AMD has reached its goal of being 25 times more energy efficient, driving cloud providers to use its processors, reports Computer World. 

AMD this week announced it had exceeded its goal to increase energy efficiency 25-fold by 2020.  Called the 25x20 goal, it has been a driving force for the company for most of the last decade and explains why cloud providers like Google have begun to favor AMD processors.

CAD designers are finding the cloud gives them amazing design power, reports Interesting Engineering. 

As computer-aided design software has become more and more capable in the modern era, that has unfortunately meant that the software has become more demanding to run effectively.

A new survey finds that even “ethical” hackers have weaponized the cloud, reports Bank Info Security. 

Many ethical hackers and other security professionals, such as penetration testers, have weaponized cloud platforms to host online attack infrastructure or have used these platforms to conduct reconnaissance, according to security researchers at Texas Tech University.

A new survey finds that 25% of those responding expect their company to migrate to the cloud within the next year, reports ZD Net. 

Twenty-five percent of IT managers participating in a recent survey predict that their companies plan to move all of their applications to cloud in the next year. And this is from a survey conducted right before the COVID crisis sunk its teeth into the economy.