Month: February 2022

February 21, 2022

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To lean on something means to rely on it, and with that understood it is fair to say companies are leaning on big data more and more by the day. All of this was foreseen with the way digital connectivity was revolutionizing business 20+ years ago, but here we are now with data centre capacity being more of an issue than ever before. The demand for chips that can meet to those capacity needs has been negatively impacted by the worldwide chip shortage going on right now, and that’s a reflection of just how much of private, public, and municipal life has gone digital. This is something that any web hosting in Canada provider can relate to, as most will be like us at 4GoodHosting in that we’ve invested in data centre expansions so that we have them in different major regions of the country, and BC and Ontario when it comes to us. It’s an essential part of us being able to offer the uptime guarantees we do with our Canadian web hosting packages. It’s elementary that we have an understanding of the data and collocation centres, and as such recent news of Intel’s new Xeon roadmap is definitely something given what the chipmaker giant is aiming for. Intel has revealed ambitious plans to establish a degree of dominance in the data centre chip landscape in the immediate future. They have recently revealed their multiyear Xeon roadmap for the next few years, including the heralded Sapphire Rapids, with a ground breaking new chip built on Intel's 7 process which is estimated to boost AI performance by a massive 30x. Better serving tech always sound really good around here, so let’s spend this week’s entry looking at the new Intel data center chip and all that it may offer to improve user experiences. Rapid Expansions This new chip is going to be an introductory offering that will be followed by Emerald Rapids. The follow-up Emerald chip is also built on Intel 7 and should arrive in 2023, and then again with Sierra Forest built on Intel 3 set to come out in 2024. We’re also seeing Intel planning to move...

February 14, 2022

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There’s seemingly no stopping the trend that every new day we are facing the greatest risks ever seen when it comes to being online, and that’s why cybersecurity in an ongoing big deal for both individuals and organizations. No one likes to be the recipient of malware or to have their private information exposed when they are just going about their day to day online, but it’s a very real possibility. Companies that make digital products should be proactive in making sure those products are safe to use when connected to the web, but that is something that’s been slow to come around on a grander scale. Fortunately now it is though, and major ones like Google, Apple, and Microsoft have been much better about finding the right preventative fixes and making them available to people in a timely manner. Here at 4GoodHosting we are like any quality Canadian web hosting provider in that we can relate to the importance of security patches being made available, especially for ones that have no choice but to handle sensitive data provided by customers or business associates when working together with them. Nowadays as cybersecurity threats becomes more pronounced and far reaching, the means of addressing and thwarting them is advancing in step better than at any time before. 93.4% Fix Rate New research from Google indicates companies are getting much better at fixing security vulnerabilities found in their products. Many firms also now taking less time to address various issues along with going past their established deadlines for patch fixes less frequently than in previous years. Project Zero is Google’s team of security analysts tasked with finding zero-day vulnerabilities. These are unknown or unpatched flaws that can be abused through malware. The team recently published a blog post pointing out 376 issues it found between 2019 and 2021 and then detailing how vendors responded to the findings, and what the overall successes of those responses meant for overall cybersecurity in the digital realm. Of those 376 issues, 351 of them (93.4%) have been fixed and only 14 (3.7%) have not had any type of fix applied to them. 11 (2.9%) remain active...

February 7, 2022

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100 billion is an incredibly big number, and yet a fully developed human brain can have up to as many as 100 billion neurons in it as part of the extensive neural network that provides the brain with the framework it needs to be the amazing mega processor that it is. Much of the focus with A.I. in computers has been to replicate the function of the human brain as best as possible, and to date that’s happened with varying measures of success along with difficulty in measuring the criteria for that. The key conduits in a brain’s neural network are synapses, and these are literally the bridges between cells along which bioelectrical impulses provide cognitions, impulses, feelings – pretty much and everything and anything that you might have rooted in mental function. Those impulses have their roots in the different cortex centres of the brain, and in much the same way they are found in the chips of computers and the sort. Up until now the relaying function of these chips lost something of its power and authenticity, but that may be a shortcoming that has a fix possibly arriving soon. New developments of chips modeled after the brain’s neural network are really making waves based on what they can do for expanding on the capabilities of computing devices. Here at 4GoodHosting it goes without saying that this is a topic of interest for any Canadian web hosting provider or any other type of provider that has inherent interests when it comes to making devices capable of more while keeping them suitably compact and usable. It’s certainly something that can reach out and be beneficial to everyone, especially when you think about what it’d be like to have computers that are as sharp as what we’re all lucky enough to have between our ears. It may be a reality in the not-too-distant future, and so that’s what we are going to look at this week. World’s First Electrochemical 3-Terminal Transistor All of this has to do with a new material that has been developed, an electrochemical 3-terminal transistor manufactured with 2D materials. The key component here is a titanium...