Day: September 10, 2024

TEL AVIV :”Salesforce Expands Cloud to Israel”, Cloud software firm Salesforce said on Tuesday its Hyperforce cloud platform was now available in Israel, which will allow sensitive government and companies’ data to stay local.

The platform, two years in the making, will initially run on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure and possibly later on Google Cloud Platform, company officials said.

The cloud platform in Israel is the 17th globally for Salesforce. Until now, data from its thousands of companies in Israel were storing data at its Frankfurt facility.

“The Israeli government approved our Frankfurt data center, for government use,” Udi Shvekey, the lead architect for Hyperforce, said on the sidelines of a press conference in Tel Aviv.

Salesforce has also been heavily investing in artificial intelligence (AI) for months and integrating the technology into the workflows of its large suite of products to drive revenue and margins.

Margalit said its Israel R&D center was one of the three strategic sites for Salesforce along with the United States and India.

“Here we are doing a lot of development on the cutting edge technologies with AI,” he said.

“Americans Hit 100 Trillion Megabytes in Wireless Data”, Americans used just over 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data in 2023, up 36 per cent over the prior year in the largest single-year increase in wireless data consumption, according to an industry survey released on Tuesday.

The total number of wireless connections rose to 558 million last year, up 6 per cent over 2022, the survey found.

Demand for spectrum use is soaring, driven in part by more wireless use in advancements including drones, self-driving vehicles, space missions and precision agriculture.

The survey said the number of minutes Americans spent talking on the phone fell slightly from 2.5 trillion in 2022 to 2.4 trillion in 2023 and text messages were about the same at 2.1 trillion in 2023 over the prior year.

The rise in wireless comes amid a standoff in Congress over how to find new spectrum.

“There is no pipeline of spectrum for 5G,” said CTIA CEO Meredith Attwell Baker.The Biden administration announced steps in November 2023 aimed at freeing up additional wireless spectrum by repurposing spectrum currently set aside for parts of the federal government but has come under fire from Republicans for not moving fast enough.

Stokes returns to England squad for Pakistan test tour: Captain Ben Stokes will return to the England test side after missing this month’s series victory against Sri Lanka, the country’s cricket board (ECB) said on Tuesday after they announced a 17-member squad for October’s tour of Pakistan.

Stokes, who sustained a hamstring tear in English domestic tournament The Hundred last month, is continuing his recovery along with Zak Crawley who fractured his right little finger at Edgbaston in July.

England will tour Pakistan for a three-match series starting from Oct. 7.

“Zak Crawley returns to the squad after missing out since the West Indies series in July.

Spinner Rehan Ahmed, who made his red-ball debut in Karachi during the last Pakistan tour in December 2022, returns to the squad with counterpart Jack Leach who will feature for the first time since the opening test in India in January this year.

England have added eight players from the 2022 squad – Rehan, Harry Brook, Crawley, Ben Duckett, Leach, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, and Stokes – who had won the last test series 3-0 against Pakistan.

Ben Stokes (c), Rehan Ahmed, Gus Atkinson, Shoaib Bashir, Harry Brook, Brydon Carse, Jordan Cox, Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Josh Hull, Jack Leach, Ollie Pope, Matthew Potts, Joe Root, Jamie Smith, Olly Stone, Chris Woakes.