting, VPS, dedicated servers, enterprise solutions, and public and private cloud. Being a French company, it initially expanded to other European countries but in recent years its main focus has been North America and the US. Unfortunately, in 2021 the company suffered huge losses due to a fire in its Strasbourg data center. The company reported estimated damage of approximately €105 million.

Early Days

Octave Klaba at the age of 24 decided to begin his entrepreneurial journey with OVHcloud. The idea of founding a cloud computing startup strikes his mind when he realized France is in sheer need of web hosting. He didn’t have any initial capital to invest so he took support from his close friends and family. He got support from his three family members and was able to borrow 25,000 francs with which he started the company.

Web hosting was the then-new concept in France so initially, no one believed in what he was doing. But it didn’t stop Klaba from renting ten servers from a provider in Paris and starting his project. The business started growing slowly as in 2000 the company had 20 active servers and it also received entitlements for .fr and .be domain names. The net profit OVH was making was fully reinvested in adding new servers. Eventually, Klaba’s brother, Miroslaw joined the venture to help him out.

Expansion

Entering a new decade, OVH was starting to land more and more customers. It also opened the company’s first data center in Paris but soon it outgrew the space. Also, for easy maintenance of the servers, OVH decided to make in-house casings. In 2002, the company opened a new data center in Paris and built its first sever called the Greenbox. Until 2003, OVH was doing all the operational work from leased data centers. But the company opened its first wholly-owned data center in 2003 and it was a 3,000 square meter building. The company didn’t only own a data center but became one of the first cloud-hosting companies to use water-based cooling technology in a data center. In 2004, the company expanded to Poland and Spain and the old servers in the company were retro-fitted with water cooling systems.

OVH expanded to the Roubaix Valley in 2005 and expanded to Germany in the next year. By the end of 2006, OVH has 12,000 active servers and also deployed advanced network infrastructure. OVH expanded to Italy, Portugal, and the UK in 2008 followed by opening five new subsidiaries in Ireland, Netherlands, Lithuania, Czech Republic, and Finland. By 2010, the company had more than 350 employees and it invested around €10 Million in R&D cloud. The company’s plan to enter the American market started in 2012 with the aim to build the world’s largest data center in Canada. After a funding round in 2016, the value of OVH surpassed the $1 billion mark. In 2017 it expanded to the US market after the acquisition of vCloud Air from VMware. OVH also became a publicly-traded company in 2021 and it is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange.

About the Founder

Octave Klaba is the founder and Chairman of the world’s one of the most successful cloud computing companies. He is originally from Poland but he moved to France when he was sixteen. Being passionate about computer science from an early age, he graduated from ICAM Lille with a computer science degree. After he graduated, his main focus was founding OVHcloud and he didn’t work for any other companies.

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Mitchell Hashimoto And Armon Dadgar Came Up With The Idea While Working On Project At University.

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Cloud technology has helped companies simplify their business infrastructure. The cloud is not only easy to access, but it is also secure to put data on the cloud and keep working as one used to do in the pre-cloud era. Cloud computing has not only eased out the working for the businesses but also provides new opportunities as well as chances to experiment for the software geniuses. HashiCorp is also a result of some experimentation by its founders Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar, who found their interest in emerging cloud technology and built a million dollars empire for them. HashiCorp is one of the leading software companies that develop open-source tools and commercial products to work with cloud-computing infrastructure for developers.

About HashiCorp

HashiCorp is a ten-year-old software company, with its headquarters based in San Francisco, California. The company works on the freemium business model and is known for the development of open-source tools and products that help the developers to run and connect with the cloud-computing infrastructure with the most ease and security. Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar are the founders of the company, whereas, David McJannet leads the company as the CEO.
HashiCorp is a publically traded company and trades on Nasdaq as HCP. The product list from HashiCorp includes both open-source and proprietary products, such as Vagrant, Packer, Serf, Consul, Terraform, Vault, Nomad, Sentinel, Boundary, Waypoint, etc. Apart from San Fransisco, the company has established offices in various parts of the US, India, Europe, Canada, and Australia, etc. As per the 2022 data, over 1500 people are working at HashiCorp.

Founding HashiCorp

The beginning of the HashiCorp includes the same university student story. Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar, the two co-founders of HashiCorp, were the students at University of Washington and met each other at the same university in 2008. The two worked together on the same cloud technology-based project. While working on the project, both had become aware of the potential of cloud computing. After graduating from the university, they moved to San Fransisco, where Mitchell founded HashiCorp in December 2012. Armon joined the company as the co-founder in July 2013.

The co-founders started the company with the idea to provide businesses with tools that would help them deploy and connect their applications to the cloud (or multiple connected clouds), seamlessly and securely. By January 2014, the company started to grow in terms of manpower. In December of the same year, the company held a rounding of Series A funding and raised $10.2 million in the capital.

The next year in September, HashiCorp held its first HashiConf in Portland. In September 2016, the company had another Series B round of funding, where it raised $24 million in capital. By June 2017, the number of employees for the company had reached 100 people. The company went international when it opened its first overseas office in Europe in 2017. The same year, the company hosted another round of funding raising $40 million. HashiCorp established one of its subsidiaries named KK in Japan, which was the first HashiCorp office in Asia.
In the Series D round of funding held in 2018, the company raised $100 in the capital, and by the mid of next year, the employee count of the company expanded to 500 people. With the Series E round of funding in 2020, the company raised $175 million and added 500 more employees working for it worldwide. Alongside the employee count, the customer count was also reaching 1000 people by the same year.
In November 2021, HashiCorp had its first IPO, and it went public on NASDAQ, valued at $13 billion.

The CEO at HashiCorp

David McJannet is the current CEO at HashiCorp. He has got over twenty years of experience working in the software industry, including cloud technology. Before joining HashiCorp in 2016, he has been an important part of companies like GitHub, Hortonworks, VMware, Microsoft, etc. David joined HashiCorp when there were only 30 people in the team, and today, under his leadership, the team has grown to be 1500 people.

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Inspur – The Third Largest Server Providers In The World.

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There have been times when many things were considered impossible, like having a personal computer in every household or people walking and talking on the phone at the same time. And, looking at the past twenty years, these have been the most amazing years for the IT industry, as in those two decades we have moved from PCs to laptops, from landlines to smartphones, and multiple people are able to work on the same project on the cloud without being at the same place. Cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence are the current hot topics, and companies working on them are doing the most innovative work of all. Inspur Group Co. Ltd. is one such company that is using its innovative ideas to improve the cloud and server technologies to achieve excellence.

About the Company

Inspur or the Inspur Group is the cloud computing and big data IT conglomerate that has been in the industry for the past 77 years. It was founded as Langchao but had a name change in 2006 with the name Inspur. The company belongs to the IT industry working on computer hardware, software, and servers. The major products by the company include cloud computing, servers, storage, artificial intelligence, etc. Venezolana de Industria Tecnológica, C.A. is one of the subsidiaries of company, and its various working divisions are Inspur Information, Inspur Software, Inspur International and Huaguang Optoelectronics. The company is a publically traded company and trades on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, and Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. As per the 2015 records, the company made revenues worth 63.2 billion yuan for FY2015.

The Founding

Inspur Group was founded in 1945 in Shandong, China, and has its headquarters based in the same city. The company has four wings, i.e., Inspur Information, Inspur Software, Inspur International, and Inspur Huaguang, which works on technologies like cloud data centre, cloud services & big data, smart city, and smart enterprises. Though the company is 77 years old, it started its technology journey 40 years ago.

Inspur built China’s first PC in 1983. It also started to make servers in the early 90s, where it released a series of computers for China and the international market. In 1993, the company built China’s first micro-server. Later, in 2005, the company received investments from Microsoft as well as signed a contract with VMware to work on the emerging cloud computing technology. In the same year, the company also won the top prize in the “Information Industry Major Technological Invention Award”. The company also acquired Qimonda AG’s research division in 2009 for a sum of around US$4 million.

Inspur introduced China’s first 32-socket high-end fault-tolerant computer in 2011 and became the world’s fifth company to make such computers independently. In 2015, the company recorded annual revenues worth 63.2 billion yuan. It also joined multiple open computing organizations as a member, including SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (2014), OpenStack (2014), OCP Open Compute Project ( and 2017), ODCC (Open Data Center Committee), etc. The major clients of the company include big-name enterprises and many governments belonging to more than 100 countries and regions.

The CEO at Inspur

Sun Pishu is the current CEO of Inspur. He is a native of Shandog Province and was born in 1962. Sun Pishu has been working with Inspur since the time it was called Langchao. In 1996, he became the General Manager and the next year, the Deputy Routine President of Langchao Group. Sun Pishu also served the company as the Vice President for a long time. It is Sun Pishu’s leadership that the company has become the number one server provider in China and number third in the world.

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